Santosh Koirala, Ph.D.

Santosh Koirala

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Cellphone:
517-355-3965

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Education

2025 Ph.D. Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, USA
2017 B.Sc. Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry University, Rampur, Nepal

Research Interests

As a postdoctoral research associate at MSU, I study the etiology and epidemiology of fungal and oomycete pathogens causing diseases of vegetables and ornamental crops and explore mitigation measures. My career goal is to equip growers with effective tools for disease management and optimize crop protection tools to improve their efficacy.

Background

During my Ph.D., I studied the disease dynamics of a bacterial pathogen causing center rot in onion and explored management options in both conventional and organic production systems. We elucidated the survivability of Pantoea species in onion fields and tested the efficacy of biological and conventional products for center rot management.

Publications (Google scholar)

  1. Koirala, S., Lamichhane, A., & Dutta, B. (2025). Survivability of Pantoea stewartii subspecies indologenes in Crop Residue and Its Transmission Risk to Onions in Poaceae-Allium Cropping System. Phytopathology, (ja).
  2. Koirala, S., Shin, G. Y., Kvitko, B., & Dutta, B., 2024. Integrating biocontrol agents with copper for center rot management in onion. Crop Protection, p.106785.
  3. Koirala, S., Myers, B., Shin, G. Y., Gitaitis, R., Kvitko, B., & Dutta, B., 2023. Evaluating options to increase the efficacy of biocontrol agents for the management of Pantoea spp. under field conditions. Plant Disease, 107(9), pp.2701-2708.
  4. Koirala, S., Zhao, M., Agarwal, G., Stice, S., Gitaitis, R., Kvitko, B., & Dutta, B., 2021. Identification of two novel pathovars of Pantoea stewartii subsp. indologenes affecting Allium sp. and millets. Phytopathology, 111(9), pp.1509-1519.