This man founded the department of Plant Pathology at UW-Madison.
Who is Lewis Ralph Jones?
100
This man is the current department chair.
Who is Murray Clayton?
100
This disease caused the Irish Potato Famine in the mid-1800s.
What is Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans)?
100
A pumpkin with a carved face, lighted by a candle, is known as this.
What is a Jack-o'-Lantern?
100
The three sides of this structure remind you to consider environment, pathogen, and host.
What is the Disease Triangle?
200
This book presents a history of the first 75 years of the department of Plant Pathology at UW-Madison.
What is "With One Foot in the Furrow?"
200
This emeritus faculty member can be found most days in Science Hall.
Who is Paul Williams?
200
This ascomycete produces asci in a "cloistered" fruiting body.
What is powdery mildew?
200
Madison's annual State Street Halloween celebration has been recently turned into a ticketed block party event named this.
What is Freak Fest?
200
A famous Robert developed these to distinguish between correlation and causation in organisms associated with disease.
What are Koch's Postulates?
300
A bacterial disease on this crop helped the department of Plant Pathology get its start at UW-Madison.
What is cabbage?
300
A usually friendly and food-and-drink-filled event, this weekly departmental activity is designed with a rotating speaker schedule to keep different labs up to date with each other.
What is Friday@4?
300
Plant parasitic nematodes ALWAYS have these, while free-living nematodes may not.
What are stylets?
300
This ghostly equine rider is sometimes also known as "The Galloping Hessian."
Who is The Headless Horseman?
300
"Salmon Are Under The Bridge" is a pneumonic device that sometimes helps students remember the spores and life stages of this kind of basidiomycete disease.
What are rust fungi?
400
This is the first name of Dean Russell, who gave our building its name.
What is Harry?
400
Plant Pathology and this other Russell Labs department have a (somewhat) friendly rivalry (or so it seems based on recent Tuesday seminars).
What is Entomology?
400
This seedborne disease of bean is caused by a Pseudomonas.
What is Halo Blight?
400
This child preached the legend of The Great Pumpkin.
Who is Linus?
400
The interaction between single genes in the pathogen and the host has been termed this by Harold Flor.
What is the gene-for-gene concept?
500
This is the man who fatefully said, "...always remember to keep one foot in the furrow."
Who is J. C. Walker?
500
Among other appointments, this plant pathology professor is a member of the Student Academic Misconduct Hearing Panel as well as the Committee on Committees.
Who is Douglas Rouse?
500
This disease of solanaceous plants was the first of its kind to be discovered in the 1930s.
What is TMV (Tobacco Mosaic Virus)?
500
This Gaelic harvest festival (along with the Christian All Saints' Day) has greatly influenced the traditions of the modern Halloween holiday.
What is Samhain?
500
These refer, respectively, to the reactions of a plant to a pathogen and the evidence of the pathogen itself.