Susan C. Miyasaka
Research AffiliateÂ
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Hawaii
United States of America
Biography
Education : B.S., Entomology, Univ. California, Berkeley M.S., Agronomy, Univ. Hawaii Ph.D., Agronomy, Cornell Univ. Projects : - Sustainable Cropping Systems for Tropical Root Crops - Ensuring Sustainability of Taro for Future Generations - Evaluation of Sweet Potato Cultivars for Fuel Alcohol Production - Increasing Sustainability of Tropical Pastures through Selection of Legumes Tolerant to Drought and Aluminum Courses Taught: TPSS 610 Nutrition of Tropical Crops
Research Interest
Alternative crops, plant nutrition, acid soils, aluminum toxicity, taro, legumes, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, sweet potato
Publications
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Mathews, B.W., S.C. Miyasaka, and J.P. Tritschler II. 2004. Mineral nutrition of warm-season forage grasses. p. 217-265. IN: L.E. Moser et al. (eds.) Warm Season Grasses, Agronomy Monograph no. 45. Amer. Soc. Agron., Crop Sci. Soc. Amer., Soil Sci. Soc. Amer., Madison, WI.
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Miyasaka, S.C., J.D. Hansen, T.G. McDonald, G.K. Fukumoto. 2007. Effects of nitrogen and potassium in kikuyu grass on feeding by yellow sugarcane aphid. Crop Protect. 26:511-517. Miyasaka, S.C., N.V. Hue, and M.A. Dunn. 2007. Chapter 16, Aluminum. p. 439-497. IN: A. Barker and D.J. Pilbeam. (eds.) Handbook of Plant Nutrition. Marcel Dekker, New York.
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He, X., S.C. Miyasaka, M.M.M. Fitch, P.H. Moore, Y.J. Zhu. 2008. Agrobacterium tumefasciens- mediated transformation of taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) with a rice chitinase gene for improved tolerance to a fungal pathogen Sclerotium rolfsii. Plant Cell Rep. 27: 903-909.
