Dr. Cheryl Boyer

Dr. Cheryl Boyer is an assistant professor and extension specialist for ornamental nursery crop production at Kansas State University. She earned a B.L.A and M.S. from Oklahoma State University (advisor Dr. Janet Cole) and a doctorate from Auburn University under the guidance of Drs. Charles Gilliam and Glenn Fain. Her doctoral research focused on the use of clean chip residual, a forestry by-product, as an alternative substrate. She has expanded this work at Kansas State University, where she has been evaluating aggressively weedy tree species as alternative substrates.

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