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Alemu Mengistu
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USDA/ARS-West Tennessee Experiment Station
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Email: Alemu.mengistu at ars.usda.gov
Biography

Projects as Lead Investigator

Year Project Name
2020 Screening of soybean varieties, breeding lines for charcoal rot, frogeye leaf spot and Phomopsis seed decay resistance
2019 Screening of soybean varieties, breeding lines for charcoal rot, frogeye leaf spot and Phomopsis seed decay resistance
2019 Phenotyping recombinant inbred soybean lines (RIL) to identify molecular markers associated with charcoal rot resistance.
2015 Screening of soybean varieties, breeding lines for charcoal rot, frogeye leafspot and phomopsis seed decay resistance
2015 Developing a working greenhouse method for screening soybean germplasm, cultivars and breeding lines for charcoal rot resistance
2014 Developing a greenhouse method for screening soybean germplasm, cultivars and breeding lines for charcoal rot resistance
2014 Screening of soybean varieties, breeding lines for charcoal rot, frogeye leaf spot and Phomopsis decay resistance
2013 Screening of soybean varieties, breeding lines for charcoal rot, frogeye leaf spot and Phomopsis seed decay resistance
2012 Screening of soybean varieties and breeding lines for charcoal rot, frogeye leaf spot and Phomopsis seed decay resistance
2011 Screening of soybean varieties, breeding lines for charcoal rot, frogeye leaf spot and Phomopsis seed decay resistance
2010 Managing frogeye leaf spot and charcoal rot in the North Central Region
2010 Soybean maturity group and soybean seeding rate combinations for the soybean-winter wheat double-crop production system to maximize yield and minimize charcoal rot incidence and severity
2010 Screening of Roundup Ready variety soybeans and breeding lines for charcoal rot, SCN, and other yield limiting diseases
2009 Screening of Roundup Ready variety soybeans and breeding lines for charcoal rot, SCN, and other yield limiting diseases

Projects as Co-Investigator

Year Project Name
2017 Improved Management of Charcoal Rot
2016 Improved Management of Charcoal Rot and Stem Canker (Year 2 of 1520-532-5608)
2015 Improved Management of Charcoal Rot (Year 1 of 1520-532-5608)
2015 Developing a Comprehensive Management Program for Foliar Diseases of Soybean (Phase II) (Year 1 of 1520-532-5662)
2014 Developing a Comprehensive Management Program for Foliar Diseases of Soybean (Year 3 of 2262)
2014 Charcoal Rot: Host Resistance and Disease Development (1420-532-5647)
2013 Developing a Comprehensive Management Program for Foliar Diseases of Soybean (Year 2 of 2262)
2013 Charcoal Rot: Confirmation of Resistance in Adapted and Exotic Sources of Resistance (Year 3 of 1247)
2012 Charcoal Rot Cultivar Evaluation Using Adapted and Exotic Sources of Resistance (Year 2 of 1247)
2012 Developing a Comprehensive Management Program for Foliar Diseases of Soybean (Year 1 of 2262)
2011 Management options for frogeye leaf spot and charcoal rot in the North Central Region
2010 Interactions of planting dates, seeding rate, and fungicide and insecticide treatments on soybean yield and yield components
2009 Interactions of planting dates, seeding rate, and fungicide and insecticide treatments on soybean yield and yield components
2009 Charcoal Rot Cultivar Evaluation Using Adapted and Exotic Sources of Resistance (Year 2 of 8247)
2008 Genetics and Mapping of Charcoal Rot Resistance (Year 1 of 8245)