Our research program encompass both basic and applied aspects of areas: 1) the role of soil communities in plant health and susceptibility to herbivory, disease, and plant competition in biological farming systems, and 2) identification and behavioral characterization of plant secondary compounds and arthropod semiochemicals that mediate host finding and other behaviors.
Specific research projects: Our research program encompass both basic and applied aspects of areas: 1) the role of soil communities in plant health and susceptibility to herbivory, disease, and plant competition in biological farming systems, and 2) identification and behavioral characterization of plant secondary compounds and arthropod semiochemicals that mediate host finding and other behaviors.
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Kim, Y. N., Basta, N. T., Gardiner, M. M., and Phelan, P. L. Submitted. Potential for remediation of post-industrial urban soils by urban farming and organic matter management. J. Environ. Qual.
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Mittapelly, P., Rajarapu, S.P., Phelan, P.L., and Michel, A.P. In review. Metatranscriptome and amino acid profiling in the brown marmorated stink bug reveals the importance of the obligate bacterial endosymbiont in Halyomorpha halys. J. Insect Physiol..
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Rajarapu, S.P., Muilenburg, V.L., Wijeratne, S., Phelan, P.L., Sudhamalla, B., Herms, D.A., and Mittapalli, O. Submitted. Molecular characterization of the interaction between the invasive emerald ash borer and a novel and coevolved host species (Fraxinus spp.). Ecol. Evol.
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Esquivel, C. J., Ranger, C.M., Phelan, P.L., Martinez, E.J., Hendrix, W.H., Cañas, L. A., and Michel, A.P. 2019. Weekly survivorship curves of soybean aphid biotypes 1 and 4 on insecticidal seed treated soybean. J. Econ. Entomol. 112: 712-719.
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Chorbadjian, R.A., Phelan, P.L., Herms, D.A. 2018. Tight insect-host phenological synchrony constrains the life-history strategy of European pine sawfly. Agric. & For. Entomol. doi.org/10.1111/afe.12299
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Ruisheng, A., Orellana, D., Phelan, P.L., Cañas, L., Grewal, P. 2016. Entomopathogenic nematodes induce systemic resistance in tomato against Spodoptera exigua and Pseudomonas syringae. Biol. Contr. 93: 24–29
