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Plant Pathology

Dr. Ariena van Bruggen

Emeritus Professor
Professor of Plant Pathology - 2009-2018

Ariena van Bruggen

 

Email: ahcvanbruggen@ufl.edu

CV: Ariena van Bruggen CV 2022

     

     

About

Dr. van Bruggen started her position as Professor of Plant Pathology and Epidemiology in the Emerging Pathogens Institute and the Department of Plant Pathology at UF in 2009, continuing in this position until 2018, when she retired as Emeritus Professor. Before her appointment at UF, she was Professor and Chair of Biological Farming Systems at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, from 1999 to 2009. Prior to that, she was Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in Plant Pathology, with emphasis on vegetable crops, at the University of California in Davis, CA, USA, from 1986 to 1999.

At the beginning of her career, she was Associate Expert in Plant Pathology for the Food and Agriculture Organization in Ethiopia (1976-1980), Research and Teaching Assistant at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY (1980-1984), and Post-doctoral Associate in Environmental Biology at the Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY (1985-1986).

  • Accomplishments

    While working at UC Davis, Dr. van Bruggen received two awards for her research accomplishments in 1993, namely the APS Ciba-Geigy award from the American Phytopathological Society for 'significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge of plant diseases and their control' and the Jakob Eriksson Gold Medal from the Jakob Eriksson Prize Fund Commission, Swedish Academy of Sciences, in recognition of ' your original and thorough work on the new disease, 'corky root' of lettuce, caused by a hitherto unknown pathogen, the bacterium Rhizomonas suberifaciens.' Part of this work was continued at UF, describing four new genera and three new species of related bacteria causing lettuce corky root.

    She also developed several simulation models and spatial distribution and risk models during her career and joined the Plant Health Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) preparing risk models for invading plant pathogens. Several different pathogens were studied, with special emphasis on enteric human pathogens and the bacterium causing citrus huanglongbing (greening).

    She served as a member of the NRC committee of the National Academy of Sciences on Mycoherbicides for eradicating Illicit Drug Crops in 2010-2011 and was a member of the Scientific Council of Agrinnova, Turin, Italy from 2005 to 2022, and a member of the Jakob Eriksson Prize Fund Commission of the International Society of Plant Pathology from 2000 to 2022.

    In 2012, she became a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society.

  • Teaching Profile

    Prof. Van Bruggen developed and taught a course on plant disease epidemiology and a colloquium series on the use of statistical methods in plant pathology at the University of Florida. She also participated in the discussion group One Health at the Emerging Pathogens Institute.

    At Wageningen University, she taught several courses in the area of Organic Agriculture, and at UC Davis, in Pathology of Field and Vegetable Crops.

    Prof. van Bruggen supervised 18 PhD theses as main advisor and 19 as co-advisor. She also supervised innumerable MS students at UC Davis, Wageningen University and the University of Florida.

  • Research Profile

    Dr. van Bruggen carried out fundamental and applied research on ecosystem health in relation to the invasion by plant and human pathogens. A healthy ecosystem is characterized by a dynamically balanced and diverse community of organisms, stability and resilience after disturbances, minimal losses of nutrients and energy, and sporadic outbreaks of pests and diseases. We hypothesized that the extent of oligotrophy, in terms of easily available carbon sources and mineral nutrients, largely determines the health status of an ecosystem. This concept was developed based on research results on the survival and spread of enteric human pathogens (Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica) from manure to soil, water and plants. A probabilistic risk model was developed for the contamination of a lettuce crop by manure, soil, and water contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. Internalization of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhmurium in tomato leaves, stems and fruits was shown to occur from contaminated water and aerosols. Simulation models were developed for the survival of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Typhimurium in manure, manure-amended soil and water.

    Besides research on ecosystem health and transmission routes of enteric pathogens, the integration of various temporal and spatial scales of ecological processes and the dispersal capacity of (re)emerging pathogens in agroecosystems have been recurrent themes in van Bruggen’s research projects. The dynamics of disease progress can be understood better when we take the response time into account for the different developmental stages of the pathogen in relation to the hourly dynamics of environmental conditions rather than average conditions. This was shown for the plant pathogens Bremia lactucae and Phytophthora infestans as well as for the human pathogens E. coli O157:H7 and S. enterica serovar Typhimurium.  This research has implications for the effects of climate change on pathogen growth. This work resulted in a simulation model for the potential effects of climate change on late blight development. In addition, simulation models were developed for peanut late leaf spot and citrus huanglongbing, as well as spatial distribution and risk models for citrus huanglongbing and black spot, banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW), and blueberry twig blight. We showed that BXW is threatening food security in Eastern Africa and proposed changes in the management of this disease.

    Since 2016, Prof. van Bruggen has been interested in potential effects of the herbicide glyphosate on microbial communities in soil, plants, and animals and the consequences for plant and animal health.

  • Publications

    Dr. van Bruggen published over 250 scientific papers in refereed journals, with a Google H-index = 66; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HCBGAdUAAAAJ&hl=en

    Recent notable publications (since 2009):

     

    On soil and root health and organic agriculture:

    • Semenov MV, Krasnov GS, Semenov VM, van Bruggen A. 2022. Mineral and organic fertilizers distinctly affect fungal communities in the crop rhizosphere. Journal of Fungi, 2022, 8, 251. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8030251
    • Semenov, M.V., Krasnov, G.S., Semenov, V.M., Ksenofontova, N., Zinyakova, N.B., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2021. Does fresh farmyard manure introduce surviving microbes into soil or activate soilborne microbiota? Environ. Man. 294: 113018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113018
    • Semenov, M.V., Krasnov, G.S., Semenov, V.M., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2020. Long-term fertilization rather than plant species shapes rhizosphere and bulk soil prokaryotic communities in agroecosystems. Appl. Soil Ecol. 154 (2020) 103641
    • Ascunce, A.S., Shin, K., Huguet-Tapia, J.C., Poudel, R., Garrett, K.A., van Bruggen, A.H.C., and Goss, E.M. 2019. Penicillin trunk injection affects bacterial community structure in citrus trees. Microbial Ecology 78(2): 457-469.
    • van Bruggen, A.H.C., Goss, E.M., Havelaar, A., van Diepeningen, A.D., Finckh, M.R., and Morris, J.G. Jr. One Health - Cycling of diverse microbial communities as a connecting force for soil, plant, animal, human and ecosystem health. Science of the Total Environment 664: 927-937.
    • Van Bruggen, A.H.C., He, M.M., Zelenev, V.V., Semenov, V.M., Semenov, A.M., Semenova, E.V., Kuznetsova, T.V., Khodzaeva, A.K., Kuznetsov, A.M., and Semenov, M.V. 2017. Relationships between greenhouse gas emissions and cultivable bacterial populations in conventional, organic and long-term grass plots as affected by environmental variables and disturbances. Soil Biol. Biochem.  114: 145-159.
    • He, M.M., Ma, W., Zelenev, V.V., Khodzaeva, A.K., Kuznetsov, A.M., Semenov, A.M., Semenov, V.M., Blok, W., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2017. Short-term dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions and cultivable bacterial populations in response to induced and natural disturbances in organically and conventionally managed soils. Applied Soil Ecology 119: 294-306.
    • Van Bruggen, A.H.C. and Finckh, M. 2016. Plant diseases and management approaches in organic farming systems. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 54: 25-54.
    • van Bruggen, A.H.C., Francis, I., and Krag, R. 2015. The vicious cycle of lettuce corky root disease: effects of farming system, nitrogen fertilizer and herbicide. Plant and Soil 388:119-132.
    • van Bruggen, A.H.C., Sharma, K., Kaku, E., Karfopoulos, S., Zelenev, V.V., and Blok, W.J. 2015. Soil health indicators and Fusarium wilt suppression in organically managed greenhouse soils. Applied Soil Ecology 86: 192-201.
    • Van Bruggen, A.H.C., Francis, I.M., and Jochimsen, K.N. 2014. Non-pathogenic rhizosphere bacteria belonging to the genera Rhizorhapis and Sphingobium provide specific control of lettuce corky root disease caused by the same but not different genera. Plant Pathol. 63: 1384–1394.
    • Francis, I.M., Jochimsen, K.N., de Vos, P., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2014. Reclassification of rhizosphere bacteria including strains causing corky root of lettuce as Rhizorhapis suberifaciens gen. nov., Sphingobium mellinum sp. nov., Sphingobium xanthum sp. nov., Sphingopyxis sp., and Rhizorhabdus argenteus gen. nov., sp. nov. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 64: 1340-1350.
    • Senechkin, I.V., van Overbeek, L., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2014. Greater Fusarium wilt suppression after complex than after simple organic amendments as affected by soil pH, total carbon and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. Appl. Soil Ecol. 73: 148-155.

     

    On spatial distribution models and simulation models:

    • Narouei-Khandan, H.A., Worner, S.P., Viljanen, S.L.H., van Bruggen, A.H.C., Balestra, J.M., and Jones, E.E. 2022. The potential global climate suitability of kiwifruit bacterial canker
      disease (Pseudomonas syringae actinidiae, Psa) using three modelling
      approaches: CLIMEX, MaxEnt and Multi-Model Framework. Climate 10(2), 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli10020014
    • Narouei-Khandan, H.A., Shakya, S.K., Garrett, K.A., Goss, E.M., Dufault, N.S., Andrade-Piedra, J.L., Asseng, S., Wallach, D., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2020. BLIGHTSIM: A new potato late blight model simulating the response of Phytophthora infestans to diurnal temperature and humidity fluctuations in relation to climate change. Pathogens 2020, 9, 659; doi:10.3390/pathogens9080659.
    • Narouei-Khandan, H.A., Worner, S.P., Viljanen, S.L.H., van Bruggen, A.H.C., and Jones, E.E. 2020. Projecting the suitability of global and local habitats for myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) using model consensus. Plant Pathology 69: 17-27.
    • Shimwela, M.M., Halbert, S.E., Keremane, M.L., Mears, P., Singer, B.H., Lee, W.S., Jones, J.B., Ploetz, R.C., and van Bruggen A.H.C. 2019. In-grove spatio-temporal spread of citrus huanglongbing and its psyllid vector in relation to weather. Phytopathology 109: 418-427.
    • Jeger, M., Bragard, C., Caffier, D., Candresse, T., Chatzivassiliou, E. et al. 2018. Guidance on quantitative risk assessment. EFSA Journal 16 (8).
    • Shimwela, M. M., Schubert, T. S., Albritton, M., Halbert, S. E., Jones, D. J., Sun, X., Roberts, P. D., Singer, B. H., Lee, W. S., Jones, J. B., Ploetz, R. C., and van Bruggen A.H.C. 2018. Regional spatial-temporal spread of citrus huanglongbing is affected by rain in Florida. Phytopathology 108(12):1420-1428.
    • van Bruggen, A.H.C., West, J.S., van der Werf, W., Potting, R.P.J., Gardi, C., Koufakis, I., Zelenev, V.V., Narouei-Khandan, H., Schilder, A., and Harmon, P. 2018. Input data needed for a risk model for the entry, establishment and spread of a pathogen (Phomopsis vaccinii) of blueberries and cranberries in the EU. Ann. Appl. Biol. 172: 126–147.
    • Narouei Khandan, H.A., Harmon Lapaire, C., Harmon, P., Olmstead, J., Zelenev, V.V., van der Werf W., Worner S.P., Senay S.D., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2017. Potential global and regional geographic distribution of Phomopsis vaccinii on Vaccinium species projected by two species distribution models.  Europ. J. Plant Pathol. 148 (4): 919-930. DOI 10.1007/s10658-017-1146-4.
    • Shimwela, M.M., Blackburn, J.K., Jones, J.B., Nkuba, J., Narouei-Khandan, H.A., Ploetz, R.C., Beed, F., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2017. Local and regional spread of banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) in space and time in Kagera, Tanzania. Plant Pathology 66 (6): 1003-1014.
    • Shimwela, M.M., Ploetz, R.C., Beed, F.D., Jones, J.B., Blackburn, J.K., Mkulila, S.I., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2016. Banana Xanthomonas Wilt continues to spread in Tanzania despite an intensive symptomatic plant removal campaign: an impending socio-economic and ecological disaster. Food Security 8(5): 939–951.
    • Shimwela, M.M., Narouei Khandan, H.A., Halbert, S.E., Keremane, M.L., Minsavage, G.V., Timilsina, S.,  Massawe, D.P., Jones, J.B., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2016. First occurrence of Diaphorina citri in East Africa, characterization of the Ca. Liberibacter species causing huanglongbing (HLB) in Tanzania, and potential further spread of D. citri and HLB in Africa and Europe. Europ. J. Plant Pathol. 146 (2): 349-368.
    • Narouei-Khandan, H.A., Halbert, S.E., Worner, S.P., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2016. Global climate suitability of citrus huanglongbing and its vector, the Asian citrus psyllid, using two correlative species distribution modeling approaches, with emphasis on the USA. Europ. J. Plant Pathol. 144(3): 655-670.
    • Singh, M.P., Erickson, J.E., Boote, K.J Jones, J.W., Tillman, B.L., van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2013. Using the CSM-CROPGRO-Peanut model to simulate late leaf spot effects on peanut cultivars of differing resistance Agron. J. 105: 1307-1316.
    • Chiyaka, C., Singer, B.H., Halbert, S.E., Morris, J.G. and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2012. Modeling huanglongbing transmission within a citrus tree. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (30): 12213-12218.

     

    On enteric human pathogens:

    • Luo, Z., Gu, G., Ginn, A., Giurcanu, M.C., Adams, P., Vellidis, G., van Bruggen, A.H.C., Danyluk, M.D., and Wright, A.C. 2015. Distribution and characterization of Salmonella enterica isolates from irrigation ponds in the Southeastern USA. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 81(13): 4376-4387.
    • Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., Gu, G., Richardson, S.M., Hu, J. and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2014. Survival of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium in water amended with manure. J. Food Prot. 77: 2035-2042.
    • Gu, G., Luo, Z., Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., Adams, P., Vellidis, G., Wright, A., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2013. Factors affecting the occurrence and population density of Campylobacter jejuni in irrigation ponds on produce farms in the Suwannee River Watershed. Can. J. Microbiol. 59: 339-346.
    • Gu, G., Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2013. Ingress of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium into tomato leaves through hydathodes. PLoS ONE 8(1): e53470. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053470
    • Gu, G., Luo, Z., Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., Adams, P., Vellidis, G., Wright, A., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2013. Factors affecting the occurrence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 contamination in irrigation ponds on produce farms in the Suwannee River Watershed. Can. J. Microbiol. 59: 175-182.
    • Gu, G., Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., Vallad, G.E., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2013. Organically managed soils reduce internal colonization of tomato plants by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Phytopathology 103: 381-388.
    • Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., Gu, G., Danyluk, M.D., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2012.Adhesion and splash dispersal of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium on tomato leaflets: effects of rdar morphotype and trichome density. Int. J. Food Microbiology 160: 58-64.
    • Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., Gu, G., Danyluk, M.D., Dufault, N.S., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2012. Salmonella enterica Typhimurium can reach tomato fruits on plants exposed to aerosol formed by rain. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 158: 140-146.
    • Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., Danyluk, M.D., Gu, G., Vallad, G.E., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2012. Dispersal of Salmonella by rain splash onto tomato plants. J. Food Protection 75: 472-479.
    • Gu, G., Hu, J., Cevallos-Cevallos, J.M., Richardson, S.M., Bartz, J.A. and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2011. Internal colonization of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in tomato plants. PLoS ONE 6(11): e27340. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027340
    • Semenov, A.M., Kupriyanov, A.A. and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2010. Transfer of enteric pathogens to successive habitats as part of microbial cycles. Microb. Ecol. 60: 239-249.
    • Semenov, A.V., Franz, E., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2010. COLIWAVE: a simulation model for survival of E. coli O157:H7 in dairy manure and manure-amended soil. Ecological Modelling 221: 599-609.   
    • Semenov, A.V., van Overbeek, L., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 2009. Percolation and survival of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in soil amended with contaminated dairy manure or slurry. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75: 3206-3215.

     

    On side effects of the herbicide glyphosate:

    • van Bruggen, A.H.C., Finckh, M.R., He, M., Ritsema, C.J., Harkes, P., Knuth, D., and Geissen, V. 2021. Indirect effects of the herbicide glyphosate on plant, animal and human health through its effects on microbial communities. Front. Environ. Sci. October 2021, 9, 763917, doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.763917.
    • Van Bruggen, A.H.C., He, M.M., Shin, K., Mai, V., Jeong, K.C., Finckh, M.R., and Morris, J.G. Jr. 2018. Environmental and health effects of glyphosate. Sci. Total Environ. 616: 255-268.
  • Education
    • PhD in Plant Pathology (1985)                           
      Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    • MSc in Plant Pathology (1976)                          
      Agricultural University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
  • Contact Information

    Dr. Ir. ARIENA H.C. VAN BRUGGEN

    Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology

    Dept. of Plant Pathology and the Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida

    Tel. 31-623048521 (Netherlands), 

    E-mail: ahcvanbruggen@ufl.edu