Kevin Hockett

Disease-Suppressive Phyllosphere Microbiomes
Livleen Kaur, Terrence Bell, Javad Sadeghi, Kevin L. Hockett, Jul 1 2026, In: PHYTOPATHOLOGY
Date: Jul 1 2026

Translational microbiomes in agriculture
Alex D. Vompe, Mozhde Hamidizade, Melanie Medina López, Eoin O'Connor, Livleen Kaur, Kevin L. Hockett, Carolee T. Bull, Feb 2026, In: Applied and environmental microbiology
Date: Feb 2026

Rapid and sustained differentiation of disease-suppressive phyllosphere microbiomes in tomato following experimental microbiome selection
Hanareia Ehau-Taumaunu, Terrence H. Bell, Javad Sadeghi, Kevin L. Hockett, Dec 2025, In: Environmental Microbiome
Date: Dec 2025

Tailocin tail fiber diversity correlates with rfbD variation in the Pseudomonas syringae species complex
Chad Fautt, Kevin Hockett, Simon Delattre, David Baltrus, Estelle Couradeau, Jan 1 2025, In: ISME Communications
Date: Jan 1 2025

Naïve Bayes Classifiers and accompanying dataset for Pseudomonas syringae isolate characterization
Chad Fautt, Estelle Couradeau, Kevin L. Hockett, Dec 2024, In: Scientific Data
Date: Dec 2024

Manipulating button mushroom casing affects the disease dynamics of blotch and green mold disease
Eoin O'Connor, Fabricio Rocha Vieira, Isako Di Tomassi, Rachel Richardson, Kevin L. Hockett, Carolee T. Bull, John A. Pecchia, Dec 2024, In: Fungal Biology
Date: Dec 2024

Rarity of Pseudomonas agarici on Edible Mushrooms Associated with Susceptibility to Biological Competition
Mahsa Moallem, Mozhde Hamidizade, S. Mohsen Taghavi, Milad Aeini, Hamid Abachi, Shahrad Haghighi, Ardavan Soleimani, Kevin L. Hockett, Carolee Theresa Bull, Ebrahim Osdaghi, Sep 2024, In: Plant disease
Date: Sep 2024

Manipulating Agaricus bisporus developmental patterns by passaging microbial communities in complex substrates
Fabricio Rocha Vieira, Isako Di Tomassi, Eoin O'Connor, Carolee T. Bull, John A. Pecchia, Kevin L. Hockett, Dec 2023, In: Microbiology Spectrum
Date: Dec 2023

Ewingella americana
Mozhde Hamidizade, S. Mohsen Taghavi, Mahsa Moallem, Milad Aeini, Amal Fazliarab, Hamid Abachi, Rachel A. Herschlag, Kevin L. Hockett, Carolee T. Bull, Ebrahim Osdaghi, Feb 2023, In: PHYTOPATHOLOGY
Date: Feb 2023

Passaging Phyllosphere Microbial Communities Develop Suppression Towards Bacterial Speck Disease in Tomato
Hanareia Ehau-Taumaunu, Kevin L. Hockett, 2023, In: Phytobiomes Journal
Date: 2023

The Inherent Conflicts in Developing Soil Microbial Inoculants
Laura M. Kaminsky, Ryan V. Trexler, Rondy J. Malik, Kevin L. Hockett, Terrence H. Bell, Jan 1 2018, In: Trends in Biotechnology
Citations: 328

Use of the soft-agar overlay technique to screen for bacterially produced inhibitory compounds
Kevin L. Hockett, David A. Baltrus, Jan 14 2017, In: Journal of Visualized Experiments
Citations: 142

Thermo-Regulation of Genes Mediating Motility and Plant Interactions in Pseudomonas syringae
Kevin L. Hockett, Adrien Y. Burch, Steven E. Lindow, Mar 19 2013, In: PloS one
Citations: 65

Isolation of endohyphal bacteria from foliar Ascomycota and In Vitro establishment of their symbiotic associations
Kayla R. Arendt, Kevin L. Hockett, Sarah J. Araldi-Brondolo, David A. Baltrus, A. Elizabeth Arnold, May 1 2016, In: Applied and environmental microbiology
Citations: 63

Independent co-option of a tailed bacteriophage into a killing complex in Pseudomonas
Kevin L. Hockett, Tanya Renner, David A. Baltrus, Aug 11 2015, In: mBio
Citations: 62

100 years since Tolaas
Ebrahim Osdaghi, Samuel J. Martins, Laura Ramos-Sepulveda, Fabrício Rocha Vieira, John A. Pecchia, David Meigs Beyer, Terrence H. Bell, Yinong Yang, Kevin L. Hockett, Carolee T. Bull, 2019, In: Plant disease
Citations: 53

Manipulating Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes: Challenges and Opportunities
Terrence H Bell, Kevin Hockett, Ricardo Ivan Alcalá-Briseño, Mary Barbercheck, Gwyn A Beattie, Mary Ann Bruns, John Carlson, Taejung Chung, Alyssa Collins, Bryan Emmett, Paul Esker, karen Garrett, Leland Glenna, Beth K. Gugino, Maria del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Linda Kinkel, Jasna Kovac, Kurt Kowalski,..., Mar 13 2019, In: Phytobiomes Journal
Citations: 42

Transcriptional Profiles of a Foliar Fungal Endophyte (Pestalotiopsis, Ascomycota) and Its Bacterial Symbiont (Luteibacter, Gammaproteobacteria) Reveal Sulfur Exchange and Growth Regulation during Early Phases of Symbiotic Interaction
Justin P. Shaffer, Morgan E. Carter, Joseph E. Spraker, Meara Clark, Brian A. Smith, Kevin L. Hockett, David A. Baltrus, A. Elizabeth Arnold, Apr 2022, In: mSystems
Citations: 27

Bacterial brown pit, a new disease of edible mushrooms caused by mycetocola sp.
Mozhde Hamidizade, S. Mohsen Taghavi, Samuel J. Martins, Rachel A. Herschlag, Kevin L. Hockett, Carolee T. Bull, Ebrahim Osdaghi, May 2020, In: Plant disease
Citations: 24

Passaging Phyllosphere Microbial Communities Develop Suppression Towards Bacterial Speck Disease in Tomato
Hanareia Ehau-Taumaunu, Kevin L. Hockett, 2023, In: Phytobiomes Journal
Citations: 23

Centers & Institutes

• Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
• One Health Microbiome Center
• Plant Institute

• Ecology IGDP
• Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences IGDP
• Plant Biology IGDP

• Otto Kailing

• Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
• Biological Control
• Biology and Ecology of Plant-Microbe and Plant-Environment Interactions
• Microbial Ecology and Population Biology Faculty
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