Robert Wick

My appointment to the University of Massachusetts includes extension, teaching and research. My major extension activities are in the Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic and Nematode Assay Lab. The Plant Clinic provides support for the UMass Vegetable, Floriculture, Turf and Fruit IPM programs. My research program is targeted to the vegetable, floriculture and turf industries. Current research projects include late blight of potato and tomato, downy mildew of basil and cucurbits, Phytophthora blight of cucurbits, and management of nematodes in turf grasses. I am also working on a perennial canker disease of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) in Bangladesh. I teach Plant Pathology, Diagnostic Plant Pathology, Forest Pathology and Mycology. I have also taught courses in Turfgrass Pathology, Nematology and Biological Control of Plant Diseases. I taught Diagnostic Plant Pathology at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) twice, with the support of a Fulbright Scholar award in 2006 and 2014, and received a USDA grant to develop the first dedicated plant disease diagnostic clinic in Bangladesh.