Wallace Pill
Wallace Geoffrey Pill
Professor
Education
  • B.S. Landscape Design, Oklahoma State University, 1968
  • M.S. Vegetable Physiology, University of Missouri, 1971
  • Ph.D. Vegetable Physiology, University of Missouri, 1975.
Current Courses
  • PLSC 313, Turf Establishment and Maintenance
  • PLSC 417, Greenhouse Management
  • PLSC 607, Plant and Soil Water Relations
  • PLSC 800, Current Concepts in Plant Health
Research
  • Soilless media
  • Seed technology
Professional Activities
  • Consulting editor, American Society for Horticultural Science
Recent Publications

Olszewski, M.W., W.G. Pill, and T.D. Pizzolato. 2004. Germination and embryo anatomy of osmotically primed parsley schizocarps. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 129:876-880.

Olszewski, M.W., T.A. Evans, N.F. Gregory and W.G. Pill. 2005. Enhanced germination of primed mericarps of parsley (Petroselinum crispum Mill. Nyman ex A.W. Hill) limited by Alternaria laternata proliferation.  Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 80:427-432.

Olszewski, M., W. Pill and T. D. Pizzolato 2005. Priming duration influences anatomy and germination responses of parsley mericarps. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 130:754-758.

Lee, Jung-Soo and Wallace G. Pill. 2005. Advancing greenhouse establishment of radish, kale, and amaranth microgreens through seed treatments. Journal of the Korean Society of Horticultural Science 46:363-368.

Olszewki, Michael W., Wallace G. Pill and Thompson. D. Pizzolato 2005. A modified chromosome squash technique to determine mitotic activity in primed mericaprs. Seed Technology 27: 101-103

Pill, Wallace G., Thomas A. Evans, Michael W. Olszewski, Robert P. Mulrooney, and Walter E. Kee Jr.  2005.  The ‘Maffei 15' lima bean compensates for reduced plant stand.  HortScience 40:2024-2025.

Watkinson, J.I. and Wallace G. Pill. 2007. Plug characteristics and post-transplanting container size affect growth of little bluestem and lanceleaf coreopsis. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 25:78-83.

Watkinson,J.I. and Wallace G. Pill. 2007. Efficacy of non-chemical weed control during plug establishment of a wildflower meadow. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 25:83-88.

 

Contact Information:
Wallace G Pill
Department of Plant
and Soil Sciences
531 South College Avenue
Room 140 Townsend Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716-2170
Phone: (001) 302-831-1386
e-mail: wgpill@udel.edu

 

 

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