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The graduate faculty is composed of members from several units, including the Departments of
Plant Biology & Pathology,
Biochemistry and Microbiology,
Ecology Evolution and Natural Resources,
Landscape Architecture, and
Bioresource Engineering at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, formally Cook College and the
Department of Biological Sciences of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences New Brunswick. Faculty may also be affiliated with the
Biotechnology Center for Agricultural and the Environment, the
Center for Theoretical and Applied Genetics, the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, the
Bureau of Biological Research and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Turfgrass Science.
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- Faith Belanger -- plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: turfgrass molecular biology; endophyte interaction
- Stacy Bonos -- plant breeding and genetic improvement: inheritance of fungal resistance in turfgrass; molecular markers; turfgrass breeding
- A.J. Both -- plant management: controlled environment agriculture; greenhouse systems; (alternative) energy systems
- Chee-Kok Chin -- plant diversity/natural products/plant breeding and genetic improvement: asparagus improvement; bioactive fatty acids
- Bruce Clarke -- plant pathology: turfgrass pathology, ectotrophic root infecting fungi
- Hugo Dooner -- molecular biology/biotechnology: functional genomics; homologous meiotic recombination analysis in maize
- Edward Durner -- plant management: applied physiology; statistics
- Joan Ehrenfeld -- plant ecology: plant community ecology; watershed management; global change
- Chaim Frenkel -- molecular biology/biotechnology/ plant diversity/natural products: molecular horticulture; natural products
- Cyril R. Funk -- plant breeding and genetic improvement: breeding; underutilized breeding and genetic perennial food crops; pest resistance; stress tolerance
- Steve Garrison
- Randy Gaugler -- plant pathology/molecular biology: Invertebrate pathology; parasitology; biological control
- Thomas J. Gianfagna -- plant diversity/natural products/plant management: Plant natural products and human health, endophytic fungi, mechanisms of disease resistance
- Joseph Goffreda -- plant breeding and genetic improvement: peach, apple, and apricot breeding
- Ann B. Gould -- plant pathology: woody and herbaceous ornamental crop pathology
- Steven Handel -- plant ecology: restoration ecology; plant population dynamics; population ecology and genetics; plant-animal interactions; microevolutionary changes in plant populations
- Stephen Hart -- plant management: turfgrass and ornamental weed management
- Jean Marie Hartman -- plant ecology: ecological design and plant ecology research
- Joseph Heckman -- plant management: soil fertility; plant mineral nutrition
- Melvin Henninger -- plant management: potato and cold crop horticulture
- Bradley I. Hillman -- plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: plant and fungal virology; fungal molecular biology; biocontrol
- Bingru Huang -- Turfgrass stress physiology/biotechnology and turfgrass management
- Harry Janes -- plant management: controlled environmental agriculture; plant environmental interaction
- Gojko Jelenkovic -- molecular biology/biotechnology: transgenic plants; gene isolation; gene characterization
- Randy Kerstetter -- molecular biology/biotechnology: molecular genetics of leaf morphogenesis and development; genomics; tools for manipulating gene expression in Arabidopsis
- Edmund Kirby -- molecular biology/biotechnology: molecular genetics of root morphogenesis and development; plant tissue culture
- Donald Kobayashi -- plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: bacterial biocontrol agents; gene expression; gene regulation
- Eric Lam -- molecular biology/biotechnology: plant gene expression; programmed cell death
- Michael Lawton -- plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: plant pathogen interactions in higher and lower plants; targeted gene replacement in Physcomitrella patens
- Thomas Leustek -- molecular biology/biotechnology: biochemistry and molecular biology of plant metabolism
- Brad Majek -- plant management: vegetable and fruit weed control
- Pal Maliga -- molecular biology/biotechnology/plant breeding and genetic improvement: plastid molecular biology
- Charles Martin -- molecular biology/biotechnology: cellular regulation; intracellular targeting and function of genes involved in the assembly of membranes at the ER surface
- Richard Merritt -- plant breeding and genetic improvement: bedding plant physiology and production; energy conservation
- Joachim Messing -- molecular biology/biotechnology/plant breeding and genetic improvement: functional genomics; genomics; gene expression; maize improvement
- William Meyer -- plant breeding and genetic improvement: turfgrass breeding
- James Murphy -- plant and soil management: turfgrass management
- Elwin Orton -- plant breeding and genetic improvement: woody ornamental breeding
- Peter Oudemans -- plant pathology: cranberry fungal genetics and taxonomy
- James Polashock -- plant breeding and genetic improvement/plant pathology: blueberry and strawberry improvement
- Ilya Raskin -- molecular biology/biotechnology/plant diversity/natural products: phytopharmaceuticals; molecular biochemistry; recombinant protein production
- John Sacalis -- plant diversity/natural products: cut-flower postharvest physiology; turfgrass endophytes; natural products
- James E. Simon -- plant diversity/natural products/ plant breeding and genetic improvement: new crop development, plant domestication
- Lena Struwe -- Global plant diversity, conservation, and evolution, biogeography, ethnobotany and sustainable bioprospecting of natural products
- Nilgun Tumer -- molecular biology/biotechnology: molecular biology; cellular translation; viral infection
- Aurea Vasconcelos -- molecular biology/biotechnology: organelle development, function and regulation
- Nicholi Vorsa -- plant breeding and genetic improvement/ plant diversity/natural products: blueberry and cranberry breeding, genetics
- James F. White Jr. -- plant pathology/plant diversity/natural products: endophytic fungi; fungi and grass interrelationships
- George Wulster -- plant management: environmental and chemical modification of crop growth and development
- Barbara Zilinskas -- molecular biology and physiology of the response of plants to environmental stress; oxidative stress and antioxidant protective mechanisms; genetic modification of turfgrass species
- Gladys Zinati -- Plant management: nursery crops; soil fertility; compost; and organic management