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Contact Information
Mailing Address
Rutgers University
Department of Plant Biology & Pathology
Foran Hall/ Cook Campus
59 Dudley Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
JESIMON@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU
Campus Location
Office: Room 396C Foran Hall, 732-932-9375 x355
Lab: Room 392 Foran Hall, 732-932-9375 x381
Research Interests
Dr. Simon's area of expertise is in the development of new uses of traditional crops, new crop development, aromatic and medicinal plant domestication, with a specialization in natural products such as those containing extractable chemicals in interest for flavor, aroma, and medicinal activity. Simon published over 100 scientific papers, books, and reviews in the areas of new crops, aromatic and medicinal plants and nutraceuticals. Dr. Simon leads the Rutgers University program on New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program, and works cooperatively with research groups around the world and in New Jersey seeking to develop standardized botanical products for health and nutrition. Research projects focus on culinary herbs (selection and breeding), Asian and African botanicals and medicinal plants, the nutraceutical components in fruits and vegetables and quality control for herbs and botanical products. Simon's research is supported by NIH, USDA, USAID, and BARD as well as other public and private funding.
Impacts: Our mission is to develop new and improved crops for Jersey agriculture, and to identify new uses and industrial or nutraceutical applications of fruits, vegetables and herbs. This program seeks to bring together scientific disciplines from across fields of genetics, agronomy, horticulture, natural products chemistry, biochemistry, through production, processing, standardization to identify bioactive compounds of potential health or commercial interest. This program will develop new crops and value-added products for NJ and US agriculture creating economic opportunities and increasing the competitiveness of the US farmer and associated US agri-industries. Value-added products not only from the plants and their extracts but also from the waste streams of processing will also led to new economic opportunities for the US farmer. Our international development work in natural products seeks to enhance trade and economic opportunities in teas, spices, botanicals and medicinals by developing sustainable production, processing, quality control programs and new product development. Impact internationally will be the development of new products traded regionally and internationally coupled to defined grades and standards for African natural products. Research in botanical authentication, chemical and genetic taxonomic analyses and natural product standardization within our national center for botanicals research in medicinals and nutraceutical plants are also cornerstones of our program and will assist in the use of standardized botanicals for in vitro and in vivo trials.
Publications
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Rutgers Affiliations
Dr. James Simon joined the department in YYYY and serves as director of The New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program at Rutgers University.