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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Daniel R. Cooley Professor of Plant Pathology, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Epidemiology, ecology and sustainable management of plant diseases |
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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 Professor, Microbiology |
Community ecology and physiology of soil microbes, climate change, plant-soil interactions |
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Michelle Facette Assistant Professor, Biology |
Cell polarization and asymmetric cell division; cytoskeletal regulation; cellular physiology |
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Barry Goodell Professor, Microbiology |
Biomedical Research: Fungal Pathogenesis; Environmental Microbiology: Bioconversion Research; Environmental Microbiology: Symbiosis between gill-inhabiting bacteria and marine mollusks |
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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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Rachel Hestrin Assistant Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Plant-microbe interactions, biogeochemistry, ecosystem response to change, sustainable agriculture |
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Martha Hoopes Professor of Biological Sciences, Mt. 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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Ashley D. Keiser Assistant Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology; Climate Change Biology; Soil Ecology; Biogeochemistry |
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Li–Jun Ma Professor, 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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Giverson Mupambi Extension Assistant Professor, Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment |
Abiotic Stress Ecophysiology |
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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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Leela 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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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 |
