Directory of Faculty/Staff
Mark Widrlechner
Assistant Professor of Horticulture and Agronomy
Department of Horticulture
Nor th Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1170
Phone: 515-294-3511
Fax: 515-294-1903
Email:
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1982
- Master of Science, University of Illinois, 1980
- Bachelor of Science, Michigan State University, 1977
Awards/Special Recognition
- USDA Certificates of Merit, 2001–03
- USDA Outstanding Service Award, 1999
- Richard & Minnie Windler Award - Southern Appalachian Botanical Society, 1999
Research Focus
Dr. Widrlechner's areas of research are in germplasm conservation and management and the evaluation of woody landscape plants and of medicinal and aromatic plants for useful traits and climatic adaptation.
Teaching/Advising Responsibilities
Dr. Widrlechner serves as a co-instructor for Ethics in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetic Resource Conservation (Agron/AnS/BCB/Gen/Hort/PlP/VMPM 565D,) part of a series of units on Professional Practice in the Life Sciences.
Organizations/Appointments/Activities
- American Association of Botanical Gardens & Arboreta, Collections Committee
- American Rhododendron Society, Research Committee and Board of Scientific Reviewers
- American Society for Horticultural Science
- Editorial Board of the 5th International Symposium on New Floricultural Crops
- Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution Editorial Board
- International Plant Propagators' Society, Eastern Region Research Committee
- Landscape Plant Development Center, Research Committee
- Michigan Botanical Club
- Society for Economic Botany
Selected Publications
- Graves, William R., Mark A. Kroggel, and Mark P. Widrlechner. 2002. Photosynthesis and shoot health of five birch and four alder taxa after drought and flooding. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 20:36-40.
- Widrlechner, Mark P. and Jeffery K. Iles. 2002. A geographic assessment of the risk of naturalization of non-native woody plants in Iowa. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 20:47-56.
- Widrlechner, Mark P. and Kathleen A. McKeown. 2002. Assembling and characterizing a comprehensive Echinacea germplasm collection. pp. 506-508. In: Trends in New Crops and New Uses. J. Janick and A. Whipkey (eds.) ASHS Press, Alexandria, VA. .
- Lebeda A. and M.P. Widrlechner. 2003. A set of Cucurbitaceae taxa for differentiation of Pseudoperonospora cubensis pathotypes. Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection 110:337-349.
- Widrlechner, Mark P. and Lisa A. Burke. 2003. Analysis of germplasm distribution patterns for collections held at the North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station, Ames, Iowa, USA. Genetic Resources & Crop Evolultion 50:329-337.
- Lebeda, A., and M.P. Widrlechner. 2004. Response of wild and weedy Cucurbita L. to pathotypes of Pseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & Curt.) Rostov. (cucurbit downy mildew). Advances in Downy Mildew Research 2:203-210.
- Santacruz-Varela, A., M.P. Widrlechner, K.E. Ziegler, R.J. Salvador, M.J. Millard, and P.K. Bretting. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among North American popcorns and their evolutionary links to Mexican and South American popcorns. Crop Science 44:1456-1467.
- Tay, David, Mark P. Widrlechner, and James L. Corfield. 2004. Establishment of a new genebank for herbaceous ornamental plants. FAO/IPRGI Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 137:26-33.
- Towill, L.E., and M. Widrlechner. 2004. Cryopreservation of Salix species using sections from winter vegetative scions. CryoLetters 25:71-80.
- Widrlechner, Mark P., Janette R. Thompson, Jeffery K. Iles, and Philip M. Dixon. 2004. Models for predicting the risk of naturalization of non-native woody plants in Iowa. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 22:23-31.
- Widrlechner, Mark P. 2005. Germplasm acquistion from conception to products. (Introduction to Workshop Proceedings). HortScience 40:296.
- Qu, Luping, Xiping Wang, Ying Chen, Richard Scalzo, Mark P. Widrlechner, Jeanine M. Davis, and James F. Hancock. 2005. Commercial seed lots exhibit reduced seed dormancy in comparison to wild seed lots of Echinacea purpurea. HortScience 40:1843-1845.
