Faculty
Gary L. Altman
Horticultural Therapy, People-Plant Relationships, Rehabilitation Counseling, Vocational Rehabilitation, Vocational Evaluation and Return to Work Coordination, Green Industry Job Development/Job Placement
Dr. Sonia Arora
Medicinal plants, ethnopharmacology, structural bioinformatics, computer aided drug design, nutraceuticals, natural products & human health
Dr. Faith C. Belanger
Plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: turfgrass molecular biology; endophyte interaction, fungal endophyte/grass interaction
Dr. Thierry E. Besancon
Plant Protection and Biotic and Abiotic Interactions
Dr. Stacy Bonos
Plant breeding and genetic improvement; perennial grasses for turf and biofuel; inheritance of disease resistance and stress tolerance; molecular and traditional breeding approaches
Dr. Raul I Cabrera
Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Dr. Ming-Yi Chou
Turfgrass Pathology, microbial ecology, multi-omic, fungicide efficacy
Dr. Tiemi N. Curry
Plant tissue culture/biotechnology: plant cell, tissue and organ culture – research development and production; plant micropropagation, for selected, highly valued Rutgers hybrid breeding programs
Dr. Rong Di
Molecular biology/biotechnology: molecular biology, biotechnology, nutraceuticals, biofuel
Dr. Edward Francis Durner
Plant management: applied physiology; statistics; CSA management, student farms, organic food production, Physalis production, statistical analysis
Dr. Matthew Elmore
Weed science in turfgrass, landscapes, pastures and forages
Dr. Andrea Gallavotti
Plant development/molecular biology: maize genetics and functional genomics; plant architecture; meristem development
Dr. Joseph Goffreda
Plant breeding and genetic improvement: peach, nectarine, apple, and apricot breeding
Dr. Ann Brooks Gould
Plant pathology: woody and herbaceous ornamental crop pathology
Dr. Serpil Guran
Dr. Joseph R. Heckman
Plant management: Soil, soil fertility, soil testing, mineral nutrition, plant health, organic farming, organic farming history, compost, traditional food systems
Dr. Josh A. Honig
Plant molecular biology/plant breeding: DNA genotyping, DNA fingerprinting, DNA sequencing, genetic linkage mapping, and marker assisted selection (MAS), turfgrass breeding
Dr. Bingru Huang
Turfgrass stress physiology/biochemistry/molecular biology
Dr. Hector Rodolfo Juliani
Dr. Donald Y. Kobayashi
Dr. Eric Lam
Dr. Michael Lawton
Dr. Thomas Leustek
Dr. Xiao-Ping Li
Dr. Pal Maliga
Dr. John McLaughlin
Dr. Paul R. Meers
Dr. Thomas J. Molnar
Dr. Xenia K. Morin
Dr. James Murphy
Dr. Peter Oudemans
Dr. Harna Patel
Dr. Nrupali Patel
Plant Pathology, Molecular Biology, bacterial-fungal interactions, emerging plant bacterial diseases
Dr. Ilya Raskin
Dr. Mark Gregory Robson
Dr. Stephanie Rossi
Dr. Gina Sideli
Dr. James E. Simon
Dr. Lena Struwe
Dr. Nilgun Tumer
Dr. Dan L. Ward
Dr. James F. White, Jr.
Dr. Qing-Li Wu
Dr. C. Andrew Wyenandt
Dr. Mark Zander
Dr. Ning Zhang
Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Jerry J. Baron
Dr. Chee-Kok Chin
Dr. Bruce B. Clarke
Dr. Hugo K. Dooner
Dr. Thomas J. Gianfagna
Postharvest pathology and physiology of fruit and cut flowers; Plant natural products and human health, endophytic fungi, mechanisms of disease resistance
Dr. Zane Helsel
Dr. Melvin R. Henninger
Dr. Bradley I. Hillman
Plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: plant and fungal virology; fungal molecular biology; biocontrol
Dr. Harry Janes
Dr. Gojko Jelenkovic
Dr. Norman Lalancette
Dr. Bradley Majek
Dr. David R. Mears
Dr. William A. Meyer
Dr. Elwin R. Orton
Dr. Thomas J. Orton
Dr. John Sacalis
Dr. Nicholi Vorsa
