{"id":4763,"date":"2022-06-21T17:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/psi\/people\/jbr\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:20:19","slug":"jbr","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/psi\/people\/jbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Ristaino"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My lab works on emerging plant diseases that threaten global food security. \u00a0A major focus of research is to understand the\u00a0factors that contribute to disease emergence including the\u00a0epidemiology and population genetics of Oomycete plant pathogens in the genus\u00a0Phytophthora<\/em>.\u00a0Phytophthora infestans<\/em>\u00a0caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, and is a reemerging threat to global food security. We study the population genetics and migrations of both historic and present day strains of the pathogen. My lab was part of a multi-investigator group that sequenced the genome of the pathogen. We are now using the genome sequence to develop novel strategies for managing disease in the field. Our team has developed a web portal called\u00a0USAblight.org<\/a>\u00a0that can be used to track recent outbreaks of disease using geospatial analystics. We also work on other pathogens of tropical crop plants including black Sigatoka on banana, downy mildew of tobacco, soilborne fungi and coffee rust that are threats to global food security. Dr. Ristaino serves as the director of the\u00a0\u201cEmerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security\u201d<\/a>\u00a0cluster at NC State, has served as a\u00a0Jefferson Science Fellow<\/a>\u00a0for the US Department of State and received a\u00a0Fulbright European Research Scholar Award<\/a>\u00a0to work with the University of Catania on late blight in Italy in 2018. In 2020, I was elected a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society in August 2020 and was named a\u00a0AAAS Fellow<\/a>\u00a0in November, 2020. In 2022, Dr. Ristaino will serve as a Fulbright Scholar in the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n

Plant diseases don\u2019t stop at a nation\u2019s borders and miles of oceans don\u2019t prevent their spread, either. That\u2019s why plant disease surveillance, improved plant disease detection systems and predictive plant disease modeling \u2013 integrated at the global scale \u2013 are necessary to mitigate future plant disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers in a new commentary published in\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

See local\u00a0CBS17 news<\/a>\u00a0on the PNAS paper and Washington Post report \u201cPlant Pandemics and how they could endanger our food supply. Scientists sound alarm on growing menace\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

In many contexts and times, diseases have reshaped life, whether it be human life, animal life or plant life. I\u00a0 gave a\u00a0podcast<\/a>\u00a0on the consequence of plant diseases and the Irish Potato famine for the 2020 class Wicked Problems Wolfpack Solutions. In this podcast, I share own experience with plant pathology, my global travels to track outbreaks and then talk about my efforts to understand the history of the potato famine and why it is relevant to controlling emerging pathogens of all kinds today.<\/p>\n

Visit my at\u00a0lab<\/a>\u00a0for further information<\/p>\n

Join me on:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0and\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Li, Z,, Liu, Y., Hossain, O., Paul, R.,\u00a0 Yao, S.,\u00a0 Wu, S., Ristaino, J. B.,\u00a0 Zhu, Y.,\u00a0 Wei, Q.\u00a0 2021.\u00a0 Real-time monitoring of plant stresses via chemiresistive profiling of leaf volatiles by a wearable sensor.\u00a0Matter<\/a>\u00a04 (7), 2553-2570<\/p>\n

Paul, R., Ostermann, E., Chen, Y.,\u00a0 Saville, A. C.,\u00a0 Yang, Y.,\u00a0 Gu, Z.,\u00a0 Whitfield, A. E.\u00a0 Ristaino, J. B., and Wei. Q. 2021. Integrated Microneedle-Smartphone Nucleic Acid Amplification Platform for In-Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases. \u00a0Biosensors and Bioelectronics<\/a>\u00a0187:113312.<\/p>\n

Saville, A. and Ristaino, J. B. 2021. Global historic pandemics caused by the FAM-1 genotype of\u00a0Phytophthora infestans<\/em>\u00a0one six continents.\u00a0Nature Scientific Reports<\/a>\u00a011: 12335.<\/p>\n

Ristaino, J. B, Anderson,\u00a0<\/sup>P.,\u00a0 Brauman, K. A., \u00a0Cunniffe, N. J.,\u00a0 Federoff,\u00a0<\/sup>N.,\u00a0 Garrett, K. A., Gilligan, C., Holmes, T., Martin, M., MacDonald, G. K., Neenan, P.,\u00a0 Records, A.,\u00a0 Schmale, D., Tateosian, L.\u00a0 2021. The Persistent Threat of Emerging Plant Diseases to Global Food Security.\u00a0Proc. National Academy Sciences<\/a>, USA.<\/p>\n

McMillan, H. M.,\u00a0 Zebell, S. G.,\u00a0 Ristaino, J. B.,\u00a0 Dong, X. and Kuehn, M. 2021. Protective Plant Immune Responses are Elicited by Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles. Cell Host and Microbe.\u00a0Cell Reports\u00a0<\/a>34:108645.<\/p>\n

Paul, R., Ostermann,E., Gu, , Ristaino, J. and Wei, Q. 2020.\u00a0 DNA Extraction from Plant Leaves Using a Microneedle Patch. Current\u00a0Protocols in Plant Biology<\/a>\u00a05, e20104<\/p>\n

Ristaino, J. B. 2020. The importance of mycological and plant herbaria in tracking a plant killer.\u00a0Front. Ecol. Evol.<\/a>\u00a0 7:521.<\/p>\n

Ristaino, J. B., Saville, A. C., Paul, R., Cooper, D. and Wei, Q. Comparison of LAMP, real-time and Digital PCR for detection of\u00a0Phytophthora infestans<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Plant Disease<\/a>: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1094\/PDIS-06-19-1186-RE<\/p>\n

Ristaino, J. B., Cooke, D.E.L., Acu\u00f1a, I., Mu\u00f1oz, M. 2018. The Threat of Late Blight to Global Food Security. Pages 101-133 in: Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security. A. Records and J. B. Ristaino, eds. American Phytopathological Society Press, St. Paul.<\/p>\n

Paul, R., Saville, A. C.,\u00a0 Hansel, C.,\u00a0 Ye, Y.,\u00a0 Ball, C.\u00a0 Williams, A.,\u00a0 Chang, X.,\u00a0 Chen, C., Gu, Z., Ristaino, J. B.,\u00a0 and Wei, Q. 2019. Extraction of Plant DNA by Microneedle Patch for Rapid Detection of Plant Diseases.\u00a0ACS Nano 13<\/a>\u00a06540-6549. DOI: 10.1021\/acsnano.9b00193.<\/p>\n

Li, Z., Paul, R., Tis, T.\u00a0 ,\u00a0 Saville, A. C. , Hansel, J. C., Ristaino, J. B. and Wei, Q.\u00a0 2019. Noninvasive Plant Disease Diagnostics Enabled by Smartphone-Based Fingerprinting of Leaf Volatiles.\u00a0Nature Plants\u00a0<\/a>5: 856-866. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41477-019-0476-y.<\/p>\n

Saville, A. and Ristaino, J. B.\u00a0 2019.\u00a0 Genetic structure and subclonal variation of extant and recent US lineages of\u00a0Phytophthora infestans<\/em>.\u00a0Phytopathology<\/a>\u00a0109:1614-1627\u00a0 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1094\/PHYTO-09-18-0357-R.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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