Forage Crops

Extension Faculty

Assistant specialist & asst. professor - School of Plant Sciences
Marley 341D / (520) 626-6287 / epp@arizona.edu
(520) 621-3792 (Lab)

We provide plant disease diagnostic services to Extension personnel, growers, pest control advisors, homeowners, landscape professionals, arborists, and the general public throughout and beyond Arizona. I collaborate efforts with state and federal...

Research Professor - School of Plant Sciences
Forbes Bldg., Room 415A / (520) 269-5938 / pessarak@arizona.edu
(520) 269-5938 (Lab)

Research focused on the adaptation of turfgrass species/genotypes/cultivars to environmental (salinity, drought, & heat) stresses, screening various turfgrasses for stress tolerances in hydroponics culture as well as in the field, and studying...