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Plant Pathology Faculty

 

Richard Cartwright

217A Plant Sciences Building
(479) 575-2598
rcartwri@uark.edu
rcartwright@uaex.edu

Crop diseases
Expertise and Instrumentation: Biology, epidemiology and control of rice, wheat and soybean diseases
Burton H. Bluhm



208 Rosen Alternative Pest Control
(479) 575 2677
bbluhm@uark.edu

Molecular Plant Pathology
Expertise and Instrumentation: Fungal diseases of crop species, plant-fungal interactions, molecular genetics, functional genomics. metabolomics, mycology 

Clifford M. Coker, Jr.

Southeast Research and Extension Center
P. O. Box 3508
Monticello, AR 71656-3508
(870) 460-1091
coker@uamont.edu

Soybean diseases, cotton diseases, and commercial tomato diseases
Expertise and Instrumentation: Intensive plant disease identification/disease management

James Correll

205 Plant Sciences Building
(479) 575-2710
jcorrell@uark.edu

Vegetable crops and rice diseases
Expertise and Instrumentation: Biology, genetics and molecular biology of fungal pathogens

Terry Kirkpatrick

Southwest Research and Extension Center
362 Hwy 174 North
Hope, AR 71801
(870) 777-9702
tkirkpatrick@uaex.edu

Nematology
Expertise and instrumentation: Nematode population dynamics and ecology, nematode extraction and identification, field plot research

Kenneth Korth

205 Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center
(479) 575-5191
kkorth@uark.edu

Plant biotechnology
Expertise and Instrumentation: Molecular plant-insect interactions, pathogen and insect resistance pathways, cellular control of enzymes involved in isoprenoid metabolism

Fleet Lee

Rice Research and Extension Center
2900 Highway 130E, Stuttgart, AR 72160
(870) 673-2661
fnlee@uark.edu

Rice diseases
Expertise and Instrumentation: Disease resistance, epidemiology and control of pathogens

Eugene Milus

211 Plant Sciences Building
(479) 575-2676
gmilus@uark.edu

Wheat and turfgrass diseases
Expertise and Instrumentation: Biology, epidemiology, disease resistance, disease management

W. Scott Monfort




Rice Research and Extension Center
University of Arkansas
2900 Highway 130 East
Stuttgart, AR 72160
(870) 673-2661
smonfort@uaex.edu

Diseases and nematodes in a multitude of crops, controls of diseases and nematodes
Expertise and Instrumentation: Disease management, remote sensing, GPS, and disease forecasting

Robert Robbins

Room 15
Cralley/Warren Research Laboratory
2601 N. Young Ave.
(479) 575-2555
rrobbin@uark.edu

Plant nematodes
Expertise and Instrumentation: Identification, morphology and distribution of plant parasitic nematodes

Craig Rothrock

206 Plant Sciences Building
(479) 575-6687
rothrock@uark.edu

Soilborne plant diseases
Expertise and Instrumentation: Ecology and control of soilborne pathogens of cotton, rice and soybeans

John Rupe

212 Plant Sciences Building
(479) 575-2778
jrupe@uark.edu

Soybean diseases
Expertise and Instrumentation: Epidemiology and control of plant diseases, ecology of soybean pathogens

Ronald J. Sayler

202 Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center
(479) 575-8442
rjsayle@uark.edu

Functional genomic analysis of terpene synthesis in rice and Medicago for improving pest resistance
Expertise and Instrumentation: Molecular biology and biotechnology

J. Ples Spradley

Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
P. O. Box 391
Little Rock, AR 72203
(501) 671-2234
pspradley@uaex.edu

Pesticide Assessment Program
Expertise and Instrumentation: Specialist, statewide Pesticide Applicators Training Program.

David TeBeest

210 Plant Sciences Building
(479) 575-2678
dtebeest@uark.edu

Molecular ecology and epidemiology of plant diseases, mycoherbicides
Expertise and Instrumentation: Biology, genetics, epidemiology of fungal pathogens of rice, sorghum and corn, mycoherbicides, fungal cell isolation and culture, lineage characterizations, host resistance responses

Ioannis E. Tzanetakis

213 Plant Sciences Building
(479) 575-3180
itzaneta@uark.edu

Virology
Expertise and Instrumentation: Characterization and epidemiology of new viruses.  Reverse genetics of soybean.

Stephen R. Vann

Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
P. O. Box 391
Little Rock, AR 72203
(501) 671-2229
svann@uaex.edu

Vegetable and Urban Plant Pathology
Expertise and Instrumentation: Master Gardener Programs, ornamental, turf, fruit, vegetable, and non-agronomic plants.

Adjunct Faculty

Retired Faculty


 

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