Kari Peter
Associate Research Professor of Tree Fruit Pathology
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Penn State Fruit Research and Extension Center
Biglerville, PA - kap22@psu.edu
- 717-677-6116
Research Summary
Commercial tree fruit disease management: Diseases of stone and pome fruit, especially those caused by bacteria, apple fruit rots, soilborne fungi, and emerging issues; Extesion programming for integrated management for pre- and postharvest tree fruit diseases and fungicide resistance
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Most Recent Publications
Effect of exclusion netting on integrated pest and disease management and fruit quality of apples
Greg Krawczyk, Kari Peter, James Schupp, Hans Winzeler, Brian Lehman, Lauren Shaak, Pennsylvania Fruit News on p. 63-67
Evaluation of fungicide programs to manage peach brown rot and Rhizopus rot on ‘Loring’ peaches, 2016
Kari Peter, Brian Lehman, Plant Disease Management Reports
Evaluation of fungicide programs to control apple scab, sooty blotch, and flyspeck on ‘Cameo’ apples , 2015
Kari Peter, Brian Lehman, Plant Disease Management Reports
Evaluation of fungicide programs f or control of apple scab, cedar apple rust, and summer di seases on ‘Rome Beauty’ apples in Pennsylvania, 2014
Kari Peter, Brian Lehman, Plant Disease Management Reports
Mold in, mold out: Harvest bins harbor viable inoculum that can be reduced using novel sanitation methods to manage blue mold decay of apples
Dianiris Luciano-Rosario, Johanny Castro, Kari A. Peter, Kerik D. Cox, Jorge M. Fonseca, Verneta L. Gaskins, Wayne M. Jurick, 2025, Postharvest Biology and Technology
Correction to: Fungicide ingestion reduces net energy gain and microbiome diversity of the solitary mason bee (Scientific Reports, (2024), 14, 1, (3229), 10.1038/s41598-024-53935-y)
Mitzy F. Porras, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Malachi Brought, Tomas López–Londoño, Alexander Chautá, Makaylee Crone, Edwin George Rajotte, Ngoc Phan, Neelendra K. Joshi, Kari Anne Peter, David Biddinger, 2024, Scientific Reports
EPA Soliciting Comments for Mancozeb Fungicide: Submit comments by October 16, 2024
Kari Peter, 2024, Penn State Fruit Times
2024 Disease Update: Fungicide applications needed for late apple varieties
Kari Peter, 2024, Penn State Fruit Times
2024 Disease Update: Bitter Rot Management Begins in June
Kari Peter, 2024, Penn State Fruit Times
EPA Soliciting Comments for Captan Fungicide: Submit comments by July 31, 2024
Kari Peter, 2024, Penn State Fruit Times
Most-Cited Papers
Manipulating Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes: Challenges and Opportunities
Alyssa Collins, Terrence H Bell, Kevin Hockett, P Esker, Ricardo Alcala-Briseno, B Gugino, Ricardo Alcalá-Briseño, Mary Barbercheck, K Peter, Gwyn Beattie, Mary Ann Bruns, John Carlson, Taejung Chung, A Collins, Bryan Emmett, Paul Esker, Karen Garrett, Leland Glenna, Beth K. Gugino, María Del Mar Jiménez-Gasco, M del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Maria del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Linda Kinkel, Jasna Kovac, Kurt Kowalski, Kurt Kowalski, Johan Leveau, J Myrick, Gretchen Kuldau, K Peter, Johan Leveau, Matthew Michalska-Smith, Maria Salazar, Jessica Myrick, Ashley Shade, Kari Peter, Nejc Stopnisek, Xiaoqing Tan, Maria fernanda Vivanco Salazar, Maria Salazar, Ashley Shade, Amy Welty, Nejc Stopinsek, Nejc Stopnisek, Kyle Wickings, Etienne Yergeau, Xiaoqing Tan, Amy Welty, Kyle Wickings, Etienne Wickings, Etienne Yergeau, 2019, Phytobiomes Journal on p. 3-21
Characterization of postharvest fungicide-resistant botrytis cinerea isolates from commercially stored apple fruit
Wayne M. Jurick, Otilia Macarisin, Verneta L. Gaskins, Eunhee Park, Jiujiang Yu, Wojciech Janisiewicz, Kari A. Peter, 2017, Phytopathology on p. 362-368
Prevalence and Distribution of Listeria monocytogenes in Three Commercial Tree Fruit Packinghouses
Tobin Simonetti, Kari Peter, Yi Chen, Qing Jin, Guodong Zhang, Luke F. LaBorde, Dumitru Macarisin, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
Bitter rot of apple in the mid-atlantic united states: Causal species and evaluation of the impacts of regional weather patterns and cultivar susceptibility
Phillip L. Martin, Teresa Krawczyk, Fatemeh Khodadadi, Srdan G. Aćimović, Kari A. Peter, 2021, Phytopathology on p. 966-981
Characterization of a new apple luteovirus identified by high-throughput sequencing
Huawei Liu, Liping Wu, Ekaterina Nikolaeva, Kari Peter, Zongrang Liu, Dimitre Mollov, Mengji Cao, Ruhui Li, 2018, Virology Journal
Quantification of colletotrichum fioriniae in orchards and deciduous forests indicates it is primarily a leaf endophyte
Phillip L. Martin, Kari A. Peter, 2021, Phytopathology on p. 333-344
Blistering1 modulates penicillium expansum virulence via vesicle-mediated protein secretion
Wayne M. Jurick, Hui Peng, Hunter S. Beard, Wesley M. Garrett, Franz J. Lichtner, Dianiris Luciano-Rosario, Otilia Macarisin, Yingjian Liu, Kari A. Peter, Verneta L. Gaskins, Tianbao Yang, Joseph Mowery, Gary Bauchan, Nancy P. Keller, Bret Cooper, 2020, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics on p. 344-361
Erwinia amylovora auxotrophic mutant exometabolomics and virulence on apples
Sara Klee, Klee Sara, Judith Sinn, Melissa Finley, Erik Allman, Philip B. Smith, Osaretin Aimufua, Viji Sitther, Brian Lehman, Teresa Kraczyk, Teresa Krawczyk, Kari A. Peter, Timothy McNellis, 2019, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 19
Fungicide Sensitivity of Colletotrichum Species Causing Bitter Rot of Apple in the Mid-Atlantic U.S.A.
Phillip L. Martin, Teresa Krawczyk, Kristen Pierce, Catherine Thomas, Fatemeh Khodadadi, Srd An G. Aćimović, Kari A. Peter, 2022, Plant Disease on p. 549-563
Baseline sensitivity of penicillium spp. To difenoconazole
Wayne M. Jurick, Otilia Macarisin, Verneta L. Gaskins, Wojciech J. Janisiewicz, Kari A. Peter, Kerik D. Cox, 2019, Plant Disease on p. 331-337