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Randy Ploetz was born in North
Carolina, but spent most of his early years in Wisconsin. He
received a B.S. in forest tree production in 1974 and M.S. in plant
pathology in 1976, both from Purdue University, and in 1984 received
his Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of Florida. Since
1986, he has been a research plant pathologist at the University of
Florida’s Tropical Research & Education Center in Homestead
where his primary responsibilities are on diseases of fruit and
vegetable crops. He has written extensively on diseases of avocado,
banana, mango and other tropical fruit crops. He currently serves as
a senior editor of APS Press, board member of OEC and OIP, and on
the editorial board of a new on-line journal that is being developed
by APS, Plant Health. A link to Randy Ploetz's program at the IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center: http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/personnel_faculty_randy_ploetz.shtml |
© Copyright 2001 by The American Phytopathological Society. This article was first published March 1, 1999. It was reviewed, revised, and published as a feature article for The Plant Health Instructor January 29, 2001.
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