Faculty

Horticultural Therapy, People-Plant Relationships, Rehabilitation Counseling, Vocational Rehabilitation, Vocational Evaluation and Return to Work Coordination, Green Industry Job Development/Job Placement

Medicinal plants, ethnopharmacology, structural bioinformatics, computer aided drug design, nutraceuticals, natural products & human health

Plant Protection and Biotic and Abiotic Interactions

Plant breeding and genetic improvement; perennial grasses for turf and biofuel; inheritance of disease resistance and stress tolerance; molecular and traditional breeding approaches

Nursery and greenhouse crop production; irrigation and fertilization of horticultural crops; landscape horticulture; hemp; applied crop physiology & diagnosis of abiotic stresses

Turfgrass Pathology, microbial ecology, multi-omic, fungicide efficacy

Molecular biology/biotechnology: molecular biology, biotechnology, nutraceuticals, biofuel

Plant management: applied physiology; statistics; CSA management, student farms, organic food production, Physalis production, statistical analysis

Weed science in turfgrass, landscapes, pastures and forages

Plant development/molecular biology: maize genetics and functional genomics; plant architecture; meristem development

Plant breeding and genetic improvement: peach, nectarine, apple, and apricot breeding

Plant pathology: woody and herbaceous ornamental crop pathology

Food-Energy-Water Nexus and Waste synergy by promoting integration of organic waste into development of closed-loop bio-economy

Plant management: Soil, soil fertility, soil testing, mineral nutrition, plant health, organic farming, organic farming history, compost, traditional food systems

Turfgrass stress physiology/biochemistry/molecular biology

Blueberry and Cranberry Breeding Program. Connect data-driven discovery with cultivar development to support more informed selection and lasting progress in breeding programs.

Epigenetics; programmed cell death; stress tolerance; renewable biomass; duckweeds; RNA therapeutics

Disease Resistance, Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens, Fusarium Head Blight, Toxins, Programmed Cell Death, Physcomitrella patens, Functional Genomics

Mechanisms of cellular toxicity of ricin and Shiga toxins. Fragment based antidotes development against ricin and Shiga toxins

Molecular biology/biotechnology/ plant breeding and genetic improvement: plastid molecular biology

Yeast genetics, plant pathology, trichothecene mycotoxins, ribosome inactivating proteins

Membrane dynamics and intercellular vesicle transport (including membrane fusion; protein-lipid interactions): drug delivery/transfection technologies, nanotechnology, biofilms, spectroscopic assays and imaging

Plant breeding and genetic improvement; ornamental and edible tree crops with a current focus on large-bracted dogwoods and hazelnuts

Food systems studies. Local through global food production and its ability to respond to climate change while maintaining health, the environment and economic sustainability

Turfgrass management, turf edaphology, adaptation of turfgrass species and cultivars to traffic stress

Plant pathology: blueberry/cranberry, Colletrotrichum physalospora coleophoma, GIS, NEWA

Plant Pathology, Molecular Biology, bacterial-fungal interactions, emerging plant bacterial diseases

Biotechnology/phytochemistry/natural products/dietary supplements/functional foods/plant diversity/pharmacognosy/international development/biodiversity

Pesticide toxicology, human and ecological risk assessment

Turfgrass abiotic stress physiology; plant biochemistry and metabolism, biotechnology

Diseases of wine grapes, tree fruits, strawberries, and brambles, with a focus on pathogen detection, rapid molecular diagnostic tools, fungal genomics, and fungicide resistance, along with investigating disease etiology and developing effective management strategies.

Plant breeding and genetic improvement; cranberry and blueberry; classical and molecular breeding; genomics and phenomics

Plant diversity/natural products/plant breeding and genetic improvement: new crop development, plant domestication of high value crops, NonTimber Forest Species, sustainable development of indigenous resources

Global plant diversity and evolution, biogeography and spatial patterns, historic and contemporary ethnobotany and sustainable bioprospecting of natural products

Molecular biology/biotechnology/biochemistry: molecular biology; cellular translation; viral infection

Pomology - cultural practices and crop management for fruit crops

Plant pathology; symbiosis; endophytic microbes; nutritional endosymbiotic systems; associative nitrogen fixation

Natural products chemistry and plant medicine

Phytophthora capsici and anthracnose fruit rot control in bell and other peppers, cucurbit powdery and downy mildew control, fungicide resistance management, fungicide resistance guidelines, basil downy mildew control

Plant (epi)genomics, plant immunity, plant hormone signaling, transcriptional regulation, plant stress responses

Fungal biodiversity, phylogenetics and genomics; microbiomes associated with turfgrass and bioenergy plants; and molecular diagnosis of plant pathogens

Plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: turfgrass molecular biology; endophyte interaction, fungal endophyte/grass interaction

Postharvest pathology and physiology of fruit and cut flowers; Plant natural products and human health, endophytic fungi, mechanisms of disease resistance

Plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: plant and fungal virology; fungal molecular biology; biocontrol

Metabolic control and engineering of plant metabolism, sulfur assimilation, nutrition, sensing, amino acid biosynthesis and regulation