John F. Murphy
Professor
223 Life Sciences Building
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849
Phone: 334 844-1954
Email: murphjf@auburn.edu
Research Areas:
My research program includes applied and basic areas of plant virology. A primary focus is understanding infection of bell pepper plants by Cucumber mosaic virus and viruses in the genus Potyvirus. These studies include the nature of symptom development, mature plant resistance and descriptive and mechanistic evaluations of sources of genetic resistance. Applied studies involve identification of virus diseases in vegetable, fruit and agronomic crops and evaluation of strategies to reduce insect-borne virus disease losses.
Education:
- 1988 Ph.D., Department of Plant Pathology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1984 M.S., Department of Plant Pathology & Physiology, Clemson University
- 1981 B.S., Department of Biology, Springfield College, Springfield, MA
Employment:
- Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, Auburn University, AL 36849
- Professor, September 2004-Present
- Associate Professor, October 1999 - August 2004
- Department of Plant Pathology, Auburn University, AL 36849
- Assistant Professor, July 1994 - September 1999
- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, October 1991 to July 1994
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546
- Postdoctoral Fellow, January 1988 to October 1991
University Teaching:
Courses
- Plant Virology
- Departmental seminar
Publications:
Book
Pernezny, K., Roberts, P., Murphy, J.F., and Goldberg, N. 2003. Compendium of Pepper Diseases. American Phytopathological Society Press, St. Paul, MN.
Chapters within:
Murphy, J.F., and Warren, C.E. Plant virus diseases, pages 23-25. Murphy, J.F. Cucumber mosaic virus, pages 29-31. Murphy, J.F., and Zitter, T.A. Pepper mottle virus, pages 33-34.
Book chapters and review articles
Murphy, J.F. 2006. Applied aspects of induced resistance to plant virus infection. In: Natural Resistance Mechanisms Of Plants To Viruses. Chapter A1, pages 1-11. Springer Publishing, Netherlands. Editors: G. Loebenstein and J.P. Carr. 532 pages.
Sikora, E.J., and Murphy, J.F. 2005. Identification and management of Cucumber mosaic virus in Alabama. Acta Horticulturae 695:191-194.
Refereed articles (recent five years)
Coneva, E.,Murphy, J.F., Boozer, R., and Velasquez, N. 2010. Incidence and distribution of viruses in blackberry (Rubus sp.) in Alabama. International Journal of Fruit Science 10:87-95
Murphy, J.F., and Dane, F. 2009. Evaluation of fungal resistant watermelon genotypes of the southeastern United States for their response to virus inoculation. HortTechnology 19:609-612.
Murphy, J.F., Masiri, J., and Eubanks, M.D. 2009. Reflective plastic mulch but not biological control reduced Watermelon mosaic virus incidence and yield losses in squash. International Journal of Vegetable Science 15:3-12.
Mazourek, M., Moriarty, G., Glos, M., Fink, M., Kreitinger, M., Henderson, E., Palmer, G., Chickering, A., Myers, J.R., Rumore, D.L., Murphy, J.F., Kramer, C., Jahn, M. 2009. ‘Peacework’: An early red bell pepper for organic systems with Cucumber mosaic virus resistance. HortScience 44:1464-1467.
Murphy, J.F., Mosjidis, J., Eubanks, M.D., and Masiri, J. 2008. Inter-row cover crops to reduce incidence of aphid-borne viruses in pumpkin. International Journal of Vegetable Science 14:290-303.
Coppler, L.B., Murphy, J.F., and Eubanks, M.D. 2007. Red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) increase the abundance of aphids in tomato. Florida Entomologist 90:419-425.
Ryu, C-M., Murphy, J.F., Reddy, M.S., and Kloepper, J.W. 2007. A two-strain mixture of Rhizobacteria elicits induction of systemic resistance against Pseudomonas syringae and Cucumber mosaic virus coupled to promote plant growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 17:280-286.
Srivatsavai V.S.K., Huettel, R.N., and Murphy, J.F. 2006. Xiphinema spp., a putative vector for Brome mosaic virus (BMV), not associated with BMV-infected wheat plants in Alabama. Nematropica 36:269-272.
Sikora, E.J., Murphy, J.F., and Burkett, J.E. 2006. Performance of virus resistant squash in Alabama. Journal of Vegetable Science 12:75-83.
Murphy, J.F., and Bowen, K.L. 2006. Synergistic disease in pepper caused by the mixed infection of Cucumber mosaic virus and Pepper mottle virus. Phytopathology 96:240-247.
Carr, D.E., Murphy, J.F., and Eubanks, M.D. 2006. Genetic variation and covariation for resistance and tolerance to Cucumber mosaic virus in Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae): a test for costs and constraints. Heredity 96:29-38.
Eubanks, M.D., Carr, D.E., and Murphy, J.F. 2005. The effects of virus infection of Mimulus guttatus (Scrophulariaceae) on host plant quality for meadow spittlebugs, Philaenus spumarius (Hemiptera: Cercopidae). Environmental Entomology 34:891-898.
Eubanks, M.D., Carr, D.E., and Murphy, J.F. 2005. Defense against multiple enemies: Genetic variation in the response of plants to herbivore and virus attack. Evolutionary Ecology 19:15-27.
Kang, B.C., Yeam, I., Frantz, J.D., Murphy, J.F., and Jahn, M.M. 2005. The pvr1 locus in pepper encodes a translation initiation factor eIF4E that interacts with Tobacco etch virus Vpg. The Plant Journal 42:392-405.
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