Phillip S Wharton
Dr. Phillip Wharton is associate professor of potato pathology at University of Idaho and has been there since 2008. Dr Wharton earned his doctorate in plant disease resistance in 1997 at the United Kingdom’s University of Reading. He spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at Purdue Universitybefore moving to Michigan State University, where he studied the biology and epidemiology of diseases of tree and small fruit before concentrating his efforts in 2004 on late blight and other diseases of potato. Dr Wharton has worked on potato projects all over the world, including Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan. Most recently in 2023, Dr. Wharton held a series of workshops with Australian potato growers in Victoria and South Australia sponsored by Potato Link and the Australian Potato Industry Extension Project. Currently, Dr Wharton is the Global Pathology Lead for the USAID Feed the Future Global Biotechnology Potato Partnership working on the development of 3 R-gene late blight resistant potatoes in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya and Nigeria. He also conducts research on disease forecasting, crop protection, post-harvest disease management of vegetable crops and fungicide resistance. He has published extensively in refereed journals, trade magazines and the popular press.
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