Genhua Niu

Professor
Urban Agriculture

Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center
17360 Coit Road | Dallas, TX 75252
PH: 9972-852-9226 l gniu@ag.tamu.edu
http:///dallas.tamu.edu/reasearch/urbanagriculture/

Education Background
Ph.D. – Horticultural Engineering,
Chiba University, Japan
M.S. – Agricultural Engineering,
Zhejiang University, China
B.S. – Agricultural Engineering,
Zhejiang University, China

Professional Experience
2019 to present: Professor,
Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Dallas, TX
2016 to 2019: Professor,
Texas A&M AgriLife Research, El Paso, TX
2010 to 2016: Associate Professor,
Texas A&M AgriLife Research, El Paso TX
2004 to 2010: Assistant Professor,
Texas A&M AgriLife Research, El Paso, TX
2003 to 2004: Visiting Scientist,
USDA – ARS, Beltsville, MD
2001 to 2003: Research Director,
Southern Sun Biosystems, Inc., SC
1998 to 2001: Research Associate,
Michigan State University
1997 to 1998: Japan Society for Promotion of Science,
Post-doc fellow, Chiba Univ, Japan

Areas of Expertise:
Controlled environment agriculture
Indoor vertical farming
Plant stress physiology

Awards and Recognition

• 2018 ASHS Outstanding Ornamental Publication Award winner for the 2017 publication “Morphological and Physiological Responses of Ten Ornamental Taxa to Saline Water Irrigation” [HortScience 52(12):1816-1822]. (Corresponding and key contributor)
• 2016 Kenneth Post Award of ASHS (co-author): ‘Development of a Rapid Screening Method for Selection Against High Temperature Susceptibility in Garden Roses’.
• 2016 Recipient of the Distinguished Research Award, Southern Region ASHS.
• 2016 Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Superior Service Awards, Team member for Texas Strawberry project, Lead PI: Russ Wallace.
• 2014 Extension Communications Award (team), Southern Region ASHS. Earth-Kind Landscape Management.
• 2010 Bridge Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science. Hosted by Chiba University from Nov. 6 to Dec. 11, 2010.
• 2007 USDA CSREES National Water Program Award for Outstanding Integrated Activities for Water Resources, Rio Grande Basin Initiative, Team Member. The first USDA national teamwork award for integrated water resources, ranked number 1 out of 37 nominations.
• 2006 Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence, Rio Grande Basin Initiative, Team Member, Texas A&M University Agriculture Program.
• 1997 – 1998 Post-doctoral Research Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), Chiba University, Japan
• 1992 –1997 Japanese Government Scholarship Recipient, Chiba University, Japan.

Dr. Genhua Niu is a Professor of Urban Agriculture at the Texas AgriLife Research Center at Dallas and the Department of Horticultural Sciences. Her areas of expertise are in controlled environment agriculture, indoor vertical farming and plant stress physiology.

Recent representative publications

1. Liu, Q., Y. Sun, J. Altland, and Niu. 2019. Morphological and physiological responses of Cornus alba to salt and drought stresses. HortScience (in press).
2. Hooks, T., Niu, and G. Ganjegunte. 2019. Seedling emergence and seedling growth of mustard and rapeseed genotypes under salt stress. Agrosystems, Geoscience & Environment. (in press)
3. Niu, G., T.D. Davis, and J. Masabni. 2019. A review of salinity tolerance research in horticultural crops. Journal of Arid Land Studies. Special Issue (in press).
4. Qu, X., Wang, M. Chen, J. Liao, J. Yuan, G. Niu. 2019. Drought Stress Induced Physiological and Metabolic Changes in Leaves of Two Oil Tea Cultivars. Journal of American Society for Horticultural Science (in press).
5. Dou, H., Niu, and M. Gu. 2019. Photosynthesis, morphology, yield, and phytochemical accumulation in basil plants influenced by substituting green light for partial red and/or blue light. HortScience (in press).
6. Wang, Y., Y. Sun, Niu, C. Deng, Y. Wang, and J. Gardea-Torresdey. 2019. Growth, gas exchanges, mineral nutrition of ornamental grasses irrigated with saline water. HortScience (in press).
7. Cheng, Y., D. He, J. He, Niu, and R. Gao. 2019. Effect of light/dark cycle on photosynthetic pathway switching and CO2 absorption in two Dendrobium species. Frontiers in Plant Science. Vol 10, article 659, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00659
8. Jochum, M.D., K.L. McWilliams, E.J. Borrego, M.V. Kolomiets, Niu, E.A. Pierson, and Y.K. Jo. 2019. Bioprospecting plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria that mitigate drought stress in grasses. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10: 1-9. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02106.
9. Hooks, T. and Niu. Relative salt tolerance of four herbaceous perennials. Horticulturae 2019, 5, 36; doi:10.3390/horticulturae5020036.
10. Xiong, H., F. Zou, D. Yuan, X. Tan, J. Yuan, T. Liao, and Niu. 2019. Comparison of self- and cross-pollination in pollen tube growth, early ovule development and fruit set of Camellia grijsii. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology 21:819-826. DOI: 10.17957/IJAB/15.0960.
11. Xiong, H., F. Zou, S. Guo, D. Yuan, and Niu. 2019. Self-sterility may be due to prezygotic late-acting self-incompatibility and early-acting inbreeding depression in Chinese chestnut. Journal of American Society for Horticultural Science 144(3): 172-181.
12. Sun, Y., Niu, and P. Osuna. 2019. Effects of substrate moisture content on growth and physiological response of chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). Agrociencia 53: 59-72.
13. Yan, Z., D. He, Niu, and H. Zhai. 2019. Evaluation of growth and quality of hydroponic lettuce at harvest as affected by the light intensity, photoperiod, and light quality at seedling stage. Scientia Horticulturae. 248: 138-144.
14. Dou, H., Niu, M. Gu, and J. Masabni. 2018. Responses of sweet basil to different DLIs in photosynthesis, morphology, yield, and nutritional quality. HortScience 53(4):496–503. 2018. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI12785-17.
15. Niu, G., Y. Sun, and J. Masabni. 2018. Impact of water quality on plant performance of four leafy vegetables in a recirculating NFT system. Horticulturae 4, 6; doi:10.3390/horticulturae4010006.