Rebecca Nelson

We study disease resistance in maize and sorghum with a substantial focus on fungal pathogens that produce toxins and cause large-scale food system contamination. We work at scales ranging from a single nucleotide (which genetic variations provide quantitative resistance) to whole-plant phenotypes (looking at tradeoffs between resistance mechanisms and other traits) to agroecologies (what environmental factors lead to plant stresses associated with mycotoxin outbreaks).

Title: Professor

Department: Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology

Roles: Faculty

Research Areas: Agriculture Research, Fungi, Genetics, Genomics and Cell Biology of Infection, Plant Hosts

Lab: https://blogs.cornell.edu/maizedisease/

Email: rjn7@cornell.edu