research activities Alternatives to Methyl Bromide for the Control of Apple Replant Disease. Biological control and etiology of apple replant disease Disease resistant apple rootstocks from Cornell/USDA at Geneva offer apple growers a solution to the devastating loses from fire blight disease High-density apple, pear, cherry, peach, and plum orchards
co-principal investigator on RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED APPLE ROOTSTOCK: COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT (CRADA) awarded by USDA ARS NORTH ATLANTIC AREA 2008 - 2013
individual publications academic article Comparative analysis and functional annotation of a large expressed sequence tag collection of apple. The Plant Genome. 2:23-38. 2009 Progress in Evaluating Malus sieversii for Disease Resistance and Horticultural Traits. Acta Horticulturae. 814:59-66. 2009 Fire blight resistance of Budagovsky 9 apple rootstock. Plant . Plant Disease. 92:385-391. 2008 conference paper Investigation on the inheritance of strain specific resistance to Erwinia amylovora in an apple rootstock segregating population. Acta Horticulturae. 321-324. 2008 Performance of Geneva Rootstocks in On-farm Trials in New York State. ISHS Pretour Bulletin 9th International Symposium on Integrating Canopy, Rootstock and Environmental Physiology in Orchard Systems.. 57. 2008