Current Graduate Students Masters and PhD Graduates of the Department of Plant Sciences Note: Students obtaining degree before 2001 graduated from one of our legacy departments, Ornamental Horticulture & Landscape Design or Plant & Soil Sciences Name Specialty Major prof Year Project Jason Abercrombie Plant Biotechnology Stewart 2008 PhD Malissa Ament Horticulture Auge 1996 Masters Mark Arena Nursery Management Witte 1997 Masters Pam Baird Turf Sorochan 2005 Masters Amy Belitz Horticultural Physiology Sams 2008 Masters Natalia Bjorklund Public Horticulture McDaniel 2005 Masters Melanie Blandford Public horticulture Hamilton 2002 Masters Steven Borst Turf/Weed Science McElroy 2008 Masters Justin Bryant Agricultural Economics Denton 2007 Masters Kelly Burris Plant Biotechnology Stewart 2006 Masters Adriane Cannon Fruit Tree Physiology Deyton 2004 Masters Angie Chapman Plant Breeding Pantalone 2000 Masters Carolyn Cherrak Plant Breeding Pantalone 2001 Masters Ken Cho 1 2 3 4 Environmental Physiology Auge 2004 Masters Jenny Clement Crop Physiology Gwathmey 2006 Masters Kelly Cole Horticulture Auge 2002 Masters Susan Conlon Public Horticulture Hamilton 2006 Masters Jennifer Croker 1 2 3 4 Environmental Physiology Auge 1997 Masters Matt Cutulle Turf/Weed Science McElroy 2007 Masters Matt Goddard Turf Sorochan 2006 Masters Linda Gombert Public Horticulture Hamilton 2001 Masters Craig Green Environmental Physiology Auge 1996 Masters Stephanie Harvey Horticultural Physiology Sams 2002 PhD Daryl Hensley Horticultural Pathology Sams 2005 PhD Laura Hudson Plant Biotechnology Stewart 2003 Masters David Hyten Plant Breeding Pantalone 2002 PhD Sarah Jawdy Functional Genomics Cheng 2006 Masters Richard Johnson Plant Breeding Allen 2007 Masters Joel Keebler Horticulture Williams 1998 Masters Debby Ketchersid Nursery Production Klingeman 2003 Masters Rebecca Koepke Weed Science McElroy 2008 Masters Pam Korczynski Greenhouse Horticulture Faust 2000 Masters Elena Kubikova Environmental Physiology Auge 2001 Masters Christina Larson Biofumigation Sams 2007 Masters Mark Lefsrud 1 2 3 4 5 6 Plant Physiology Kopsell 2006 Ph.D. Martin Lyons Crop Physiology Sams 2003 Ph.D. James McCurdy Turf/Weed Science McElroy 2008 Masters Hong Seok Moon Plant Biotechnology Stewart 2006 Masters James Newburn Public Horticulture Hamilton 2008 Masters Catherine Nyinyi Soybean Breeding Pantalone 2008 Masters Jennifer Noe Plant Breeding Allen 2008 Masters Hope Onken Floriculture Starman 2001 Masters Dilip Panthee Soybean Breeding Pantalone 2005 PhD Nrupali Patel Plant Biotechnology Stewart 2003 Masters Jenny Pfeffer Horticulture Therapy Deyton 2008 Masters Kim Pickens Biotechnology Cheng 2004 PhD Wesley Powell Urban Horticulture Klingeman 2005 Masters Andrew Pulte Public Horticulture Hamilton 2008 Masters Jason Reeves Public Horticulture Hamilton 1999 Masters Terumi Saito Public Horticulture Hamilton 2007 Masters Andrew Scaboo Soybean Breeding Pantalone 2006 Masters Linda Seals Public Horticulture Hamilton 2002 Masters Emily Smith Public Horticulture Hamilton 2005 Masters Katie Steinhoff Nursery Management McDaniel 2003 Masters Allison Stewart Horticulture Sams 2008 Masters Yamika Stokes Plant Breeding Pantalone 2002 PhD William Strunk Turf Sorochan 2006 Masters Travis Teuton Turf Weed Science Mueller 2006 PhD Adam Thoms Turfgrass Science Sorochan 2008 Masters Jayme Tims Public horticulture Hamilton 2002 Masters Rodney Tocco Turf Physiology Sorochan 2008 Masters Heather Toler Plant physiology Sams 2003 Masters Huong Mai Tran Denton 2005 Masters Robert Trentham Horticultural Physiology Sams 2001 PhD Chris Vaughn Nursery IPM Klingeman 2005 Masters Lena Warren Plant physiology Sams 2003 Masters Michael Waynick Tobacco Denton 2007 Masters Jeffrey Webb Public Horticulture Hamilton 2004 Masters Jason Wight Plant Breeding Allen 2007 PhD Millie Williams Floriculture Starman 1997 Masters Beth Willis Public Horticulture Hamilton 2008 Masters Joshua Yuan Functional Genomics Stewart 2007 PhD