Theses and dissertations dating back to 2000.

Koenig, John L.

2009 MS Plant Pathology

Timing of fungicide applications for the management of dollar spot.  Advisor: M. Boehm.

Subedi, Nagendra

2009 MS Plant Pathology

Use of biorational products for the control of diseases in high tunnel tomatoes and induction of certain defense genes in tomato by Trichoderma hamatum 382.  Advisor: S. Miller.

Kleczewski, Nathan M.

2009 PhD Plant Pathology

Nutrient and drought effects on biomass allocation, phytochemistry, and ectomycorrhizae of birch.  Advisor: P. Bonello.

Broders, Kirk D.

2008 PhD Plant Pathology

Seed and seedling disease of corn and soybean in Ohio: the role of Fusarium graminearum, Pythium species diversity, fungicide sensitivity, Pythium community composition, and soil properties in disease severity.  Advisor: Anne Dorrance

Cruz, Christian

2008 MS Plant Pathology

Impact of foliar diseases on soybean in Ohio: Frogeye leaf spot and Septoria brown spot.  Advisor: Anne Dorrance

Benitez, Maria Soledad

2008 PhD Plant Pathology

Applied T-RFLP analyses for the identification and characterization of microbial populations associated with damping-off incidence in a transient organic cropping system.

Advisor: B. McSpadden Gardener

Raudales, Rosa

2008 MS Plant Pathology

Studies in biocontrol: enumeration, characterization and screening of Rhizobia.

Advisor: B. McSpadden Gardener

Vega Sanchez, Miguel E.

2008 PhD  Plant Pathology

The E3 ligase SPL11 regulates both programmed cell death and flowering time in rice.

Advisor: G. Wang

Palumbo, Rose

2008  PhD Plant Pathology

Target Region Amplification Polymorphism (TRAP) analysis of Pelargonium.  Advisor: G. Wang.

Wallis, Christopher

2007  PhD  Plant Pathology

Understanding the roles of phenolics and terpenoids in pine defense against fungal pathogens.  Advisor: P. Bonello.

Song, Jing

2007  PhD  Plant Pathology

Phytophthora spp. and their targets tomato proteases.  Advisor: S. Kamoun (now at The Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom).

Bos, Jorunn Indra Berit

2007   PhD   Plant Pathology

Function, structure and evolution of the RXLR effector Avr3a of Phytophthora infestans.  Advisor: S. Kamoun.

Briar, Shabeg Singh

2007  PhD  Plant Pathology

Nematodes as bioindicators of soil food web health in agroecosystems: a critical analysis.  Advisors: P. Grewal and S. Miller.

Niver, Amy Lee

2007  MS  Plant Pathology

Effects of fungicides on dollar spot, caused by Sclerotinia homoeocarpa.  Advisor: M. Boehm.

Alviter, Angel Rebollar

2006  PhD  Plant Pathology

Efficacy and physical mode of action of fungicides against Leather Rot of strawberry and sensitivity of Phytophthora cactorum isolates to Azoxystrobin.  Advisor: M. Ellis.

Saeb, Amr Tag El-Din

2006  PhD  Plant Pathology

Phylogenetic and population genetic studies on some insect and plant associated nematodes.  Advisor: P. Grewal.

Briceno-Montero, Emilia G.

2006  MS  Plant Pathology

Evaluation of biorational control options of bacterial spot and speck of tomato.  Advisor: S. Miller.

Jantasuriyarat, Chatchawan

2006  PhD  Plant Pathology

Identification and characterization of genes involved in the interaction between rice and rice blast fungus.  Advisor: G. Wang.

Mideros Mora, Santiago Xavier

2006  MS  Plant Pathology

Study of incomplete resistance to Phytophthora sojae in soybean.  Advisor: A. Dorrance.

Nava Diaz, Cristian

2006  PhD  Plant Pathology

Role of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in integrated disease management and productivity of tomato.  Advisor: S. Miller.

Dong, Xiaoyun

2005  PhD  Plant Pathology (Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)

Functional investigation of Arabidopsis culture synthase and the signal transduction pathway.  Advisor:  D. Verma.

Huitema, Edgar

2005  PhD  Plant Pathology

Determinants of nonhost resistance to Phytophthora infestans.  Advisor: S. Kamoun.

Jo, Young-Ki

2005  Ph.D.  Plant Pathology

Management of Dollar Spot and Gray Leaf Spot on Turfgrass.  Advisor: M. Boehm.

Tian, Miaoying

2005  PhD  Plant Pathology

Functional characterization of extracellular protease inhibitors of Phytophthora infestans.  Advisor: S. Kamoun.

Zeng, Lirong

2005  PhD  Plant Pathology

A novel mechanism underlying programmed cell death in plant defense signaling.  Advisor: G. Wang.

Ariss (Cox), Jennifer J.

2001  MS  Plant Pathology

Effects of potato leafhopper injury and Fusarium crown rot on three alfalfa populations.  Advisor: L. Rhodes.

2005  PhD  Plant Pathology

Pathological factors affecting persistence in alfalfa with emphasis on diseases incited by Fusarium species.  Advisor: L. Rhodes.

Engle, Jessica Sue

2002  MS  Plant Pathology

Evaluation and characterization of resistance to Fusarium Head Blight in winter wheat.  Advisor: P. Lipps.

2005  PhD  Plant Pathology

Pathogenic characterization, distribution in Ohio and wheat genotype reactions to Stagonospora nodorum and Pyrenophora tritici-repentis.  Advisor: P. Lipps.

Nita, Mizuho

2002  MS  Plant Pathology

2005  PhD  Plant Pathology

Epidemiology and management of Phomopsis cane and leaf spot of grape.

Visual assessment of Phomopsis leaf blight, and effects of wetness duration, temperature, and leaflet age on strawberry foliage infection by Phomopsis obscurans.  Advisor: L. Madden.

Joshi, Raghavendra

2005  MS  Plant Pathology

Identification, characterization of DNA sequences specific to Bacillus subtilis with biocontrol potential and development of PCR assay targeting them in multitemplate environment.  Advisor: B. McSpadden Gardener.

Whitten, Katherine R.

2005  MS

Foliar diseases of daylilies caused by Puccinia hemerocallidis and Aureobasidium microstictum.

Core, Amanda Brickner

2004  MS  Plant Pathology

Population dynamics and influence of application of the Fusarium head blight biological agent Crytococcus nodaensis on wheat.  Advisor: M. Boehm.

Gutierrez, Laura J.

2004   MS  Plant Pathology

Fungicide sensitivity and potential biological control of tomato fruit rot pathogens in Ohio.

LaForest, Joseph H.

2004  MS  Plant Pathology & Entomology

Effects of mulching and fertilization on ecological interactions between soil microbes, plants, herbivores and mycorrhizal fungi of paper birch in topsoil and inverted subsoil profiles.  Advisor: P. Bonello.

Thomas, Samantha L.

1999  MS  Plant Pathology

Microbial ecology of sand-based turfgrass root zone mixes.  Advisor: M. Boehm.

2004  PhD  Plant Pathology

The development and utilization of assays to characterize populations of Gaeumannomyces graminis.  Advisor: M. Boehm.

Wyenandt, Christian Andrew

1999  MS  Plant Pathology

Assessing an integrated disease management strategy for processing tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) in Ohio.  Advisor: R. Riedel.

2004  PhD  Plant Pathology

Fusarium Fruit Rot (Fusarium spp.) of pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and its control with cover crop mulches.  Advisor: R. Riedel.

Jia, Hongtao

2003  M.S.  Plant Pathology

An evaluation of protocols for stabilizing pathotypes of Phytophthora sojae isolates and characterizing race-specific resistant genes in soybean plant introductions.  Advisor: A. Dorrance.

Larue, Clayton Tyler

2003  MS  Plant Pathology

Lactofen mediated accumulations of isoflavonoids in soybean leaf tissue and induction of a systemic protection response towards pathogens in lactofen treated soybeans.  Advisor: T. Graham.

Liu, Zhenyu

2003  MS  Plant Pathology

Patterns of diversifying selection and reticulate evolution in extracellular effector proteins from the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans.  Advisor: S. Kamoun.

Merighi, Massimo

2003  PhD  Plant Pathology

Molecular biology and biochemistry of the regulation of hrp/type III secretion genes in the corn pathogen Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii.  Advisor: D. Coplin.

Torto, Gertrude A.

2003  PhD  Plant Pathology

Functional genomics of extracellular proteins of Phytophthora infestans.  Advisor: S. Kamoun.

Vega Sanchez, Miguel Esteban

2003  MS  Plant Pathology

Defense-related gene expression in soybean cultivars with different levels of partial resistance to Phytophthora sojae.  Advisor: S. Kamoun.

Zhang, Jianhua

2003  Ph.D.  Plant Pathology

Diversity of aster yellows phytoplasmas in lettuce.  Advisor: S. Miller.

Wutz, Laura A.

2003  MS  Plant Pathology

Occurrence and control of Microdochium Blight in Ohio pumpkin fields.  Advisor: R. Riedel.

Varela Ramirez, Felicita

2002  PhD  Plant Pathology

A new application method of the systemic fungicide metalaxyl to control poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. Ex. Klotzsch) root rot caused by Pythium ultimum Trow.  Advisor: S. Nameth.

Erincik, Omer

2002  PhD  Plant Pathology

1997  MS  Plant Pathology

Studies to determine time of grape berry and rachis susceptibility, and environmental parameters required for leaf and cane infection by Phomopsis viticola.  Advisor: M. Ellis.

Alptekin, Yasar

1988  MS (Plan G) Plant Pathology

2001  PhD Plant Pathology

Distribution and control of soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines Ichinohe (Tylenchida:Heteroderidae), in Ohio.  Advisor: R. Riedel.

Edema, Richard

2001 PhD  Plant Pathology

The genetics of virulence of the maize streak mastrevirus (MSV).  Advisor: D. Gordon.

Wright, Simeon

2001  MS  Plant Pathology

The role of Bacillus and related species in growth promotion and biological control of tomato and pepper diseases.  Advisor: S. Miller.

Krause, Matthew S.

1997  MS  Plant Pathology

Biological control of Rhizoctonia diseases with Flavobacterium balustinim 299 and Trochoderma hamatum 382 in peat and composted pine bark potting mixes.

2001  PhD  Plant Pathology

Specific suppression of plant diseases provided by compost-amended substrates.  Advisor: H. Hoitink.

Tuttle, Nathan Thomas

2001  MS  Plant Pathology

Characterization of environmental conditions conducive to Rhizoctonia solani infection in soybean, and evaluation of inoculum application method and density in field studies.  Advisor: A. Dorrance.

Garling, Daniel C.

2000  MS  Plant Pathology

Temporal effects of compost topdressing and inorganic fertilizer applications on nitrogen fertility of fairway height creeping bentgrass and annual bluegrass.  Advisor: M. Boehm.

Loschinkohl, Cerinda

2000  MS  Plant Pathology

The effects of composted biosolids on the establishment, productivity and the severity of rust caused by Puccinia species on Kentucky bluegrass and perennial ryegrass.  Advisor: M. Boehm.