Sung M. Lim
Professor EmeritusEducation
Service
- Served on numerous committees and the editorial board of the American Phytopathological Society
- Extension Committee (1996 - 1998)
- Host Resistance Committee (1995 - 1997)
- IPM Committee (1995 - 1997)
- Award & Honors Committee (1994 - 1997)
- Novel Idea Program Foundation (1995)
- Genetics Committee (1989 - 1991)
- Yield Loss Committee (1988 - 1990)
- Collection & Germplasm Committee (1987 - 1989)
- Epidemiology Committee (1982 - 1984)
- Genetics Committee (1977 - 1982)
- Chairman & Convener of the Molecular Biology-Bacteria Session (1991)
- Chairman & Convener of the Genetics Session (1989)
- Chairman & Convener of the Disease Resistance Session (1982)
- Chairman & Convener of the Genetics Session (1977)
- Senior Editor (1985 - 1987) and Associate Editor (1982 - 1984), Phytopathology
- Associate Editor (1979 - 1981), Plant Disease
- Served frequently as a reviewer for Crop Science and Genetics since 1971
- Serves as a member of the Arkansas State Plant Board since 1991
- Serves as an honorary member of the Agricultural Research Advisory Board, Office of Rural Development in Korea since 1987
- Serves on the Advisory Council for the Korean society of Plant Pathology
- Editorial Board for the Journal of the Korean Phytopathology since 1998
Courses Taught
Taught the first graduate course on Epidemiology of Plant Diseases and a graduate course on the Genetics of Plant-Pathogen Interaction at the University of Illinois.
Research Emphasis
Conducted research on the genetics, physiology, and epidemiology of corn diseases. With colleagues, identified the susceptibility of Cms-T cytoplasm corn to H. maydis race T. Discovered that southern corn leaf blight involved a host-specific pathotoxin produced by H. maydis. Isolation of a phytoalexin produced in monogenic resistant corn infected with H. turcicum, the casual agent of northern corn leaf blight, provided the first evidence of a fungal-inhibitory chemical defense mechanism in monocotyledonous plants.
Conducted research on genetic and epidemiological aspects of foliar, pod, and seed diseases of soybean. Research on the epidemiology of brown spot, bacterial blight and pustule of soybeans, the genetics of resistance to these diseases, soybean mosaic virus, downy mildew, sudden death syndrome, and integrated soybean pest management has defined the economic importance of soybean diseases and has provided methods by which they can be managed most efficiently and economically.
Honors and Awards
- The Distinguished Scientist Award from the Korean Ministry of Science & Technology in 1980
- The Soybean Researcher's Recognition Award frm the American Soybean Association and ICI Americas in 1981
- Fellow of the APS in 1988
- Fellow of the AAAS in 1990
- Certificate of Merit Award for Sustained Superior Performance of Research and Professional Activities from the USDA/ARS in 1990
- The Outstanding Plant Pathologist Award from the Southern Division of APS in 2000
- The Spitze Land Grant University Faculty Award for Excellence from the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Science, University of Arkansas in 2006
- The Distinguished Service Award from the Southern Soybean Disease Workers in 2008.
Publications
- G.B. Lee, G.L. Hartman, and S.M. Lim. 1996. Brown spot severity and yield of soybeans regenerated from calli resistant to a host-specific pathotoxin produced by Septoria glycines. Plant Dis. 80:403-413.
- H.S. Song, S.M. Lim, and J.M. Widholm. 1994. Selection and regeneration of soybean resistant to the pathogenic culture filtrates of Septoria glycines. Phytopathology 84:948-951.
- Paul A. Stephens, Cecil D. Nickell, and Sung M. Lim. 1993. Sudden death syndrome development in soybean cultivars differing in resistance to Fusarium solani. Crop Sci. 33:63-66.
- Ingyu Hwang, Sung M. Lim, and Paul D. Shaw. 1992. Cloning and characterization of pathogenicity genes from Xanthomonas campestris pv. glycines. Bacteriology 174:1923-1931.
- Lim, S.M. 1989. Inheritance of resistance to Peronospora manchuricaraces 2 and 33 in soybean. Phytopathology 79:877-879.
- Lim, S.M. 1975. Heterotic effects of resistance in maize to Helminthosporium maydis race O. Phytopathology 65:1117-1120.
- Lim, S.M., and Hooker, A.L. 1972. A preliminary characterization of Helminthosporium maydis toxins. Plant Disease Reptr. 56:805-807.
- Lim, S.M., and Hooker, A.L. 1972. Disease determinant of Helminthosporium maydis race T. Phytopathology 62:968-971.
- Lim, S.M., Hooker, A.L., and Smith, D.R. 1971. Use of Helminthosporium maydis race T pathotoxin to determine disease reaction of germinating corn seed. Agronomy J. 63:712-713.
- Lim, S.M., and Hooker, A.L. 1971. Southern corn leaf blight: Genetic control of pathogenicity and toxin production in race T and race O of Cochliobolus heterostrophus. Genetics 69:115-117.