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    Dumenyo - Research Impact Statement PDF

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    Dr. Korsi Dumenyo is conducting research on bacterial soft rot/blackleg and bacterial wilt, two important plant diseases that infect over 100 crop species and cause billions in losses annually. The goal is to gain a detailed understanding of how these pathogens cause disease in order to design effective management strategies. His research involves characterizing the pathogen and host interactions at the molecular level using modern tools to identify disease-causing genes in the pathogens and vulnerable plant components. This work has the potential to reduce crop losses and improve food availability.

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    Dr. Korsi Dumenyo is conducting research on bacterial soft rot/blackleg and bacterial wilt, two important plant diseases that infect over 100 crop species and cause billions in losses annually. The goal is to gain a detailed understanding of how these pathogens cause disease in order to design effective management strategies. His research involves characterizing the pathogen and host interactions at the molecular level using modern tools to identify disease-causing genes in the pathogens and vulnerable plant components. This work has the potential to reduce crop losses and improve food availability.

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    Dr. Korsi Dumenyo is conducting research on bacterial soft rot/blackleg and bacterial wilt, two important plant diseases that infect over 100 crop species and cause billions in losses annually. The goal is to gain a detailed understanding of how these pathogens cause disease in order to design effective management strategies. His research involves characterizing the pathogen and host interactions at the molecular level using modern tools to identify disease-causing genes in the pathogens and vulnerable plant components. This work has the potential to reduce crop losses and improve food availability.

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    Dumenyo - Research Impact Statement PDF

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    Dr. Korsi Dumenyo is conducting research on bacterial soft rot/blackleg and bacterial wilt, two important plant diseases that infect over 100 crop species and cause billions in losses annually. The goal is to gain a detailed understanding of how these pathogens cause disease in order to design effective management strategies. His research involves characterizing the pathogen and host interactions at the molecular level using modern tools to identify disease-causing genes in the pathogens and vulnerable plant components. This work has the potential to reduce crop losses and improve food availability.

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    Contributing to the
    scientifc knowledge
    base on disease
    mechanisms of sof
    rot and bacterial wilt.
    Our research into plant science
    has the potential impact of
    reducing crop losses in more
    than 100 crop species.
    Dr. Korsi Dumenyo

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    2
    Improved crop
    cultivars with
    better tolerance to
    these pathogens.
    3
    Improved cultural
    practices resulting
    from understanding
    of disease process.
    4
    Reduction in losses
    due to sof rot,
    blackleg, bacterial wilt
    and other diseases.
    16
    Armed with fewer and fewer resources,
    agriculturalists are faced with the constant
    challenge of feeding an increasing world
    population. Plant disease remains one of the
    greatest obstacles to food production and
    availability. Losses to the US economy due to
    plant disease are estimated to be in excess of
    $21 billion annually. To efectively manage
    plant disease and reduce the losses they cause,
    fundamental understanding of causal agents
    and disease process is required.
    Dr. Korsi Dumenyo is performing research
    focused on two important plant diseases.
    Bacterial sof rot/blackleg infects more than
    80 cultivated crop species including almost
    all vegetables produced in the US and across
    the world. Bacterial wilt of cucurbits is also
    a devastating disease without a cure. Crops
    in more than 26 US states are vulnerable to
    this disease. Together, these two diseases
    infict losses on almost one hundred cultivated
    crop plants. Te goal of this research is gain
    detailed understanding of the molecular
    mechanism of how these pathogens cause
    disease and to produce the knowledge
    necessary for designing efective management
    and control strategies.
    Using modern technological tools and
    approaches, Dr. Dumenyo and his students are
    characterizing the pathogen / host components
    that interact to produce disease. Teir specifc
    research eforts include:
    1) Developing molecular tools to enhance
    the study of these organisms;
    2) Examining the DNA of the pathogens to
    identify the genetic constituents that enable
    them to cause disease; and
    3) Identifying plant components that make
    them vulnerable to attack by the specifc
    pathogens.
    State of the art equipment in Dr. Dumenyos
    Microbial Genetics/Genomics laboratory and
    elsewhere on campus has made his research
    possible. Te recent acquisition of a microplate
    reader with capabilities for visible, UV
    absorbance, fuorescence, luminescence, FRET
    and bioluminescence now permit research
    scientists to process large volumes of samples.
    Te StepOne Plus real time PCR thermocycler
    allows Dr. Dumenyo and his team to almost
    instantly determine how bacteria
    turn their genes on, and the
    Ion Personal Genome Machine
    (PGM) will allow them to defne
    the genomes of entire organism
    in a single or small number of
    experiments.
    Korsi Dumenyo
    17
    Plant Disease and Food Production

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