College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences

Department of Plant Pathology

Scot Hulbert

Professor and Scientist, R. James Cook Endowed Chair in Cropping Systems Pathology

 

Research Specialty and Interests

Management of diseases and pests through genetics and modifications of cropping systems. Genetic and molecular basis of race specific and nonspecific resistance in cereal crops. Methods for the development of cultivars with resistance that remains effective. Molecular mechanisms used by fungal pathogens to attack cereal crops. Development of cropping systems that are profitable but conservation oriented.

Professional Experience

  • Assistant, Associate, and Professor of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, 1989-2006
  • R. James Cook Endowed Chair in Cropping Systems Pathology, Washington State University, 2006-present

Awards/Honors

  • Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, KSU, 2002
  • Fellow, American Society of Phytopathology, 2002
  • Fellow, American Society for the Advancement of Science, 2005

Selected Publications

Chen, M-S., Zhao, H.-X., Zhu, Y.C., Scheffler, B.,  Liu, X., Liu, X., Hulbert, S., and Stuart J. J. (2008) Analysis of Transcripts and Proteins Expressed in the Salivary Glands of Hessian Fly (Mayetiola destructor) Larvae. Journal of Insect Physiology 54 (2008) 1–16

Hulbert, S.H., Bai, J., Fellers, J.P., Pacheco, M.G. and Bowden, R.L. (2007) Gene Expression Patterns in Near Isogenic Lines for Wheat Rust Resistance Gene Lr34/Yr18.  Phytopathology 97:1083-1093

Travers, S. E., Smith, M.D., Bai, J., Hulbert, S.H., Leach, J. E., Schnable, P. S., Knapp, A. K., Milliken, G. A., Fay, P. A., Saleh, A., and Garrett K. A. (2007) Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field.  Front Ecol Environ 5(1): 19–24

Ming-Shun Chen, John P. Fellers, Yu Cheng Zhu, Jeffrey J. Stuart, Scot Hulbert, Mustapha El-Bouhssini and Xiang Liu (2006) A super-family of genes coding for secreted salivary gland proteins from the Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor J. Insect Sci. 2006. 6:12

Mateos-Hernandez, M., Singh, R. P., Bowden, R.L., Hulbert, S. H., Gill, B. S. and Brown-Guedira, G. 2006. Targeted mapping of ESTs linked to the adult plant resistance gene Lr46 in wheat using synteny with rice. Funct. Integr. Genomics. 6:122-31.

Bingyu Zhao, Xinghua Lin, Jesse Poland, Harold Trick, Jan Leach, Scot Hulbert (2005) A Maize Resistance Gene Functions against Bacterial Streak Disease in Rice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102:15383-15388.

Smith, S., Hulbert, S.H. (2005) Recombination events generating a novel Rp1 race specificity. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 18(3):220-8.

Monosi, B., Wisser R. J., Pennill, L. and S.H. Hulbert (2004) Full-Genome analysis of resistance gene homologs in rice. Theor Appl Genet. 109(7):1434-47.

Ayliffe M. A., Steinau M., Park R. F., Rooke L., Pacheco M. G., Hulbert, S. H., Trick H.N., Pryor, A.J. (2004) Aberrant mRNA processing of the maize Rp1-D rust resistance gene in wheat and barley. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 17(8):853-64

Zhao, B., Ardales, E.Y., Brasset, E., Claflin, L.E., Leach, J.E., Hulbert, S.H. (2004) The Rxo1/Rba1 locus of maize controls resistance reactions to pathogenic and nonhost bacteria. Theor. Appl. Genet. 109:71-79

Zhao, B., Ardales, E. Y., Raymundo, A., Trick, H., and Leach,J. E., Hulbert, S.H. (2004) The avrRxo1 gene from the rice pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola confers a nonhost defense reaction on maize with resistance gene Rxo1. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact 17:771-779

Smith, S., Pryor, A., Hulbert, S.H. (2004) Allelic and Haplotypic diversity at the Rp1 rust resistance locus of maize. Genetics 167(4):1939-47.

Bai, J., Pennill, L.A., Ning, J., Lee, S.W., Ramalingam, J., Webb C.A., Zhao, B., Sun, Q., Nelson, J.C., Leach J.E. and Hulbert S.H. (2002) Diversity in Nucleotide Binding Site-Leucine-Rich Repeat Genes in Cereals. Genome Research, 12:1871-1884

Webb, C.A., Richter, T.E., Collins, N.C., Nicolas, M., Trick, H.N., Pryor, T., Hulbert, S.H. (2002) Genetic and molecular characterization of the maize rp3 rust resistance locus. Genetics, 162:381-394.

Sun, Q., Collins, N., Ayliffe, M., Smith, S., Drake, J., Pryor, T., Hulbert, S. (2001) Recombination between paralogues at the rp1 rust resistance locus in maize. Genetics 158: 423-438.


Scot Hulbert-Department of Plant Pathology

 

Johnson Hall 307 (office) &
308 (lab)
Tel.: (509)335-3722
Fax: (509)335-9581
E-mail: scot_hulbert@wsu.edu

 

Teaching:

CropS/Pl P 403/503 Advanced Cropping Systems (F)

 

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