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Clint W. Magill
- Professor
- Focus Area: Plant Host/Pathogen interactions, Sorghum Resistance to Fungal Pathogens
- Office:
- PLPM 213G
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 979-845-8250
- Website: https://sites.google.com/tamu.edu/magill-lab-tamu/home
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- BSc. Agriculture Science, University of Illinois
- Graduate Education
- Ph.D. Genetics, Cornell University
- Post-Doc Molecular Genetics, University of Minnesota
- Courses Taught
- Genetics 310, 3 cr. undergraduate, offered 3 X per year (summer online)
- PLPA/ENT0/PLBR 610, 3 cr. team taught with experts in each area, in-class and online)
- Genetics 603 , 3 cr. graduate course Fall semester, in-class and online
Areas of Expertise
- Disease Resistance in Plants
Plant Host/Pathogen interactions, Sorghum Resistance to Fungal Pathogens
Professional Summary
Clint Magill is a professor in the Texas A&M Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and is a member of the Faculties of Genetics and Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences. His research currently focuses on interactions between several fungal pathogens and sorghum. He is attempting to identify genes in sorghum that confer resistance to anthrancnose, head smut and downy mildew as well as identifying the basis for race specificity in the causal pathogens.