College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences

Department of Plant Pathology

Faculty

 

Name

Discipline & Location

Lori M. Carris

 

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

Emeritus/Retired Faculty

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 

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