RUSSELL GROVES, PHD

Research

To meet the current and emerging challenges of Wisconsin’s commercial and fresh market vegetable growers and producers. Lab Website

Publications

• Huseth, A. S., K. E. Frost, D. L. Knuteson, J. A. Wyman, and R. L. Groves. 2012. Effects of Landscape Composition and Rotation Distance on Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Abundance in Cultivated Potato. Environ. Entomol. 41(6): 1553-1564.
• Sisterson, M.S., Thammiraju, S.R., Lynn‐Patterson, K., R.L. Groves, and K.M. Daane. 2010. Epidemiology of diseases caused by Xylella fastidiosa in California: evaluation of alfalfa as a source of vectors and inocula. Plant. Dis. (submitted for publication 29 November 2009: Manuscript PD‐11‐09‐0780‐RE).
• Son, Y., R.L. Groves, K.M. Daane, D.J.W. Morgan, R. Krugner, and M.W. Johnson. 2010. Estimation of feeding threshold for Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and its application to prediction of overwintering mortality. Environ. Entomol. (submitted for publication 15 December 2009: Manuscript EN‐09‐747).
• Sikuljak, T., J. Chen, R.L. Groves, and A. Lawson. 2010. Seasonal detection and occurrence of Xylella fastidiosa in green sharpshooter (Draeculacephala minerva Ball.): a potentially important vector of almond leaf scorch disease. J. Econ. Entomol. (accepted for publication, 9 October 2009: Manuscript EC‐09‐185).
• Morsello, S.C., Groves, R.L., Nault, B.A., and Kennedy, G.G. 2010. Weather‐based regression models explain temporal variation in the number of tobacco thrips, Frankliniella fusca (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), captured on sticky traps during spring in North Carolina and Virginia. (In press, J. Econ. Entomol.).
• Morsello, S.C., A.L.P. Beaudoin, R.L. Groves, B.A. Nault, and G.G. Kennedy. 2010. The influence of temperature and precipitation on spring dispersal of Frankliniella fusca changes as the season progresses. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 134:260‐271.
• Son, Y., Groves, R.L., Daane, K.M., Morgan, D.J.W., Johnson, M.W. 2009. Influences of temperature on Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) survival under various feeding conditions. Environmental Entomology. 38:1485‐1495.
• Ledbetter, C.A., Chen, J., Livingston, S., Groves, R.L. 2009. Winter curing of Prunus dulcis cv ‘Butte,’ P. webbii and their interspecific hybrid in response to Xylella fastidiosa infections. Euphytica. 169:113‐122.
• Krugner, R., Groves, R.L., Johnson, M.W., Flores, A.P., Hagler, J.R., Morse, J.G. 2009. Seasonal population dynamics of Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in sweet orange grees maintained under continuous deficit irrigation. J. Econ. Entomol. 102:960‐973.