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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