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Jeffrey K. StoneResearch Professor,Ph.D. 1986, University of Oregon, Eugene
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Mycology, ecology and systematics of fungal endophytes; taxonomy, ecology and infection biology of fungal parasites of conifers and other woody hosts; taxonomy and systematics of microascomycetes and asexual, conidial fungi.
Mycology, ecology and evolutionary biology of fungal parasites of conifers. We are using various molecular and traditional methods to infer speciation patterns among species and genera of ascomycetes and their conifer hosts. We use phylogenetic analyses to determine low host shifts, cospeciation, host specialization patterns and losses of sexual states have contributed to speciation in parasitic fungi. We are investigating f actors affecting the distribution of a foliar fungal pathogen of Douglas-fir, its infection biology and epidemiology, p opulation genetics, and its effect on carbon dioxide flux in multiple-aged forests. We are also investigating the histopathology of the sudden oak death pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum , in different hosts and tissue types, and developing an in situ PCR based method for detection of P. ramorum in host tissue.
BOT 415/515 Forest Insect and Disease Management
BOT 556 Plant Pathogenic Fungi
Stone, J. K. and D. S. Gernandt . 2005. A reassessment of Hemiphacidium , Rhabdocline and Sarcotrochila (Hemiphacidieaceae). Mycotaxon 91: 115-126.
Hansen E. M. and J. K. Stone. 2005. Interactions of pathogens with plant communities. in: The Fungal Community, J. Dighton, P. Oudemans, and J White, (eds). Marcel Dekker , New York . (in press).
Stone, J. K., J. F. White, Jr., J. D. Polishook. 2004. Endophytic fungi. pp. 241-270. In: Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity of Fungi. Inventory and monitoring methods. G. Mueller, G. Bills, M. Foster (eds.). Elsevier Academic Press, Boston, MA
Manter, D. K., Winton, L. M., Filip, G.M., and Stone, J. K. 2003. Assessment of Swiss needle cast disease: temporal and spatial investigations of fungal colonization and symptom severity. J. Phytopathology 151: 1-8
Manter, D. K., Bond, B. J., Kavanagh, K. L., Stone, J. K., and Filip, G. M. 2003. Modelling the impacts of the foliar pathogen, Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii , on Douglas-fir physiology: net canopy carbon assimilation, needle abscission and growth. Ecological Modelling 164: 211-226
Ortiz-García, S., Gernandt, D. S., Stone, J. K., Johnston, P. R., Chapela, I. H., Salas-Lizana, R., Alvarez-Buylla, E. R. 2003. Phylogenetics of Lophodermium from pine. Mycologia 95: 846-859
Winton, L. M., D. K. Manter, J. K. Stone, E. M. Hansen. 2003. Comparison of biochemical, genetic, and visual methods to quantify Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii in Douglas-fir needles. Phytopathology 93:121-126