Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Crop Sciences
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Bish, M. D., Herman, T. K., McCoppin, N., Tian, P., Clough, S. J., & Karki, H. S. (2025). First Report of Red Crown Rot of Soybean, Caused by Calonectria ilicicola, in Missouri. Plant disease, 109(5), 1181. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-12-24-2566-PDN
Favoretto, V. R., Murithi, H. M., Leles, E. P., da Santos, F. M., Chigeza, G., Goldsmith, P., Coyne, D., & Clough, S. J. (2025). Soybean rust-resistant and tolerant varieties identified through the Pan-African Trial Network. Pest Management Science, 81(6), 2769-2775. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.8639
Greatens, N., Murithi, H. M., Coyne, D., Clough, S. J., Sulyok, M., Okunowo, W. O., Abbas, H. K., Shier, W. T., & Koch Bach, R. A. (2025). Production of the light-activated elsinochrome phytotoxin in the soybean pathogen Coniothyrium glycines hints at virulence factor. PloS one, 20(5 May), Article e0321896. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321896
Koch Bach, R. A., Murithi, H. M., Coyne, D., & Clough, S. J. (2024). Phylogenetic analyses show the Select Agent Coniothyrium glycines represents a single species that has significant morphological and genetic variation. Mycologia, 116(6), 936-948. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2024.2383114
Koch Bach, R. A., Murithi, H. M., Slocum, C. R., Coyne, D., & Clough, S. J. (2024). Remarkably High Internal Transcribed Spacer Haplotype Diversity of the Fungal Select Agent Coniothyrium glycines Discovered Throughout Its Range in Sub-Saharan Africa. Phytopathology, 114(5), 955-960. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-09-23-0315-KC