Plant Environment Interactions | Plant Biology Graduate Program at UMass Amherst

Plant Environment Interactions

Plant Environment Interactions includes: Abiotic Interactions, Plant Pathology, Plant-pollinator/herbivore Dynamics, Pest Management, Stress Physiology

Name	Research Interests
Lynn Adler Professor, Biology	Ecology and evolution of insect-plant interactions
Wesley Autio Director, Stockbridge School of Agriculture and Professor	Cropping and economic efficiency of fruit trees on various rootstocks and under different cultural management systems
Allen Barker Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Plant nutrition
Prasanta Bhowmik Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Biology of invasive weeds, allelopathy, integrated weed management
Daniel R. Cooley Professor of Plant Pathology, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Epidemiology, ecology and sustainable management of plant diseases
Lyle Craker Emeritus Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Medicinal and aromatic plants
Michelle DaCosta Associate Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Plant responses to environmental stresses, with emphasis on drought and temperature stresses of grasses.
Kristen M DeAngelis Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology	Community ecology and physiology of soil microbes, climate change, plant-soil interactions
Scott Ebdon Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Cultural management of abiotic and biotic stresses in turfgrass systems
Michelle Facette Assistant Professor, Biology	Cell polarization and asymmetric cell division; cytoskeletal regulation; cellular physiology
Susan Han Associate Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Physiology of flowering and postharvest care of floricultural crops
Masoud Hashemi Extension Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Integrated sustainable farming management practices with an emphasis on cover cropping and remediation of non-point source pollution.
Martha Hoopes Professor, Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College	Spread dynamics, impacts, and lag times in invasion ecology, as well as metacommunity dynamics, particularly for plants and herbivores.
Peter Jeranyama Associate Professor, Cranberry Experiment Station
Geunhwa Jung Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Molecular genetics and breeding of disease resistance in grasses and population genetics of plant pathogenic fungi
Marco Keiluweit Assistant Professor of Soils and the Environment, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Plant-soil interactions and their impact on soil carbon cycling, soil biogeochemistry
Joohyun Lee Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College	Epigenetic regulation of plant-environment interactions
Li–Jun Ma Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Fungal comparative genomics, eukaryotic genome evolution and organism adaptation
Sibongile Mafu Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Biological chemistry of plant natural products
Frank Mangan Extension Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Vegetable production with an emphasis on soil fertility and ethnic crops
Om Parkash Dhankher Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Plant genetic engineering and biotechnology, phytoremediation of soil contaminants
Elsa Petit Lecturer, Stockbridge School of Agriculture
Hilary Sandler Director, UMass Cranberry Station; Extension Associate Professor	Agriculture, Fruit Integrated Pest Management
Sai Sree Uppala Extension Assistant Professor	Integrated Cranberry Disease Management; Epidemiology and Disease forecasting; Host-Pathogen-Environment interactions; Fungicide Resistance; Microbiome
Elizabeth Vierling Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Molecular chaperone function in the cytosol and organelles, plant stress response
Dong Wang Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Mechanisms of symbiosis between plant hosts and beneficial microbes
Rob Wick Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Diseases of vegetable and greenhouse crops caused by oomycetes, nematode diseases of turfgrasses.
Lawrence Winship Professor Emeritus of Botany, School of Natural Science, Hampshire College	Regulation of cell wall expansion during oscillatory growth in lily pollen tubes
Baoshan Xing Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture	Environmental behavior of emerging contaminants and their interactions with plants