Amanda J. Gevens

Assistant Professor & Extension Plant Pathologist

Contact Information:

1421 Fifield Hall, P.O. Box 110680
IFAS Plant Pathology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-0680

Phone:   (352) 392-3631 Ext. 217
Fax:       (352) 392-6532

gevens@ufl.edu

Education:

2005     PhD Plant Pathology Michigan State University, East Lansing MI
2001     MS Plant Pathology Purdue University, West Lafayette IN
1999     BS Biology Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA

Curriculum Vitae

Staff:
Kris Beckham, Sr. Biologist     kabe@ufl.edu     Phone:  (352) 392-3631 Ext 339

Research and Extension Areas:

Detection, diagnosis, and disease management of agronomic and vegetable crops.  My program responsibilities include peanuts, pasture, forage crops, corn, sorghum, small grains, tobacco, soybeans and cucurbits.

Background:

Amanda Gevens hails from Long Island, NY.  She studied vegetable diseases, with an emphasis on Phytophthora, during her doctoral and post-doctoral work at Michigan State University.  Dr. Gevens joined the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Florida in July of 2007.

Employment and Assistantship Opportunities:

Please contact Dr. Amanda Gevens via email at gevens@ufl.edu with questions regarding current opportunities.

Publications:

  • Gevens, A. J., Donahoo, R. S., Lamour, K. H., and Hausbeck, M. K.  Characterization of Phytophthora capsici foliar and pod blight of snap beans in Michigan.  Accepted to Plant Disease June 11, 2007.
  • Gevens, A. J., Donahoo, R. S., Lamour, K. H., and Hausbeck, M. K.  2007.  Characterization of Phytophthora capsici from Michigan surface irrigation water.  Phytopathology 97(4)421-428. 
  • M. K. Hausbeck, Gevens, A. J., and Cortright, B.  2006.  Integrating cultural and chemical strategies to control Phytophthora capsici and limit its spread.  Proceedings of the International Cucurbitaceae Conference, Asheville, NC.  pp. 427-435.
  • Gevens, A. J., Ando, K., Lamour, K. H., Grumet, R., and Hausbeck, M. K.  2006.    A detached cucumber fruit method to screen for resistance to Phytophthora capsici and effect of fruit age on susceptibility to infection.  Plant Disease 90(10)1276-1282. 
  • Boddu, J., Svabek, C., Sekhon, R., Gevens, A. J., Nicholson, R. L., Jones, A. D., Pedersen, J. F., Gustine, D. L., and Chopra, S.  2004.  Expression of a putative flavonoid 3’-hydroxylase in sorghum mesocotyls synthesizing 3-deoxyanthocyanidin phytoalexins.  Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 65:101-113.
  • Chopra, S., Gevens, A. J., Svabek, C., Wood, K. V, Peterson, T., and Nicholson, R. L.  2002.  Excision of the Candystripe 1 transposon from a hyper-mutable Y1-cs allele shows that the sorghum Y1 gene controls the biosynthesis of both 3-deoxyanthocyanidin phytoalexins and phlobaphene pigments.  Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 60:321-330.
  • Aguero M. E., Gevens, A. J., Nicholson, R. L.  2002.  Interaction of Cochliobolus heterostrophus with phytoalexin inclusions in Sorghum bicolor.  Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 61:267-271.
  • Gevens, A. J., Carver, T. L. W., Thomas, B. J., Nicholson, R. L.  2001.  Visualization and partial characterization of the ECM of Pestalotia malicola on artificial and artificial substrata.  Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 58:277-285.
  • Gevens, A. J., Nicholson, R. L. 2000.  In This Issue  “Cutin composition:  A subtle role for fungal cutinase?” Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 57:43-45.

Web Links:

University of Florida
http://www.ufl.edu

University of Florida Plant Pathology Department
http://plantpath.ifas.ufl.edu

University of Florida Extension Plant Disease Clinic
http://www.plantpath.ifas.ufl.edu/pdc/default.htm

University of Florida IFAS Extension
http://extension.ifas.ufl.edu/