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Plant Interactions and Response to Their Environment

Plants cannot escape adverse growing conditions, so must adjust to cold, heat, drought, flood and other adverse conditions to survive

Rebecca Abney

Assistant Professor
Warnell
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Rebecca.Abney@uga.edu
biogeochemical cycles, post-wildfire erosion, soil C sequestration

Doug P. Aubrey
Doug Aubrey

Assistant Professor, Plant Biology
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
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daubrey@uga.edu
Tree ecophysiology, forest biogeochemistry, fire ecology, sustainability of bioenergy production

Sudeep Bag
Sudeep Bag

Assistant Professor
Plant Pathology
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sudeepbag@uga.edu
plant virology: detection, disease epidemiology, genomics, small RNA, virus-host interaction, and virus disease management

Marin Brewer
Marin Brewer

Associate Professor
Plant Pathology
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mtbrewer@uga.edu
plant-pathogenic fungi, population genomics, mating systems, host specialization

Anny Chung
Anny Chung

Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Plant Pathology
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yyachung@uga.edu
plant-microbe interactions, competition and coexistence, population and community ecology, global change

Michael Deom
Michael Deom

Professor
Plant Pathology
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deom@uga.edu
virus-host interactions, biotic and abiotic stress in groundnut varieties

Rhuanito Ferrarezi

Associate Professor
Horticulture
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ferrarezi@uga.edu
irrigation, mineral nutrition, sap analysis, hydroponics, cropping systems

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson

Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
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danjohnson@uga.edu
tree ecophysiology, water use, drought

Brian Kvitko
Brian Kvitko

Associate Professor
Plant Biology, Plant Pathology
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bkvitko@uga.edu
mechanisms of plant immune action against bacteria, molecular phytobacteriology

Soraya Leal-Bertioli
Sorya Bertioli

Senior Research Scientist
Plant Pathology; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
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sorayab@uga.edu
peanut, wild arachis, introgression, tetraploidization, disease resistance

Zenglu Li
Zenglu Li

Professor
Georgia Seed Development Professorship in Soybean Breeding and Genetics
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
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zli@uga.edu
soybean breeding, genetics and genomics

Cecilia McGregor
Cecilia McGregor

Associate Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
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cmcgre1@uga.edu
vegetables, breeding, genetics, genomics, marker-assisted selection, QTL

Melissa Mitchum
Melissa Mitchum

Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics; Plant Pathology
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melissa.mitchum@uga.edu
molecular plant-nematode interactions, effectors, peptide signaling, host plant resistance, soybean genetics and genomics

Wayne Parrott
Wayne Parrott

Distinguished Research Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
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wparrott@uga.edu
gene editing and transgenic breeding of legumes and grasses

Shavannor Smith
Shavannor Smith

Associate Professor
Plant Pathology
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shavs@uga.edu
plant-pathogen interactions, structure and evolution of disease resistance loci

CJ Tsai
Cj Tsai

Winfred N. Haynes Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Plant Biology; Genetics; Institute of Bioinformatics
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cjtsai@uga.edu
phenylpropanoid metabolism, stress response, wood formation, gene family evolution, gene-metabolite networks

Breeanna Urbanowicz
Breeanna Urbanowicz

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
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breeanna@uga.edu
structure and function of plant carbohydrate active enzymes

Caterina Villari

Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
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cvillari@uga.edu
fungal pathogens, resistance mechanisms of trees, chemical ecology, insect-fungi symbioses

Jason Wallace
Jason Wallace

Associate Professor
Institute of Bioinformatics, Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
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jason.wallace@uga.edu
quantitative genetics and genomics of crops and their microbiomes

Li Yang
Li Yang

Assistant Professor
Plant Pathology
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Li.Yang1@uga.edu

molecular genetics of plant immunity and development

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