Geunhwa Jung

Associate Professor
Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
206 French Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9294 USA
Phone:(413) 545-2243
Fax: (413)545-3075
jung@psis.umass.edu

Education

Ph.D., 1995. Breeding and Genetics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Employment

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Horticulture, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. 1995-1999.

Assistant Professor in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics program, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. January 2000 - August 2006.

Specialties

• Population genetics of Sclerotinia homoeocarpa, causal agent of dollar spot on turfgrass, as a model system of plant pathogenic sterile fungi
• Management of fungicide resistance of dollar spot on turfgrass
• Classical and molecular breeding of disease resistance in Lolium and Agrostis spp.
• Mapping of disease resistance quantitative traits in Lolium and Agrostis and comparative genomics analysis in Poaceae species
• DNA fingerprinting of Kentucky bluegrass and bermudagrass
• Nanotechnology for plant pathogenic fungi

Teaching

• Turfgrass Pathology Lab (PLSOILIN 112), fall semesters
• Special Topic-Advanced Turfgrass Pathology (PLSOILIN 597M), spring semesters
• Horticultural Plant Pathology (PLSOILIN 111), fall semesters

For more information about Dr. Jung,
including a list of his publications, please see:

The UMass Amherst Turf Pathology Website at:
http://www.umass.edu/turfpathology