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Gary N. Odvody
- Associate Professor, Sorghum and Corn Diseases
- Office:
- Corpus Christi
- Email:
- [email protected]
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- B.S., Botany. University of Nebraska, 1969
- Graduate Education
- M.S., Plant Pathology. University of Nebraska, 1973
- Ph.D., Plant Pathology. University of Nebraska, 1977
Areas of Expertise
- Diseases of cereal crops caused by fungi, bacteria, and viruses. Research is primarily with fungal diseases of maize and sorghum.
- Major diseases (pathogens) occurring on sorghum and maize. These include: charcoal rot (Macrophomina phaseolina), sorghum downy mildew (Peronosclerospora sorghi), head smut (Sporisorium reilianum), aflatoxin (Aspergillus flavus), several foliar diseases, sorghum ergot (Claviceps africana) and grain mold (Fusarium moniliforme and F. thapsina).
- Pathogen Ecology
- Pathogen Survival
- Initial inoculum
- Pathogen variability
- Host:parasite interaction (especially under stress environments).
- Part of a large interdisciplinary sorghum improvement team at Texas A&M that is active globally through INTSORMIL research activities.