{"id":7972,"date":"2021-09-23T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2024-01-26T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:22:51","slug":"umes-graduate-student-simmons-is-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/umes-graduate-student-simmons-is-published\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES Graduate Student, Simmons is Published"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jocelyn Simmons, a UMES graduate student from New York majoring in food and agricultural sciences, recently co-authored a book chapter with Dr. Simon Zebelo, an associate professor of entomology and plant biology in UMES\u2019 Department of Agriculture Food and Resource Sciences, and Joseph Disi, Department of Entomology, University of Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simmons co-authored Chapter 14, Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria-Induced Defense Against Insect Herbivores, in the book Field Crops: Sustainable Management of PGPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 17-page chapter focused on PGPR-induced defense against insect pests in field crops with emphasis on the mechanism of action involved against insect pests. It examined PGPR-mediated biochemical and physical changes in the host plant that display insect pathogenicity, methods mixtures application, and challenges associated with their use of PGPR in sustainable agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The findings show that plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria improve plant health and productivity by providing protection to plants from diseases and pests and enhancing plant growth.  \u201cPGPR induces systemic resistance against microbial pathogens and herbivorous insects,\u201d Simmons said.  \u201cThere are limited studies that show the induction of systemic resistance in crop plants against pests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPGPR are important to farmers and the environment because it is an alternative way to combat chemical applications, which have detrimental affects to the ecosystem, beneficial insects, and the environment,\u201d Simmons said.  \u201cPGPR enhances crop production by being able to self-replicate and improve productivity and fertility of desired crops.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simmons has received three first place awards, a second place award, an entrepreneurship interview, and a poster presentation award for her work in her master\u2019s research.  She serves as the president for the Graduate Student Government. She is currently studying how to use PGPR to control corn earworm, one of the key insect pests of sweet corn and field corn.  Simmons reports that her master\u2019s thesis generated interesting data on how to use entomopathogens (fungi), a disease that is only detrimental in insect pests that can affect the mortality rate of insect pests such as stinkbugs.  She is preparing her results to be submitted for publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cResearching about ways of sustainable agriculture has influenced Simmons to find more innovative ways to tackle these dilemmas, which is where this book chapter and her master\u2019s were introduced,\u201d Zebelo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jocelyn Simmons, a UMES graduate student from New York majoring in food and agricultural sciences, recently co-authored a book chapter with Dr. Simon Zebelo, an associate professor of entomology and plant biology in UMES\u2019 Department of Agriculture Food and Resource Sciences, and Joseph Disi, Department of Entomology, University of Georgia. Simmons co-authored Chapter 14, Plant…Read more UMES Graduate Student, Simmons is Published<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sans-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}