January 15, 2019 | CAHNRS News PROSSER – WSU’s Lav Khot will look to reduce reliance on broad spectrum pesticides that result in residues on food with an award from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR). Khot and his collaborators received one of FFAR’s New Investigator awards for 2018, which includes a 3-year, […]
October 1, 2018 | Pullman, WA By Scott Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resources Sciences To speed robotic advancements that help farmers grow food with fewer resources, scientists at Washington State University and Australia’s University of Technology Sydney have partnered to form the new Joint Center for Agricultural Robotics. The first collaboration […]
September 24, 2018 | Pullman, WA Biological Systems Engineering Faculty Claudio Stockle, Troy Peters, and Lav Khot received USDA-NIFA Funding as part of the State of the Washington Water Research Center (WRC) project titled “Technology for trade: new tools and new rules for water use efficiency in agriculture and beyond.” Read more about the […]
September 21, 2018 | Pullman, WA Biological Systems Engineering Faculty Lav Khot and Manoj Karkee received Washington State Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant Awards. Lav Khot’s project titled “Alternative pest management technologies for tree fruit and wine grapes” was awarded $249,088. Abstract: This WSU team, with agricultural engineering, viticulture, plant pathology and entomology expertise, will […]
August 1, 2018 | Detroit, MI Faculty and Graduate Students from Biological Systems Engineering attended the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) 2018 Annual Meeting. The event took place July 29, 2018 – August 01, 2018 in Detroit Michigan. BSE Faculty included Lav Khot, Troy Peters, Juming Tang, Manoj Karkee, Sindhuja Sankaran, and Qin Zhang. WSU […]
April 2018 Irrigation Today Unmanned aerial system technology has boomed in the last several years, so what are its useful applications for irrigation crops? [ read full article at modernpubsonline.com ]
Biological Systems Engineering faculty members, Dr. Troy Peters, Dr. Bin Yang, and Dr. Lav Khot, recently traveled to China to collaborate with faculty, students, and scientists at the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in Yangling, China. This is part of an international cooperation partnership that the Department of Biological Systems Engineering Department has with this […]
Oct 2017 | CAHNRS NEWS Seven research teams at Washington State University will enhance the competitiveness of Northwest crops by fighting devastating diseases and advancing sustainable agriculture, thanks to more than $1.5 million in Specialty Crop Block Grant funds from the Washington State and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture. To support Washington’s $3 billion apple […]
Congratulations to Dr. Lav Khot. He was recently Elected as Chair of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) Precision Horticulture Engineering Working Group for a four-year term starting 2017.
State-of-the-art on Sensing Technologies for Plant Disease Detection Lav Khot, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Systems Engineering IAREC, Washington State University Brief description: Site-specific disease detection is one of the key aspects of effective crop (loss) management. Recent advances in detectors (optical, chemical) have improved feasibility of development and use of rapid non-contact/nondestructive sensing techniques […]