Plant Pathology: Personnel

Chung Jan Chang

Professor
244 Redding Bldg
Georgia Experiment Station
Griffin, GA 30223
Phone: (770) 412-4015
cchang1@uga.edu

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

B.S. National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, R.O.C. 1971
M.S. National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, R.O.C. 1974
M.S. University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 1977
Ph.D. Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 1981

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND CURRENT EFFORTS

Growth and metabolism of fastidious prokaryotes including spiroplasmas, phytoplasmas, and Xylella fastidiosa and their detection by electron microscopy in pecan, walnut, peach, and grapes.
Appointment: 90% Research, 10% Instruction

COURSES TAUGHT IN 2007

Lecture and lab on “Introductory Plant Pathology” (PATH 3530), Spring

CURRENT MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL & HONORARY SOCIETIES

American Phytopathological Society
International Organization for Mycoplasmology
Southern Division of American Phytopathological Society
Georgia Association of Plant Pathologists
International Society for Plant Pathology

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Krewer, G., P. Brannen, and C. J. Chang. 2007. Xylella (Zi-lella) infected plants in southern highbush fields—what to do at this point. Dixie Blueberry News. Georgia Blueberry Growers Association Newsletter. 7 (1): 3.

Brannen, P., G. Krewer, B. Boland, D. Horton, and C. J. Chang. 2007. Bacterial leaf scorch of blueberry. Dixie Blueberry News. Georgia Blueberry Growers Association Newsletter. 7 (4): 46-53.

Malkus, A., Chung, K. R., Chang, C. J., and Ueng, P. 2006. The tri- functional histidine biosynthesis gene (his) in wheat Stagonospora nodorum blotch pathogen, Phaeosphaeria nodorum. Plant Pathol. Bull. 15:55-62.

Wei, W., Opgenorth D. C., Davis, R. E., Chang, C. J., Summers, C. G., and Zhao, Y. 2006. Characterization of a novel adhesin-like gene and design of a real-time PCR for rapid, sensitive, and specific detection of Spiroplasma kunkelii. Plant Dis. 90:1233-1238.

Malkus, A., Reszka, E., Chang, C.J., Arseniuk, E., Chang, P.-F. L., Ueng,P. P. 2005. Sequence diversity of –tubulin (tubA) gene in Phaeosphaeria nodorum and P. avenaria. FEMS Microbiology Letters: 249:49-56.