USA

Selected papers about our work in systems in the USA

Published Journal Articles

Etherton, B. A., R. A. Choudhury, R. I. Alcalá-Briseño, Y. Xing, A. I. Plex Sulá, D. Carrillo, J. Wasielewski, L. Stelinski, K. A. Grogan, F. Ballen, T. Blare, J. Crane, and K. A. Garrett. 2023. Are avocados toast? A framework to analyze decision-making for emerging epidemics, applied to laurel wilt. Agricultural Systems 206:103615. [open access link]

Poudel, R., A. Jumpponen, M. M. Kennelly, C. Rivard, L. Gomez-Montano, and K. A. Garrett. 2023. Integration of phenotypes in microbiome networks for designing synthetic communities: a study of mycobiomes in the grafted tomato system. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 89:e01843-22. [open access link]

Rich, S. N., R. L. Cook, C. N. Mavian, K. Garrett, E. C. Spencer, M. Salemi, and M. Prosperi. 2023. Network typologies predict future molecular linkages in the network of HIV transmission in Florida. AIDS 37:1739-1746. [open access link]

Saleh*, A. A., N. Kraisitudomsook*, E. E. Frank, S. P. Dendy, J. F. Leslie, and K. A. Garrett. 2023. Phytobiome stampede: Bison as potential dispersal agents for the tallgrass prairie microbiome. PhytoFrontiers 3:512-517. [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]

Asseng, S., C. Palm, J. Anderson, L. Fresco, P. Sanchez, F. Asche, T. Garlock, J. Fanzo, M. Smith, G. Knapp, A. Jarvis, A. Adesogan, I. Capua, G. Hoogenboom, D. D. Despommier, L. Conti, and K. A. Garrett. 2021. Implications of new technologies for future food supply systems. The Journal of Agricultural Science 159:315-319. [open access link]

Choudhury, R. A., H. L. Er, M. Hughes, J. Smith, G. Pruett, J. Konkol, R. Ploetz, J. Marois, K. A. Garrett, and A. H. C. van Bruggen. 2021. Host density dependence and environmental factors affecting laurel wilt invasion. Plant Pathology. [link]

Klein-Gordon, J., Y. XingK. 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 111:1029-1041. [open access link]

Xing*, Y.J. Hernandez Nopsa*, K. F. Andersen, J. Andrade-Piedra, F. Beed, G. Blomme, M. Carvajal Yepes, D. Coyne, W. Cuellar, G. Forbes, J. Kreuze, J. Kroschel, L. Kumar, J. Legg, M. Parker, E. Schulte-Geldermann, K. Sharma, and K. A. Garrett. 2020. Global cropland connectivity: A risk factor for invasion and saturation by emerging pathogens and pests. BioScience 70:744-758. [open access link]

Ascunce, M. S., Keumchul Shin, J. C. Huguet-Tapia, R. PoudelK. 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]

Carvajal-Yepes, M., K. Cardwell, A. Nelson, K. A. Garrett, B. Giovani, D. G. O. Saunders, S. Kamoun, J. P. Legg, V. Verdier, J. Lessel, R. A. Neher, R. Day, P. Pardey, M. L. Gullino, A. R. Records, B. Bextine, J. E. Leach, S. Staiger, J. Tohme. 2019. A global surveillance system for crop diseases. Science 364:1237-1239. [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]

Hatfield, J. L., J. Antle, K. A. Garrett, R. C. Izaurralde, T. Mader, E. Marshall, M. Nearing, G. P. Robertson, and L. Ziska. 2018. Indicators of climate change in agricultural systems. Climatic Change.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2222-2

Savary, S., A. D. Nelson, A. Djurle, P. D. Esker, A. Sparks, L. Amorim, A. Bergamin Filho, T. Caffi, N. Castilla, and K. Garrett. 2018. Concepts, approaches, and avenues for modelling crop health and crop losses. European Journal of Agronomy 100:4-18. [link]

Choudhury, R. A.K. A. Garrett, S. J. Klosterman, K. V. Subbarao, and N. McRoberts.  2017.  A framework for optimizing phytosanitary thresholds in seed systems. Phytopathology 107:1219-1228. [link]

Dendy, S. P.B. Tong, H. A. Alexander, P. A. Fay, L. Murray, Y. Xing, and K.  A. Garrett. 2017. A long-term study of burning effects on a plant pathogen in tallgrass prairie. Plant Pathology 66:1308-1317. [link]

Garrett, K. A.K. F. Andersen, F. Asche, R. L. Bowden, G. A. Forbes, P. A. Kulakow, and B. Zhou. 2017. Resistance genes in global crop breeding networks. Phytopathology 107:1268-1278. [open access link] [interactive interface for exploring model behavior]

Ploetz, R. C., P. E. Kendra, R. A. Choudhury, J. A. Rollins, A. Campbell, K. Garrett, M. Hughes, and T. Dreaden. 2017. Laurel wilt in natural and agricultural ecosystems: understanding the drivers and scales of complex pathosystems. Forests 8:48. [open access link]

Savary, S., S. Bregaglio, L. Willocquet, D. Gustafson, D. M. D’Croz, A. Sparks, N. Castilla, A. Djurle, C. Allinne, M. Sharma, V. Rossi, L. Amorim, A. Bergamin, J. Yuen, P. Esker, N. McRoberts, J. Avelino, E. Duveiller, J. Koo, and K. Garrett. 2017. Crop health and its global impacts on the components of food security. Food Security 9:311–327. [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]

Hernandez Nopsa, J. F., G. J. Daglish, D. W. Hagstrum, J. F. Leslie, T. W. Phillips, C. Scoglio, S. Thomas-Sharma, G. H. Walter, and K. A. Garrett. 2015. Ecological networks in stored grain: identifying key nodes for emerging pests and mycotoxins in postharvest networks.  BioScience 65:985-1002. [open access link] [UF press release] [UF/IFAS FAES High Impact Award winner]

Sanatkar, M. R., C. Scoglio, B. Natarajan, S. Isard, and K. A. Garrett. 2015. History, epidemic evolution, and model burn-in for a network of annual invasion: Soybean rust. Phytopathology 105:947-955. [open access link]

Alexander, H. M., K. E. Mauck, A. E. Whitfield, K. A. Garrett, and C. M. Malmstrom. 2014. Plant-virus interactions and the agro-ecological interface. European Journal of Plant Pathology 138:529-547. [link]

Gray, M. M., P. St Amand, N. M. Bello, M. B. Galliart, M. Knapp, K. A. Garrett, T. J. Morgan, S. G. Baer, B. R. Maricle, E. D. Akhunov, and L. C. Johnson.  2014.  Ecotypes of an ecologically dominant prairie grass (Andropogon gerardii) exhibit genetic divergence across the US Midwest grasslands’ environmental gradient.  Molecular Ecology 23:6011-6028. [link]

Sparks, A. H., G. A. Forbes, R. J. Hijmans, and K. A. Garrett. 2014. Climate change may have limited effect on the global risk of potato late blight. Global Change Biology 20:3621-3631. [link]

Cox, C. M., W. W. Bockus, R. D. Holt, L. Fang, and K. A. Garrett. 2013. The spatial connectedness of plant species: Potential links for apparent competition via plant diseases. Plant Pathology 62:1195-1204. [link]

Garrett, K. A., A. Dobson, J. Kroschel, B. Natarajan, S. Orlandini, H. E. Z. Tonnang, and C. Valdivia. 2013. The effects of climate variability and the color of weather time series on agricultural diseases and pests, and decision making for their management. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 170:216-227. [link]

Sutrave, S., C. Scoglio, S. A. Isard, J. M. S. Hutchinson, and K. A. Garrett. 2012. Identifying highly connected counties compensates for resource limitations when evaluating national spread of an invasive pathogen. PLoS ONE 7:e37793. [open access link]

Garrett, K. A., G. A. Forbes, S. Savary, P. SkelseyA. H. Sparks, C. Valdivia, A. H. C. van Bruggen, L. Willocquet, A. Djurle, E. Duveiller, H. Eckersten, S. Pande, C. Vera Cruz, and J. Yuen. 2011. Complexity in climate change impacts: A framework for analysis of effects mediated by plant disease. Plant Pathology 60:15-30. [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]

Sparks, A. H., G. A. Forbes, R. J. Hijmans, and K. A. Garrett. 2011. A metamodeling framework for extending the application domain of process-based ecological models. Ecosphere 2:art90. [open access link]

Saleh, A. A.H. U. Ahmed, T. C. Todd, S. E. Travers, K. A. Zeller, J. F. Leslie, and K. A. Garrett. 2010. Relatedness of Macrophomina phaseolina isolates from tallgrass prairie, maize, soybean, and sorghum. Molecular Ecology 19:79-91. [link]

Travers, S. E.Z. Tang, D. Caragea, K. A. Garrett, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, J. Bai, A. Saleh, A. K. Knapp, P. A. Fay, J. Nippert, P. S. Schnable, and M. D. Smith. 2010. Variation in gene expression of Andropogon gerardii in response to altered environmental conditions associated with climate change. Journal of Ecology 98:374-383. [Editor’s choice]

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]

Cheatham, M. R.*, M. N. Rouse*P. D. Esker, S. Ignacio, W. Pradel, R. Raymundo, A. H. Sparks, G. A. Forbes, T. R. Gordon, and K. A. Garrett. 2009. Beyond yield: Plant disease in the context of ecosystem services. Phytopathology 99:1228-1236. [open access link]

Garrett, K. A., L. N. Zúñiga, E. Roncal, G. A. Forbes, C. C. Mundt, Z. Su, and R. J. Nelson. 2009. Intraspecific functional diversity in hosts and its effect on disease risk across a climatic gradient. Ecological Applications 19:1868-1883. [link]

Margosian, M. L.K. A. Garrett, J. M. S. Hutchinson, and K. A. With. 2009. Connectivity of the American agricultural landscape: Assessing the national risk of crop pest and disease spread. BioScience 59:141-151. [open access link]

Worapong, J.S. P. DendyZ. Tang, D. J. Awl, and K. A. Garrett. 2009. Limiting temperatures for urediniospore germination are low in a systemic rust fungus of tallgrass prairie. Mycologia 101:390-394. [link]

Han, X., S. P. DendyK. A. GarrettL. Fang, and M. D. Smith. 2008. Comparison of damage to native and exotic tallgrass prairie plants by natural enemies. Plant Ecology 198:197-210. [link]

Bockus, W. W., Z. SuK. A. Garrett, B. S. Gill, J. P. Stack, R. L. Bowden, A. K. Fritz, K. L. Roozeboom, and T. J. Martin. 2007. Number of experiments needed to determine wheat disease phenotypes for four wheat diseases. Plant Disease 91:103-108. [open access link]

Travers, S. E., M. D. Smith, J. Bai, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, P. S. Schnable, A. K. Knapp, G. Milliken, P. Fay, A. Saleh, and K. A. Garrett. 2007. Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:19-24. [link]

Garrett, K. A.S. P. DendyE. E. FrankM. N. Rouse, and S. E. Travers. 2006. Climate change effects on plant disease: Genomes to ecosystems. Annual Review of Phytopathology 44:489-509. [link]

Garrett, K. A., S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, and S. E. Travers. 2006. Ecological genomics and epidemiology. European Journal of Plant Pathology 115:35-51. [link]

Al-Naimi, F. A.K. A. Garrett, and W. W. Bockus. 2005. Competition, facilitation, and niche differentiation in two foliar pathogens. Oecologia 143:449-457. [link]

Cox, C. M.K. A. Garrett, and W. W. Bockus. 2005. Meeting the challenge of disease management in perennial grain systems. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 20:15-24. [link]

Cox, C. M.K. A. Garrett, T. S. Cox, W. W. Bockus, and T. Peters. 2005. Reactions of perennial grain accessions to four major cereal pathogens of the Great Plains. Plant Disease 89:1235-1240. [open access link]

Jiang, W.K. A. Garrett, D. E. Peterson, T. L. Harvey, R. L. Bowden, and L. Fang. 2005. The window of risk for emigration of Wheat streak mosaic virus varies with host eradication method. Plant Disease 89:853-858. [open access link]

Cox, C. M.K. A. Garrett, R. L. Bowden, A. K. Fritz, S. P. Dendy, and W. F. Heer. 2004. Cultivar mixtures for the simultaneous management of multiple diseases: Tan spot and leaf rust of wheat. Phytopathology 94:961-969. [open access link]

Garrett, K. A.S. P. Dendy, A. G. Power, G. K. Blaisdell, H. A. Alexander, and J. K. McCarron. 2004. Barley yellow dwarf disease in natural populations of dominant tallgrass prairie species in Kansas [Disease Note]. Plant Disease 88:574. [open access link]

Garrett, K. A., M. Kabbage, and W. W. Bockus. 2004. Managing for fine-scale differences in inoculum load: Seeding patterns to minimize loss to wheat take-all. Precision Agriculture 5:291-301. [link]

Rosenberg, M. S., K. A. GarrettZ. Su, and R. L. Bowden. 2004. Meta-analysis in plant pathology: Methods for research synthesis. Phytopathology 94:1013-1017. [open access link]

Garrett, K. A. and R. L. Bowden. 2002. An Allee effect reduces the invasive potential of Tilletia indica. Phytopathology 92:1152-1159. [open access link]

Mundt, C. C., C. Cowger, and K. A. Garrett. 2002. Relevance of integrated disease management to resistance durability. Euphytica 124:245-252. [link]

Garrett, K. A., and C. C. Mundt. 2000. Effects of planting density and the composition of wheat cultivar mixture on stripe rust: An analysis taking into account limits to the replication of controls. Phytopathology 90:1313-1321. [open access link]

Garrett, K. A., and C. C. Mundt. 2000. Host diversity can reduce potato late blight severity for focal and general patterns of primary inoculum. Phytopathology 90:1307-1312. [open access link]

Garrett, K. A., and C. C. Mundt. 1999. Epidemiology in diverse host populations. Phytopathology 89:984-990. [open access link]

Garrett, K. A., and P. M. Dixon. 1998. When does the spatial pattern of weeds matter? Predictions from neighborhood models. Ecological Applications 8:1250-1259. [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]

Garrett, K. A. 1995. Selecting a method for sampling weed densities: The case of weed removal in strips. Weed Science 43:394-401. [link]

VanGessel, M. J., E. E. Schweizer, K. A. Garrett, and P. Westra. 1995. Influence of weed density and distribution on corn (Zea mays) yield. Weed Science 43:215-218. [link]

BOOKS

Rosegrant, M. W., J. Koo, N. Cenacchi, C. Ringler, R. Robertson, M. Fisher, C. Cox, K. Garrett, N. D. Perez, and P. Sabbagh. 2014. Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC.

Walthall, C.L., J. Hatfield, P. Backlund, L. Lengnick, E. Marshall, M. Walsh, S. Adkins, M. Aillery, E.A. Ainsworth, C. Ammann, C.J. Anderson, I. Bartomeus, L.H. Baumgard, F. Booker, B. Bradley, D.M. Blumenthal, J. Bunce, K. Burkey, S.M. Dabney, J.A. Delgado, J. Dukes, A. Funk, K. Garrett, M. Glenn, D.A. Grantz, D. Goodrich, S. Hu, R.C. Izaurralde, R.A.C. Jones, S-H. Kim, A.D.B. Leaky, K. Lewers, T.L. Mader, A. McClung, J. Morgan, D.J. Muth, M. Nearing, D.M. Oosterhuis, D. Ort, C. Parmesan, W.T. Pettigrew, W. Polley, R. Rader, C. Rice, M. Rivington, E. Rosskopf, W.A. Salas, L.E. Sollenberger, R. Srygley, C. Stöckle, E.S. Takle, D. Timlin, J.W. White, R. Winfree, L. Wright-Morton, L.H. Ziska. 2013. Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation. USDA Technical Bulletin 1935. Washington, DC. 186 pages. This report is available at: http://www.usda.gov/oce/climate_change/effects.htm

BOOK CHAPTERS

Garrett, K. A.R. I. Alcalá-BriseñoK. F. AndersenR. A. ChoudhuryW. DantesJ. FayetteJ. C. FultonR. Poudel, and C. G. Staub. 2019. Adapting disease management systems under global change. In: J. Ristaino and A. Records (Editors), Emerging Plant Diseases and Global Food Security. APS Press, in press.

Beed, F., A. Benedetti, G. Cardinali, S. Chakraborty, T. Dubois, K. Garrett and M. Halewood. 2015. Climate change and micro-organism genetic resources for food and agriculture: State of knowledge, risks and opportunities. In Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/022/mb392e.pdf.

Garrett, K. A.S. Thomas-Sharma, G. A. Forbes, and J. Hernandez Nopsa. 2014. Climate change and plant pathogen invasions. In Invasive Species and Climate Change. L. Ziska and J. Dukes, eds. CABI Publishing.

Hernandez Nopsa, J.S. Thomas-Sharma, and Garrett, K. A. 2014. Climate change and plant disease. In Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems. N. Van Alfen, ed. Elsevier.

Porter, J. R., L. Xie (Coordinating Lead Authors); A. Challinor, K. Cochrane, M. Howden, M. M. Iqbal, D. Lobell, M. I. Travasso (Lead Authors); N. Chhetri, K. Garrett, J. Ingram, L. Lipper, N. McCarthy, J. McGrath, D. Smith, P. Thornton, J. Watson, L. Ziska (Contributing Authors); P. Aggarwal, K. Hakala (Review Editors); J. Jordan (Volunteer Chapter Scientist). 2014. IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 7. Food Security and Food Production Systems.

Beed, F., A. Benedetti, G. Cardinali, S. Chakraborty, T. Dubois, K. Garrett and M. Halewood. 2011. Climate change and micro-organism genetic resources for food and agriculture: State of knowledge, risks and opportunities. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/022/mb392e.pdf.

Garrett, K. A.M. Nita, E. D. De Wolf, L. Gomez, and A. H. Sparks. 2009. Plant pathogens as indicators of climate change. Pages 425-437 in Climate and Global Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth. T. Letcher, editor. Elsevier.

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