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