Masoud Hashemi

Undergraduate & Graduate Faculty—Sustainable Agriculture, Soil Health, and Sustainability; Extension Professor; Graduate Program Director

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Bowditch 207
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My appointment at the University of Massachusetts consists of extension (50%), teaching (25%) and research (25%). Currently I am serving as Graduate Program Director for Plant and Soil Science Graduate Program. My extension activities include leading the “Crops, Dairy, Livestock, Equine” team for UMass Extension, state contact for nutrient and manure management, pasture management, cover crops, and agronomic crop production. I am also editor of Crops, Dairy, Livestock, and Equine Newsletter which is published four times a year. Other major outreach activities include statewide presentations and workshops on various topics, State Coordinator and State Host of New England Green Pastures. My research program is mainly focused on sustainable food and farming systems with special emphasis on integrating various cover crops to improve yield and quality of crops, maintain soil health, and to enhance environmental quality.

My current research projects include:

  •  Evaluating various strategies to extend grazing season
  •  Integrating cover crops into garlic production
  •  Sustainable strategies for cover crops termination
  •  Testing spring and winter barley cultivars for brewing
  •  Reducing nitrogen and herbicides in sweet corn production
  •  Minimizing environment pollution in equine operation

I have been author or co-author of four books entitled, Seed Dormancy and Germination (2000), Postharvest Physiology (1997), Sustainable Agriculture (1996), and Maximizing Crop Yield (1995).

Curriculum Vitae

Extension Professor
Graduate Program Director

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND PROJECTS

My research activity is mainly focused on sustainability of farming systems through diversified cropping systems. I am specifically interested in integrating cover crops into farming systems to enhance nutrient recovery and recycling, weed suppression, and improving general soil health.  My other research focus is pasture management including grazing systems and strategies to extend grazing season.

Education

Ph.D.  Plant and Soil Sciences/Crop Physiology, 1990, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

CLASSES

On campus:

  • STOCKSCH 350 “Sustainable Soil and Crop Management”
  • HONORS 391A “Honors Seminars 2”
  • STOCKSCH 650 “Global Challenges in Agriculture and the Environment" (team teaching)

Online:

  • STOCKSCH 350 “Sustainable Soil and Crop Management”
  • STOCKSCH 211 “Pasture Management”

OUTREACH

  • Leader, UMass Extension Crops, Dairy, Livestock, and Equine Team.
  • Editor, Crops, Dairy, Livestock, Equine Newsletter.
  • Editor, Massachusetts Agronomy Research Report.
  • State contact for nutrient management, crop production, pasture management.
  • State Coordinator and State Host, New England Green Pastures.
  • Technical reviewer for Northeast SARE Research Proposals.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Emami Bistgani, Zohreh, Masoud Hashemi, Parisa Akbari, Hassan Mumivand. 2023. Influence of drought stress and foliar application of chitosan on nutrient accumulation and phenolic composition of Thymus daenensis Celak. Crop Science. DOI:10.1002/csc2.20901
  • Muetasam Jafr, Shaida, Abdol Rahman Rahimi, Masoud Hashemi, and Asad Rokhzadi. 2022. Influence of N, K, and Seaweed Extract Fertilization on Biomass, Photosynthetic Pigments, and Essential Oil of Thymus vulgaris: Optimization Study by Response Surface Methodology. Agronomy. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12123222
  • Glaze-Corcoran, Samantha, Alexandra Smychkovich and Masoud Hashemi. 2022. Use of Dual-Purpose Winter-Grain Cover Crops as Emergency Forage and for Management of High Soil Phosphorous in Manured Fields. Agronomy 2022, 12, 2334. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12102334
  • Parmoon, Ghasem, Ali Ebadi, Masoud Hashemi, Barbara Hawrylak-Nowak, Carol Baskin, Soodabe Jahan bakhsh. 2022. Plant growth regulators improve grain production and water use efficiency of Foeniculum vulgare Mill. under water stress. Plants 2022, 11, 1718. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11131718
  • Smychkovich, A and Masoud Hashemi. 2022.  Yield and Nutrient Concentrations of Kohlrabi Bulbs and Leaves as
  • Affected by Spring Transplanting Dates. Agronomy. Agronomy 2022, 12, 770. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12040770
  • Zandvakili, Omid,, Allen V Barker, Masoud Hashemi, Wesley R. Autio, Fatemeh Etemadi, Amir Sadeghpour. 2022. Influence of nitrogen source and rate on lettuce yield and quality. Agronomy Journal. 114: 1401-1414. DOI: 10.1002/agj2.20966
  • Khosravi, Anahita, Hao Zheng, Qiang Liu, Masoud Hashemi, Yuanzhi Tang, Baoshan Xing. 2021. Production and Characterization of Hydrochars and their Application in Soil Improvement and Environmental Remediation. Chemical Engineering Journal.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.133142
  • Moosavi, Seyed Amir, Seyed Ataollah Siadat, Masoud Hashemi, Ghasem Parmoon and Adel Poshtdar. 2021 .Economics of dual purpose okra as influenced by harvesting strategies. International Journal of Vegetable Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/19315260.2021.1993401
  • Siller Arthur, Heather Darby, Alexandra Smychkovich, Masoud Hashemi. 2021. Winter malt barley growth, yield, and quality following leguminous cover crops in the Northeast United States. Nitrogen. 2(4): 415-427.  https://doi.org/10.3390/nitrogen2040028.
  • Ghorbi, S, A. Ebadi, S. Khomari, M. Hashemi. 2021. The Effect of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Faba Bean Density in Rotation, on Maize Nitrogen Use Efficiency under No-till System. Iranian Journal of Field Crop research. 19: 299-309. : https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-953580/v1
  • Emami Bistgani, Zohreh, Masoud Hashemi, and Rasmieh Hamid. 2021. Source of nutrients and exogenous chitosan may affect productivity, nutrient accumulation, and phenolic compounds of Thymus daenensis Celak. Agronomy Journal. 113:5499–5515. DOI: 10.1002/agj2.20858
  • Ahmadnia, Fatemeh, Ali Ebadi, Masoud Hashemi, and Leyli Nabati. 2021. Investigating the Effectiveness of Sunn Hemp (Crotalaria juncea) and Rye (Secale cereal L.)  in Weed Suppression and Yield of Kohlrabi (Brassica oleracea var. Gongylodes). Agricultural Science and Sustainable Production. 31 (2): 43-56 (in Persian with English abstract).
  • Kumar, Pawan, Masoud Hashemi, Stephen J. Herbert, Emad Jahanzad, Hadi Safari-Katesari, Martin Battaglia, Omid Zandvakili, Amir Sadeghpour. 2021. Integrated Management Practices for Establishing Shawnee Switchgrass. Agronomy. 2021, 11, 1400. https://doi.org/10.3390/ agronomy11071400 
  • Ahmadnia, Fatemeh, Ali Ebadi, Masoud Hashemi, Akbar Ghavidel, Soghra Ghahremani. 2021. Evaluation of Short-Term Effect of Oat (Avena sativa L.) and Chickling Pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) Cover Crops on Improving some Soil Properties. Applied Soil Research. 9 (1): 72-87 (In Persian with English abstract)
  • Mavandi, Parizad, Bohloul Abbaszadeh, Zohreh Emami Bistgani, Allen V.Barker & Masoud Hashemi. 2021. Biomass, nutrient concentration and the essential oil composition of lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) grown with organic fertilizers. Journal of Plant Nutrition. DOI: 10.1080/01904167.2021.1936037
  • Zangani, Esmaeil, Saeid Zehtab Salmasi,,Babak Andalibi, Abbas Ali Zamani, Masoud Hashemi. 2021. Exogenous nitric oxide improved production and content of favonolignans in milk thistle seeds under water deficit system. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 43:87 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-021-03257-7
  • Siller, Arthur, Masoud Hashemi, Caroline Wise, Alexandra Smychkovich, Heather Darby. 2021. Date of planting and nitrogen management for winter malt barley production in the Northeast, USA. Agronomy. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11040797
  • Baghdadi, Amirsaleh, Farzad Paknejad, Farid Golzardi, Masoud Hashemi and Mohammad Nabi Ilkaee. Suitability and benefits from intercropped sorghum-amaranth under partial root-zone irrigation. 2021. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.11244
  • Gudarzi, Mohammad, Ali Ebadi, Fatemeh Ahmadnia, Masoud Hashemi, Soghra Ghahremani5. 2021. Effect of Cover Crops on Yield and Weeds Control of Lettuce Icebergs (Lactuca sativa var. Iceberg). SAPS. 30 (4) 173-184
  • Biabani,Abbas, Abbas Ferooghi, Ali Rahemi, Fhorban ali Rasam, Masoud Hashemi, Reza Keshavarz Afshar. 2021. Physiological traits, yield, and yield components relationship in winter and spring canola. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.11094
  • Cole, Emily, Allen V. Barker, Omid R. Zandvakili , Amir Sadeghpour, Baoshan Xing, Masoud Hashemi , Elisha Allan-Perkins, and Geunhwa Jung. 2021. Soil nutrient and nematode community changes in response to hardwood charcoal application. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2020.1869774
  • Ghahremani, Soghra, Ali Ebadi, Ahmad Tobeb, Masoud Hashemi, Mohammad Sedghi, Abdolghayum Gholipuri, Allen Barker. 2021. Short-term impact of monocultured and mixed cover crops on soil properties, weed suppression, and lettuce yield. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 52 (4): 406-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2020.1854295
  • Zandvakili Omid R, Masoud Hashemi, Mohammad R. Chaichi, Allen V. Barker, Reza Keshavarz Afshar, Hamid R. Mashhadi, Mostafa Oveysi, and Maryam Sabet. 2020. Role of Cover Crops and Nicosulfuron Dosage on Weed Control and Productivity in Corn Crop. Weed Science. DOI: 10.1017/wsc.2020.71
  • Ahmadnia F., Ebadi A., Hashemi M, Ghavidel A., 2020. Investigating the short time effect of cover crops on biophysical properties of soil. Journal of Water and Soil Conservation, 26(6): 277-290. DOI: 10.22069/jwsc.2019.16172.3145
  • Ghahremani s, Ebadi A, Tobeh A, Hashemi M, Sedghi M and Gholipuri A. 2020. The Effect of Cover Crops on Yield and Weeds Control of Patato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Journal of crop ecophysiology, 14(1): 119-134
  • Brennan, Rebecca Jean Barnes, Samantha Glaze-Corcoran, Robert Wick, Masoud Hashemi. 2020. Biofumigation: an alternative strategy for the control of Plant Parasitic Nematodes. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 19(7): 1680–1690. doi: 10.1016/S2095-3119(19)62817-0
  • Glaze-Corcoran, Samantha, Masoud Hashemi, Amir Sadeghpour, Emad Jehanzad, Reza Keshavarz Afshar, Xiaobing Liu, Stephen J. Herbert. 2020. Understanding intercropping to improve agricultural resiliency and environmental sustainability. Advances in Agronomy.162: 199-256. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2020.02.004
  • Farsad, Ali, Amir Sadeghpour, Masoud Hashemi, Martin Battaglia, Stephen Herbert. 2019. A review on Controlled Vacuum Lysimeter Design for Soil Water Sampling. Environmental Technology & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2019.100355
  • Cole, Emily J., Omid R. Zandvakili, Baoshan Xing, Masoud Hashemi, Allen V. Barker, Stephen J. Herbert. 2019. Effects of Hardwood Biochar on Soil Acidity, Nutrient Dynamics, and Sweet Corn Productivity. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 50: 1732-1742. https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2019.1632343
  • Hashemi, Masoud, Omid Reza Zandvakili, Roohollah Abbasi Shureshjani, Fatemeh Etemadi, Heather Darby. 2019. Evaluating Winter Barley Cultivar using DEA Models. Journal of Agricultural Science. doi:10.5539/jas.v11n6p22.
  • Parmoon, Ghasem, Ali Ebadi, Soodabe Jahanbakhsh, Masoud Hashemi, Seyed Amir Moosavi. 2019. Assessing photosynthetic performance of fennel (Foeniculum Vulgare Mill) influenced by plant growth regulators and drought stress imposed at vegetative and reproductive stages. Italian Journal of Physiology. 14: 1319.
  • Akbari, Parisa, Stephen Herbert, Masoud Hashemi, Allen Barker, and Omid Reza Zandvakili. 2019. Role of cover crops and planting dates for improved weed suppression and nitrogen recovery in no till systems. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis.  50: 1722-1731. https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2019.1631338
  • Westendorf, Michael L. Carey A. Williams, Stephanie Murphy, Laura Kenny, and Masoud Hashemi. 2019. Generation and Management of Manure from Horses and other Equids. In Animal Manure: Production, Characteristics, Environmental Concerns and Management. ASA Special Publication 67. Heidi M. Waldrip, Paulo H. Pagliari, and Zhongqi He, editors. doi:10.2134/asaspecpub67.c8
  • Cole, Emily, Omid R. Zandvakili, Baoshan Xing, Masoud Hashemi, Stephen Herbert, Hamid H. Mashayekhi. 2019. Dataset on the effect of hardwood biochar on soil gravimetric moisture content and nitrate dynamics at different soil depths with FTIR analysis of fresh and aged biochar. Data in Brief. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104073
  • Omid R. Zandvakili, Allen V. Barker, Masoud Hashemi, Fatemeh Etemadi, Wesley R. Autio, and Sarah Weis. 2019. Growth and nutrient and nitrate accumulation of lettuce under different regimes of nitrogen fertilization. Journal of Plant Nutrition. 42: 1575-1593   https://doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2019.1617313
  • Emami Bistgani, Zohreh, Masoud Hashemi, Michelle DaCosta, Lyle Craker, Filippo Maggi, Mohammad Reza Morshedloo. 2019. Effect of salinity stress on the physiological characteristics, phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of Thymus vulgaris L. Industrial Crops and Products. 135: 311-320.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2019.04.055
  • Etemadi, Fatemeh, Masoud Hashemi, Allen Barker, OmidReza Zand Vakili, Xiaobing Liu. 2019. Agronomy, Nutritional Value, and Medicinal Application of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.). Horticultural Plant Journal. 5: 170-182 doi.org/10.1016/j.hpj.2019.04.004.
  • Parmoon, GH, A. Ebadi, S. Jahanbakhsh, M. Hashemi. 2019. Physiological Response of Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill) to Drought Stress and Plant Growth Regulators. Russian Journal of Plant Physiology. 66 (5): 795–805. DOI: 10.1134/S1021443719050170
  • Zandvakili, Omid Reza, Allen V. Barker, Masoud Hashemi, Fatemeh Etemadi, Wesley R. Autio. 2019. Comparisons of commercial organic and chemical fertilizer solutions on growth and composition of lettuce. J. Plant Nutrition. doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2019.1589505
  • Cole, Emily, Omid Reza Zandvakili, Jeffrey Blanchard, Baoshan Xing, Masoud Hashemi, Fatemeh Etemadi. 2019. Investigating Responses of Soil Bacterial Community Composition to Hardwood Biochar Amendment using High-Throughput PCR Sequencing. Applied Soil Ecology. 136: 80-85
  • Zandvakili, OmidReza, Allen V Barker, Masoud Hashemi, and Fatemeh Etemadi. 2019. Biomass and nutrient concentration of lettuce grown with organic fertilizers. Journal of Plant Nutrition. 42 (5): 444-457. DOI: 10.1080/01904167.2019.1567778
  • Parmoon, Ghasem, Ali Ebadi, Soodabe Jahanbakhsh, Masoud Hashemi, Seyed Amir Moosavi. 2018. Effect of Exogenous Application of Several Plant Growth Regulators on Photosynthetic Pigments of Fennel Plants. Notulae Scientia Biologicae. 10.25835/nsb10410356
  • El-Morsy, Mohamed H.M., Hanan E. Osman, Masoud Hashemi, and Fatimah Etemadi. 2019. Utilization of baker’s yeast extract as a biofertilizer for improving crop production of brown mid-rib (sorghum bicolor x s. Bicolor var. Sudanense. Egypt. J. Biotechnol. 59: 1-14.
  • Emami Bistgani, Zohreh, Seyed Ataollah Siadat, Abdolmehdi Bakhshandeh, Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti, Masoud Hashemi, Filippo Maggi, Mohammad Reza Morshedloo. 2018. Application of combined fertilizers improves biomass, essential oil yield, aroma profile, and antioxidant properties of Thymus daenensis Celak. Industrial Crops & Products. 121: 434–440.
  • Etemadi, Fatemeh, Masoud Hashemi, OmidReza Zandvakili, Francis X. Mangan. 2018. Phenology, yield and growth pattern of faba bean varieties. International Journal of Plant Production. 12: 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42106.018.0023-1
  • Etemadi, Fatemeh, Allen Barker, Masoud Hashemi, OmidReza Zandvakili, and Yeonhwa Park. 2018. Nutrient accumulation in faba bean varieties. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis.
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2018.1495729
  • Etemadi, Fatemeh, Masoud Hashemi, Wesley R. Autio, Francis X. Mangan, and OmidReza Zandvakili. 2018. Yield and Accumulation Trend of Biomass and L-DOPA in Different Parts of Eight Faba Bean Cultivars. Crop Science. DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2018.03.0172
  • Fatemeh Etemadi, Masoud Hashemi, Reena Randhir, Omid ZandVakili, Ali Ebadi. 2018. Accumulation of L-DOPA in various organs of faba bean and influence of drought, nitrogen stress, and processing methods on L-DOPA yield. The Crop Journal. doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2017.12.001
  • Fatemeh Etemadi, Masoud Hashemi, Omid Zandvakili, Aria Dolatabadian, and Amir Sadeghpour. 2018. Nitrogen Contribution from Winterkilled Faba Bean Cover Crop to Spring-Sown Sweet Corn in Conventional and No-Till Systems. Agronomy Journal. doi:10.2134/agronj2017.08.0501