Dr. Richard Merritt

Contact Information

Mailing Address

Rutgers University
Department of Plant Biology & Pathology
Foran Hall/ Cook Campus
59 Dudley Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
dmerritt@aesop.rutgers.edu

Campus Location

Office: Room 272 Foran Hall, 732-932-9711 x247

Research Interests

Research is focused on greenhouse crop production systems and strategies to reduce energy requirements to grow new commercial cultivars of hybrid lilies.  The cultivars were developed using advanced plant breeding techniques.  These cultivars are propagated by tissue culture methods and manipulation to produce flowering plants in 2 to 4 months in the greenhouse.  Our research methods make it possible to go from plant cells to virus-free flowering plants in 40 to 52 weeks rather than the norm of 2 to 3 years.

Publications

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Rutgers Affiliations

1. Food Systems Consortium

Dr. Richard Merritt joined the department in 1956 and was promoted to Professor in 1973.