Kiersten Alane Wise

Assistant Professor

Department: Botany and Plant Pathology
Phone: 765.496.2170
Fax: 765.494.0363
Office: Lilly Hall, Room 1-325
E-mail: kawise@purdue.edu

Area of Expertise: Field Crop Diseases - Epidemiology and management of diseases of corn, soybean, wheat; state specialist for Asian soybean rust

The overall goal of my research program is to develop economical and sustainable disease management practices for agronomic field crops. This is achieved by studying the effects of management techniques on the biology of plant diseases. Through this research we can select management practices that will improve crop production efficiency and simultaneously increase our awareness of how diseases interact with their hosts.

- Recent Publications

Ruhl, G., K. A. Wise, T. Creswell, A. Leonberger, & C. Speers (2009). First report of Goss’s bacterial wilt and leaf blight on corn caused by Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis in Indiana. Plant Disease, 93, 841.

Wise, K. A., R. A. Henson, & C. A. Bradley (2009). Fungicide seed treatment effects on seedborne Ascochyta rabiei in chickpea. HortTechnology, 19, 533-537.

Wise, K. A., C. A. Bradley, J. S. Pasche, & N. C. Gudmestad (2009). Resistance to QoI fungicides in Ascochyta rabiei from chickpea in the Northern Great Plains. Plant Disease, 93, 528-536.

Wise, K. A., C. A. Bradley, J. S. Pasche, N. C. Gudmestad, N. C. Dugan, & W. Chen (2008). Baseline sensitivity of Ascochyta rabiei to azoxystrobin, pyraclostrobin, and boscalid. Plant Disease, 92, 295-300.

Ruhl, G., & T. Creswell (2008). First Confirmation in Indiana of Goss's Bacterial Wilt and Leaf Blight on Corn. Proceedings of Indiana Academy of Science, 28-29.

Bradley, C. A., E. Adee, S. Ebelhar, B. Young, M. Burrows, M. McMullen, J. Lukach, L. Osborne, K. Ruden, & L. Sweets (2008). Multi-State Uniform Fungicide Trials to Control Fusarium Head Blight and Deoxynivalenol. Proceedings of the 2008 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, 13-15.