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Students, staff and faculty of the University of Minnesota's Department of Plant Pathology have collectively fed thousands of people and traveled the globe in pursuit of knowledge that will lead to healthy and sustainable crops. We've been working together as a department since 1907 — longer than any other plant pathology department in the world.
Our Plant Pathology Department is proud to have produced distinguished alumnus and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug and the remarkable statesman and scientist E.C. Stakman. To learn more about our alumni, please visit the Alumni & Friends page of our site.
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My applied research program is focused on the economically important diseases of small-grained cereals in Minnesota. I work in close collaboration with the wheat, barley and oat breeding programs in the development of new varieties with improved resistance to diseases. My project also facilitates the development of new techniques to assist in the identification of disease resistance in plants and to screen collections of germplasms to identify sources of resistance to the major pathogens of our cereal crops. I am also involved in studies to examine the mode of inheritance of resistance in cereal crops to a number of diseases, and to determine the effect of the environment on resistance expression. This knowledge is used to determine the most effective ways to deploy host resistance. Members in my program also conduct epidemiological studies of several foliar pathogens of cereal crops and on the influence of cultural practices on the development of small grain diseases.
