Michael N. Dana Professor Ph.D. Area of Interest: Landscape Horticulture E-mail: CV

Teaching Responsibilities

• HORT 101, Fundamentals of HOrticulture
• HORT 218, Herbaceous Landscape Plants
• HORT 317, Landscape Contracting & Maintenance
• HORT 390, Cooperative Program in Horticulture
• HORT 425, Landscape Horticulture Capstone Project
• HORT 450, In the English Landscape

Landscape Horticulture

Our native flora, particularly the prairie herbaceous plant community, is an underutilized resource for landscape horticulture. Prairie management and restoration, for maintenance of bio-diversity and natural areas, has been studied for decades. Research is needed to allow more "mainstream" use of native prairie species, both as traditional horticultural subjects or in diverse, low-input, stable plant communities. Current research focuses on: 1)establishment methods, 2)assessment of genetic diversity within and between populations, and 3)identification and development of superior horticultural types within native species.

 

Selected Publications

• Kemery R. and M. Dana. 1999. Influence of inoculation with vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae on post-transplant growth of prairie forb seedlings. 
• Kemery, R. and M. Dana. 1999. Influence of container size and medium amendment on post-transplant growth of prairie perennial seedlings. 
• Kemery, R. D. and M. N. Dana. 1998. Influence of inoculation with vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae on post-transplant growth of prairie forb seedlings. (Submitted for publication). 
• Kemery, R. D. and M. N. Dana. 1998. Container size and hydrogel affect post-transplant success of prairie perennial seedlings. (Submitted for publication). 
• Barry, L. M., 1998. Evaluation of Nurse Crops and Nitrogen Impoverishment as Methods of Prairie Plant Establishment. M. S. Thesis, Purdue University. 
• Kemery, R. D., 1995. Establishing Prairie Perennial Seedlings along Indiana Highways. M. S. Thesis, Purdue University. 
• Kemery, R. D. and M. N. Dana. 1995. Prairie remnant soil as a source of mycorrhizal inoculum HortScience 30(5):1015-1016.

 

 

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Michael Dana has developed a PhotoCD to help users assess herbicide damage on landscape ornamentals called PICTURE the Damage!