Karen Garrett,
PROF
Teaching Profile
Courses Taught
2016-2025
PLP6905 Problems in Plant Pathology
2021-2025
PLP4932 Special Topics in Plant Pathology
2019,2021-2023,2023-2024
PLP6701 Impact through Networks
2020
PLP4905 Problems in Intermediate Plant Pathology
2017,2019
PLP6932 Seminar in Plant Pathology
2018
PLP7979 Advanced Research
Publications
Academic Articles
2024
Disaster Plant Pathology: Smart Solutions for Threats to Global Plant Health from Natural and Human-Driven Disasters.
Phytopathology.
114(5):855-868
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-03-24-0079-FI.
[PMID] 38593748.
2023
A Global Assessment of the State of Plant Health.
Plant disease.
107(12):3649-3665
[DOI] 10.1094/PDIS-01-23-0166-FE.
[PMID] 37172970.
2023
Integration of Phenotypes in Microbiome Networks for Designing Synthetic Communities: a Study of Mycobiomes in the Grafted Tomato System.
Applied and environmental microbiology.
89(6)
[DOI] 10.1128/aem.01843-22.
[PMID] 37222583.
2023
The Use of Synthetic Microbial Communities to Improve Plant Health.
Phytopathology.
113(8):1369-1379
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-01-23-0016-IA.
[PMID] 36858028.
2023
Translating virome analyses to support biosecurity, on-farm management, and crop breeding.
Frontiers in plant science.
14
[DOI] 10.3389/fpls.2023.1056603.
[PMID] 36998684.
2022
Climate Change Effects on Pathogen Emergence: Artificial Intelligence to Translate Big Data for Mitigation.
Annual review of phytopathology.
60:357-378
[DOI] 10.1146/annurev-phyto-021021-042636.
[PMID] 35650670.
2022
Ralstonia Strains from Potato-Growing Regions of Kenya Reveal Two Phylotypes and Epidemic Clonality of Phylotype II Sequevar 1 Strains.
Phytopathology.
112(10):2072-2083
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-11-21-0455-R.
[PMID] 35522048.
2022
Where to Invest Project Efforts for Greater Benefit: A Framework for Management Performance Mapping with Examples for Potato Seed Health.
Phytopathology.
112(7):1431-1443
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-05-20-0202-R.
[PMID] 34384240.
2022
Whole genome sequences reveal the Xanthomonas perforans population is shaped by the tomato production system.
The ISME journal.
16(2):591-601
[DOI] 10.1038/s41396-021-01104-8.
[PMID] 34489540.
2021
“Breaking through the 40% adoption ceiling: Mind the seed system gaps.” A perspective on seed systems research for development in One CGIAR.
Outlook on agriculture.
50(1):5-12
[DOI] 10.1177/0030727021989346.
[PMID] 33867584.
2021
An integrated seed health strategy and phytosanitary risk assessment: Potato in the Republic of Georgia
Agricultural Systems.
191
[DOI] 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103144.
2021
Assessing Changes and Associations in the Xanthomonas perforans Population Across Florida Commercial Tomato Fields Via a Statewide Survey.
Phytopathology.
111(6):1029-1041
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-09-20-0402-R.
[PMID] 33048630.
2021
The persistent threat of emerging plant disease pandemics to global food security.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
118(23)
[DOI] 10.1073/pnas.2022239118.
[PMID] 34021073.
2021
The Role of Plant-Associated Bacteria, Fungi, and Viruses in Drought Stress Mitigation.
Frontiers in microbiology.
12
[DOI] 10.3389/fmicb.2021.743512.
[PMID] 34759901.
2020
BLIGHTSIM: A New Potato Late Blight Model Simulating the Response of Phytophthora infestans to Diurnal Temperature and Humidity Fluctuations in Relation to Climate Change.
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland).
9(8)
[DOI] 10.3390/pathogens9080659.
[PMID] 32824250.
2020
Draft Genome Sequences of Plant-Pathogenic Klebsiella variicola Strains Isolated from Plantain in Haiti.
Microbiology resource announcements.
9(29)
[DOI] 10.1128/MRA.00336-20.
[PMID] 32675179.
2020
Effective Altruism as an Ethical Lens on Research Priorities.
Phytopathology.
110(4):708-722
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-05-19-0168-RVW.
[PMID] 31821114.
2020
Global Cropland Connectivity: A Risk Factor for Invasion and Saturation by Emerging Pathogens and Pests.
Bioscience.
70(9):744-758
[DOI] 10.1093/biosci/biaa067.
[PMID] 32973407.
2020
Network Analysis of the Papaya Orchard Virome from Two Agroecological Regions of Chiapas, Mexico.
mSystems.
5(1)
[DOI] 10.1128/mSystems.00423-19.
[PMID] 31937673.
2019
A global surveillance system for crop diseases.
Science (New York, N.Y.).
364(6447):1237-1239
[DOI] 10.1126/science.aaw1572.
[PMID] 31249049.
2019
Efficiency of insect-proof net tunnels in reducing virus-related seed degeneration in sweet potato.
Plant pathology.
68(8):1472-1480
[DOI] 10.1111/ppa.13069.
[PMID] 32406415.
2019
Modeling Epidemics in Seed Systems and Landscapes To Guide Management Strategies: The Case of Sweet Potato in Northern Uganda.
Phytopathology.
109(9):1519-1532
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-03-18-0072-R.
[PMID] 30785374.
2019
Penicillin Trunk Injection Affects Bacterial Community Structure in Citrus Trees.
Microbial ecology.
78(2):457-469
[DOI] 10.1007/s00248-018-1302-1.
[PMID] 30506480.
2019
Rootstocks Shape the Rhizobiome: Rhizosphere and Endosphere Bacterial Communities in the Grafted Tomato System.
Applied and environmental microbiology.
85(2)
[DOI] 10.1128/AEM.01765-18.
[PMID] 30413478.
2018
Network Analysis: A Systems Framework to Address Grand Challenges in Plant Pathology.
Annual review of phytopathology.
56:559-580
[DOI] 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080516-035326.
[PMID] 29979928.
2018
Three pillars of sustainability in fisheries.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
115(44):11221-11225
[DOI] 10.1073/pnas.1807677115.
[PMID] 30249663.
2017
A Framework for Optimizing Phytosanitary Thresholds in Seed Systems.
Phytopathology.
107(10):1219-1228
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-04-17-0131-FI.
[PMID] 28726578.
2017
A Long-Term Study of Burning Effects on a Plant Pathogen in Tallgrass Prairie
Plant Pathology.
66(8):1308-1317
[DOI] 10.1111/ppa.12678.
2017
A Risk Assessment Framework for Seed Degeneration: Informing an Integrated Seed Health Strategy for Vegetatively Propagated Crops.
Phytopathology.
107(10):1123-1135
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-09-16-0340-R.
[PMID] 28545348.
2017
Epidemic Network Analysis for Mitigation of Invasive Pathogens in Seed Systems: Potato in Ecuador.
Phytopathology.
107(10):1209-1218
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-03-17-0108-FI.
[PMID] 28742457.
2017
Modeling Virus Coinfection to Inform Management of Maize Lethal Necrosis in Kenya.
Phytopathology.
107(10):1095-1108
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-03-17-0080-FI.
[PMID] 28535127.
2017
Resistance Genes in Global Crop Breeding Networks
Phytopathology.
107(10):1268-1278
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-03-17-0082-F1.
2017
Resistance Genes in Global Crop Breeding Networks.
Phytopathology.
107(10):1268-1278
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-03-17-0082-FI.
[PMID] 28742460.
2016
Epidemic Threshold of An Sis Model in Dynamic Switching Networks
IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems.
46(3):345-355
[DOI] 10.1109/TSMC.2015.2448061.
2016
Microbiome Networks: A Systems Framework for Identifying Candidate Microbial Assemblages for Disease Management.
Phytopathology.
106(10):1083-1096
[PMID] 27482625.
2015
Ecological Networks in Stored Grain: Key Postharvest Nodes for Emerging Pests, Pathogens, and Mycotoxins.
Bioscience.
65(10):985-1002
[PMID] 26955074.
2015
History, Epidemic Evolution, and Model Burn-In for a Network of Annual Invasion: Soybean Rust.
Phytopathology.
105(7):947-55
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-12-14-0353-FI.
[PMID] 26171986.
2014
Climate change may have limited effect on global risk of potato late blight.
Global change biology.
20(12):3621-31
[DOI] 10.1111/gcb.12587.
[PMID] 24687916.
2014
Ecotypes of an ecologically dominant prairie grass (Andropogon gerardii) exhibit genetic divergence across the U.S. Midwest grasslands’ environmental gradient.
Molecular ecology.
23(24):6011-28
[DOI] 10.1111/mec.12993.
[PMID] 25370460.
2014
Meta-analysis and other approaches for synthesizing structured and unstructured data in plant pathology.
Annual review of phytopathology.
52:453-76
[DOI] 10.1146/annurev-phyto-102313-050214.
[PMID] 25001455.
2013
Spatial Connectedness of Plant Species: Potential Links for Apparent Competition Via Plant Diseases
Plant Pathology.
62(6):1195-1204
[DOI] 10.1111/ppa.12045.
2013
Why dispersal should be maximized at intermediate scales of heterogeneity.
Theoretical ecology.
6(2):203-211
[PMID] 25540676.
2012
Identifying highly connected counties compensates for resource limitations when evaluating national spread of an invasive pathogen.
PloS one.
7(6)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0037793.
[PMID] 22701580.
2011
Bridging taxonomic and disciplinary divides in infectious disease.
EcoHealth.
8(3):261-7
[DOI] 10.1007/s10393-011-0718-6.
[PMID] 22086388.
2011
Complexity in Climate-Change Impacts: An Analytical Framework for Effects Mediated By Plant Disease
Plant Pathology.
60(1):15-30
[DOI] 10.1111/j.1365-3059.2010.02409.x.
2011
Genomic and resistance gene homolog diversity of the dominant tallgrass prairie species across the U.S. Great Plains precipitation gradient.
PloS one.
6(4)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0017641.
[PMID] 21532756.
2011
International Agricultural Research Tackling the Effects of Global and Climate Changes on Plant Diseases in the Developing World.
Plant disease.
95(10):1204-1216
[DOI] 10.1094/PDIS-04-11-0316.
[PMID] 30731699.
2010
A benefit of high temperature: increased effectiveness of a rice bacterial blight disease resistance gene.
The New phytologist.
185(2):568-76
[DOI] 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03076.x.
[PMID] 19878463.
2010
Relatedness of Macrophomina phaseolina isolates from tallgrass prairie, maize, soybean and sorghum.
Molecular ecology.
19(1):79-91
[DOI] 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04433.x.
[PMID] 19943894.
2009
Beyond yield: plant disease in the context of ecosystem services.
Phytopathology.
99(11):1228-36
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO-99-11-1228.
[PMID] 19821726.
2009
Challenges and approaches to statistical design and inference in high-dimensional investigations.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.).
553:181-206
[DOI] 10.1007/978-1-60327-563-7_9.
[PMID] 19588106.
2009
Intraspecific functional diversity in hosts and its effect on disease risk across a climatic gradient.
Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America.
19(7):1868-83
[PMID] 19831076.
2007
Number of Experiments Needed to Determine Wheat Disease Phenotypes for Four Wheat Diseases.
Plant disease.
91(1):103-108
[DOI] 10.1094/PD-91-0103.
[PMID] 30781074.
2006
Climate change effects on plant disease: genomes to ecosystems.
Annual review of phytopathology.
44:489-509
[PMID] 16722808.
2005
Competition, facilitation, and niche differentiation in two foliar pathogens.
Oecologia.
143(3):449-57
[PMID] 15711822.
2005
Reactions of Perennial Grain Accessions to Four Major Cereal Pathogens of the Great Plains.
Plant disease.
89(11):1235-1240
[DOI] 10.1094/PD-89-1235.
[PMID] 30786449.
2005
The Window of Risk for Emigration of Wheat streak mosaic virus Varies with Host Eradication Method.
Plant disease.
89(8):853-858
[DOI] 10.1094/PD-89-0853.
[PMID] 30786517.
2004
Barley Yellow Dwarf Disease in Natural Populations of Dominant Tallgrass Prairie Species in Kansas.
Plant disease.
88(5)
[DOI] 10.1094/PDIS.2004.88.5.574B.
[PMID] 30812673.
2004
Cultivar mixtures for the simultaneous management of multiple diseases: tan spot and leaf rust of wheat.
Phytopathology.
94(9):961-9
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO.2004.94.9.961.
[PMID] 18943072.
2004
Management of Potato Late Blight in the Peruvian Highlands: Evaluating the Benefits of Farmer Field Schools and Farmer Participatory Research.
Plant disease.
88(5):565-571
[DOI] 10.1094/PDIS.2004.88.5.565.
[PMID] 30812665.
2004
Meta-analysis in plant pathology: synthesizing research results.
Phytopathology.
94(9):1013-7
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO.2004.94.9.1013.
[PMID] 18943080.
2004
New applications of statistical tools in plant pathology.
Phytopathology.
94(9):999-1003
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO.2004.94.9.999.
[PMID] 18943077.
2002
An Allee Effect Reduces the Invasive Potential of Tilletia indica.
Phytopathology.
92(11):1152-9
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO.2002.92.11.1152.
[PMID] 18944239.
2001
The effects of host diversity and other management components on epidemics of potato late blight in the humid highland tropics.
Phytopathology.
91(10):993-1000
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO.2001.91.10.993.
[PMID] 18944127.
2000
Assessing the Geographic Representativeness of Genebank Collections: the Case of Bolivian Wild Potatoes.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology.
14(6):1755-1765
[DOI] 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2000.98543.x.
[PMID] 35701903.
2000
Effects of planting density and the composition of wheat cultivar mixtures on stripe rust: an analysis taking into account limits to the replication of controls.
Phytopathology.
90(12):1313-21
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO.2000.90.12.1313.
[PMID] 18943371.
2000
Host diversity can reduce potato late blight severity for focal and general patterns of primary inoculum.
Phytopathology.
90(12):1307-12
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO.2000.90.12.1307.
[PMID] 18943370.
1999
Epidemiology in mixed host populations.
Phytopathology.
89(11):984-90
[DOI] 10.1094/PHYTO.1999.89.11.984.
[PMID] 18944652.
1997
Use of statistical tests of equivalence (bioequivalence tests) in plant pathology.
Phytopathology.
87(4):372-4
[PMID] 18945114.
Grants
Sep 2024
ACTIVE
Sustaining avocado production in the face of the lethal laurel wilt disease
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: US DEPT OF AG NATL INST OF FOOD AND AG
Jan 2023
– Dec 2024
Comprehensive Pest Prevention Program Analysis (C3PA)
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS HEALTH
via CALIFORNIA DEPT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Oct 2022
ACTIVE
Tools4SeedSystems: working towards resilience through root, tuber and banana crops in humanitarian settings
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: INTL POTATO CTR
via US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Sep 2022
ACTIVE
TomSPOT – an integrated toolbox for managing tomato bacterial diseases in North America.
Role: Co-Project Director/Principal Investigator
Funding: US DEPT OF AG NATL INST OF FOOD AND AG
Jul 2022
– Jun 2024
Smart Surveillance and Mitigation Platform
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: US DEPT OF AG APHIS
Jan 2022
– Dec 2024
Scaling and Delivery of Vegetatively Propagated Crop Seed (WP3-INIT-06)
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: INTL POTATO CTR
via CONSULTATIVE GROUP FOR INTL AGR RES
Oct 2021
– Dec 2021
UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION NETWORKS OF CGIAR RESEARCH PROGRAMS WITH THE SUPPORT OF CGIAR MEL DATA
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: INTL CTR FOR AG RES IN THE DRY AREAS
via CONSULTATIVE GROUP FOR INTL AGR RES
Jul 2021
ACTIVE
Pyroaeromycoses: fundamental discovery and modeling in an unexplored phenomenon
Role: Co-Project Director/Principal Investigator
Funding: UF FOUNDATION
via KECK FOUNDATION, W.M.
Jul 2021
– Feb 2023
1A.1179.01 -A Smart Surveillance and Mitigation Platform
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: US DEPT OF AG APHIS
May 2021
– Aug 2022
Sooty Blotch (Gloeodes pomigena) in mango Ataulfo/Honey a literature review and potential ramifications of the disease for the mango industry
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATIONAL MANGO BOARD
Sep 2020
ACTIVE
Reducing avocado losses to major challenges by improving resistance selection and disease management using next generation technologies
Role: Co-Project Director/Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE
via US DEPT OF AG NATL INST OF FOOD AND AG
Jan 2020
– Dec 2023
Exploring plant-microbiome-environment interactions towards tailoring plant disease management
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: AUBURN UNIV
via FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RES
Jan 2020
– Dec 2021
CGIAR 2020/21: Impact Network Analysis and Seed Degeneration for improving seed systems of Roots, Tubers and Bananas
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: INTL POTATO CTR
Jan 2019
– Dec 2019
CGIAR 2019
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: INTL POTATO CTR
Jan 2018
– Dec 2018
UF Contributions to RTB Seed Tool Box
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: INTL POTATO CTR
Sep 2015
– Feb 2021
Laurel Wilt of Avocado: Management of an Unusual and Lethal Disease
Role: Project Manager
Funding: US DEPT OF AG NATL INST OF FOOD AND AG
May 2015
– Dec 2020
Support to Agricultural Research and Development Program
Role: Project Manager
Funding: US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Jan 2015
– Dec 2016
RTB-Seed: Strategic research on degeneration of planting material and development of a seed system conceptual framework for roots, tubers and bananas
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: INTL POTATO CTR
Jan 2015
– Dec 2015
Management of RTB-critical pests and diseases under changing climates, through risk assessment, surveillance and modeling
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: INTL POTATO CTR
Oct 2014
– Dec 2016
Modeling of impacts of BXW control technology at plot, farm and in multi-farm systems – using data from on station systemicity work in Uganda and single diseased stem remove (SDSR) pilot site work in eastern DR Congo
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL
Contact Details
Phones:
- Business:
- (785) 317-3117
Emails:
- Business:
- karengarrett@ufl.edu
Addresses:
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PO Box 110680
GAINESVILLE FL 32611 - Business Street:
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EMERGING PATHOGENS INSTITUTE
GAINESVILLE FL 326110001