The Landscape Show 2019

Janna Beckerman

Purdue University


Janna Beckerman is a professor and extension plant pathologist specializing in diseases of horticultural crops at Purdue University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from Texas A&M University, and her M.S. and B.S. in Biology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. If you need more: In addition to her extension plant pathology programs on landscape plants, greenhouse and nursery management, fruit diseases and hemp, she teaches a graduate level course on “Plant Disease Diagnosis”. She has developed four apps on plant pest diagnosis, that are available in the iTunes store and Google Play (www.purdueplantdoctor.com), and is working on the fifth, the Purdue Shrub Doctor. Research in the Beckerman lab focuses on developing environmentally sound disease management strategies that are economically feasible for growers and pest managers of specialty crops, from apples to hemp to zinnia.

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