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
Refereed Journal Articles: Last five years
Yin, C., Jurgenson, J.E., Hulbert, S. (2011) Development of a Host-induced RNAi System in the Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. In Press (Posted online)
Yin, C., Hulbert, S. (2011) Prospects for functional analysis of effectors from cereal rust fungi. Euphytica Published online and in Press. DOI 10.1007/s10681-010-0285-x
Babiker, E., Hulbert, S. Schroeder, K., Paulitz, T. (2011) Optimum Timing of Pre-Plant Applications of Glyphosate to Manage Rhizoctonia Root Rot in Barley. Plant Disease, In Press.
Travers, S. E., Tang, Z. Caragea, D., Garrett, K.A., Hulbert, S. H., Leach, J. E., Bai , J., Saleh, A., Knapp, A.K., Fay, P.A., Nippert, J., Schnable P.S. and M.D. Smith (2010) Spatial and temporal changes in Andropogon gerardii transcription profiles in association with climate change. Journal of Ecology 98:374-383
Chen, M-S. Liu, X., Yang, Z., Zhao, H., Shukle, R.H., Stuart, J.J. and S. H. Hulbert (2010) Unusual conservation among genes encoding small secreted salivary gland proteins from a gall midge. BMC Evolutionary Biology; 10:296Smith, S.M., Steinau, M., Trick, H.N. and Hulbert, S.H. (2010) Recombinant Rp1 genes confer necrotic or nonspecific resistance phenotypes. Mol. Genet Genomics 283:591–602
Yin, C., Jones, K.L., Peterson, D.E., Garrett, K.A., Hulbert, S.H., Paulitz T. C. (2010) Members of soil bacterial communities sensitive to tillage and crop rotation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42:2111-2118.
Chintamanani, S, Hulbert, S.H., Johal G.S., Balint-Kurti, P.J. (2010) Identification of a Maize Locus that Modulates the Hypersensitive Defense Response, Using Mutant-Assisted Gene Identification and Characterization (MAGIC) Genetics, 184(3):813-25
Yin, C., Chen, X., Wang, X., Han, Q., Kang, Z., and Hulbert, S.H. (2009) Generation and analysis of expression sequence tags from haustoria of the wheat stripe rust fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici. BMC Genomics, 10:626-
Kabbage, M., Leslie, J. F. Hulbert, S. H. Bockus W .W. (2009) Comparison of natural populations of Mycosphaerella graminicola from single fields in Kansas and California. Phys. Mol. Plant Pathol. 74: 55–59
Mehdi Kabbage, John F. Leslie, Kurt A. Zeller, Scot H. Hulbert, and William W. Bockus (2008) Genetic diversity of Mycosphaerella graminicola, the causal agent of Septoria tritici blotch, in Kansas winter wheat. Journal of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences 2:1-9
Manosalva, P.M. Davidson, R.M., Liu, B., Zhu, X., Hulbert, S.H. Leung, H., Leach, J.E. (2008) A Germin-Like Protein Gene Family Functions as a Complex QTL Conferring Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance in Rice. Plant Phys. 149:286-296
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
Chen, M-S, Fellers, J.P., Zhu, Y.C., Stuart, J.J., Hulbert, S.H. El-Bouhssini, M. and Liu, X (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.
K. A. Garrett, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, and S. E. Travers (2006) Ecological genomics and epidemiology European Journal of Plant Pathology 115:35-51
Zhao, B., Lin, X., Poland, J., Trick, H., Leach, J., Hulbert S. (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.
Wisser, R.J., Sun, Q., Hulbert, S.H., Kresovich, S., Nelson R.J. (2005) Identification and characterization of regions of the rice genome associated with broad-spectrum, quantitative disease resistance.
Genetics. 169(4):2277-93
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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