Jerald K. Pataky

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   My research deals primarily with the epidemiology and control of diseases of sweet corn with an emphasis on disease resistance, crop loss assessment, and epidemiology of control tactics. My project involves extensive cooperation with the sweet corn seed and food processing industries to identify situations where diseases are serious constraints on production and to develop solutions to those problems. Commercial sweet corn hybrids are classified for resistance or susceptibility in disease nurseries concurrent with yield loss studies in which reductions due to diseases are related to levels of resistance. Resistances to various diseases are identified from several sources and incorporated into improved sweet corn germ plasm. Epidemiological factors associated with resistance and other control tactics are examined in order to improve disease management. Sweetcorn

   My project also has been involved in determining the risk of introducing Erwinia stewartii on seed produced on plants infected with Stewart's Wilt. We also have a project to evaluate methods to improve production of cuitlacoche, edible galls of Ustilago maydis that form on infected maize ears.

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