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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
Sources OpenAlex · ORCID
Refreshed 2026-08-15

Qiurong Fan

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Researcher

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: University of Florida (2018–2023); Michigan United (2025); The Eighth Hospital of Xi'an (2018); Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (2016); Michigan State University (2025–2026)

Faculty Researcher

7 h-index 14 pubs 334 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

OverviewAI-generated summary

Qiurong Fan's research focuses on plant pathology and microbial genetics, with a particular emphasis on identifying and managing plant diseases affecting important agricultural crops. Fan has investigated bacterial wilt in tomatoes, exploring resistance within USDA germplasm and evaluating the potential of novel magnesium nanomaterials to control bacterial spot disease. Work also includes identifying host-limiting genes in *Xanthomonas euvesicatoria pv. rosa* for tomato and developing molecular diagnostic tools, such as a TaqMan qPCR assay for *Diaporthe humulicola*, the causal agent of hop halo blight. Further studies examine the host potential of cover crops for *Xylaria necrophora*, a pathogen causing taproot decline in soybeans. Fan's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 7, with 14 total publications and 329 citations. Key collaborators at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville include Gehendra Bhattarai, Haizheng Xiong, Ibtisam Alatawi, and Neelendra K. Joshi.

Metrics

  • h-index: 7
  • Publications: 14
  • Citations: 334

Selected Publications

  • Rethinking Cover Crops: Host Potential for <i>Xylaria necrophora</i> , 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 14 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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