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PES Faculty: Juan Carlos Melgar

Throughout the video, Dr. Melgar is shown speaking in front of a plot of peach trees in the fall at Clemson University’s research farm, Musser Farm. Onscreen images go back and forth between footage of Dr. Melgar alone speaking on the farm and footage of Dr. Melgar working alone or interacting with his students at various moments of his research: evaluating various samples in a laboratory, screening trees in a shade greenhouse, and browsing his website. Occasionally, when Dr. Melgar is alone on screen, white text appears on screen briefly and summarizes what he is saying or introduces him as Dr. Juan Carlos Melgar, assistant professor of pomology. The video begins and ends with the Clemson Plant and Environmental Sciences logo (purple background with white text). Calming, innovative music is playing softly in the background. Transcript: My research and extension programs are driven by real problems that growers face. I use a combination of basic and applied research to optimize nutritional management, save water, improve soil health, and study the responses that economically vital perennial fruit have to environmental stresses. Between researching and evaluating peach varieties at both commercial and experimental farms, meeting with growers, and maintaining an informative website, we share our research with growers locally and regionally. Undergraduate and graduate students work on their own projects, they collaborate with other students and researchers that work with peach trees, and they meet with the growers and the people that are directly impacted by their work. Due to the perennial nature of our research trials, students are often contributing to long-term and interdisciplinary data collections which encourages them to develop teamwork skills. My vision is to continue developing and implementing practices that improve long-term profitability and sustainability of our fruit tree orchards by increasing our productivity, reducing fruit losses, and enhancing the conservation of our natural resources.