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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Refreshed 2026-10-05

Qiurong Fan

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Research assisstant

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: University of Florida (2018–2023); Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (2018); Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (2016); Michigan State University (2025–2026)

7 h-index 14 pubs 340 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

  • Plant Diseases
  • Phylogeny
  • Genome, Bacterial
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • Genomics
  • Ascomycota
  • Peptide Elongation Factor 1
  • Humulus
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Base Sequence
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Nucleic Acid Hybridization
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Pectobacterium

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ORCID

OverviewAI-generated summary

Qiurong Fan's research focuses on plant pathology and genomics, investigating the genetic basis of plant diseases and developing strategies for their management. Fan has studied bacterial wilt and bacterial spot diseases in tomato, examining resistance in different germplasm and evaluating the efficacy of novel nanomaterials for disease control. Fan's work also includes genomic analysis of phytopathogenic bacteria, such as *Dickeya* and *Streptomyces* species, utilizing whole-genome sequencing to re-evaluate taxonomy and identify pathogenicity islands. Additionally, Fan has explored the antibacterial effects of copper composites against *Xanthomonas euvesicatoria* and identified host-limiting genes in this pathogen. Fan has collaborated with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Gehendra Bhattarai, Haizheng Xiong, Ibtisam Alatawi, and Neelendra K. Joshi, on multiple shared publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 7
  • Publications: 14
  • Citations: 340

Positions

  • Research assisstant 2023–present
    Michigan State University Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences ORCID
  • Research assisstant publications 2023–2026
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Rethinking Cover Crops: Host Potential for Xylaria necrophora , the Causal Agent of Taproot Decline in Soybean (2026)
    Plant Health Progress DOI OpenAlex
  • An Evaluation of Bacterial Wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum) Resistance in a Set of Tomato Germplasm from the United States Department of Agriculture (2024)
    Agronomy 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluation of Bacterial Wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum) Resistance in a Set of USDA Tomato Germplasm (2023)
    Preprints.org 1 citation DOI OpenAlex

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Collaboration Network

14 Collaborators 5 Institutions 1 Country

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