USDA-ARS Plant Protection Research Unit (PPRU)
research divisionThe PPRU consists of five research programs with a research emphasis on devising practical pest control methods that minimize or eliminate chemical pesticide usage while maintaining pest damage below economic threshold.
Research Efforts
- Repository and systematics of fungal pathogens
- Identification of host-pathogen dynamics
- Enhancement of fungal germplasm
- Development of safe biopesticides
- Exploit microbes for natural control for nematodes
- Study virus epidemic development and control strategies
Goals
- Develop environmentally safe pest control strategies
- Enhance knowledge of disease processes
- Provide global source of fungi from invertibrates
- Understand virus spread by insect vectors
Cornell academic affiliate
- Gibson, Donna Marie | Insect Mycologist
- Gray, Stewart | Prof Courtesy
- Humber, Richard Alan | Insect Mycologist
- Milbrath, Lindsey R. | Prof Adj Asst
- Vandenberg, John D | Prof Adj
organizational affiliate of
- AGRICULTURE RESEARCH SERVICE USDA (USDA-ARS) | Research Funding Agency