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Research at the UW
UW Professors Doing Applied Research
Horticulture Department
- Weed Research - Dr. Jed Colquhoun, UW-Extension Weed Specialist
- Crop tolerance or suppression of weed interference
- Weed resistance management
- Parasitic weed ecology & management
- Woody Ornamental Research - Dr. Laura Jull, UW-Extension Woody Ornamental Specialist
- Plant evaluation & selection (including hardy shrub roses)
- Tolerance of ornamentals to deicing salts
- Nitrogen utilization in landscape trees.
- Woody Plant Physiology and Propagation - Dr. Brent McCown
- Biotechnology of woody perennial crops
- Renewable resource management
- Manipulating resistance to leafminer pests in white-barked ornamental birches
- Using interspecific hybridization for improvement of viburnums
- Turfgrass Research - John Stier
- Environmental Research
- Herbicides and growth regulators
- General turf management
- Cultivar evaluations
- Floriculture Research - Dr. Dennis Stimart
- Postharvest keeping quality of snapdragon, liatris and impatients
- Bedding plant quality traits in impatients; interspecific hybridization
- Adventitious root formation.
Entomology Department
- Ecology - Dr. Richard Lindroth
- Genetic and environmental mediation of plant defense
- Global environmental change and plant-insect interactions
- Community and ecosystem genetics
- Bioenergy fuels and plant-insect interactions
- Forest Entomology - Dr. Kenneth F. Raffa
- Interactions across multiple levels of scale: chemical signaling and population thresholds
- Tritrophic Interactions
- Effects of Belowground Herbivory on Above-Ground Processes
- Turfgrass and Woody Ornamental Entomology - R. Chris Williamson
- Turfgrass insect pest management
- Invasive insect species education
- Woody ornamental insect pest management, including Christmas trees
- Integrated turfgrass management.
Department of Plant Pathology
- Dr. John H. Andrews
- Basic studies on microbial community development on plants
- Application of ecological theory to microbes
- Biological control of apple scab
- Dr. Jim Kerns
- Etiology, epidemiology, and management of turfgrass diseases.
- Dr. Glen R. Stanosz
- Investigations of the fungus Diplodia pinea, causal agent of pine shoot blight and
canker, and its interactions with pines - New or increasingly important tree disease problems
- Development and testing of reduced-risk pesticides and other alternatives to currently
used chemicals for management of tree health problems
- Investigations of the fungus Diplodia pinea, causal agent of pine shoot blight and
Department of Soil Science
- Dr. Nick Balster
- The movement of energy and material through the plant-soil continuum
- Examining why some plants and plant communities (particularly invasive species) are more "successful" relative to natives
- Examining the environmental and production tradeoffs of various management practices in forest nursery environments (e.g. conventional vs. slow-release fertilization)
- Examining the impacts of urbanization on ecological processes and biodiversity and applying this knowledge to compatible urban design
- Urban Soils - Douglas J. Soldat
- Evaluation of use of biosolids for improving the economics and environmental
sustainability of sod production - Analysis of the uptake and utilization of fall-applied nitrogen fertilizer to turfgrass in
cool temperatures - Evaluation of a water harvesting/drip irrigation system for turfgrass irrigation
- Use of 18O-labeled phosphate as an environmental tracer to determine soil microbial
metabolic rates - Use of plant growth regulators to decrease the fertilizer requirement of golf course
putting greens
- Evaluation of use of biosolids for improving the economics and environmental