Jennifer L. Parke

Jennifer Parke graduated from the University of California-Santa Cruz and received her Ph.D. in Botany and Plant Pathology from Oregon State University in 1982. After a postdoctoral fellowship at CSIRO Division of Soils in Adelaide, Australia, she became an Assistant and then Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1998 she moved to Oregon State University where she is an Associate Professor (Research) in the Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology and Dept. of Crop and Soil Science. Her research concerns biology of the rhizosphere, ecology and biocontrol of soilborne oomycetes, mechanisms of biocontrol by B. cepacia, and mycorrhizal fungi.

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