Microbial interactions in the rhizosphere, Biological control of plant pathogens, Mechanisms of bacterial stress responses.
Microbial community ecology and evolution.
Drug resistance in fungi, Genome instability and chromosome biology in fungal plant pathogens.
Basic and applied aspects of plant-bacteria interactions.
The economics of family farms; Public policy in agriculture, labor markets, education and aging. Structural changes in the farm sector; Farmers' time allocation, exit and retirement decisions; Intergenerational transfers and farm succession.
Environmental and natural resource economics, land-use modeling, water and waste management, political economics.
Environmental economics, health economics, development economics and economic demography.
