Cucurbits
Extension Faculty
We provide plant disease diagnostic services to Extension personnel, growers, pest control advisors, homeowners, landscape professionals, arborists, and the general public throughout and beyond Arizona. I collaborate efforts with state and federal...
Crop Related, Non-Extension Research
The Baltrus lab is interested in understanding microbial evolution with a focus on the mechanisms and costs of adaptation guided by expectations from genomics and population genetics, and usually with an emphasis on better understanding associations...
Research focus: (i) Dynamics of distribution, prevalence, and co-diversification driving emergent hemipteran-transmitted plants pathogens in cultivated and natural scapes, including the phytobiome (ii) Functional genomic-identification of...