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Magill, Clint W.

Clint W. Magill

Professor
Focus Area:  Plant Host/Pathogen interactions, Sorghum Resistance to Fungal Pathogens
Office:  
PLPM 213G
Email:  
Phone:  
979-845-8250
Clint W. Magill's Website

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

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.

Selected Publications

  1. Ortiz CS, Bell AA, Magill CW, Liu J (2016) Specific PCR Detection of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum California Race 4 Based on a Unique Tfo1 Insertion Event in the PHO Gene. Plant Disease:PDIS-03-16-0332-RE
  2. Prom, Louis, Radwan, Ghada, Perumal, Ramasamy, Cuevas, Hugo, Katile, Seriba, Isakeit, Thomas, Magill, Clint, 2016.  Grain biodeterioration of sorghum converted lines inoculated with a mixture of Fusarium thapsinum and Curvularia lunata Plant Pathology Journal (accepted in November)
  3. Prom, L.K., Perumal, R., Cuevas, H.E., Radwan, G., Katile, S., Isakeit, T., Magill, C. 2016. Assessing the vulnerability of sorghum converted lines to anthracnose and downy mildew infection. Journal of Agriculture and Crops. 2(10):101-106.
  4. Prom, L. K., Perumal,, R. Erattaimuthu,, SR Little, CR No, E-G, Erpelding, J. E.. Rooney, W. L. Odvody ,G. N, Magill, C.W.(2012) Genetic diversity and pathotype determination of Colletotrichum sublineolum isolates causing anthracnose in sorghum. Accepted, European Journal of Plant Patholgy (online preprint available)
  5. Radwan, GL, T. Isakeit, , C. W. Magill R. Perumal, L.K. Prom and C.R. Little (2011) Screening exotic sorghum germplasm, hybrids and elite lines for resistance to a new virulent pathotype (P6) of Peronoslcerospr sorghi causing downy mildew. Plant Health Progress (online) doi:10.1094/PHP-2011-0323-01-RS.
  6. Prom. LK, Perumal, R., Erattainmuthu, S.R., Erpelding, J.E., Montes, N., Odvody, G.N., Greenwald, C. Jin Z., Frederiksen, R., and Magill, C. W. (2011) Virulence and molecular genotyping studies of Sporisorium reilianum Isolates in sorghum. Plant Disease 95:523-529.
  7. Prom, LK, Isakeit, T, Erpelding, JE, Rooney, W. Magill, CW 2011, Evaluation of the Ugandan sorghum accessions for grain mold and anthracnose resistance.  Crop Protection 30: 566-571.
  8. Prom, L. K., Perumal, R., Erpelding, J. E., Isakeit, T., and Montes, N., and Magill, C. W. 2009. A pictorial technique for mass screening of sorghum germplasm for anthracnose resistance. The Open Agric. J. 3:20-25
  9. Katilé, SO, Perumal, R, Rooney, WL Prom, LK, Magill, C 2009 Expression of pathogenesis-related protein PR-10 in sorghum floral tissues in response to inocluation with Fusarium thapsinum and Curvularia lunata   Mol. Plant Pathol. 11:93-103.
  10. Little, C.R., and Magill, C.W. 2009. The grain mold pathogen, Fusarium thapsinum, reduces caryopsis formation in Sorghum bicolor. Journal of Phytopathology 157: 518-519.
  11. Ramasamy, P, Menz, MA, Mehta, PJ, Katile, S, Gutierrez Rojas, LA, Klein, RR, Klein, PE, Prom, LK, Schlueter, JA, Rooney WL, & Magill, CW  2009. Molecular mapping of Cg1, a gene for resistance to anthracnose (Colletotrichum sublineolum) in sorghum. Euphytica 165:597-606.