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Stella M. CoakleyProfessor and Associate Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences |
Relation between climate variation and plant disease epidemics; global climate change.
Quantifying the relationship between climatic variation and the development of plant disease facilitates control of disease under field conditions. The long-term goal of this research has been to develop a general method for quantifying how climate variation affects a particular disease. This research considers both past and possible future effects of long-term climatic variation on disease occurrence. Current research focuses on the biology of the Septoria diseases that are increasing in their importance as limiting factors to wheat production.
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Coakley, S.M. 1988. Variation in climate and prediction of disease in plants. Ann. Rev. Phytopathology 26:163-81.
Calvero, S.B. Jr, S.M. Coakley, L.R. McDaniel and P.S. Teng. 1994. A weather factor searching program for plant pathological studies: Window Pane version W1B00003. IRRI Discussion Paper Series No. 5. International Rice Research Institute, P.O. Box 933, 1099 Manila, Philippines.
Coakley, S.M. 1995. Biospheric change: Will it matter in plant pathology? Can. J. Plant Path. (in press).
Ahmed, H.U., C.C. Mundt, M.E. Hoffer and S.M. Coakley.1996 Selective influence of wheat cultivars on pathogeneicity of Mycosphaerella graminicola (anamorph Septoria tritici). Phytopathology 86:454-458
Calvero, S.B., Jr., S.M.Coakley and P.S. Teng. 1996. Development of empirical forecasting models for rice blast based on weather factors. Plant Path. 45:667-678
Coakley, S.M., H. Scherm and S. Chakraborty. 1999. Climate Change and Plant Disease. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 37: 399-426
