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Joey Spatafora, department head of Botany and Plant Pathology at OSU and a mycologist, called Mushroom Day one of the university’s most important outreach efforts.
Driven by a passion for sustainable agriculture and social justice, botany and horticulture student Milo Tisdale is supporting the local community while caring for the Food Forest at Oregon State University.
When it opened in 1954, the OSU Plant Clinic was thought to be the second of its kind in the United States, according to Melodie Putnam, who retired in 2023 after serving 30 years as clinic director.
“There is not another land grant university that has a team this size and with this potential,” said Chris Schreiner, chief executive officer of Oregon Tilth, a leading organic certifier. “It’s historic.”
A coalition that includes three Oregon State University Extension Service researchers was awarded a $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve organic seed production, both in the Pacific Northwest and nationally.
While it may initially appear that strawberries are fruits covered in seeds, this is not actually the case.
When Cynthia Ocamb was invited to tour a hop field in the early 2000s, she did not expect to see a prevalence of Fusarium canker higher than the single digits.
Aymeric Goyer, was awarded a grant for his studies in Growth, physiology and nutrition dynamics of potato plants grown on lunar regolithsimulant medium
Chris Mundt started at OSU in 1985, and has spent 38 years working on disease resistance in wheat.
The ocean’s color has changed significantly over the last 20 years, and the global trend is likely a consequence of human-induced climate change, scientists, including one from Oregon State University, report in a new study.
The ocean’s color has changed significantly over the last 20 years, and the global trend is likely a consequence of human-induced climate change, scientists, including one from Oregon State University, report in a new study.
Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Tuesday that Oregon State University will receive more than $642,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to build out a tool that diagnoses invasive diseases in native plants.
Oregon State University Extension Service and research faculty in Morrow and Umatilla counties are working with growers and looking at the effectiveness of new fungicides.
New research led by an Oregon State University scientist begins to unravel the role dust plays in nourishing global ocean ecosystems while helping regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
What's being done to help pear growers keep their crop safe after harvest? Oregon State University's Achala KC updates us on the latest research taking place in southern Oregon.
M.S. student Kate Baldino from Gent lab (USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research Unit) and Department of Botany and Plant Pathology received the Larry Moore Award for Graduate Research.
The Ph.D. student, Lester Núñez from the Zasada lab (USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research Unit) and Department of Botany and Plant Pathology received the Larry Moore Award for Graduate Research.
Trent Berrian, a Master student in the Goyer Lab, was awarded the Drs. James A. and Stella Melugin Coakley Endowment Award and the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Graduate Student Grant.
Melodie Putnam received the Lifetime Achievement Award! Walt Mahaffee received the Distinguished Service Award; and Christina Hagerty received the Early Career Award. Wonderful news for three very deserving plant pathologists. Also, Hannah...
The Biological Data Sciences program congratulates Sophie Baur and Riely White, class of 2022 and the first two to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in BDS.
Also on April 1, Dr. Posy Busby became a co-signatory PI on the Andrews Forest LTER grant....
This is a story about passion. And commitment. And family. It’s also a story about plants.
Join us for our Botany and Plant Pathology Graduate Student Research Celebration event on May 6, 2022 in a new hybrid format! Graduate students will present their research in-person to both a live and online audience.
Melodie Putnam (Oregon State University Plant Clinic) received funding from the Western Region’s IPM Center for a project entitled “Use of Whole Genome Sequencing in Disease Diagnostic Laboratories can Enhance Risk Mitigation.”
This paper introduces and reviews how the newly emerging discipline of paleo-evolutionary/developmental plant biology has begun to fully integrate phylogenetic pattern with the genetic processes that underlie and implement plant evolution. It...
Reconstructing the Tetrastichia bupatides Gordon plant; a Lower Carboniferous/Devonian (Tournaisian) hydrasperman gymnosperm from Oxroad Bay, Scotland and Ballyheigue, Ireland.
BPP graduate students (from left to right) Rachel Baschieri, Alex Wong, Sarah Lowder, and Conner Rogan harvest and crush Pinot noir grapes from a research plot after this year's vineyard research concluded. Cheers to a great field season!
The Jaiswal and Naithani labs in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University, developed the most comprehensive Transcriptome Atlas from the Chia (Salvia hispanica).
Alex Wong, a PhD student in the Mahaffee lab with the USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Unit and Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, was awarded the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Graduate Student grant.
The lichen team at OSU, in collaboration with colleagues at Duke University and the University of Liège,...
Graduated OSU BPP PhD student Catie Wram was awarded the 2021 Webster Outstanding Graduate Student in Nematology. Catie presented a seminar at the annual meeting of Society of Nematologist meeting in Gulf Shores, Alabama on Sept 15, 2021 as...
Valerian Dolja and colleagues published a paper detailing an operational definition of virus, and exploring the virosphere as a multidimensional parameter space home to viruses and other replicators.
The grant aims to cultivate future academic, industry, or government leaders who can solve emerging agricultural challenges of the 21st century. Nick's award will support his research on evolutionary genomics of the sudden oak death pathogen, ...
Congratulations to Nik Grünwald, USDA-ARS-Horticultural Crops Research Unit and Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, who was elected as incoming vice president of the American Phytopathological Society and will serve as its president for...
Congratulations to Dr. Ying Chang. Ying is a postdoc in the laboratories of Joey Spatafora and Jared LeBoldus. She will start a new tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Yale-NUS (National University of Singapore) in Life Sciences,...
Conner Rogan, a PhD candidate in Jeff Anderson’s lab, is a co-author of a study entitled “Arabidopsis group C Raf-like protein kinases negatively regulate abscisic acid signaling and are direct substrates of SnRK2” that was recently published...
Congratulations to Jeremiah Dung, President, and Christina Hagerty, President-Elect, for their leadership in the APS Pacific Division. Also, a big congratulations to Jay Pscheidt for the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Alex Wong and Chelsea...
Congratulations to OregonFlora. A recipient of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History's Oregon Stewardship Award, OregonFlora is recognized for its statewide work in documenting the diversity and relevance of Oregon's plant life.
Congratulations to Elaine Swanson for being a finalist for the 2021 Goddard Keynote Scholarship, offered by the National Space Club and Foundation!
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Lynda Ciuffetti for receiving the Purdue University Woman Scholar Award. Lynda received her PhD from Purdue U., Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, her MS from Michigan Technological U., and BS from U...
Red needle cast disease, caused by Phytophthora pluvialis, has had a significant impact on radiata pine plantations in New Zealand for over a decade. The LeBoldus Lab at OSU and the Grunwald lab at the USDA-ARS in Corvallis, Oregon collaborated...
Jennie Green is a senior in our Ecampus Botany degree and lives in Verlot, WA. She has recently published an article in the Spring 2021 issue of Douglasia: Mountaineering and Botanizing on the Ptarmigan Traverse: A Rare Plant Monitoring...
Recently, Naithani (BPP, OSU) and Jaiswal lab (BPP, OSU) jointly published a research article “Beyond gene ontology (GO): using biocuration approach to improve the gene nomenclature and functional annotation of rice S-domain kinase...
Max Combest (2020 BPP Master student graduate in Aymeric Goyer lab, in collaboration with Jeff Anderson at OSU and Kiwamu Tanaka at Washington State University) is lead author on a new paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany, currently...
Jaiswal lab's contribution on the draft haplotype‐phased assembly of the genome of a popular hop (Humulus Lupulus) cultivar cascade was recently published in The Plant Genome journal.
Viruses are ubiquitous, essential components of any ecosystem, and of multicellular organism holobionts. Numerous viruses cause acute infection, killing the host or being cleared by immune system. In many other cases, viruses coexist with the...
Researchers from Oregon State University and the University of Arizona in the USA, University of Liverpool and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in the UK, and CGIAR’s International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines...
We're now accepting applications for the new Biocomputing and Research Internship! Learn more about our faculty mentors and 2021 projects for the summer undergraduate internship program. Applications due Feb 26!
The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology (BPP) is pleased to invite applicants for the BPP Diversity Advancement Graduate Assistantship. BPP provides funding for a graduate assistantship to increase the ethnic and cultural diversity in...
Oregon State University scientist Fritzi Grevstad of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural Sciences petitioned the USDA to use the insects and led the...
Oregon’s Agricultural Progress magazine highlighted the USDA NIFA research grant that will fund the research of Posy Busby and Devin Leopold in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology.
Read the feature story below:
Jeremiah Dung, together with co-Project Director Jeff Chang, have been awarded a $2.9 million Specialty Crops Research Initiative grant from the USDA-NIFA.
If you missed Alexandra Weisberg's Phytobiomes Alliance webinar (07/09/2020), you can view the recording!
Megan O’Malley receives a pre-doctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA.
Alexandra Weisberg (Jeff Chang lab) is lead author on a new paper published in Science. Read the OSU News story "...
