Faculty
Name |
Discipline & Location |
Lori M. Carris
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Mycology; biology and systematics of smut fungi, esp. Tilletiales. Pullman |
Gary A. Chastagner
|
Sudden oak death (Phytophthora ramorum), management of diseases of ornamental bulb crops and Christmas trees, and factors that affect the postharvest quality of Christmas trees. Puyallup |
Weidong Chen
|
Fungal diseases of grain legumes, ecology and epidemiology of grain legume diseases, genetics of host-pathogen interactions. Pullman |
Xianming Chen
|
Rusts of cereal crops, epidemiology and control of rusts, disease resistance, and host-pathogen interactions. Pullman |
Lindsey du Toit
|
Etiology, epidemiology, and management of diseases of small-seeded vegetable seed crops in the Pacific Northwest. Mount Vernon |
Frank Dugan
|
Ascomycetes and associated anamorphs; fungi endophytic in higher plants. Pullman |
Ken C. Eastwell
|
Management and detection of virus diseases, especially of perennial crops such as fruit trees and hops. Prosser |
Axel A. Elling
|
Nematology; molecular plant-nematode interactions, effectors, plant immunity, functional genomics of host-parasite interactions. Pullman |
Dean Glawe
|
Mycology; systematics and biology of economically important fungi with emphasis on Erysiphales, yeasts, Pyrenomycetes, and Deuteromycetes; and taxonomic databases. Seattle (UW) |
Gary G. Grove
|
Epidemiology and forecasting of fungal diseases of cherries, peaches/nectarines, and grapes: epidemiology of powdery mildews; and electronic information transfer. Prosser |
Lee A. Hadwiger
|
Genetic engineering of disease resistance in plants; gene activation in fungi and plants; signaling in host- parasite interactions. Pullman |
Scot H. Hulbert
|
Genetics of disease resistance in cereals and virulence in cereal pathogens; disease management in conservation-oriented cropping systems. Pullman |
Debra A. Inglis
|
Diseases of specialty vegetable crops, and their control. Mount Vernon |
Dennis A. Johnson
|
Epidemiology and disease management of potato diseases, mint diseases, and extension plant pathology. Pullman |
Ned Klopfenstein
|
Molecular diagnostics of forest pathogens and microbes, genetic structure of host and pathogen populations across forest landscapes and environments. Moscow |
Richard Larsen
|
Virology of common bean and cool season legumes, and resistance in alfalfa to soil-borne pathogens. Prosser |
Mark Mazzola
|
Soilborne diseases of fruit trees, microbial ecology, molecular biology. Wenatchee |
Timothy D. Murray
|
Small grain diseases (foot and root rots of wheat), ecology and epidemiology of soilborne pathogens, genetics of disease resistance, and chemical control. Pullman |
Roy Navarre
|
The molecular basis of disease resistance mechanisms and inducible defenses, such as systemic acquired resistance, in potato. Prosser |
Patricia Okubara
|
Host genes governing plant-microbe interactions; molecular basis of disease resistance and biological control of cereal root pathogens. Pullman |
Hanu Pappu
|
Plant Virology. Viruses and viral diseases of horticultural crops: Biology and molecular biology, genomics and proteomics of DNA and RNA viruses. Molecular ecology and epidemiology, molecular methods for virus detection and diagnosis, gene structure-function relationships, use of RNA and DNA viruses as tools for studying virus-host and virus-vector interactions, and conventional and biotechnological approaches for disease management. Pullman |
Timothy Paulitz
|
Soilborne pathogens of cereals; mycology. Pullman |
Tobin L. Peever
|
Molecular, population and evolutionary genetics of plant pathogenic fungi, fungal mating systems, molecular systematics of fungi, fungal ecology and epidemiology, legume diseases. Pullman |
Naidu Rayapati
|
Plant virology, molecular biology of plant viruses, genomics of virus-vector-host interactions, virus diagnostics and management strategies, virus diseases of horticultural crops with emphasis on grapes and vegetables, virus diseases in international agriculture. Prosser |
Brenda K. Schroeder
|
Microbiology, molecular biology and genomics of bacteria associated with plant diseases. Investigations into the biology of postharvest diseases caused by bacterial plant pathogens. Pullman |
Deven See
|
Wheat genetics, genomics, pre-breeding discovery of agronomically important traits including stripe rust (Puccinia striformis f. sp. tritici) resistance in wheat. Pullman |
Linda Thomashow
|
Wheat root diseases, molecular biology and microbiology. Pullman |
David M. Weller
|
Biological control, influence of bacteria on take-all of wheat, cereal diseases, bacteriology. Pullman |
Chang Lin Xiao
|
Fungal and bacterial diseases of tree fruits, postharvest pathology, and disease epidemiology. Parlier, CA |
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