PLPA Faculty

PLPA Faculty

A. Rick Bennett
217A Plant Sciences Building
(479) 575-2598
rbennett@uark.edu

Crop Diseases
Expertise and Instrumentation: Fungal physiology, mycology, biological control of weeds, and plant-fungal interactions

Burton H. Bluhm
206 Rosen Alternative Pest Control
Center (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

James C. 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

Travis Faske
Cooperative Extension Service
P.O. Box 357
Lonoke, AR 72086
(501) 676-3124
tfaske@uaex.edu

Field Crop Diseases
Expertise and instrumentation: Biology, epidemiology, host resistance, and management of plant-parasitic nematodes and fungal diseases

 

Terry L. 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 L. 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

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

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

Robert T. 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 S. 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 C. 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

Expertise and Instrumentation: Crop protection through exploratory research and applied biotechnologies.
Biology, genetics, epidemiology of bacteria, fungal and nematode pathogens on crop species.

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 O. 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(at)uark.edu

Virology
Plant virus epidemiology and virus-vector interactions.
Molecular biology of emaraviruses.

Michael E. Vayda
E-108 AFLS Building
479-575-2034
mvayda@uark.edu

Abiotic Stress Resources
Expertise and Instrumentation: Plant molecular physiology, low-oxygen stress,
cold-stress

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.

 

Yeshi Wamishe
Rice Research & Extension Center University of Arkansas
2900 Highway 130 East
Stuttgart, AR 72160
ywamishe@uaex.edu
Extension Plant Pathology
Rice Diseases
Expertise and Instrumentation: Biology of fungal and bacterial diseases, disease resistance genetics, disease epidemiology and management.

Adjunct Faculty

Retired Faculty