Sentences with phrase «plant pathology»

When I started my career, the field was called plant pathology, and we didn't understand anything about the plant immune system.

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.

She then completed a postdoc in plant pathology in Fred Ausubel's lab at Harvard.

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.

For their latest experiments, Shouan Zhang, a UF / IFAS plant pathology associate professor at the Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, FL, inoculated basil plants with the downy mildew pathogen.

He reenrolled in 1957 and continued graduate work until he received his doctorate in plant pathology from Iowa State University on February 27, 1960, although much of this time he was in Las Cruces and in the employ of NMA&M, having come back to the college in 1956.33

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.

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.

Since the conference, I have been in dialogue with three new plant pathology colleagues from Adelaide and Queensland regarding my current work.

These studies represent a breakthrough in plant pathology as they now show how genetic diversity between the two chromosome copies can influence the emergence of new virulent pathogen strains.

Sick Plant Clinic, with plant pathology and entomology experts diagnosing what ails your plant.

-- 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.

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).

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.

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.

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 terms of the conference itself, I think the highlights and benefits could be bundled as those that relate directly to my current work in plant pathology, and then those that arose from listening to and speaking with people, who like my fellow scholars, had very different focuses to my own, but similar ideals and ideas about sustainable agriculture.

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

Topics include biodynamic preparations, medicinal plant cultivation and remedies, beekeeping, compost fertility, seed saving, animal husbandry, cosmic rhythms and planting calendars, spring planting, plant pathology, and seasonal cooking and food preservation.

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.

Researchers at Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, engage in practical scientific study in plant conservation, plant pathology, plant systematics and taxonomy, research horticulture, root - systems biology, and tree breeding.

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.

Chin - An Chang, the former head of the plant pathology at the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, thinks it's unreasonable to ask for virus - free orchids because market prices are now so low.

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.»

Pringle, along with Damon Smith and Mehdi Kabbage, two UW - Madison assistant professors of plant pathology, is studying the spring - like mechanism that parasitic soybean fungi use to catapult their spores into the wind.

TheUniversity of Georgia alone has seven turf researchers studyingeverything from genetics and soil science to plant pathology, nutrientuptake, and insect management.

Determined to investigate, Voinnet specialized in plant molecular biology and, because gene silencing had also been reported in plants made resistant to viruses, plant pathology.

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

Jugulam conducted the study in collaboration with Kansas State University's Bikram Gill, university distinguished professor of plant pathology.

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

«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.

«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.

Jim Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science, examines dodder, a parasitic plant with a covert weaponry system.

«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.

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.

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.

Collaborators on the project include Margaret McGrath, a plant pathology associate professor at Cornell University and Bob Hoffman, a basil grower in Virginia.

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.

She has degrees in biology, plant pathology / mycology, and science writing, and has spent many happy hours studying life in situ.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

I knew that my insight as a breeder / geneticist and my knowledge of our faculty research in plant pathology, entomology, horticulture and food science might help forge stronger connections between our two entities.