Lana Reid

Areas of Expertise:

• Corn/maize breeding and genetics
• Corn/maize pathology
• Inheritance/genetics and mechanisms of host plant resistance
• Early maturity and cold tolerance in corn
• multiple-pest resistant corn
• Exotic corn germplasm
• Pest resistance screening techniques
• Fusarium stalk rot (Fusarium species)
• Ear rot (Fusarium species)
• Eyespot (Aureobasidium zeae)
• Northern leaf blight (Exserohilum turcicum)
• Common rust (Puccinia sorghi)
• Gray leaf spot (Cercospora zeae-maydis)
• Stewart's wilt (Pantoea stewartii)
• Anthracnose leaf blight and stalk rot (Colletotrichum graminicolum)
• Screening techniques