Selected Publications

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In review. M. N. Rouse, A. A. Saleh, A. Seck, K. H. Keeler, S. E. Travers, S. H. Hulbert, and K. A. Garrett. Diversity of a disease resistance gene homolog is correlated with precipitation.

In review. S. E. Travers, Z. Tang, D. Caragea, K. A. Garrett, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, J. Bai, A. Saleh, A. K. Knapp, P. A. Fay, J. Nippert, P. S. Schnable, and M. D. Smith. Climate change induced dynamics in gene expression of Andropogon gerardii.

G. A. Forbes, N. J. Grunwald, E. S. G. Mizubuti, J. L. Andrade-Piedra, and K. A. Garrett. 2010. Potato late blight in developing countries. Chapter in Current Concepts in Potato Disease Management. R. D. Peters, editor. In press.

K. A. Garrett, A. Jumpponen, and L. Gomez. Emerging plant diseases: What are our best strategies for management? Controversies in Science and Technology, in press.

A. A. Saleh, H. U. Ahmed, T. C. Todd, S. E. Travers, K. A. Zeller, J. F. Leslie, and K. A. Garrett. 2010. Relatedness of Macrophomina phaseolina isolates from tallgrass prairie, maize, soybean, and sorghum. Molecular Ecology 19:79-91. [preprint PDF, the final version is available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123191574/abstract]

K. M. Webb, I. Oña, J. Bai, K. A. Garrett, T. Mew, C. M. Vera Cruz, and J. E. Leach. 2009. A benefit of high temperature: Increased effectiveness of a rice bacterial blight disease resistance gene. New Phytologist 185:568-576. [PDF, the definitive version is available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122667486/abstract

M. R. Cheatham, M. N. Rouse, P. D. Esker, S. Ignacio, W. Pradel, R. Raymundo, A. H. Sparks, G. A. Forbes, T. R. Gordon, and K. A. Garrett. 2009. Beyond yield: Plant disease in the context of ecosystem services. Phytopathology 99:1228-1236. [PDF]

G. L. Gadbury, K. A. Garrett, and D. B. Allison. 2009. Challenges and approaches to statistical design and inference in high dimensional investigations. In D. A. Belostotsky (Ed.) Plant Systems Biology, Methods in Molecular Biology Series. Totowa NJ: The Humana Press Inc. In press.

K. A. Garrett, M. Nita, E. D. De Wolf, L. Gomez, and A. H. Sparks. 2009. Plant pathogens as indicators of climate change. Pages 425-437 in Climate and Global Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth. T. Letcher, editor. Elsevier. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, L. N. Zúñiga, E. Roncal, G. A. Forbes, C. C. Mundt, Z. Su, and R. J. Nelson. 2009. Intraspecific functional diversity in hosts and its effect on disease risk across a climatic gradient. Ecological Applications 19:1868-1883. [PDF]

M. L. Margosian, K. A. Garrett, J. M. S. Hutchinson, and K. A. With. 2009. Connectivity of the American agricultural landscape: Assessing the national risk of crop pest and disease spread. BioScience 59:141-151. [PDF]

J. Worapong, S. P. Dendy, Z. Tang, D. J. Awl, and K. A. Garrett. 2009. Limiting temperatures for urediniospore germination are low in a systemic rust fungus of tallgrass prairie. Mycologia 101:390-394.

S. Chakraborty, J. Luck, G. Hollaway, A. Freeman, R. Norton, K. A. Garrett, K. Percy, A. Hopkins, C. Davis, and D. F. Karnosky. 2008. Impacts of global change on diseases of agricultural crops and forest trees. CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources 3, No. 054. http://www.cababstractsplus.org/cabreviews [PDF]

K. A. Garrett. 2008. Climate change and plant disease risk. Pages 143-155 in Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence. National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. [link] [PDF, including other chapters]

K. A. Garrett and C. M. Cox. 2008. Applied biodiversity science: Managing emerging diseases in agriculture and linked natural systems using ecological principles. Pages 368-386 in Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Princeton University Press. [preprint PDF]

X. Han, S. P. Dendy, K. A. Garrett, L. Fang, and M. D. Smith. 2008. Comparison of damage to native and exotic tallgrass prairie plants by natural enemies. Plant Ecology 198:197-210. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, P. D. Esker, and A. H. Sparks. 2007. An introduction to the R programming environment. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2007-1226-02.
Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc0

A. H. Sparks, P. D. Esker, M. Bates, W. Dall'Acqua, Z. Guo, V. Segovia, S. D. Silwal, S. Tolos, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Disease progress over time. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-02. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc1

P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, G. Antony, M. Bates, W. Dall'Acqua, E. E. Frank, L. Huebel, V. Segovia, and K. A. Garrett. 2007. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Modeling dispersal gradients. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2007-1226-03. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc2

A. H. Sparks, P. D. Esker, G. Antony, L. Campbell, E. E. Frank, L. Huebel, M. N. Rouse, B. Van Allen, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Spatial pattern analysis. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-03. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc3

P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, L. Campbell, Z. Guo, M. N. Rouse, S. D. Silwal, S. Tolos, B. Van Allen, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Disease forecasting and validation. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-01. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc4

K. A. Garrett, P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, and L. Scharmann. 2007. Writing teaching documents as a class project. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI: 10.1094/PHI-T-2007-1226-01.
Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/InstructorCommunication/TeachingArticles/Garrett

W. W. Bockus, Z. Su, K. A. Garrett, B. S. Gill, J. P. Stack, R. L. Bowden, A. K. Fritz, K. L. Roozeboom, and T. J. Martin. 2007. Number of experiments needed to determine wheat disease phenotypes for four wheat diseases. Plant Disease 91:103-108. [PDF]

G. A. Milliken, K. A. Garrett, and S. E. Travers. 2007. Experimental design for two-color microarrays applied in a pre-existing split-plot experiment. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 6, Article 20. Available at http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol6/iss1/art20 [PDF]

S. E. Travers, M. D. Smith, J. Bai, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, P. S. Schnable, A. K. Knapp, G. Milliken, P. Fay, A. Saleh, and K. A. Garrett. 2007. Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:19-24. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, S. P. Dendy, E. E. Frank, M. N. Rouse, and S. E. Travers. 2006. Climate change effects on plant disease: Genomes to ecosystems. Annual Review of Phytopathology 44:489-509. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, and S. E. Travers. 2006. Ecological genomics and epidemiology. European Journal of Plant Pathology 115:35-51. [PDF]

F. A. Al-Naimi, K. A. Garrett, and W. W. Bockus. 2005. Competition, facilitation, and niche differentiation in two foliar pathogens. Oecologia 143:449-457. [PDF, copyright Springer]

C. M. Cox, K. A. Garrett, and W. W. Bockus. 2005. Meeting the challenge of disease management in perennial grain systems. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 20:15-24. [PDF]

C. M. Cox, K. A. Garrett, T. S. Cox, W. W. Bockus, and T. Peters. 2005. Reactions of perennial grain accessions to four major cereal pathogens of the Great Plains. Plant Disease 89:1235-1240. [PDF]

W. Jiang, K. A. Garrett, D. E. Peterson, T. L. Harvey, R. L. Bowden, and L. Fang. 2005. The window of risk for emigration of Wheat streak mosaic virus varies with host eradication method. Plant Disease 89:853-858. [PDF]

C. M. Cox, K. A. Garrett, R. L. Bowden, A. K. Fritz, S. P. Dendy, and W. F. Heer. 2004. Cultivar mixtures for the simultaneous management of multiple diseases: Tan spot and leaf rust of wheat. Phytopathology 94:961-969. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, S. P. Dendy, A. G. Power, G. K. Blaisdell, H. A. Alexander, and J. K. McCarron. 2004. Barley yellow dwarf disease in natural populations of dominant tallgrass prairie species in Kansas [Disease Note]. Plant Disease 88:574. [link]

K. A. Garrett, M. Kabbage, and W. W. Bockus. 2004. Managing for fine-scale differences in inoculum load: Seeding patterns to minimize loss to wheat take-all. Precision Agriculture 5:291-301. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, L. V. Madden, G. Hughes, and W. F. Pfender. 2004. New applications of statistical tools in plant pathology. Phytopathology 94:999-1003. [PDF]

O. Ortiz, K. A. Garrett, J. J. Heath, R. Orrego, and R. J. Nelson. 2004. Management of potato late blight in the Andean highlands: Evaluating the benefits of Farmer Participatory Research and Farmer Field Schools. Plant Disease 88:565-571. [PDF]

M. S. Rosenberg, K. A. Garrett, Z. Su, and R. L. Bowden. 2004. Meta-analysis in plant pathology: Methods for research synthesis. Phytopathology 94:1013-1017. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and R. L. Bowden. 2002. An Allee effect reduces the invasive potential of Tilletia indica. Phytopathology 92:1152-1159. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and S. P. Dendy. 2002. Prácticas culturales para el manejo del tizón tardío de la papa. [Cultural practices for late blight management.] Pages 111-120 in Complementando la Resistencia al Tizón (Phytophthora infestans) en los Andes. E. N. Fernández-Northcote, editor. Global Initiative for Late Blight, Lima, Peru. [PDF]

C. C. Mundt, C. Cowger, and K. A. Garrett. 2002. Relevance of integrated disease management to resistance durability. Euphytica 124:245-252. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, R. J. Nelson, C. C. Mundt, G. Chacón, R. E. Jaramillo, and G. A. Forbes. 2001. The effects of host diversity and other management components on epidemics of potato late blight in the humid highland tropics. Phytopathology 91:993-1000. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. 2000. Effects of planting density and the composition of wheat cultivar mixture on stripe rust: An analysis taking into account limits to the replication of controls. Phytopathology 90:1313-1321. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. 2000. Host diversity can reduce potato late blight severity for focal and general patterns of primary inoculum. Phytopathology 90:1307-1312. [PDF]

R. J. Hijmans, K. A. Garrett, Z. Huamán, D. P. Zhang, M. Schreuder, and M. Bonierbale. 2000. Assessing the geographic representativeness of germplasm collections: the case of the Bolivian wild potato genebank. Conservation Biology 14:1755-1765. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. 1999. Epidemiology in diverse host populations. Phytopathology 89:984-990. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and P. M. Dixon. 1998. When does the spatial pattern of weeds matter? Predictions from neighborhood models. Ecological Applications 8:1250-1259. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and H. F. Schwartz. 1998. Epiphytic populations of Pseudomonas syringae on dry beans treated with copper-based bactericides. Plant Disease 82:30-35. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and P. M. Dixon. 1997. Environmental pseudointeraction: The effects of ignoring the scale of environmental heterogeneity in competition studies. Theoretical Population Biology 51:37-48.

K. A. Garrett. 1997. Use of statistical tests of equivalence (bioequivalence tests) in plant pathology. Phytopathology 87:372-374. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett. 1995. Selecting a method for sampling weed densities: The case of weed removal in strips. Weed Science 43:394-401.

M. J. VanGessel, E. E. Schweizer, K. A. Garrett, and P. Westra. 1995. Influence of weed densities and spatial patterns on corn yield. Weed Science 43:215-218.

P. M. Dixon and K. A. Garrett. 1994. Statistical Issues for Field Experimenters. Pages 439-450 in Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems. R. J. Kendall and T. E. Lacher, Jr., editors. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.

P. M. Dixon and K. A. Garrett. 1993. Sampling ecological information: Choice of sample size, reconsidered. Ecological Modelling 68:67-73.

Kansas State University

Department of Plant Pathology

Ecological Genomics Institute

PI: Karen A. Garrett