BRUCE A. JAFFEE

Professor and Nematologist

• Appointment: 1986
• B.S. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 1975 Fruit Science
• M.S. Cornell University 1978 Plant Pathology
• Ph.D. Cornell University 1981 Plant Pathology

   

Teaches:

• Revising Scientific Prose (NEM 150)
• Soil Ecology (SSC 112)

Research:

• Biological control of plant-parasitic nematodes

  Selected Publications:

• Jaffee, B. A. 2002. Soil cages for studying how organic amendments affect nematode-trapping fungi.  Applied Soil Ecology 21:1-9.

• Jaffee, B. A., and R. J. Zasoski. 2001. Soil pH and the activity of a pelletized nematophagous fungus. Phytopathology 91:324-330.

• Timm, L., D. Pearson, and B. Jaffee. 2001. Nematode-trapping fungi in conventionally- and organically-managed corn-tomato rotations. Mycologia 93:25-29.

• Jaffee, B. A. 2000. Augmentation of soil with the nematophagous fungi Hirsutella rhossiliensis and Arthrobotrys haptotyla. Phytopathology 90:498-504.

• Jaffee, B. A. 1999. Enchytraeids and nematophagous fungi in tomato fields and vineyards. Phytopathology 89:398-406. 

• Tedford, E. C., B. A. Jaffee, and A. E. Muldoon. 1995. Suppression of the nematode Heterodera schachtii by the fungus Hirsutella rhossiliensis as affected by fungus population density and nematode movement. Phytopathology 85:613-617.

• Underwood, T., B. A. Jaffee, P. Verdegaal, M. V. K. Norton, W. K. Asai, A. E. Muldoon, M. V. McKenry, and H. Ferris. 1995. Effect of lime on Criconemella xenoplax and bacterial canker in two California orchards. Journal of Nematology 26:606-611.

• Tedford, E. C., B. A. Jaffee, and A. E. Muldoon. 1994. Variability among isolates of the nematophagous fungus Hirsutella rhossiliensis. Mycological Research 98:1127-1136.

• Jaffee, B. A., H. Ferris, J. J. Stapleton, M. V. K. Norton, and A. E. Muldoon. 1994. Parasitism of nematodes by the fungus Hirsutella rhossiliensis as affected by certain organic amendments. Journal of Nematology 26:152-161.

• Lackey, B. A., B. A. Jaffee, and A. E. Muldoon. 1994. Effect of nematode inoculum on suppression of root-knot and cyst nematodes by the nematophagous fungus Hirsutella rhossiliensis. Phytopathology 84:415-420.

• Jaffee, B. A., E. C. Tedford, and A. E. Muldoon. 1993. Tests for density-dependent parasitism of nematodes by trapping and endoparasitic fungi. Biological Control 3:329-336.

• Jaffee, B. A. 1993. Density-dependent parasitism in biological control of soilborne insects, nematodes, fungi, and bacteria. Biocontrol Science and Technology 3:235-246.

• Tedford, E. C., B. A. Jaffee, A. E. Muldoon, C. E. Anderson, and B. B. Westerdahl. 1993. Parasitism of Heterodera schachtii and Meloidogyne javanica by Hirsutella rhossiliensis in microplots over two growing seasons. Journal of Nematology 25:427-433.

Research in the Laboratory

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