Fungi in the Garden
Joseph Glasscock Community Center, 3653 Tom Weathers Dr, Chattanooga, TN, 37415 Map
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Mycorrhizae play important roles in plant nutrition, soil biology, and soil chemistry – and product advertising! An internet search will find hundreds of products from the moderately priced to quite pricey, all promising to make you a more successful gardener. Come to the July Wild Ones meeting to get the real scoop.
Dr. Hill Craddock is the UC Foundation Davenport Professor in Biology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His interest in the fungi began as a teenager when he first saw Orson K. Miller’s 1972 book Mushrooms of North America. His undergraduate course, Mycology: an Introduction to Mushrooms, Molds, and Yeasts, a very popular class at UTC, has been taught every year since 1996.
Dr. Craddock completed his doctoral and postdoctoral research on chestnut biology at the Università di Torino in Turin, Italy. He conducted postdoctoral research breeding anthracnose-resistant dogwood cultivars at the USDA-ARS Nursery Crops Research Station in McMinnville, TN. He holds an MS in Horticulture from Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR, a BA degree in Fine Arts, and a BA degree in Biology from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. The major focus of Dr Craddock’s research at UTC is conservation of Castanea dentata genetic resources and restoration of the American Chestnut.