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Academic focus: Plant-microbiome-environment interactions Research summary: Plants interact simultaneously with microbes and their abiotic environment, but molecular studies often focus only on interactions with one or the other. My research...
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Academic focus: Vegetable pathology Research summary: My applied vegetable pathology research program is aimed at improving disease management for important vegetable crops in New York state. Topics include fungicide resistance screening and...
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Academic focus: Field crops pathology Research summary: We study diseases of major field crops in New York state with one goal: better decisions for growers. We ask how pathogen populations change under selection from host resistance, fungicides...
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Academic focus: Plant microbiomes Research summary: Plants coexist with dynamic and complex microbial communities. I study how host genetics and environmental stressors collectively influence microbiome composition and function. By studying crop...
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Since 1978, Margery Daughtrey has been an ornamental crop disease management problem-solver, serving the greenhouse, nursery and floriculture industries from her base at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center. “Some of her...
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Academic focus: Ecology and evolution of plant pathogens in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) Research summary: I study how biotic drivers such as the plant virome are shaping the ecology and evolution of plant pathogens. My lab aims to...
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Nothing spells disappointment more during pesto-making season than visiting your basil patch only to find your carefully tended crop ravaged. But that is exactly what happened to Meg McGrath, a plant pathologist based at Cornell’s Long Island...
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Academic focus: Fungal genetics and genomics Research summary: I study how fungi sense and respond to their environment. Specifically, I am interested in understanding how fungi sense available nutrients and efficiently utilize them. Accurate...
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In academic publishing, one measurement of a work’s importance is how many other academics have cited it. This long-standing system has the benefit of simplicity and helping to form a common knowledge base. But especially for those working to...
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There are species named after scientists like Charles Darwin ( Geochelone nigra darwini) and figures in popular culture ( Notiospathius johnlennoni). Dick Korf, who worked as a fungal taxonomist in Cornell's Plant Pathology Department from 1951...
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Research focus: proximal and remote plant disease sensing and applied grape pathology Research summary: I study how proximal and remote sensing can be used to make earlier, faster, and more accurate grape disease detection and management...
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Academic focus: Plant-microbe interactions, virology, plant-virus-vector interactions Previous position: Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology, University of California – Davis, 2014-2019. Academic background: PhD, Plant Biology, University of...
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