
Karen Garrett
@garrett_lab
Professor, Plant Pathology Department (@UFPlantPath), Global Food Systems Institute (@GFSI_UF_IFAS), and Emerging Pathogens Institute (@UF_EPI) @UF
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I enjoyed sharing insights on bacteriology at the 2024 APS Schroth Faces of the Future (Honorable Mention) webinar today together w/ Navjot Kaur Ruchika Kashyap Rishi Bhandari Aastha Subedi Devanshi Khokhani! Thanks APS (Dominika Kuzlak-Swanson) for this opportunity and everyone who attended.


Food security relies on good quality seed and reducing spread of crop pathogens Congrats on this new work to @Berea_Etherton Aaron Plex Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda & team Understanding Ethiopian potato seed systems and bacterial wilt management Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…



A new article from members of the Karen Garrett and their colleagues in Africa looks at Ethiopian potato seed systems and bacterial wilt management

🌎 Genebanks worldwide safeguard crops vital for food security - and the Svalbard Svalbard Seed Vault supports them all. On Oct 31, Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin, who were instrumental in creating the Vault, received the prestigious World Food Prize Foundation ➡️ buff.ly/3Atx273


A postdoctoral position is available in the Folimonova Lab at the Univ. of Florida, Department of Plant Pathology, Gainesville, FL to conduct research in the area of molecular biology and molecular genetics of RNA viruses. If interested, please contact me at [email protected].


Excited to share our latest research on antibiotic-induced dysbiosis in citrus: metabolic & physiological effects! 🍊🔬 Freely available on: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… A big congrats to Toi Ketehouli! Thanks Erica Goss and Marina Ascunse. #Phytobiomes UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UF IFAS Solutions



Thrilled to share our new study in the Journal of Virology (editor's pick)! We found that DcFLV alters gene expression in the Asian citrus psyllid, boosting HLB pathogen transmission.This could inform new strategies for managing HLB in citrus journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv… UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department



UF/IFAS was well-represented among the top 2024 articles from The American Phytopathological Society, the world's largest organization of plant pathologists. UF authors swept the top 3 most-read articles in the journal Phytopathology, and had 2 of the 3 most-read articles in Plant Health Progress.






Join us at Speke Resort Munyonyo for the #APAUG2025 ASARECA Side Event on 26 May 25, moderated by Lusike W of KALRO. In this policy dialogue, the 8 East African Community partner states will discuss and evaluate the implementation of #EAC Seed Potato Strategy and Action Plan 2022-2032 Veronica M. Nduva, CBS


Excited to share our new publication! W/ Josie Pasche (MS), Roshni Sawlani (UG), & Victor Hugo Buttrós (visiting scholar), we showed how collagen & chitin soil amendments fight plant nematodes by boosting beneficial microbes. Free study: link.springer.com/article/10.118…
