Plant Protection and Biotic and Abiotic Interactions
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Faculty Involvement and Their Active Research Focus

Faith Belanger	Endophytes; disease resistance
Joan Bennett	Fungal genetics; fungal volatiles
Ming-Yi Chou	Turfgrass Pathology, microbial ecology, multi-omic, fungicide efficacy
Rong Di	Plant pathology; molecular biology; plant biotechnology; CRISPR-gene editing to engineer disease resistance and stress tolerance
Joseph Heckman	Soil and nutrition management, organic agriculture and gardening
Brad Hillman	Fungal viruses; bacterial/fungal interactions; plant virology
Don Kobayashi	Plant bacteriology; bacterial/fungal interactions
Norm Lalancette	Tree fruit pathology; epidemiology; disease management and control
Mike Lawton	Disease resistance; plant host responses
Jim Murphy	Best management practices for turf and edaphology
Peter Oudemans	Small fruit pathology; disease management and control
Lena Struwe	Lichenology
Nilgun Tumer	Antiviral proteins; plant and fungal toxins
Jim White	Endophytes (fungal and bacterial)
Andy Wyenandt	Vegetable pathology and disease management and control
Ning Zhang	Fungal biodiversity, phylogenetics and genomics; microbiomes associated with turfgrass and bioenergy plants; and molecular diagnosis of plant pathogens.