Research plant pathologist, Jenny Juzwik, conducts studies on diseases of trees that impact forest health and productivity.
Her career-long interest and passion has been the study of interactions among microorganisms and insects associated with disease occurrence and development. One particular focus has been on the insects responsible for transmission of the oak wilt fungus, Ceratocystis fagacearum. Her ongoing research involves elucidation of the major biotic determinants of hickory decline and investigation of the role(s) putative pathogens play in the complex. And, in 2010, she initiated a preliminary investigation of bark and ambrosia beetles associated with eastern black walnut in the Midwestern states and their potential as carriers of the Thousand Cankers Disease fungus, Geosmithia morbida.
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- Jenny Juzwik, Research Plant Pathologist, Northern Research Station, St, Paul, Minnesota
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