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.
Not exact matches
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.
Since the conference, I have been in dialogue with three new
plant pathology colleagues
from Adelaide and Queensland regarding my current work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kiwamu Tanaka, an assistant professor in
plant pathology, and Henning Kunz, an assistant professor in
plant physiology, recently received funding
from the MJ Murdock Charitable Trust for the LemnaTec Scanalyzer Discovery Platform.
From the outset all factors limiting wheat production were studied; consequently, there were interdisciplinary researches between genetics and
plant breeding, agronomy, soil fertility,
plant pathology, and entomology.
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.