Selected work from the lab specifically about bacteria
Adhikari, A., N. Kraisitudomsook, K. L. Bonfantine, P. Lampman, S. Fox, J. A. Smith, B. Mehrad, L. N. Kobziar, and K. A. Garrett. 2026. Pathogens on fire: A scoping review of smoke-borne pathogen ecology in the One Health framework. PeerJ 13:e20605. [open access link]
Mouafo-Tchinda, R. A., A. I. Plex Sulá, B. A. Etherton, J. S. Okonya, G. V. Nakato, Y. Xing, J. Robledo, A. Adhikari, G. Blomme, D. Kantungeko, A. Nduwayezu, J. Kreuze, J. Kroschel, J. P. Legg, and K. A. Garrett. 2026. Pathogen and pest communities in food security crops across climate gradients: Anticipating future challenges in the highland tropics. Agricultural Systems 233:104619. [open access link]
Andrade-Piedra, J. L., K. Sharma, J. Kroschel, K. Ogero, J. Kreuze, J. P. Legg, P. L. Kumar, D. J. Spielman, I. Navarrete, W. Perez, E. Atieno, and K. A. Garrett. 2025. Phytosanitary challenges and solutions for roots and tubers in the tropics. Annual Review of Phytopathology 63:. [open access link]
Etherton, B. A., A. I. Plex Sulá, R. A. Mouafo-Tchinda, R. Kakuhenzire, H. A. Kassaye, F. Asfaw, V. S. Kosmakos, R. W. McCoy, Y. Xing, J. Yao, K. Sharma, and K. A. Garrett. 2025. Translating Ethiopian potato seed networks: identifying strategic intervention points for managing bacterial wilt and other diseases. Agricultural Systems 222:104167. [open access link]
Pasche, J. M., R. Sawlani, V. H. Buttrós, J. Desaeger, K. A. Garrett, and S. J. Martins. 2025. Underground guardians: how collagen and chitin amendments shape soil microbiome structure and function for Meloidogyne enterolobii control. Microbiome 13:141. [open access link]
Martins, S. J., J. Pasche, H. A. O. Silva, G. Selten, N. Savastano, L. M. Abreu, H. Bais, K. A. Garrett, N. Kraisitudomsook, C. M. J. Pieterse, and T. Cernava. 2023. The use of synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) for plant health. Phytopathology 113:1369-1379. [open access link]
Klein-Gordon, J. M., S. Timilsina, Y. Xing, P. Abrahamian, K. A. Garrett, J. B. Jones, G. E. Vallad, and E. M. Goss. 2022. Whole genome sequences reveal the Xanthomonas perforans population is shaped by the tomato production system. ISME Journal 16:591-601. [open access link]
Sharma, K., F. Iruegas-Bocardo, A. Abdurahman, R. I. Alcalá-Briseño, K. A. Garrett, E. M. Goss, G. Ngundo, J. Kreuze, and F. Munguti. 2022. The potato bacterial wilt pathogen exhibits high diversity and epidemic clonality of phylotype II sequevar 1 strains in Kenya. Phytopathology [link].
Klein-Gordon, J., Y. Xing, K. A. Garrett, P. Abrahamian, M. L. Paret, G. V. Minsavage, A. L. Strayer-Scherer, J. Fulton, S. Timilsina, J. B. Jones, E. M. Goss, and G. E. Vallad. 2021. Assessing changes and associations in the Xanthomonas perforans population across Florida commercial tomato fields via a state-wide survey. Phytopathology [link]
Poudel, M., R. Mendes, L. A. S. Costa, C. G. Bueno, Y. Meng, S. Y. Folimonova, K. A. Garrett and S. J. Martins. 2021. The role of plant-associated bacteria, fungi, and viruses in drought stress mitigation. Frontiers in Microbiology 12:743512. [open access link]
Fulton, J. C., S. Bec, J. Fayette, R. C. Ploetz, K. A. Garrett, C. L. Harmon. 2020. First report of plantain soft rot caused by Klebsiella variicola in Haiti. [Disease Note] Plant Disease [open access link]
Fulton, J. C., J. M. Klein, S. Bec, J. Fayette, K. A. Garrett, J. B. Jones, S. Timilsina, and C. L. Harmon. 2020. Draft genome sequences of plant-pathogenic Klebsiella variicola strains isolated from plantain in Haiti. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9:e00336-20. [open access link]
Ascunce, M. S., Keumchul Shin, J. C. Huguet-Tapia, R. Poudel, K. A. Garrett, A. H. C. van Bruggen, E. M. Goss. 2019. Penicillin trunk injection affects bacterial community structure in citrus trees. Microbial Ecology 78:457-469. [link]
Bell, T. H., K. Hockett, R. I. Alcalá-Briseño, M. Barbercheck, G. A. Beattie, M. A. Bruns, J. Carlson, T. Chung, A. Collins, B. Emmett, P. Esker, K. A. Garrett, L. Glenna, B. K. Gugino, M. d. M. Jimenez Gasco, L. Kinkel, J. Kovac, K. Kowalski, G. Kuldau, J. Leveau, M. Michalska-Smith, J. Myrick, K. Peter, M. V. Salazar, A. Shade, N. Stopnisek, X. Tan, A. Welty, K. Wickings, and E. Yergeau. 2019. Manipulating wild and tamed phytobiomes: challenges and opportunities. Phytobiomes 3:3-21. [open access link]
Bennett, A. E., K. Preedy, A. Golubski, J. Umbanhowar, S. R. Borrett, L. Byrne, K. Apostol, J. D. Bever, L. Biederman, A. T. Classen, K. Cuddington, M.-A. de Graaff, K. A. Garrett, L. Gross, A. Hastings, J. D. Hoeksema, V. Hrynkiv, J. Karst, M. Kummel, C. T. Lee, C. Liang, W. Liao, K. Mack, L. Miller, B. Ownley, C. Rojas, E. L. Simms, V. K. Walsh, M. Warren and J. Zhu. 2019. Beyond the black box: promoting mathematical collaborations for elucidating interactions in soil ecology. Ecosphere 10:e02799. [open access link]
Poudel, R., A. Jumpponen, M. M. Kennelly, C. Rivard, L. Gomez-Montano and K. A. Garrett. 2019. Rootstocks shape the rhizobiome: Rhizosphere and endosphere bacterial communities in the grafted tomato system. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 85:e01765-18. [link]
Garrett, K. A., R. I. Alcalá-Briseño, K. F. Andersen, C. E. Buddenhagen, R. A. Choudhury, J. C. Fulton, J. F. Hernandez Nopsa, R. Poudel, and Y. Xing. 2018. Network analysis: A systems framework to address grand challenges in plant pathology. Annual Review of Phytopathology 56: 559-580. [open access link]
Buddenhagen*, C. E., J. F. Hernandez Nopsa*, K. F. Andersen, J. Andrade-Piedra, G. A. Forbes, P. Kromann, S. Thomas-Sharma, P. Useche, and K. A. Garrett. 2017. Epidemic network analysis for mitigation of invasive pathogens in seed systems: Potato in Ecuador. Phytopathology 107:1209-1218. [open access link]
Thomas-Sharma, S., J. Andrade-Piedra, M. Carvajal Yepes, J. Hernandez Nopsa, M. Jeger, R. Jones, P. Kromann, J. Legg, J. Yuen, G. A. Forbes, and K. A. Garrett. 2017. A risk assessment framework for seed degeneration: Informing an integrated seed health strategy for vegetatively-propagated crops. Phytopathology 107:1123-1135. [open access link] [Interactive interface for exploring model behavior]
Poudel, R., A. Jumpponen, D. C. Schlatter, T. C. Paulitz, B. McSpadden Gardener, L. L. Kinkel, and K. A. Garrett. 2016. Microbiome networks: A systems framework for identifying candidate microbial assemblages for disease management. Phytopathology 106:1083-1096. [open access link]
Thomas-Sharma, S., A. Abdurahman, S. Ali, J. L. Andrade-Piedra, S. Bao, A. O. Charkowski, D. Crook, M. Kadian, P. Kromann, P. C. Struik, L. Torrance, K. A. Garrett, and G. A. Forbes. 2016. Seed degeneration in potato: the need for an integrated research and development strategy to mitigate the problem in developing countries. Plant Pathology 65:3-16. [link] [CGIAR press release]
Gomez-Montano, L., A. Jumpponen, M. A. Gonzales, J. Cusicanqui, C. Valdivia, P. Motavalli, M. Herman, and K. A. Garrett. 2013. Do bacterial and fungal communities in soils of the Bolivian Altiplano change under shorter fallow periods? Soil Biology & Biochemistry 65:50-59. [link] [Supplemental materials, including beautiful photos] [Associated R scripts]
Garrett, K. A. 2012. Information networks for plant disease: Commonalities in human management networks and within-host signaling networks. [Invited] European Journal of Plant Pathology 133:75-88. [link]
Garrett, K. A., A. Jumpponen, C. Toomajian, and L. Gomez-Montano. 2012. Climate change and plant health: Designing research spillover from plant genomics for understanding the role of microbial communities. [Invited] Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology 34:349-361. [link]
Rouse, M. N., A. A. Saleh, A. Seck, K. H. Keeler, S. E. Travers, S. H. Hulbert, and K. A. Garrett. 2011. Genomic and resistance gene homolog diversity of the dominant tallgrass prairie species across the U.S. Great Plains precipitation gradient. PLoS ONE 6:e17641. [open access link]
Webb, K. M., I. Oña, J. Bai, K. A. Garrett, T. Mew, C. M. Vera Cruz, and J. E. Leach. 2010. A benefit of high temperature: Increased effectiveness of a rice bacterial blight disease resistance gene. New Phytologist 185:568-576. [link]
Yin, C., K. L. Jones, D. E. Peterson, K. A. Garrett, S. H. Hulbert, and T. C. Paulitz. 2010. Members of soil bacterial communities sensitive to tillage and crop rotation. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 42:2111-2118. [link]
Garrett, K. A., and H. F. Schwartz. 1998. Epiphytic populations of Pseudomonas syringae on dry beans treated with copper-based bactericides. Plant Disease 82:30-35. [open access link]