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 Name : Wayne T Nishijima
Title : Specialist Emeritus
Unit : Department of Plant & Environmental Protection Sciences
Office : Komohana Research and Extension Center (CARES Komohana)
Address : 875 Komohana Street
Hilo, HI 96720
Phone : (808) 981-5199
Fax : (808) 981-5211
E-mail : waynen@hawaii.edu
Specialties : Papaya-Disease Management Macadamia Nuts-Disease Management Fruits in gen.-Disease Management Vegetables in gen.-Disease Management Ornamentals in gen.-Disease Management Forestry in gen.-Disease Management Papaya-Postharvest Macadamia Nuts-Postharvest Fr
Professional Prep/Appointments :
Univ of Washington BS Forest Sciences
Univ of Hawaii-Manoa MS Botanical Sciences
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison PhD Plant Pathology
Projects :
Resistance of papaya cultivars to Enterobacter cloacae: Significance to food quality for value added products. (Nishijima, Nishijima K., Armystrong, Wall, Ming, Moore & Fitch)
Developing a broad disease resistance in Carica papaya against fungal diseases. (Nishijima & Zhu)
Molecular characterization of disease resistance loci to Phytophthora in Carica papaya. (Nishijima, Zhu, Ming, Moore)
General Interests :
Diseases of tropical crops and their management; papaya postharvest diseases; tree and forest pathology; disease diagnostics; emergency disaster education; farm food safety.
Selected Publications :
Paull, R.E., W. Nishijima, M. Reyes, C. Cavaletto. 1997. Postharvest handling and losses during marketing of papaya (Carica papaya L.) Postharvest Biology and Technology 11:165-179.
Nishijima, W.T. 1994. Papaya diseases, Ed. In: Ploetz, R.C., G.A. Zentmyer, W.T. Nishijima, K.G. Rohrbach, and H.D. Ohr. 1994 Compendium of Troopical Fruit Diseases, Amer. Phytopathol. Soc. Press, 88 pp.
Nishijima, W.T. 1996. Ethylene Thiourea: Hawaii Papaya Market Basket Study. UH CTAHR Internal Report HWN-94-01, 56 p.
Alvarez, A. and W.T. Nishijima. 1987 Postharvest diseases of papaya. Plant Disease 71:681.686
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