Santiago Mideros
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Crop Sciences
University of Illinois at urbana champaign
United States of America
Biography
He has received his M.Sc. Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, 2006, Ph.D. Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, 2011. Now he is an Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
Research Interest
Study how plant pathogenic organisms cause disease. Develop and improve disease control methods. Quantify the yield reduction effects of multiple pathogenic organisms. Develop high-throughput methods for pathogen detection and quantification.
Publications
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D. Tucker, S. Maroof, S. Mideros, J. Skoneczka, D. Nabati, G. Buss, I. Hoeschele, B. Tyler, S. St.Martin, A. Dorrance. 2010. Mapping quantitative trait loci for partial resistance to Phytophtora sojae in a soybean interspecific cross. Crop Science. 50 (2) 628-635
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S. Mideros, G.L. Windham, W.P. Williams, and R.J. Nelson. 2009. Aspergillus flavus biomass in maize estimated by quantitative real-time PCR is strongly correlated with aflatoxin concentration. Plant Dis. 93: 1163-1170
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L. Zhou, S. Mideros, L. Bao, R. Hanlon, F.D. Arredondo, S. Tripathy, K. Krampis, A. Jerauld, C. Evans, S. St.Martin, M. Saghai-Maroof, I. Hoeschele, A. Dorrance, and B. Tyler. 2009. Infection and genotype remodel the entire soybean transcriptome. BMC Genomics 10: 49
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S. Mideros, M. Nita, A. Dorrance. 2007. Characterization of components of partial resistance, Rps2, and root resistance to Phytophthora sojae in soybean. Phytopathology. 97 (5): 655-622
