Wanita Dantes

Graduate Research Assistant
Plant and Environmental Sciences Department

Office: 200 Biosystems Research Complex
Phone: 864-643-9659

Email: wdantes@clemson.edu

Educational Background

M.S.
University of Florida 2020

B.S.
State University of Haiti 2016

Research Interests

In general, I am interested in the biology and epidemiology of plant viruses but more specifically I am currently working on blackberry viruses in the Southeastern of US.

Publications

Dantes, W., Colburn, C., Williamson M. R. & Yang, X. (2022). First report of Alternaria cinerariae causing leaf blight on Farfugium japonicum in South Carolina, USA. Plant Disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-09-22-2221-PDN

Parra, P. P., Dantes, W., Sandford, A., de la Torre, C., Pérez, J., Hadziabdic, D., Schaffer B., & Gazis, R. (2020). Rapid detection of the Laurel Wilt Pathogen in sapwood of Lauraceae Hosts. Plant Health Progress, 21(4), 356-364. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-06-20-0049-RS

Garrett, K. A., Alcalá-Briseño, R. I., Andersen, K. F., Choudhury, R. A., Dantes, W., Fayette, J., Fulton,J.C., Poudel, R., & Staub, C. G. (2020). Adapting disease management systems under global change. Emerging plant diseases and global food security. American Phytopathological Society, P. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1094/9780890546383.003

Dantes W. (2016). Experimental adaptation of two varieties of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) from Peru in Plaine du cul-de-Sac (Damien). Undergraduate thesis, Faculté d’Agronomie et de Médecine Vétérinaire (FAMV) de L’Université d’Etat d’Haiti (UEH).