Rutgers New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus
Plant Biology and Pathology Faculty  
 
The faculty of the Department of Plant Biology & Pathology consists of over 50 members with research and teaching emphases in areas of Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Natural Products, Plant Breeding and Genetic Improvement, Plant Diversity, Plant Management, Plant Pathology and Horticultural Engineering. We also have a strong extension component that seeks to provide service to and impact plant industries locally and globally.

 

Albert Ayeni-- weed management, sustainable crop production, and international collaborations in Agriculture and Rural Development
Jerry Baron-- plant management/plant pathology: horticultural crop pest management
Faith Belanger -- plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: turfgrass molecular biology; endophyte interaction
Joan W. Bennett-- Mycology and Microbial genetics
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; crop modeling
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
Joel Flagler -- people-plant relationships: horticultural therapy, ornamental horticulture
James French -- plant diversity/natural products: plant development
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
Thomas J. Gianfagna -- plant diversity/natural products/plant management: developmental physiology; dormancy mechanisms; endophytic fungi
Joseph Goffreda -- plant breeding and genetic improvement: peach, apple, and apricot breeding
Ann B. Gould -- plant pathology: woody and herbaceous ornamental crop pathology
Stephen Hart -- plant management: turfgrass and ornamental weed management
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
Hong Jin--
H. Rodolfo Juliani -- Medicinal and aromatic plants/natural products: Chemical diversity, bioactivities, biotechnology, quality assurance and quality control. International development through production of natural products
Randy Kerstetter -- molecular biology/biotechnology: molecular genetics of leaf morphogenesis and development; genomics; tools for manipulating gene expression in Arabidopsis
Donald Kobayashi -- plant pathology/molecular biology/biotechnology: bacterial biocontrol agents; gene expression; gene regulation
Norman Lalancette -- plant pathology: tree fruit pathology; epidemiology and plant disease control
Eric Lam -- molecular biology/biotechnology: plant gene expression; gene targeting; 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
David Mears -- plant management: engineering greenhouse systems and environments
Richard Merritt -- Plant breeding and physiology: bedding plant physiology and production; energy conservation
William Meyer -- plant breeding and genetic improvement: turfgrass breeding
Thomas Molnar -– plant breeding and genetic improvement: ornamental and edible tree crops
James Murphy -- plant and soil management: turfgrass management
Elwin Orton -- plant breeding and genetic improvement: woody ornamental breeding
Thomas Orton -- Plant breeding and genetic improvement: vegetable crops; extension in value-added systems development
Peter Oudemans -- plant pathology: cranberry fungal genetics and taxonomy
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
Rod Sharp -- international programs and department development
James E. Simon -- plant diversity/natural products/ plant breeding and genetic improvement: new crop development, plant domestication
Ajay Singh--
Lena Struwe -- plant diversity/natural products: angiosperm biodiversity and evolution
Maruisz Tadych -– plant diversity, natural products; fungal biology and taxonomy
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
Dan Ward--
C. Andy Wyenandt --
James F. White Jr. -- plant pathology/plant diversity/natural products: endophytic fungi; fungi and grass interrelationships
Qing-Li Wu -- natural products chemistry and plant medicine
George Wulster -- plant management: environmental and chemical modification of crop growth and development
Barbara Zilinskas -- molecular biology/biotechnology:  molecular biology and physiology of the response of plants to environmental stress; oxidative stress and antioxidant protective mechanisms; genetic modification of turfgrass species
Gladis Zinati -- Plant management: nursery crops; soil fertility; compost; and organic management


"For the Snark was a Boojum, you see." -- The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll.   During a field trip to the New York Botanical Gardens, Dr. James French explains the growth habit of Idria columnaris, also known as the Boojum plant, term coined by Godfrey Sykes in reference to the Carroll poem.

Department of Plant Biology
& Pathology
Foran Hall/Cook Campus
59 Dudley Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ 08902
Phone: 732/932-9711
Fax: 732/932-9441

 
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