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    Plant Pathology

    Plant Pathology

    Owen Hudson

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    Email: owen.hudson@ufl.edu

         

         

    About

    Owen grew up in Vermont and New Zealand and enjoys identifying birds, fungi, and plants while out playing disc golf with his dog. At home, he enjoys reading, powerlifting, and working in the garden.

    • Education

      Owen received his B.A in Plant Science at the University of Vermont in 2018 where he studied fungi living on ferns. He completed his M.S in Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia in 2021 studying fusarium wilt of watermelon. He started his PhD at UF in the Fall of 2022.

    • Research

      Owen currently studies fusarium ear rot of maize, developing novel phenotyping techniques and genomic prediction tools for breeding disease resistance. He works heavily in bioinformatics and genomics of several pathogenic species of Fusarium and has a focus on developing high throughput plant phenotyping methods using machine learning and robotics.

    • Publications

      Owen Hudson, Maximilian Buchholz, Vinson Doyle & Michael A. Sundue (2019) Multilocus phylogeny of Acrospermaceae: New epibiotic species and placement of Gonatophragmium, Pseudovirgaria, and Phaeodactylium anamorphs, Mycologia, DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2019.1668905
      Hudson O, Waliullah S, Fulton JC, Ji P, Dufault NS, Keinath A, Ali ME. Marker Development for Differentiation of Fusarium Oxysporum f. sp. niveum Race 3 from Races 1 and 2. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021; 22(2):822.
      Hudson, O., Hudson, D., Ji, P., & Ali, M. E. (2020). Draft Genome Sequences of Three Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum Isolates Used in Designing Markers for Race Differentiation. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 9(42).

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