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Antibiotics
for Plant Disease Control: Silver
Bullets or Rusty Sabers?
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Patricia McManus has
a B.S. in Botany from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and
received her M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in Botany and Plant Pathology from Michigan State University.
The Ph.D. thesis, done in the lab of Alan Jones, was Ecological
and genetic analysis of streptomycin-resistant Erwinia
amylovora in Michigan and epidemiology of fire blight in an
apple nursery.
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| Patricia's current position since 1995 is
Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her responsibilities are
divided at 75% extension and 25% research. Current interests include
etiology and integrated management of diseases of fruit crops
important to the economy of Wisconsin, especially cranberry and
apple; strategies to reduce the risk and delay the onset of
pesticide resistance; antibiotic resistance in plant-associated
bacteria, especially streptomycin resistance in Erwinia
amylovora; and sustainable apple production. |
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Virginia
Stockwell graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A
in Biology and received her Ph.D. in Botany and Plant Pathology
from Colorado State University in 1984. She worked as a
postdoctoral scientist with the USDA, Agricultural Research
Service and Oregon State University on Tilletia controversa,
the fungus that causes dwarf bunt of wheat, and on biological
control of crown gall, caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. |
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began working on biological control of fire blight of pear and
apple, caused by Erwinia amylovora, in 1990. In 1999, she
was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Research in the
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State
University. Her research focuses on integrated management of
bacterial diseases with an emphasis in biological control,
mechanisms of biological control, microbial ecology of deciduous
fruit blossoms, and the development of resistance of bacterial
pathogens to antibiotics used in agriculture. Currently, she is
the chair of the APS Biological control committee and a member
of the Phyllosphere microbiology committee. |
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