Rhoda L. Burrows

Extension Horticulture Specialist

Associate Professor

rhoda.burrows@sdstate.edu

Office, voice: (605)688-4731  Fax: (605)-688-4713

Education:

    A.A., Liberal Arts, Golden Valley Lutheran College, Minneapolis, MN  1979.
       B.S., Horticulture, Montana State University.  1983.
       M.S., Horticulture, University of Minnesota.  1987.
       Ph.D., Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota.  2001.

Extension:

     Fruit and Vegetable Production; Home and Commercial Horticulture     

Research:

     Influence of arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungi on transplant production, temperature stress, and
     acclimation 

     Potential uses of native herbaceous plants

Professional Memberships and Affiliations:

     American Society for Horticultural Science
     Minnesota Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association
     Phi Kappa Phi
     Sigma Xi

Recent Publications/Presentations:

Burrows, R. and F.L. Pfleger.  2002.  Arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungi respond to increasing plant diversity.  Can J. Bot.  80: 120-130.


Burrows, R. and F.L Pfleger. 2002. Host plant responses to arbuscular-mychorrhizal fungal inoculum from plots of increasing plant diversity. Plant and Soil 240: 169-179.

Burrows, R. and F.L. Pfleger.  2000.  Plant diversity influences effectiveness of associated arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungi.  HortScience 35(3):463 Abstract 406.

Peryea, F.J., and R.L. Burrows. 1999. Soil acidification caused by four commercial fertilizer nitrogen solutions and subsequent soil pH rebound.  Commun. Soil Science and Plant Analysis 30(3&4):525-533.

Burrows, R.L. 1999. “Mycorrhizae--the Friendly Fungi,” Yard & Garden Line News 1:12.

 http://www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/YGLNews/YGLN-Oct0199.html

Burrows, R.L., F.L. Pfleger, and S.F. Wright.  1998.  Plant biodiversity effects on glomalin levels associated with extraradical hyphal growth of arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungi.  ASA abstract 90:219.