Rachael A. Sitz, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Kylle Roy, Susan J. Frankel, Lauren Oakes, Kainana S. Francisco, Kekuhi Kealiʻikanakaʻoleohaililani, Rachael A. Sitz, Emily Huff, John Schelhas. 2024. Perceptions of tree diseases in Indigenous communities: Native Alaskan and Hawaiian insights
• Mee-Sook Kim, Phil G. Cannon, Rachael A. Sitz, Acelino C. Alfenas, Morag Glen, Alistair R. McTaggart, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Jane E. Stewart. 2020. The need for rapid molecular diagnostics to distinguish biotypes of the myrtle rust pathogen (Austropuccinia psidii)
• Rachael A. Sitz, John W. Hanna, Jane E. Stewart, Mee-Sook Kim, Phil G. Cannon, Brent W. Oblinger, Jim T. Blodgett, John C. Guyon, Liz G. Hebertson, Robin L. Mulvey, Doug Westlind, Josh J. Bronson, Amy C. Ramsey, Sara M. Ashiglar, Melissa J. Fischer, Bill Woodruff, Greg J. Reynolds, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2020. Molecular identification and characterization of root diseases in the western USA
• Rachael A. Sitz, M. Vincent Aquino, A. Ned Tisserat, S. Whitney Cranshaw, Jane E. Stewart. 2019. Insects visiting drippy blight diseased red oak leaves are contaminated with the pathogenic bacterium Lonsdalea quercina
• Rachael A. Sitz, Marcelo M. Zerillo, Jacob Snelling, Jorge Ibarra Caballero, Kathleen Alexander, Kendra Nash, Ned A. Tisserat, Whitney S. Cranshaw, Jane E. Stewart. 2018. Drippy blight, a disease of red oaks in Colorado, U.S., produced from the combined effect of the scale insect Allokermes galliformis and the bacterium Lonsdalea quercina subsp. quercina
• Rachael A. Sitz, Whitney S. Cranshaw. 2018. Life history of Allokermes galliformis (Hemiptera: Kermesidae) in Colorado
• Rachael A. Sitz, C. Utley, A. Hall, N. Tisserat, W. Cranshaw. 2017. Trapping the walnut twig beetle to determine flight patterns in Colorado

• Colorado State University, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management with an emphasis in Plant Pathology, 2017
• Colorado State University, M.S., Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management with an emphasis in Entomology, 2013
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, B.S., Plant Biology and Insect Science with a minor in Biology, 2011