PSS Faculty Research Interests
Faculty in the Department of Plant and Soil Science conduct research at the cutting edge of their professions. During fiscal year 2012, our faculty brought in $4.4 million in external research grant funding. This is approximately $285,000 per full time faculty equivalent.
Explore our faculty research interests:
| Crop Protection | Research Specialty |
|---|---|
| Peter Dotray | Weed Science |
| Scott Longing | Entomology |
| Jason Woodward | Plant pathology |
| Crop Science | Research Specialty |
|---|---|
| Dick Auld | Cotton and oilseed breeding |
| Mark Burow | Peanut breeding and genomics |
| Steve Maas | Agricultural microclimatology |
| Glen Ritchie | Crop physiology |
| Chuck West | Forage-livestock systems |
| Thea Wilkins | Crop genomics |
| Robert Wright | Crop molecular genetics |
| Wenwei Xu | Corn breeding |
| Fiber and Biopolymer Science | Research Specialty |
|---|---|
| Noureddine Abidi | Biopolymer science |
| Dean Ethridge | Cotton production and processing |
| Eric Hequet | Cotton fiber quality |
| Horticulture | Research Specialty |
|---|---|
| Ed Hellman | Viticulture |
| Cynthia McKenney | Ornamental horticulture |
| Thayne Montague | Plant physiology/viticulture |
| Jyotsna Sharma | Plant ecology and conservation |
| Brent Trela | Enology |
| Joey Young | Turfgrass science |
| Soil Science | Research Specialty |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Moore-Kucera | Soil and environmental microbiology |
| Theo Udeigue | Soil chemistry |
| Rick Zartman | Soil Physics |