N. Dwight Camper Professor Emeritus, Plant Pathology & Physiology and Biological Sciences OFFICE: B10B Long Hall ADDRESS: Dept. of Entomology, Soils, & Plant Sciences, 120 Long Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0315 TELEPHONE: 864-656-5743 FAX: 864-656-0274 E-MAIL: dcamper@clemson.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., 1967, (Plant Physiology and Biochemistry), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

B.S. (Chemistry), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Louisburg College, Louisburg, NC (Engineering and Chemistry)

Research Interests

Plant tissue and cell culture - physiological responses to plant growth regulators, herbicide resistance, mode of action of herbicides and other growth regulators, medicinally important plants and their active ingredients; effects of chemicals on the growth and development of plants in native habitats and when grown in test tubes, vials or other containers (plant biotechnology); fate of pesticides in the environment (breakdown products, organisms involved, and rate of breakdown); studies with herbal/medicinal plants (tissue culture, isolation and analysis of active ingredients, bioassays of biological activity).

Teaching Activities

Four graduate courses in plant physiology - plant physiology, organic plant metabolism, plant growth and development, mode of action of plant growth regulators, and plant cell and tissue culture; undergraduate courses in plant medicine and toxicology.

Outreach Interests

Seminars and special lectures.

Selected Publications:

Ellis, J. P. and N. D. Camper. 1995. In Vitro cultured cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium L.) responses to dimercaptopropanesulfonic acid and monosodium methanearsonate. J. Plant Growth Regul. 14:9-13.

Camper, N. D., T. Whitwell, R. J. Keese and M. B. Riley. 1994. Herbicide levels in nursery containment pond water and sediments. J. Environ. Hort. 12:8-12.

Ellis, J. P. and N. D. Camper. 1994. In vitro culture of Xanthium strumarium (Cocklebur). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Cult. 36:369-372.

Keese, R. J., N. D. Camper, T. Whitwell, M. B. Riley and P. C. Wilson. 1994. Herbicide runoff from container nurseries. J. Environ. Qual. 23:320-324.

Riley, M. B., R. J. Keese, N. D. Camper, T. Whitwell and P. C. Wilson. 1994. Pendimethalin and oxyfluorfen residues in pond water and sediment from container plant nurseries. Weed Technol. 8:299-303.

Keese, R. J. and N. D. Camper. 1994. Uptake and translocation of [14C]MSMA in cotton and MSMA-resistant and -susceptible cocklebur. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 49:13-145.