Professor Dharmendra Saraswat receives "Blue Ribbon Extension Communication Award"
Professor Dharmendra Saraswat receives "Blue Ribbon Extension Communication Award"
Southern Region-American Society for Horticultural Science during its 2016 annual meeting at San Antonio, TX on February 5-7 awarded “Blue Ribbon Extension Communication Award” to Prof. (s) Dharmendra Saraswat, ABE associate professor and Jim Robbins, commercial ornamental plants specialist from the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
The award recognized “Hort Plants”, an app available for download via iTunes store. The app includes 931 high-quality images along with comprehensive cultural and plant characteristic information for 268 landscape plants including trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, annuals and perennials. Several thousand download of the app suggest recognition of the value of science-based information on plants and voluntary comments by the app users also highlight its useful design aspects.