For work accomplished before 2019 please also see the Department of Entomology and Department of Plant Pathology.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Interactive Effects Between Bluetongue Virus Infection and Insecticide Exposures in Culicoides sonorensis, Parker Mullins
Fungal Pathogen Control and Microbial Ecology: Insights from Soybean Seed Production, Samantha Rigo Segalin
Detection of Fungicide Resistance in Population of Corynespora cassiicola from Arkansas Soybean and Cotton Fields, Rafael Zaia
Diseases of Cannabis sativa and the Epidemiology and Molecular Diversity of Neofusicoccum parvum, Hannah V. Zima
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Effect of Symbioses Between Mold Mites (Acaridae: Tyrophagus putrescentiae) and Aspergillus flavus on their Respective Populations in Stored Maize., Paige Pionke Cummins
Evaluation of Water Hardness and pH on Soybean and Cotton Insecticide Efficacy, Taylor Davis
Development of Genomic Resources And Group Specific Markers For Evaluation Of Genetic Diversity Of Pathogenic Rhizoctonia Species, Juanita Gil Bedoya
The Effects of Pesticide Exposure and Diet on the Health, Reproduction, and Behavior of Mason Bees (Osmia spp.), Olivia Mae Kline
Evaluation of Bt Cotton Cultivar Efficacy and Economic Impact on Cotton Yield with and without a Foliar Insecticide Application, Zackary Murray
Evaluation of Rice Stink Bug, Oebalus pugnax (F.), Resistance to Lambda-cyhalothrin and the Economic Impact on Rice Grain Quality for Multiple Foliar Insecticides, Trevor Bradley Newkirk
Toxicity of Different Insecticides to Sitophilus oryzae, Tribolium castaeneum and Tribolium confusum Infesting Corn, Amina Twaibu
Evaluation of Thresholds, Control, and Behavioral Responses of Tobacco Thrips, Frankliniella fusca (Hitch), and Tarnished Plant Bugs, Lygus lineolaris (Beauvoris), in ThryvOn Cotton, Adam Young Whitfield
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Biology, Monitoring, Sampling, and Management of Rice Billbug, Sphenophorus pertinax, in Furrow-irrigated rice, Chase Alan Floyd
The Effect of Plant Elicitor Peptide on Nematode Infected Soybean, Siyang Liu
Evaluation of Chrysodeixis includens Nucleopolyhedrovirus (ChinNPV) formulations for Soybean Looper (Chrysodeixis includens) Control in Soybean, Caleb Robert Rice
Evaluation of Biological and Chemical Seed Treatments for Management of Rice Diseases, Sherif Adam Sharfadine
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Survey of Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Associated with Feral Swine (sus scrofa) in Arkansas, Haylee Campbell
Systematics of Eastern North American Podothrombium (Parasitengona: Podothrombiidae), Kelsey Lynn Cline
The Influence of Singlet Oxygen and Loss of Function of Fatty Acid Desaturase 7 in the Chloroplast on Aphid Resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana, Hillary Donna Fischer
Habitat Assessment of Ozark Glades Using Selected Epigeal Predatory Arthropods, Austin Key Jones
Nocturnal Pollination in Fruit Agriculture, Stephen Robertson
Establishment of Pollinator Habitat within a Livestock Pasture Ecosystem, Roshani Sharma Acharya
Characterization, Incidence, and Epidemiology of Two Novel Strawberry Rhabdoviruses, Ava Wait
Examining Risks to Honey Bee Pollinators Foraging in Agricultural Landscapes, Jon Zawislak
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dissecting the Cellular Control of Septin Organization in a Global Cereal Killer, Nawaraj Dulal
The Discovery of Metarhizium anisopliae (Metchnikoff) Sorokin Isolates from Arkansas and their Pathogenicity to Amblyomma americanum L., Austin Goldsmith
Parallel Strategies to Control Bacterial Panicle Blight of Rice, Laura Ortega
The Virome of Peony and the Population Structure of Its Most Prominent Viruses, Cullen Shaffer
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Factors Influencing the Spatial Distribution of Southern rust in Corn, Justin Bailey
The Impact of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), Feeding and Mechanical Defoliation on Growth and Yield of Rice, Oryza sativa (L.), Layton Denman McCullars
Use of Aerial Imagery and Novel Experimental Design to Determine the Distribution of Foliar Diseases on Soybean and Improve Efficiency of Product Testing, McKayla Patterson
Investigating the Connection Between Light, a Circadian Clock, and Pathogenesis in Cercospora zeae-maydis, John Byron Ridenour
Understanding how the Effectors HopD1 and HopG1 from the Bacterial Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 target the Arabidopsis thaliana Protein AtNHR2B to cause Disease in Plants, Catalina Maria Rodriguez Puerto
Mining for Biological Control Agents against B. glumae, the Causal Agent of Bacterial Panicle Blight of Rice., Katherine Anne Wilkinson
Studies on Pathogenesis of the Diseases Caused by Macrophomina phaseolina and Phomopsis longicolla on Soybean, Marcio Leizer Zaccaron