Active projects

• Advanced Genetic Technologies
• Assessment of Diseases and their Management in Trees and Other Perennials
• Biological Control of Soilborne Plant Pathogens for Sustainable Agriculture
• Cloning of Blue Mold Resistance Genes from Wild Nicotiana Based on Conserved Resistance Gene Motifs
• Comparitive Genomics of Telomeres in Pathogenic and Saprophytic Fungi
• Detection of Strains of Pyricularia grisea Resistant to QoI (Strobilurin) fungicides
• Development of a Soybean Aphid Management Strategy for the Southern Region
• Development of Gray Leaf Spot-Resistant Perennial Ryegrass through Breeding and Biotechnological Approaches
• Development of Management Strategies to Control Major Soybean Virus Diseases in the North Central States
• Digital Imaging System for Fluorescence Microscopy and other Microscopy Applications
• Efficacy of Fungicides and Biocontrol Trials across Locations
• Efficacy of Injected Fungicides on Prevention of Austrian Pine Tip Blight Disease and Eradication of the Causal Fungus from Symptomless Pine Tissues
• Efforts to Limit Disease in Tobacco and Vegetables
• Evaluation of Disease Management Strategies for Corn, Forages, and Turf
• Expression of a Broad-Spectrum Antifungal Polypeptide in Transgenic Tobacco Plants: Novel Approaches for Control of the Blue Mold Disease of Tobacco
• Factors Affecting de novo Meiotic Chromosome Deletions
• Genetic Analysis of Avirulence/Virulence in Magnaporthe grisea, a Pathogen of Rice and Other Grasses
• Genetic Analysis of Bioprotective Alkaloids Produced by Grass Symbionts
• Genetic Determinants of Parasitism and Pathogenicity in Colletotrichum graminicola
• Identification of Pathogenicity Mutants of Colletotrichum graminicola
• Impact of Viruses on Illinois Soybean
• Management of Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat Using Selected Biological Control Agents and Foliar Fungicides
• Managing Soybean Cyst Nematode
• Mechanism of Defective Interfering RNA Replication and Interference with Helper Infections
• Mechanisms of Virus Particle Disassembly during the Establishment of Plant Virus Infections
• Molecular Basis of Disease in a Virus-Infected Plant Pathogenic Fungus
• Molecular Genetics and Biosynthesis of Loline Alkaloids by Mutualistic Endophytes
• Molecular Systematics of Grass Symbionts of the Fungal Family Clavicipitaceae
• Mycovirus-Host Interactions in Diseased Isolates of Helminthosporium victoriae
• National Agricultural Program to Clear Pest Control Agents for Minor Uses
• Novel Strategy to Develop Viral-Based Transient Expression Vectors for Plants
• Population Biology of a Mutation Conferring Resistance to QoI Fungicides in Pyricularia grisea
• Role of Promoter and Enhancer Elements in the Replication of Defective Interfering Tombusvirus RNA
• Soybean Pathology/Entomology Managed Area
• Survey and Management of Soybean and Wheat Diseases
• Survey for Soybean Mosaic Virus and Bean Pod Mottle Virus in Kentucky
• Toxin Biosynthesis in Ergopeptine Producing Fungi
• Use of Molecular Markers for Epidemiological and Population Studies of Peronospora tabacina
• Whole Genome Analysis of Host-Pathogen Interaction and Subsequent Responses in the Rice Blast Pathosystem