Plant Pathology and Microbiology

PhD Plant Pathology, UC Davis, 1992

MS Plant Pathology, University of Illinois, 1988

BS Forestry, University of Illinois, 1986

PLP 594

STB/PLP 592

My research program has two foci: diseases that affect the production and utilization of seeds;  and epidemiology and management of mycotoxigenic fungi in corn. Currently we are working on:

• Interactions among seedborne viruses and fungi in soybeans
• Impacts of lesion nematodes and seed treatment on fungi infecting corn seedlings
• Detection of seedborne bacteria in edible bean seeds
• Occurrence and effects of Fusarium fungi that infect soybean roots
• Effects of transgenic insect resistance on infection of corn by mycotoxin-producing fungi
• Impacts of mycotoxins in ethanol processing and co-product utilization

80% Research

20% Teaching

Chair, ISU Graduate Program in Seed Technology and Business

ISU Toxicology Interdepartmental Graduate Program

ISU Microbiology Graduate Program

Senior Editor, APS Press

Selected Recent Publications

Munkvold, G.P. 2009. Seed pathology progress in academia and industry. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 47: 285-311 http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/eprint/h3upGTZpUqDFF9sAh8I5/full/10.1146/annurev-phyto-080508-081916

Munkvold, G.P., Logrieco, A., Moretti, A., Ferracane, R., and Ritieni, A. 2009. Dominance of Group 2 and fusaproliferin production by Fusarium subglutinans from Iowa maize. Food Additives and Contaminants 26:388-394

Wu, F., and Munkvold, G.P. 2008. Mycotoxins in ethanol co-products: modeling economic impacts on the livestock industry and management practices. J. Agric. Food Chem. 56:3900-3911.

Murillo-Williams, A., and Munkvold, G.P. 2008. Systemic infection by Fusarium verticillioides in maize plants grown under three temperature regimes. Plant Dis. 92:1695-1700.

Wilke, A. L., Bronson, C.R., Tomas, A., and Munkvold, G.P. 2007. Seed transmission of Fusarium verticillioides in maize plants grown under three different temperature regimes. Plant Dis. 91:1109-1115.

Dalmacio, S.C., Lugod, T.R., Serrano, E.M., and Munkvold, G.P. 2007. Reduced incidence of bacterial rot on transgenic insect-resistant maize in the Philippines. Plant Dis. 91:346-351.

Paul, P.A., and Munkvold, G.P. 2005. Regression and artificial neural network modeling for the prediction of gray leaf spot of maize. Phytopathol. 95: 388-396.

Paul, P.A., and Munkvold, G.P. 2004. A model-based approach to preplanting risk assessment for gray leaf spot of maize. Phytopathol. 94: 1350-1357.

Butzen, S., and Munkvold, G.P. 2004. Corn seedling diseases. Pioneer Crop Insights 14(14):1-5.

Munkvold, G.P., and Butzen, S. 2004. Mycotoxins in corn grain and effect of Bt hybrids. Pioneer Crop Insights 14(8):1-5.

Munkvold, G.P. 2003. Epidemiology of Fusarium diseases and their mycotoxins in maize ears. European J. Plant Pathol. 109:705-713.

Munkvold, G.P. 2003. Cultural and genetic approaches to managing mycotoxins in maize. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 41:99-116.

Munkvold, G.P. 2003. Mycotoxins in corn: occurrence, impacts, and management. Pp. 811-881 in Corn Chemistry and Technology, 2^nd Edition. P. White and L. Johnson, Eds. Am. Assoc. Cereal Chemists, St. Paul, MN

Munkvold, G.P., and O’Mara, J.K. 2002. Laboratory and growth chamber evaluation of fungicidal seed treatments for maize seedling blight caused by Fusarium species. Plant Dis. 86:143-150.

Desjardins, A.E., Munkvold, G.P., Plattner, R.D., and Proctor, R.H. 2002. FUM1 – a gene required for fumonisin biosynthesis but not for maize ear rot and ear infection by Gibberella moniliformis in field tests. Mol. Plant Microbe Interactions. 15:1157-1164.

Gatch, E.W., and Munkvold, G.P. 2002. Fungal species composition in maize stalks in relation to European corn borer injury and transgenic insect protection. Plant Dis. 86:1156-1162.