Plant Environment Interactions includes: Abiotic Interactions, Plant Pathology, Plant-pollinator/herbivore Dynamics, Pest Management, Stress Physiology
Plant Environment Interactions
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Lynn Adler Professor, Biology |
Ecology and evolution of insect-plant interactions |
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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 |
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Allen Barker Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Plant nutrition |
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Prasanta Bhowmik Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Biology of invasive weeds, allelopathy, integrated weed management |
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Daniel R. Cooley Professor of Plant Pathology, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Epidemiology, ecology and sustainable management of plant diseases |
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Lyle Craker Emeritus Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Medicinal and aromatic plants |
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Michelle DaCosta Associate Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Plant responses to environmental stresses, with emphasis on drought and temperature stresses of grasses. |
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Kristen M DeAngelis Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology |
Community ecology and physiology of soil microbes, climate change, plant-soil interactions |
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Scott Ebdon Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Cultural management of abiotic and biotic stresses in turfgrass systems |
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Michelle Facette Assistant Professor, Biology |
Cell polarization and asymmetric cell division; cytoskeletal regulation; cellular physiology |
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Susan Han Associate Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Physiology of flowering and postharvest care of floricultural crops |
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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. |
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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. |
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Peter Jeranyama Associate Professor, Cranberry Experiment Station |
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Geunhwa Jung Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Molecular genetics and breeding of disease resistance in grasses and population genetics of plant pathogenic fungi |
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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 |
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Joohyun Lee Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College |
Epigenetic regulation of plant-environment interactions |
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Li–Jun Ma Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Fungal comparative genomics, eukaryotic genome evolution and organism adaptation |
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Sibongile Mafu Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Biological chemistry of plant natural products |
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Frank Mangan Extension Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Vegetable production with an emphasis on soil fertility and ethnic crops |
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Om Parkash Dhankher Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Plant genetic engineering and biotechnology, phytoremediation of soil contaminants |
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Elsa Petit Lecturer, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
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Hilary Sandler Director, UMass Cranberry Station; Extension Associate Professor |
Agriculture, Fruit Integrated Pest Management |
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Sai Sree Uppala Extension Assistant Professor |
Integrated Cranberry Disease Management; Epidemiology and Disease forecasting; Host-Pathogen-Environment interactions; Fungicide Resistance; Microbiome |
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Elizabeth Vierling Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Molecular chaperone function in the cytosol and organelles, plant stress response |
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Dong Wang Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Mechanisms of symbiosis between plant hosts and beneficial microbes |
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Rob Wick Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Diseases of vegetable and greenhouse crops caused by oomycetes, nematode diseases of turfgrasses. |
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Lawrence Winship Professor Emeritus of Botany, School of Natural Science, Hampshire College |
Regulation of cell wall expansion during oscillatory growth in lily pollen tubes |
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Baoshan Xing Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Environmental behavior of emerging contaminants and their interactions with plants |
