A stable food supply depends on the ability to protect crops from their virus, bacterial, and fungal pests
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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 -
Bochra Bahri
Assistant Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics; Plant Pathology
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bbahri@uga.edu
pathogen population structure, pathogen adaptation to hosts and to climate change, plant-pathogen interactions, resistance gene and virulence factor identification, turfgrass and forage disease management -
Marin Brewer
Associate Professor
Plant Pathology
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mtbrewer@uga.edu
plant-pathogenic fungi, population genomics, mating systems, host specialization -
Anny Chung
Haines 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 -
Jake Fountain
Assistant Professor
Plant Pathology
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jfount1@uga.edu
mycotoxicology, postharvest pathology, fungal genetics -
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
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 -
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 -
Shavannor Smith
Associate Professor
Plant Pathology
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shavs@uga.edu
plant-pathogen interactions, structure and evolution of disease resistance loci -
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 -
Li Yang
Assistant Professor
Plant Pathology
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Li.Yang1@uga.edu
molecular genetics of plant immunity and development