The Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic freqently draws on the expertise of the following researchers, members of the Departments of Plant Pathology at the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY and at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, NY. Additional expertise is provided by researchers at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center (LIHREC) in Riverhead, NY, as well as from researchers in other departments at Cornell University. Web pages for additional researchers in Plant Pathology may be found at the Departments of Plant Pathology website. See links to other Cornell University Departments and laboratories below.

Plant Pathology Faculty and Researchers

GEORGE S. ABAWI

Ecology and biology of fungal and nematodal soilborne pathogens. (NYSAES)

GARY C. BERGSTROM

Epidemiology and management of grain and forage diseases. (Ithaca)

THOMAS J. BURR Biology and control of bacterial pathogens of fruit crops. (NYSAES)

KERIK COX

Biology, ecology, and epidemiology of diseases of pome fruit, stone fruit and berry crops. (NYSAES)

MARGERY L. DAUGHTREY

Diagnosis and Management of Diseases of Floral and Nursery Crops. (LIHREC)

HELENE R. DILLARD

Epidemiology and control of fungal and bacterial diseases of vegetable crops. (NYSAES)

WILLIAM E. FRY

Epidemiology and management of Late Blight of potato and tomato. (Ithaca)

MARC FUCHS

Plant virology research and extension involving diseases of fruits and vegetables, and virus-host and virus-vector interactions. (NYSAES)

DAVID M. GADOURY

Development of improved disease management programs for diseases of fruit crops. (NYSAES)

KATHIE T. HODGE Mycologist. Systematics and ecology of pathogenic and symbiotic fungi, especially pathogens of insects. (Ithaca)

GEORGE W. HUDLER

Diseases of woody ornamentals and Christmas trees. (Ithaca)

JAMES W. LORBEER

Diseases of vegetable crops, chemical and biological control of plant diseases. (Ithaca)

ROSEMARY LORIA

Potato disease management, host-pathogen interactions. (Ithaca)

MARGARET MCGRATH

Diseases of vegetable crops, epidemiology, IPM, and fungicide resistance. (LIHREC).

ERIC B. NELSON

Biocontrol, rhizosphere ecology, Oomycete biology, diseases of turfgrass. (Ithaca)

REBECCA J. NELSON

International agriculture; host plant resistance; biology and management of diseases of cereal and root/tuber crops; IPM. (Ithaca)

KEITH L. PERRY

Vector transmission of CMV and related viruses, development of a multipathogen detection system for diseases of solanaceous crops. (Ithaca)

CHRISTINE SMART

Management of vegetable diseases. Molecular plant-pathogen interactions. (NYSAES)

WAYNE F. WILCOX

Biology and integrated management of grape and grapevine diseases. (NYSAES)

THOMAS A. ZITTER

Diseases of vegetables, IPM, ecology and epidemiology of foliar pathogens, epidemiology and control of virus diseases. (Ithaca)

Other Departments

Cornell University Plant Diagnostic or Analytic Laboratories and Web Resources


PDDC Homepage, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University,
Cornell Cooperative Extension, IPM in New York State