Sentences with phrase «of plant pathology»

Pamela Ronald is a professor of plant pathology at the University of California at Davis.

Below you can read reactions to this situation from Pamela C. Ronald, a professor of plant pathology at the University of California, San Diego, and her husband Raoul W. Adamchak, an organic vegetable farmer.

The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of host - plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of plant pathology in agricultural development.

In a time when there were few women in science, she excelled in her field of plant pathology, discovering that Dutch elm disease was caused by a fungus.

Evaluation of root rot symptoms for her genetic study uses chestnuts grown and tested in containers developed by Steve Jeffers, professor of plant pathology at Clemson, and Joe James, who operates Chestnut Return Farm in Oconee County.

Chang - Lin Xiao, an associate professor of plant pathology and extension specialist at the WSU Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee, has discovered three previously unknown fungal pathogens in the United States that cause apples and pears to rot in storage.

«This is great news because preharvest sprouting is a very difficult trait for wheat breeders to handle through breeding alone,» said Bikram Gill, university distinguished professor of plant pathology and director of the Wheat Genetics Resource Center.

Also involved were Harold Trick, professor of plant pathology; Shubing Liu, research associate in agronomy; Sunish Sehgal, senior scientist in plant pathology; Jiarui Li, research assistant professor; and Meng Lin, doctoral student in agronomy, all from Kansas State University; and Jianming Yu, Iowa State University.

Don Davis, professor of plant pathology, Penn State, said that in 2003, he noticed a large number of tree - of - heaven deaths in a southwestern Pennsylvania forest.

«Coffee rust is a hacker,» explains Álvaro Gaitán, head of plant pathology at Cenicafé.

Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, stands in front of the einkorn wheat researchers used for identifying the Sr35 gene that is resistant to the Ug99 strain of wheat stem rust.

Other Kansas State University researchers include Harold Trick, professor of plant pathology; Andres Salcedo, doctoral candidate in genetics from Mexico; and Cyrille Saintenac, a postdoctoral research associate currently working at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in France.

Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, and his colleague, Jorge Dubcovsky from the University of California - Davis, led a research project that identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the wheat stem rust pathogen — called Ug99 — that was first discovered in Uganda in 1999.

«Dodder seems to turn on the expression of these microRNAs when it comes into contact with the host plant,» said James H. Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science at Virginia Tech and another author of the paper.

«The big news is that we now have evidence of a function for RNA that is being exchanged between dodder and its quarry,» said Jim Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, an author of the paper.

-- Pamela Ronald, professor in the Genome Center and the department of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis *

Tests on tomato and pepper plants conducted by Joseph Kloepper, professor of plant pathology at Auburn University in Alabama, confirmed the fertilizer's potency.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire, added: «This new understanding of plant defense through ETD suggests different operations of specific resistance genes which will help us to be more successful in breeding new strains of crops for resistance.

To continue building my capacity in the field of plant pathology so I can provide farmers with practical scientific solutions to reducing in - crop and post-harvest losses, thereby contributing to sustainable food production, increased financial stability and food security.

The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of host - plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of plant pathology in agricultural development.

Not exact matches

He began advanced studies at Iowa State College in the fall of 1948 and received his master's in plant pathology on August 26, 1950.32 Nakayama remained enrolled through the fall semester of 1951.

Marchetti retired from ARS in 2001, leaving behind not only a legacy of excellence in rice breeding and plant pathology, but also a prized collection of 1,000 rice blast specimens he isolated from Texas, Arkansas, and other rice - growing states.

He earned a BS in botany and a MS in plant pathology from Montana State University and a PhD in plant biochemistry at the University of California at Davis, California in 1976.

This covers research on improvement of rainfed lowland and irrigated rice varieties, plant pathology, entomology, soil science, agronomy, and farming systems.

Joe Vargas, a professor of botany and plant pathology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, is among those who think that the remainder of the Bears» season could be less than ideal.

«This discovery overturns our longstanding assumptions about the best - studied symbiotic relationship on the planet,» said Aime, professor of botany and plant pathology.

Eduard Akhunov, associate professor in the plant pathology department, collaborated with Jorge Dubcovsky at the University of California, Davis on this study.

Joan W. Bennett is a distinguished professor of plant biology and pathology and senior faculty adviser to the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey.

«The plant - pathology community has a responsibility to allow data to be used to combat diseases that are happening now, and not worry too much about whether they may or may not get a Nature paper out of it,» says Talbot.

«Gastrointestinal diseases are a major cause of mortality in wild and captive pandas but scientists understand very little about their digestive process,» says co-author Ashli Brown Johnson, state chemist and Mississippi State University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathology.

Natalie Mladenov, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Rhonda Janke, associate professor of horticulture, forestry and recreation resources, are the faculty leaders of the project, which also involves students in civil engineering, plant pathology, agronomy, geography, and park management and conservation.

Ronald and Beutler (p. 1061) synthesize recent intellectual progress to bring insights into shared features of animal immunology and plant pathology.

«This collaboration enabled us to learn more about what really controls plant cell shape in one year than we had in the previous 10,» said Daniel Szymanski, Purdue professor of botany and plant pathology and leader of the research team.

Researchers tested the fungus — Verticillium nonalfalfae — by injecting it into tree - of - heaven, or Ailanthus, plots, according to Matthew Kasson, who recently received his doctorate in plant pathology and environmental microbiology from Penn State.

One of the greatest discoveries in plant pathology in the twentieth century was that of Flor in the 1940s when he proposed his gene for gene theory, based on results of his crosses of flax, each of which were resistant to none, one, or several races of flax rust (3).

Drawing on her background in plant pathology and biotechnology, Heard advises agricultural startups, with the goal of launching companies that will bring new innovations to agriculture.

Pathogens include fungal, bacterial, and viral infections, as well as parasitic plants (and here we include general forest disease in our definition of forest pathology).

The members of the society are experts in the fields of biology, agronomy, forestry, plant pathology, chemistry, pharmacy and other associated disciplines.

The high level of collaboration both in the department and with other areas such as agronomy, plant pathology and computer science is excellent training for students.

Universities should work with funding bodies to reverse the decline in subjects relevant to a sustainable intensification of food crop production, such as agronomy, plant physiology, pathology and general botany, soil science, environmental microbiology, weed science and entomology.

The impact of his work at BTI and elsewhere has left an indelible mark on the fields of plant and invertebrate pathology.

When the anatomy / pathology buildings were designed and being built in 2006, Dr. John Pascoe expressed a desire to include a poisonous plant garden on the north side of the anatomy building.