Plant Pathology: Research Programs

Publications - 2008

Amiri, A., H. Scherm, P.M. Brannen, and G. Schnabel. 2008. Laboratory evaluation of three rapid, agar-based new assays to assess fungicide sensitivity in Monilinia fructicola. Plant Dis. 92:415-420.

Anas, O., U.J. Harrison, P.M. Brannen, and T.B. Sutton. 2008. The effect of warming winter temperatures on the severity of Pierce’s disease in the Appalachian mountains and Piedmont of the southeastern United States. Plant Health Progress (Online:10.1094/PHP-2008-0718-01-RS.

Bahar, O., Efrat, M., Hadar, E., Dutta, B., Walcott, R.R., and Burdman, S. 2008. New subspecies-specific polymerase chain reaction-based assay for the detection of Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli. Plant Pathology 57:754-763.

Bauske, E., Martinez-Espinoza, A. D., Maqueda, K., and Chance, W. 2008. Safety “Pays” for Hispanic Employees, Company Owners and Extension Professionals Active in Urban Agriculture. Journal of Extension. http://www.joe.org/joe/2008december/tt2p.shtml

Branch, W. D. and T. B. Brenneman 2008. Registration of Georgia-07W peanut. Journal of Plant Registrations. Vol 2, No 2, May 2008.

Branch, W. D., and A. K. Culbreath. 2008. Disease and insect assessment of candidate cultivars for potential use in organic peanut production. Peanut Science 35:61-66.

Brannen, P.M., G. Krewer, B. Boland, D. Horton, and C.J. Chang. 2008. Bacterial leaf scorch of blueberry. University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Circular 922.

Brannen, P. M., Krewer, G., Boland, B., Horton, D., and Chang, C. J. 2008. Bacterial leaf scorch of blueberry. Small Fruit News 8 (1):1-4.

Bruton, B.D., Fish, W.W. and Langston, D.B. Jr., 2008. First report of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum Race 2 in Georgia. Plant Disease 92:983.

Burpee, L.L., and R.X. Latin. 2008. Reassessment of fungicide synergism for control of dollar spot. Plant Dis. 92: 601-606.

Cantonwine, E. G., A. K. Culbreath, C. C. Holbrook, and D. W. Gorbet. 2008. Disease progress of early leaf spot and components of resistance to Cercospora arachidicola and Cercosporidium personatum in runner-type peanut cultivars. Peanut Science 35:1-10.

Cantonwine, E. G., A. K. Culbreath, B. B. Shew, and M. A. Boudreau. 2008. Efficacy of organically acceptable fungicides for management of early and late leaf spot

of peanut. Online. Plant Health Progress doi:10.1094/PHP-2008-0317-03-RS.

Coolong T.W., Walcott, R.R., and Randle W.R. 2008. Quantitative real-time PCR

assay for Botrytis aclada in onion bulb tissue. HortScience 43: 408-413.

Copes, W. E., and Stevenson, K. L. 2008. A pictorial disease severity key and the relationship between severity and incidence for black root rot caused by Thielaviopsis basicola. Plant Disease 92:1394-1399.

Culbreath, A. K., Brenneman, T. B., Kemerait, R. C., and G. Hammes 2008. Effect of the new pyrazole carboxamide fungicide penthiopyrad on late leaf spot and stem rot of peanut. Pest Management Science 65:66-73.

Culbreath, A. K., R.C. Kemerait, Jr., and T.B. Brenneman. 2008. Management of leaf spot diseases of peanut with prothioconazole applied alone or in combination with tebuconazole or trifloxystrobin. Peanut Science 35:149-158.

Culbreath, A. K., B. L. Tillman, D. W. Gorbet, C. C. Holbrook, and C. Nischwitz. 2008. Response of new field resistant peanut cultivars to twin row pattern or in-furrow applications of phorate for management of spotted wilt. Plant Disease 92:1307-1312.

Davis, E. L., R. S. Hussey, M. G. Mitchum, and T. J. Baum. 2008. Parasitism proteins in nematode-plant interactions. Current Opinion Plant Biology 11:1-7.

Dong, W. B., T. B. Brenneman, C. C. Holbrook, and A. K. Culbreath 2008. Evaluation of resistance to Cylindrocladium parasiticum of runner-type peanut in the greenhouse and field. Peanut Science 35:139-148.

Dong, W., Holbrook, C. C., Timper, P., Brenneman, T. B., Chu, Y. and Ozias-Akins, P. 2008. Resistance in peanut cultivars and breeding lines to three rootknot nematode species. Plant Dis. 92:631-638.

Dong, W., Brenneman, T.B., Holbrook Jr, C.C., Timper, P., Culbreath, A.K. 2008. The Interaction between Root-knot Nematode (Meloidogyne arenaria) and Cylindrocladium Black Rot (CBR) in Runner Peanut. Plant Pathology:Doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.2008.01932.x.

Garcia-Pedrajas, M.D., Nadal, M., Kapa, L.B., Perlin, M.H., Andrews, D.L., Gold, S.E. 2008. DelsGate, a robust and rapid gene deletion construction method Fungal Genetics And Biology 45:379-388.

Garcia-Pedrajas, M.D., Nadal, M., Bolker, M., Gold, S.E., Perlin, M.H. 2008. Sending mixed signals: Redundancy vs. uniqueness of signaling components in the plant pathogen, Ustilago maydis. Fungal Genetics And Biology 45:S22-S30.

Guo, B., X. Chen, P. Dang, B. T. Scully, X. Liang, C. C. Holbrook, J. Yu, and A. K. Culbreath. 2008. Peanut gene expression profiling in developing seeds at different reproduction stages during Aspergillus parasiticus infection. BMC Developmental Biology 8:12.

Hacisalihoglu, G., Ji, P., Olson, S. M., and Momol, T.M. 2008. The effect of Ralstonia solanacearum on mineral nutrients and IR temperatures in two tomato cultivars. Journal of Plant Nutrition 31: 1221-1231.

Hewezi, T., P. Howe, T. R. Maier, R. S. Hussey, M. G. Mitchum, E. L. Davis, T. J. Baum. 2008. Cellulose binding protein from the parasitic nematode Heterodera schachtii interacts with Arabidopsis pectin methylesterase: cooperative cell wall modification during parasitism. The Plant Cell 20:3080-3093.

Holb, I.J., and Scherm, H. 2008. Quantitative relationships between different injury factors and development of brown rot caused by Monilinia fructigena in integrated and organic apple orchards. Phytopathology 98:79-86.

Holbrook, C. C., P. Timper, W. Dong, C. K. Kvien, and A.K. Culbreath. 2008. Development of near-isogenic peanut lines with and without resistance to the peanut root-knot nematode. Crop Science 48:194-198.

Holbrook, C. C., and A. K. Culbreath. 2008. Registration of “Georganic” peanut cultivar. Journal of Plant Registrations 2:17.

Holbrook, C. C., P. Timper, and A. K. Culbreath. 2008. Registration of peanut germplasm line TIFGP-1 with resistance to the root-knot nematode and tomato spotted wilt virus. Journal of Plant Registrations 2:57.

Holbrook, C. C., P. Timper A. K. Culbreath, and C. K. Kvien. 2008. Registration of “Tifguard” peanut. Journal of Plant Registrations 2:92-94.

Hong, J. C., Momol, M. T., Jones, J. B., Ji, P., Olson, S. M., Allen, C., Perez, A., Pradhanang, P., and Guven, K. 2008. Detection of Ralstonia solanacearum in irrigation ponds and aquatic weeds associated with the ponds in North Florida. Plant Disease 92:1674-1682.

Hurt, T., Mickler, K., Abreu, M. E., and Martinez-Espinoza, A. D., 2008. Virtual Conferencing in Extension: Reaching Audiences, Saving Resources, and Benefiting the Environment. Journal of Extension www.joe.org/joe/2008june/tt8.shtm

Hussey, R. S. 2008. Engineering durable root-knot resistance in crops by RNAi silencing of a root-knot nematode parasitism gene. In: Nichols, R. Advances in nematode management in cotton. Proc. World Cotton research Conference-4 September 10-14, 2007; Lubbock, TX USA Wcrc40601_1010_1982.

Jurick, W. M. II, Harmon, C. L., Marois, J., Wright, D. L., Lamour, K., Vitoreli, A., Creswell, T., Hershman, D., Estevez, C., Kemerait, B., Balbalian, C., and Harmon, P. F. 2007. A comparative analysis of diagnostic protocols for detection of the Asian soybean rust pathogen, Phakopsora pachyrhizi. Online. Plant Health Progress doi:10.1094/PHP-2007-0531-01-RS.

Klosterman, SJ, Martinez-Espinoza, AD, Andrews, DL, Seay, JR, Gold, SE. 2008. Ubc2, an ortholog of the yeast Ste50p adaptor, possesses a basidiomycete-specific carboxy terminal extension essential for pathogenicity independent of pheromone response Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 21:110-121.

Kone, D., Ji, P., Fonsah, G. E., and Csinos, A. S. 2008. First report of black leaf spot of banana caused by Deightoniella torulosa in Georgia. Plant Disease 92:1470.

Mandal, B., S. Mandal, A. S. Csinos, N. Martinez, A. K. Culbreath, and H. R. Pappu. 2008. Biological and molecular analyses of the acibenzolar-S-methyl-induced systemic acquired resistance in flue-cured tobacco against Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus. Phytopathology 98:196-204.

Meinersmann, R.J., M.E. Berrang, C.R. Jackson, P. Fedorka-Cray, S. Ladely, E. Little, J. G. Frye, and B. Mattsson. 2008. Salmonella, Campylobacter and Enterococcus spp.: Their antimicrobial resistance profiles and their spatial relationships in a synoptic study of the Upper Oconee River Basin. Microb. Ecol. 55:444-452.

Nadal, M, Garcia-Pedrajas, MD, Gold, SE 2008. Dimorphism in fungal plant pathogens. FEMS Microbiology Letters 284:127-134.

Naidu,R.A., Sherwood, J.L., and Deom, C.M. (2008). Characterization of a vector non-transmissible isolate of Tomato spotted wilt virus. Plant Pathology 57:190-200.

Nischwitz, C., Csinos, A. S., Mullis, S. W., Hickman, L. L., Stevenson, K. L., and Gitaitis, R. D. 2008. Effect of transplant age, tobacco cultivar, acibenzolar-S-methyl, and imidacloprid on tomato spotted wilt infection in flue-cured tobacco. Plant Dis. 92:1524-1528.

Nischwitz, C., D. Langston, Jr., H. F. Sanders, R. Torrance, K. J. Lewis and R. D. Gitaitis. 2008. First report of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides causing ‘twister disease’ of onion (Allium cepa) in Georgia. Plant Disease 92:974.

Nix, S.S., L.L. Burpee, K.L. Jackson, and J.W. Buck. 2008. Short-term temporal dynamics of yeast abundance on the tall fescue phylloplane. Can. J. Microbiol. 54: 299-304.

Nix-Stohr, S.S., Burpee, L.L., and Buck, J.W. 2008. The influence of exogenous nutrients on the abundance of yeasts on the phylloplane of turfgrass. Microbial Ecology. 55:15-20.

Nuti, R. C., Faircloth, W. H., Lamb, M. C., Sorensen, R. B., Davidson, J. I., and Brenneman, T. B. 2008. Disease management and variable planting patterns in peanut. Peanut Science 35:25-31.

Olatinwo, R. O., J. O. Paz, S. L. Brown, R. C. Kemerait, Jr., A. K. Culbreath, J. P. Beasley, Jr., and G. Hoogenboom. A Predictive Model for Spotted Wilt Epidemics in Peanut Based on Local Weather Conditions and the Tomato spotted wilt virus Risk Index. Phytopathology 98: 1066-1074.

Plattner, K., Fonsah, E.G., Escalante, C., Krewer, G., Scherm, H., Andersen, P.C., Liburd, O., and Tertuliano, M. 2008. Economics of organic blueberry establishment in Georgia. Journal of Food Distribution Research 39:111-115.

Quan, S., Nelson, R.S., and Deom, C.M. (2008) The methyltransferase domain of the 1a protein of Cowpea chlorotic mottle virus controls local and systemic accumulation in cowpea. Archives of Virology 153:1505-1516.

Rideout, S. L, Brenneman, T. B., Culbreath, A. K., and Langston, D. B. 2008. Evaluation of weather-based advisories for improved control of peanut stem rot. Plant Disease 92:392-400.

Scherm, H., and Krewer, G. 2008. Disease management in organic rabbiteye blueberries. International Journal of Fruit Science 8:69-80.

Scherm, H., Savelle, A. T., Boozer, R. T., and Foshee, W. G. 2008. Seasonal dynamics of conidial production potential of Fusicladium carpophilum in southeastern peach orchards. Plant Disease 92:47-50.

Tarnowski, T. L. B., Savelle, A. T., and Scherm, H. 2008. Activity of fungicides against Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi in blueberry flowers treated at different phonological stages. Plant Disease 92:961-965.

Thornton, H. A., Savelle, A. T., and Scherm, H. 2008. Evaluating a diverse panel of biocontrol agents against infection of blueberry flowers by Monilinia vacciniicorymbosi. Biocontrol Science and Technology 18:391-407.

Thornton, H. and P.M. Brannen. 2008. Diagnostic guide to common home orchard diseases. University of Georgia CAES Cooperative Extension Service. SB1336.

Thornton, H. 2008 Annual Plant Disease Clinic Summary. University of Georgia CAES Cooperative Extension Service. SB61.

Wells, L. Hudson, W. and J. Brock. Pecan Trees for the Home or Backyard Orchard. Cooperative Extension Service, The University of Georgia, B1348.

Williams-Woodward, J.L. 2008. Ornamentals. In: 2007 Georgia Plant Disease Loss Estimates, A. Martinez (Compiler), University of Georgia CAES Cooperative Extension Service. SB-41-10.

Woodward, J. E., and Brenneman, T. B. 2008. Development of an inoculation method for quantifying fungicide residues on peanut foliage. Peanut Science 35:25-31.

Woodward, J. E., and Brenneman, T. B. 2008. Use of resistant cultivars and reduced fungicide programs to manage peanut diseases in irrigated and nonirrigated fields. Plant Disease 92:896-902.

Xu, Z., Gleason, M.L., Mueller, D.S., Bradley, C.A., Buck, J.W., Benson, D.M., Esker, P.D., Dixon, P.M. and Monteiro, J.E.B.A.. 2008. Overwintering of Sclerotium rolfsii and Sclerotium rolfsii var. delphinii in different latitudes of the United States. Plant Disease 92:719-724.