Education/Training
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
September 2006
NAME: Donald Ernest Groth
PRESENT BUSINESS ADDRESS: Rice Research Station
Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
1373 Caffey Road
Rayne, LA 70578
Telephone: 337/788-7531
FAX: 337/788-7553
E-mail: DGROTH@AGCENTER.LSU.EDU
EDUCATION:
1983 Ph.D. Plant Pathology, Iowa State University
Dissertation - "Bacterial pustule of soybeans: Pathogen growth
kinetics and epidemiology."
1980 M.S. Plant Pathology, Iowa State University
Thesis - "Interactions of mycorrhizae in maize with nutrition, root
disease, and metalaxyl."
1978 B.S. Botany, Eastern Illinois University
EMPLOYMENT:
2003-Present Research Coordinator, Rice Research Station
1994-Present Professor, Plant Pathology, Rice Research Station
1989-1994 Associate Professor, Plant Pathology,
Rice Research Station
1984 - 1989 Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology,
Rice Research Station
(1) Chapters in Books, Articles in Refereed Journals, Refereed Bulletins, and Refereed Proceedings:
Chu, Q.R., S.D. Linscombe, M.C. Rush, D.E. Groth, J. Oard, X. Sha, and H.S. Utomo. 2006.
Registration of a C/M Doubled Haploid Mapping Population of Rice. Crop Science 46:1417
Groth, D.E. 2006. Azoxystrobin Rate and Timing Effects on Rice Head Blast Incidence and Rice Grain and Milling Yields. Plant Disease 90:1055-1058.
Groth, D.E. and J.A. Bond. 2006. Initiation of Rice Sheath Blight Epidemics and Effects of Application Timing of Azoxystrobin on disease Incidence, Severity, Yield and Milling Yields. Plant Disease 90:1073-1078.
Linscombe, S.D., X. Sha, K. Beard, Q.R. Chu, D. E. Groth, L. M. White, R.T. Dunand, and P.K. Bollich. 2006. Registration of ‘Cheniere’ Rice. Crop Science 46:1814-1815.
Linscombe, S.D., X. Sha, J.A. Bond, K. Bearb, M.C. Rush, Q.R. Chu, D.E. Groth, L.M. White, and R.T. Dunand. 2006. Registration of ‘Trenasse’ Rice. Crop Science 46:2318-2319.
Sha, X., S.D. Linscombe, K. Beard, Q.R. Chu, D. E. Groth, L. M. White, R.T. Dunand, and P.K. Bollich. 2006. Registration of ‘Jupiter’ Rice. Crop Science 46:1811-1812.
Shao, Q., M.C. Rush, S.D. Linscombe, D.E. Groth, and M.S. Kang. 2006. Allelic Analysis of bar Gene from Different Rice Transformation Events. Journal of Crop Improvement. 15:(1)33-49.
Groth, D.E. 2005. Azoxystrobin Rate and Timing Effects on Rice Sheath Blight Incidence and Severity and Rice Grain and Milling Yields. Plant Disease 89:1171-1174.
Sha, X., S.D. Linscombe, K. Bearb, Q.R. Chu, D.E. Groth, L.M. White, R.T. Dunand, and P.K. Bollich, 2004. Registration of ‘Pirogue’ Rice. Crop Science 44:2269-2270.
(3) Other Publications:
Groth, D. E. and Cartwright, R. 2006. Fungicide timing critical for maximum return. La. Agri. 49(1):13-14.
Oard, J.H., S.D. Linscombe, and D. Groth. 2003. Biotechnology for herbicide, disease resistance in rice. La. Agri. 46(4):27-28.
Rush, M.C., Q.M. Shao, S. Zhang, A.K.M. Shahjahan, K. O’Reilly, D. Shih, D. Groth, and S.D. Linscombe. 2003. Biotechnology and control of rice diseases. La. Agri. 46(4):20-22.
Chu, Q.R., Groth, D.E., Rush, M.C., Linscombe, S.D., and Shao, Q.M. 2004. Anther culture to develop rice germplasm with disease resistance. Proc. Rice Tech. Wk. Grp. 30:80.
Groth, D.E., Dunand, R.T., Hollier, C.A., Rush, M.C., and Shao, Q. 2004. Bakanae-like symptoms produced by gibberellic acid in Louisiana. Proc. Rice Tech. Wk. Grp. 30:116.
Groth, D.E. and M.J. Frey. 2004. Seed transmission of the bacterial panicle blight pathogen Burkholderia glume. Proc. Rice Tech. Wk. Grp. 30:122.
Groth, D.E. and M.J. Frey. 2004. Sheath blight epidemic initiation and fungicide application timing: Implications for disease management. Proc. Rice Tech. Wk. Grp. 30:103.
Groth, D.E., Rush, M.C., Lindberg, D. 2006. Possible development of fungicide resistance in Pyricularia oryzae. Phytopathology 96:S43.
Zhang, S.L., Rush, M.C., Shih, D., Shi, Y., Groth, D. (2005) Quantification of transgene expression in transgenic rice plants with different levels of rice sheath blight resistance. Phytopathology 95:S117.
Groth, D.E., Shahjahan, A.K.M., and Rush, M.C. 2001. Control of bacterial panicle blight of rice with foliar applications of bactericides. Phytopathology: Meeting Abstract Supplement
Groth, D. E. 2006. Narrow brown leaf spot and the Cercospora complex. Rice Research Station News. 3:3 pg 2.
Groth, D. E. 2006. Rice disease control. In: Annual Rice Field Day Program. June 28, 2006
Groth, D.E. et al. 2006. Rice disease control studies, 2005. Ann. Res. Rpt., Rice Res. Stn., La. Agri. Exp. Stn., LSU Agricultural Center, 97:358-392.
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