What is ball moss and how is killing other plants?
May 01, 2023
Kali Elftman is a natural resource and ecology management major. Her undergraduate research project is titled 鈥淯sing Botanical Ingredients to Control Ball Moss on Ornamental Plants.鈥� She is trying to figure out how to control the growth of ball moss on 蘑菇tv鈥檚 campus. She is working under the direction of Zhijun Liu, a professor in the School of Renewable Natural Resources, and Heather Kirk-Ballard, a professor in the School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences.
Kali Elftman is a natural resource and ecology management major researching how to control the growth of ball moss on 蘑菇tv鈥檚 campus.
Elftman was taking a summer class with Dr. Liu, who asked her if she was interested in joining a project he was working on. Elftman says that even though she is a wildlife ecology major, she is still researching plants because she thinks it is important to gain knowledge in every single field and that expertise is useful.