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Graduate Committee:
Rodney's masters committee was selected to guide his development in plant sciences, golf course management, and qualitative and quantative research techniques.
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His major professor Dr. John Sorochan, is responsible for the department's academic turf programs, at both the undergraduate and gradutae level. Dr. Sorochan's research interest includes golf, athletic fields, residential, commercial and municipal turf applications, sustainable turf management; turfgrass stress biology. |
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Dr. Sams received his Ph.D in 1980 in Horticulture/Plant Physiology from Michigan State University, his M.S. in 1976 in Plant & Soil Science/Crop Physiology from the University of Tennessee, and his B.S. in 1974 in Plant & Soil Science from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Sams is a Fellow of the American Society of Horticultural Science.
His research interests and expertise include:
- Fruit and vegetable crop physiology
- Effects of abiotic stress on disease resistance, yield and quality of fruit and vegetable crops
- Biofumigation and hydroponic production systems.
- Mineral nutrition of plants in relation to postharvest quality.
Courses:
- PSS 430 Greenhouse Management.
- PSS 633 Plant Metabolism.
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| Dr. Augé received his PhD in Horticulture from Washington State University in 1986, and his M.A. and B.S. in Biology and Botany from Southern Illinois University in 1975 and 1977, respectively. He postdoc'd for a year with the USDA Weed Physiology Group in Pullman and in September 1987 became a member of the faculty of the Department of Ornamental Horticulture & Landscape Design (OHLD) at UT. OHLD was reorganized in July 2001 into the current Department of Plant Sciences.
Main research interests are mycorrhizal symbiosis and plant drought biology. Recent research areas include water and hormonal relations of plants colonized by AM mycorrhizal fungi; chemical root-to-shoot signaling of soil drying in ornamental, agronomic and forest species; environmental influences on epidemiology of dogwood anthracnose; physiological determinants of plant drought tolerance and avoidance and tree response to climate change. |
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