Deployment of disease resistance genes in crop mixtures
These projects are supported by NSF, USAID, and The Land Institute
Collaborators on these projects include:
Bob Bowden, USDA-ARS, Manhattan, Kansas
Cindy Cox, The Land Institute
Greg Forbes, International Potato Center
Allan Fritz, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University
Karen Garrett, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University
Chris Mundt, Oregon State University
Rebecca Nelson, Cornell University
Relevant Publications
In review. S. Chakraborty, J. Luck, G. Hollaway, A. Freeman, R. Norton, K. A.
Garrett, K. Percy, A. Hopkins, C. Davis, and D. F. Karnosky. Impacts
of global change on diseases of agricultural crops and forest trees.
In review. M. R. Cheatham, M. N. Rouse, P. D. Esker, S. Ignacio, W. Pradel,
R. Raymundo, A. H. Sparks, G. A. Forbes, T. R. Gordon, and K. A. Garrett.
Beyond yield: Plant disease in the context of ecosystem services.
In review. G. L. Gadbury, K. A. Garrett, and D. B. Allison.
Challenges and approaches to statistical design and inference in high
dimensional investigations.
In review. K. A. Garrett, S. E. Travers, G. A. Milliken, J. Bai, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, P. S. Schnable,
A. Saleh, J. L. Roe, P. A. Fay, A. K. Knapp, Z. Tang, and M. D. Smith.
Gene expression in the wild: Analyzing genome-wide expression in field experiments
with natural populations.
In review. K. A. Garrett, L. N. Zúñiga, E. Roncal, G. A. Forbes,
C. C. Mundt, Z. Su, and R. J. Nelson.
The effects of host biodiversity on disease across a climatic gradient.
In review. M. L. Margosian, K. A. Garrett, J. M. S. Hutchinson, and K. A. With.
Connectivity of the American agricultural landscape:
Assessing the national risk of crop pest and disease spread.
G. A. Forbes, N. J. Grunwald, E. S. G. Mizubuti, J. L. Andrade-Piedra, and K. A. Garrett.
2008. Potato late blight in developing countries. Chapter in
Current Concepts in Potato Disease Management.
R. D. Peters, editor. In press.
K. A. Garrett. 2008. Climate change and plant disease risk.
In Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events:
Understanding the Potential Contributions to the Emergence, Reemergence and Spread of Infectious Disease.
National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine. In revision.
K. A. Garrett and C. M. Cox. 2008.
Applied biodiversity science:
Managing emerging diseases in agriculture and linked natural systems using ecological principles.
Pages 368-386 in Infectious Disease Ecology:
Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems.
R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Princeton University Press.
[preprint PDF]
X. Han, S. P. Dendy, K. A. Garrett, L. Fang, and M. D. Smith. 2008.
Comparison of damage to native and exotic tallgrass prairie plants by natural enemies.
Plant Ecology. In press.
W. W. Bockus, Z. Su, K. A. Garrett, B. S. Gill, J. P. Stack, R. L. Bowden,
A. K. Fritz, K. L. Roozeboom, and T. J. Martin. 2007.
Number of experiments needed to determine wheat disease phenotypes for four wheat diseases.
Plant Disease 91:103-108.
[PDF]
G. A. Milliken, K. A. Garrett, and S. E. Travers. 2007.
Experimental design for two-color microarrays applied in a pre-existing split-plot experiment.
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 6, Article 20.
Available at
http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol6/iss1/art20[PDF]
S. E. Travers, M. D. Smith, J. Bai, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach,
P. S. Schnable, A. K. Knapp,
G. Milliken, P. Fay, A. Saleh, and K. A. Garrett. 2007.
Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab
to native populations in the field.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:19-24.
[PDF]
K. A. Garrett, S. P. Dendy, E. E. Frank, M. N. Rouse, and S. E. Travers.
2006. Climate change effects on plant disease: Genomes to ecosystems.
Annual Review of Phytopathology 44:489-509. [PDF]
K. A. Garrett, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, and S. E. Travers. 2006.
Ecological genomics and epidemiology.
European Journal of Plant Pathology 115:35-51.
[PDF]
F. A. Al-Naimi, K. A. Garrett, and W. W. Bockus. 2005. Competition, facilitation, and niche differentiation in two foliar pathogens. Oecologia 143:449-457.
[PDF, copyright Springer]
C. M. Cox, K. A. Garrett, and W. W. Bockus. 2005. Meeting the challenge of disease management in perennial grain systems. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 20:15-24.
[PDF]
W. Jiang, K. A. Garrett, D. E. Peterson, T. L. Harvey, R. L. Bowden, and L. Fang.
2005. The window of risk for emigration of Wheat streak mosaic virus varies with host eradication method.
Plant Disease 89:853-858. [PDF]
C. M. Cox, K. A. Garrett, R. L. Bowden, A. K. Fritz, S. P. Dendy, and W. F. Heer. 2004.
Cultivar mixtures for the simultaneous management of multiple diseases: Tan spot and leaf rust of wheat. Phytopathology 94:961-969.
[PDF]
K. A. Garrett, S. P. Dendy, A. G. Power, G. K. Blaisdell, H. A. Alexander, and J. K. McCarron.
2004. Barley yellow dwarf disease in natural populations of dominant tallgrass prairie species in Kansas [Disease Note]. Plant Disease 88:574.
[link]
K. A. Garrett, M. Kabbage, and W. W. Bockus.
2004. Managing for fine-scale differences in inoculum load: Seeding patterns to minimize loss to wheat take-all.
Precision Agriculture 5:291-301.
[PDF]
O. Ortiz, K. A. Garrett, J. J. Heath, R. Orrego, and R. J. Nelson. 2004. Management of potato late blight in the Andean highlands: Evaluating the benefits of Farmer Participatory Research and Farmer Field Schools. Plant Disease 88:565-571.
[PDF]
K. A. Garrett and S. P. Dendy. 2002. Prácticas culturales para el manejo del tizón tardío de la papa. [Cultural practices for late blight management.] Pages 111-120 in
Complementando la Resistencia al Tizón (Phytophthora infestans) en los Andes. E. N. Fernández-Northcote, editor. Global Initiative for Late Blight, Lima, Peru.
[PDF]
C. C. Mundt, C. Cowger, and K. A. Garrett. 2002. Relevance of integrated
disease management to resistance durability. Euphytica 124:245-252.
[PDF]
K. A. Garrett, R. J. Nelson, C. C. Mundt, G. Chacón, R. E. Jaramillo, and G. A. Forbes. 2001. The effects of host diversity and other management components on epidemics of potato late blight in the humid highland tropics. Phytopathology 91:993-1000. [PDF]
K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. 2000. Effects of planting density and the composition of wheat cultivar mixture on stripe rust: An analysis taking into account limits to the replication of controls. Phytopathology 90:1313-1321.
[PDF]
K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. 2000. Host diversity can reduce potato late blight severity
for focal and general patterns of primary inoculum. Phytopathology 90:1307-1312.
[PDF]
K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. 1999. Epidemiology in diverse host populations.
Phytopathology 89:984-990. [PDF]
K. A. Garrett and P. M. Dixon. 1998. When does the spatial pattern of weeds matter? Predictions
from neighborhood models. Ecological Applications 8:1250-1259.
[PDF]
K. A. Garrett and P. M. Dixon. 1997. Environmental pseudointeraction:
The effects of ignoring the scale of environmental heterogeneity in competition studies.
Theoretical Population Biology 51:37-48.