This page collects the publications and presentations of the faculty of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. For work accomplished before 2019 please also see the Department of Entomology and Department of Plant Pathology.
Articles
Wild Bees Respond Differently to Sampling Traps With Vanes of Different Colors and Light Reflectivity in a Livestock Pasture Ecosystem, Roshani S. Acharya, Joan M. Burke, Timothy Leslie, Kelly Loftin, and Neelendra K. Joshi
Sheep Grazing Influences the Abundance, Diversity, and Community Composition of Wild Bees and Other Insects in Livestock Pastures, Roshani Sharma Acharya, Timothy B. Leslie, Joan Burke, Kusum Naithani, Emily Fitting, Kelly Loftin, and Neelendra K. Joshi
Color of Pan Trap Influences Sampling of Bees in Livestock Pasture Ecosystem, Roshani S. Acharya, Timothy Leslie, Emily Fitting, Joan Burke, Kelly Loftin, and Neelendra K. Joshi
Robust Phylogenetic Regression, Richard Adams, Zoe Cain, Raquel Assis, and Michael DeGiorgio
Likelihood-Based Tests of Species Tree Hypotheses, Richard Adams and Michael DeGiorgio
A Tale of Too Many Trees: A Conundrum for Phylogenetic Regression, Richard Adams, Jennifer Roa Lozano, Mataya Duncan, Jack Green, Raquel Assis, and Michael Degiorgio
Optimizing Conditions for Bacillus subtilis Ectopic Gene Expression and Delivery via Seed Treatment, Abeer Alnasrawi, Jiamel Li, Payal Sanadhya, J. Alejandro Rojas, and Fiona L. Goggins
Trichome density and herbivore behaviour on tomato is influenced by herbivory, plant age, and leaf surface, Sunil Aryal, Manish Gautam, Justin George, Gadi V.P. Reddy, and Rupesh Kariyat
Fenclorim Rice Safening and Weed Control with Fall-Applied Acetochlor and Pyroxasulfone, Tristen H. Avent, Jason K. Norsworthy, Thomas R. Butts, Trenton Roberts, and Nicholas R. Bateman
Rice Tolerance to Acetochlor with a Fenclorim Seed Treatment, Tristen H. Avent, Jason K. Norsworthy, Thomas R. Butts, Trenton Roberts, and Nicholas R. Bateman
Pulsating Drought and Insect Herbivory Cause Differential Effects on Soybean (Glycine max) Genotypes That Vary in Canopy Wilting Speed, Jessica Ayala, Manish Gautam, Adrianna Peissel, George Justin, and Rupesh Kariyat
Effects of fast and slow-wilting soybean genotypes on fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) growth and development, Jessica Ayala, Alejandro Vasquez, Devi Balakrishnan, Evelyn Madrigal, Justin George, and Rupesh Kariyat
Phenology and seed treatment impacts surface defenses and fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) growth in rice (Oryza sativa), Devi Balakrishnan, Jessica Ayala, Alejandro Vasquez, Nick Bateman, and Rupesh Kariyat
Rice Physical Defenses and Their Role Against Insect Herbivores, Devi Balakrishnan, Nick Bateman, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Rice Sucrose Non-fermenting Related Protein Kinase (SnRK1) Has a Limited Role in Defense Against Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), Devi Balakrishnan, Vibha Srivastava, and Rupesh Kariyat
Rice sucrose non-fermenting related protein kinase (SnRK1) has a limited role in defense against Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), Devi Balakrishnan, Vibha Srivastava, and Rupesh Kariyat
Whole-Body Acute Contact Toxicity of Formulated Insecticide Mixtures to Blue Orchard Bees (Osmia lignaria), Joseph Belsky, David J. Biddinger, and Neelendra K. Joshi
Mapping and Selection of Downy Mildew Resistance in Spinach cv. Whale by Low Coverage Whole Genome Sequencing, Gehendra Bhattarai, Dotun Olaoye, Beiquan Mou, James C. Correll, and Ainong Shi
Resequencing Worldwide Spinach Germplasm for Identification of Field Resistance QTLs to Downy Mildew and Assessment of Genomic Selection Methods, Gehendra Bhattarai, Ainong Shi, Beiquan Mou, and James C. Correll
Skim Resequencing Finely Maps the Downy Mildew Resistance Loci RPF2 and RPF3 in Spinach Cultivars Whale and Lazio, Gehendra Bhattarai, Ainong Shi, Beiquan Mou, and James C. Correll
High Resolution Mapping and Candidate Gene Identification of Downy Mildew Race 16 Resistance in Spinach, Gehendra Bhattarai, Wei Yang, Ainong Shi, Chunda Feng, Braham Dhillon, James C. Correll, and Beiquan Mou
Six lineages of Cercospora are responsible for Cercospora leaf blight and purple seed stain on soybean in Brazil, Leandro Luiz Borges, Thiago Freitas Ferreira, Marina Garofalo Lana, Isabela Delpupo Caliman, Newton Deniz Piovesan, Burton H. Bluhm, and Luiz Orlando de Oliveira
Summaries of Arkansas Cotton Research 2025, Fred M. Bourland
Natural Panola Mountain Ehrlichia Infections in Cattle in a Longitudinal Study of Angus Beef Calves, Cierra Briggs, Drew Casey, Anna Grace Deakins, Jeremy G. Powell, Kelly Loftin, and Emily G. McDermott
Comparison of yeast microencapsulated fluralaner to commercially available mosquito larval control products, 2023, Cierra Briggs, Blythe E. Lawson, and Emily G. McDermott
Toxicity and Risk of Biopesticides to Insect Pollinators in Urban and Agricultural Landscapes, Joshua Chavana and Neelendra K. Joshi
Evaluation of Drought Tolerance in USDA Tomato Germplasm at Seedling Stage, Kenani E. Chiwina, Gehendra Bhattarai, Haizheng Xiong, Neelendra K. Joshi, Ryan W. Dickson, Theresa M. Phiri, Ibtisam Alatawi, Yilin Chen, Zachary Stansell, Kai-Shu Ling, and Ainong Shi
Genome-Wide Association Study and Genomic Prediction of Fusarium Wilt Resistance in Common Bean Core Collection, Kenani Chiwina, Haizheng Xiong, Gehendra Bhattarai, Ryan Dickson, Theresa Makawa Phiri, Yilin Chen, Ibtisam Alatawi, Derek Dean, Neelendra K. Joshi, Yuyan Chen, Awais Riaz, Paul Gepts, Mark Brick, Patrick Byrne, Howard Schwartz, James B. Ogg, Kristen Otto, Amy Fall, Jeremy Gilbert, and Ainong Shi
Genome-wide Association Identifies Key Loci Controlling Blackberry Postharvest Quality, T. Mason Chizk, John R. Clark, Carmen Johns, Lacy Nelson, Hamid Ashrafi, Rishi Aryal, and Margaret Worthington
Decomposition of Bark Beetle-attacked Trees After Mortality Varies Across Forests, N. A. Clay, J. D. Tang, C. M. Siegert, J. T. Thomason, N. Benedetto, D. Day, K. Pace, O. Leverón, R. W. Hofstetter, and J. J. Riggins
Molecular Diagnostic Survey of Honey Bee, Apis mellifera L., Pathogens and Parasites from Arkansas, USA, Dylan Cleary and Allen L. Szalanski
Impact of irrigation and micronutrient treatments on insect herbivore population dynamics in soybean, Rahul Debnath, Justin George, Ammar B. Bhandari, Rupesh Kariyat, Gadi V.P. Reddy, James P. Glover, Tulsi P. Kharel, and Krishna N. Reddy
Ecological interactions, host plant defenses, and control strategies in managing soybean looper, Chrysodeixis includens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Rahul Debnath, Justin George, Manish Gautum, Insha Shafi, Rupesh Kariyat, and Gadi V.P. Reddy
Tradeoffs between elemental homeostasis and growth govern freshwater phytoplankton responses to salinization, Samuel A.T. Dias, Clay Prater, Adriana Diaz-Delgado, Natalie A. Clay, Sally A. Entrekin, and Michelle A. Evans-White
Optimized atmospheric air cold plasma seed treatments differentially enhance plant growth and herbivore resistance in soybean (Glycine max) and sorghum-sudangrass (Sorghum x drummondii), Deepak Dilip, Niitha Modupalli, Soumya Unnikrishnan, Mahfuzar Rahman, and Rupesh Kariyat
Atmospheric cold plasma alters plant traits and negatively affects the growth and development of fall armyworm in rice, Deepak Dilip, Nikitha Modupalli, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, and Rupesh Kariyat
Robust regression rescues poor phylogenetic decisions, Mataya Duncan, Michael Degiorgio, Raquel Assis, and Richard Adams
Cascading Effects of Cover Crops on the Subsequent Cash Crop Defense against the Polyphagous Herbivore Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), Adegboyega Fajemisin, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh Kariyat
Muffled olfactory and sensory cues from the reproductive stage soybean selectively reduce oviposition of a major polyphagous herbivore, fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), Krishnarao Gandham, Manish Gautam, Justin George, Gadi V.P. Reddy, and Rupesh Kariyat
Drought and Herbivory Drive Physiological and Phytohormonal Changes in Soybean (Glycine max Merril): Insights From a Meta-Analysis, Manish Gautam and Rupesh Kariyat
Drought and Herbivory Have Selective Transgenerational Effects on Soybean Eco-Physiology, Defence and Fitness, Manish Gautam and Rupesh Kariyat
Reactive Oxygen Species in Plant Interactions With Aphids, Fiona L. Goggins and Hilary D. Fischer
Toxicity of Formulated Systemic Insecticides Used in Apple Orchard Pest Management Programs to the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera (L.)), Sarah Heller, Julia Fine, Ngoc B. Phan, Edwin G. Rajotte, David J. Beddinger, and Neelendra K. Joshi
A receptor for dual ligands governs plant immunity and hormone response and is targeted by a nematode effector, Li Huang, Yulin Yuan, Chloe Ramirez, Zhe Zhao, Letien Chen, Thomas Griebl, Joanna Kud, Joseph C. Kuhl, Allan Caplan, Louise-Marie Dandurand, and Fangming Xiao
Management of Panonychus ulmi with Various Miticides and Insecticides and Their Toxicity to Predatory Mites Conserved for Biological Mite Control in Eastern US Apple Orchards, Neelendra K. Joshi, Ngoc T. Phan, and David J. Biddinger
Morphological Characterization of Intraspecific Variation for Trichome Traits in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), Satinderpal Kaur, Neetu Khanal, Robert Dearth, and Rupesh Kariyat
The Known and Unknowns of Aphid Biotypes, and Their Role in Mediating Host Plant Defenses, Neetu Khanal, Christopher Vitek, and Rupesh Kariyat
Current Trends in Bee Conservation and Habitat Restoration in Different Types of Anthropogenic Habitats, Olivia Kline and Neelendra K. Joshi
Microbial Symbiont-Based Detoxification of Different Phytotoxins and Synthetic Toxic Chemicals in Insect Pests and Pollinators, Olivia Kline and Neelendra K. Joshi
Biology, Genetic Diversity, and Conservation of Wild Bees in Tree Fruit Orchards, Olivia Mae Kline, Ngoc T. Phan, Mitzy F. Porras, Joshua Chavana, Coleman Z. Little, Lilia Stemet, Roshani S. Acharya, David J. Biddinger, Gadi V.P. Reddy, Edwin G. Rajotte, and Neelendra K. Joshi
