Meet the Contributing Authors

Edward B. Radcliffe
Professor of Entomology
Department of Entomology
University of Minnesota
219 Hodson Hall
1980 Folwell Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108-6125
phone: (612) 624-9773

Education

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D., Entomology 1963, M.S., Entomology 1961

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, B.S.A., Entomology, 1959

Research Interests

My research relates primarily to potato pest management. Recent research studies have  included: 1) the biology and ecology of aphid vectors of potato viruses, 2) epidemiology and control of potato leafroll virus and potato virus Y in seed potato production; 3) use of wild potato germplasm in development of breeding lines with resistance to i) green peach aphid, ii) potato aphid, iii) Potato leafroll virus, and iv) Potato virus Y; 4) potato fungicides on entomophthoran pathogens of green peach aphid, 5) reproduction and diapause strategies in Colorado potato beetle populations from different geographic regions; 6) potato leafhopper feeding behavior in response to water and soil nutrient status; and 7) biology of alfalfa weevil parasitoids.

Teaching

I teach a graduate level course, Insect Pest Management, Ent5211 and have served as the major advisor to 23 Ph.D. and 27 M.S. students.  I am co-editing with Bill Hutchison a multi-authored IPM textbook, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.  The concept for this textbook is that it is to be complementary and linked to our ipmworld.umn.edu site.

Professional Service and Honors

North Central Branch, Entomological Society of America, President 1998-99, Program Chairman 1981 and 1990, Executive Committeeman-at-Large 1987-1989, and Local Arrangements Chair for 2000 meeting in Minneapolis, awards for research excellence 1990, 2001.

Member, Board of Directors, Consortium for International Crop Protection (CICP) from 1981 to 2005, Executive Committee Member-at-Large 1990-1992, 1996-1998, Secretary Treasurer  2003-2005.

Potato Association of America, Sr. Editor for Entomology, American Journal of Potato Research, 1985-2005, Outstanding Paper Award for best research paper in AJPR 1998, 2002.

National Potato Council Seed Seminar, 2002 Meritorious Service Award (co-recipient with David W. Ragsdale). 

Educational Award for WWW Site (with W.H. Hutchison), Board of Certified Entomologists of Mid-America, 1997.
 

Selected Publications

Radcliffe, E.B. and A. Lagnaoui.  2006.  Pests and Diseases, Part D. Insects, In: R. Viola, C. Gebhardt, F. Govers, D. Vreugdenhil and D. MacKerron (eds) Potato Biology and Biotechnology: Advances and Perspectives, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Radcliffe, E.B., D.W. Ragsdale and R.A. Suranyi.  2006.  IPM case Studies - Potato, In. Aphids as Crop Pests, H.F. van Emden and R. Harrington [eds].  CABI Publishing (in press).

Zhu, M., E.B. Radcliffe, D.W. Ragsdale, I.V. MacRae and M.W. Seeley.  2006.  Low-level jet streams associated with spring aphid migration and current season spread of potato viruses in the U.S. northern Great Plains.  Agricultural Forest Meteorol. (in press).

Davis, J.A., Radcliffe, E. B. and Ragsdale, D. W.  2005.  Soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura, a new vector of Potato virus Y in potato.  Am. J. Potato Res. 82:197-201.

Ruano-Rossil, J.M., E.B. Radcliffe and D.W. Ragsdale.  2004.  Disruption of entomopathogenic fungi of green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer), by fungicides used to control potato late blight, 365-370, In: J.C. Simon, C.A. Dedryver, C. Rispe C. and M. Hullé. (eds), Aphids in a New Millennium, INRA, Versailles.

Novy, R.G., A. Nasruddin, D.W. Ragsdale, and E.B. Radcliffe. 2002. Genetic resistances to potato leafroll virus, potato virus Y and green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) in progeny of Solanum etuberosum. Am. J. Potato Res. 79:9-18.

Radcliffe, E.B. and D.W. Ragsdale. 2002. Invited Review. Aphid transmitted potato viruses: the importance of understanding vector biology. Amer. J. Potato Res. 79:353-386.

Ragsdale, D.W., E.B. Radcliffe and C.D. Dizonzo. 2001.  Epidemiology and field control of PVY and PLRV, pp. 237-270, In Loebenstein, G. [ed.], Virus and virus-like diseases of potatoes, Kluwer Press.

Flanders, K.L. and E.B. Radcliffe.  2000.  Phenology of the alfalfa weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and its associated parasitoids in Minnesota.  J. Entomol. Sci. 35: 227-238.

Senanayake, D.G., E.B. Radcliffe and N.J. Holliday. 2000.  Diapause and reproductive behavior in Colorado potato beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) populations from east central Minnesota and the Valley of the Red River of the North.  Environ. Entomol. 29: 1123-1132.

Flanders, K.L., S. Arnone, and E.B. Radcliffe.  1998.  The potato: genetic resources and insect resistance, pp. 207-239, In Plant Genetic Resources, S.S. Quisenberry and S.L. Clement [eds], CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl.

Lagnaoui, A. and Radcliffe, E.B. 1998.  Potato fungicides interfere with entomopathogenic fungi impacting population dynamics of green peach aphid.  Amer. J. Potato Res. 75: 19-25.

Radcliffe, E.B. and K.L. Flanders.  1998.  Biological control of alfalfa weevil in North America.  Integrated Pest Management Reviews 3: 225-249.

DiFonzo, C.D., D.W. Ragsdale, E.B. Radcliffe, N.C. Gudmestad, and G.A. Secor.  1997.  Seasonal abundance of aphid vectors of Potato virus Y in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota.  J. Econ. Entomol. 90: 824-831.

Flanders, K.L., J.G. Hawkes, and E.B. Radcliffe.  1997.  Geographic distribution of insect resistance in potatoes. Euphytica 93: 201-221.

Al-Dawood, A.S., E.B. Radcliffe, W.L. Koukkari, and E. A. Backus.  1996.  Effects of water deficiency in alfalfa on feeding behavior of potato leafhopper, Empoasca fabae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae).  J. Econ. Entomol. 89: 898-905.

DiFonzo, C.D., D.W. Ragsdale, and E.B. Radcliffe.  1996.  Crop borders reduce Potato virus Y Potyvirus (PVY) incidence in seed potato.  Annals Appl. Biol. 129: 289-302.

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