Kari Peter

Assistant Research Professor of Tree Fruit Pathology

Kari Peter

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Evaluation of fungicide programs to control apple scab, sooty blotch, and flyspeck on ‘Cameo’ apples , 2015

Kari Peter, Brian Lehman, Plant Disease Management Reports

Evaluation of fungicide programs to manage peach brown rot and Rhizopus rot on ‘Loring’ peaches, 2016

Kari Peter, Brian Lehman, Plant Disease Management Reports

Effect of exclusion netting on integrated pest and disease management and fruit quality of apples

Greg Krawczyk, Kari Peter, James Schupp, Hans Winzeler, Brian Lehman, Lauren Shaak, Pennsylvania Fruit News on p. 63-67

Evaluation of fungicide programs f or control of apple scab, cedar apple rust, and summer di seases on ‘Rome Beauty’ apples in Pennsylvania, 2014

Kari Peter, Brian Lehman, Plant Disease Management Reports

Mold in, mold out: Harvest bins harbor viable inoculum that can be reduced using novel sanitation methods to manage blue mold decay of apples

Dianiris Luciano-Rosario, Johanny Castro, Kari A. Peter, Kerik D. Cox, Jorge M. Fonseca, Verneta L. Gaskins, Wayne M. Jurick, 2025, Postharvest Biology and Technology

Fungicide ingestion reduces net energy gain and microbiome diversity of the solitary mason bee

Mitzy F. Porras, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Malachi Brought, Tomas López–Londoño, Alexander Chautá, Makaylee Crone, Edwin G. Rajotte, Ngoc Phan, Neelandra K. Joshi, Kari Peter, David Biddinger, 2024, Scientific Reports

Correction to: Fungicide ingestion reduces net energy gain and microbiome diversity of the solitary mason bee (Scientific Reports, (2024), 14, 1, (3229), 10.1038/s41598-024-53935-y)

Mitzy F. Porras, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Malachi Brought, Tomas López–Londoño, Alexander Chautá, Makaylee Crone, Edwin George Rajotte, Ngoc Phan, Neelendra K. Joshi, Kari Anne Peter, David Biddinger, 2024, Scientific Reports

An Apple a Day Keeps the Gray Mold Away: Identifying Differences in Apple Variety Susceptibility to Post-Harvest Spoilage

Lou Hirsch, Gabrielle Crouse, Gabrielle Scolpino, Kari Peter, 2024, American Biology Teacher on p. 300-306

Systemic pesticides in a solitary bee pollen food store affect larval development and increase pupal mortality

Ngoc Phan, Neelendra Joshi, E Rajotte, F Zhu, Kari A. Peter, Margarita López-Uribe, David J. Biddinger, 2024, Science of the Total Environment on p. 170048

Presymptomatic Detection of Fire Blight in Apple Orchards Using Portable Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy: A Machine Learning Approach

Yanqiu Yang, Paul H. Heinemann, Kittiphum Pawikhum, Kari A. Peter, 2024,

Most-Cited Papers

Manipulating Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes: Challenges and Opportunities

Alyssa Collins, Terrence H Bell, Kevin Hockett, P Esker, Ricardo Alcala-Briseno, B Gugino, Ricardo Alcalá-Briseño, Mary Barbercheck, K Peter, Gwyn Beattie, Mary Ann Bruns, John Carlson, Taejung Chung, A Collins, Bryan Emmett, Paul Esker, Karen Garrett, Leland Glenna, Beth K. Gugino, María Del Mar Jiménez-Gasco, M del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Maria del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Linda Kinkel, Jasna Kovac, Kurt Kowalski, Kurt Kowalski, Johan Leveau, J Myrick, Gretchen Kuldau, K Peter, Johan Leveau, Matthew Michalska-Smith, Maria Salazar, Jessica Myrick, Ashley Shade, Kari Peter, Nejc Stopnisek, Xiaoqing Tan, Maria fernanda Vivanco Salazar, Maria Salazar, Ashley Shade, Amy Welty, Nejc Stopinsek, Nejc Stopnisek, Kyle Wickings, Etienne Yergeau, Xiaoqing Tan, Amy Welty, Kyle Wickings, Etienne Wickings, Etienne Yergeau, 2019, Phytobiomes Journal on p. 3-21

Characterization of postharvest fungicide-resistant botrytis cinerea isolates from commercially stored apple fruit

Wayne M. Jurick, Otilia Macarisin, Verneta L. Gaskins, Eunhee Park, Jiujiang Yu, Wojciech Janisiewicz, Kari A. Peter, 2017, Phytopathology on p. 362-368

Prevalence and Distribution of Listeria monocytogenes in Three Commercial Tree Fruit Packinghouses

Tobin Simonetti, Kari Peter, Yi Chen, Qing Jin, Guodong Zhang, Luke F. LaBorde, Dumitru Macarisin, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

Characterization of a new apple luteovirus identified by high-throughput sequencing

Huawei Liu, Liping Wu, Ekaterina Nikolaeva, Kari Peter, Zongrang Liu, Dimitre Mollov, Mengji Cao, Ruhui Li, 2018, Virology Journal

Quantification of colletotrichum fioriniae in orchards and deciduous forests indicates it is primarily a leaf endophyte

Phillip L. Martin, Kari A. Peter, 2021, Phytopathology on p. 333-344

Blistering1 modulates penicillium expansum virulence via vesicle-mediated protein secretion

Wayne M. Jurick, Hui Peng, Hunter S. Beard, Wesley M. Garrett, Franz J. Lichtner, Dianiris Luciano-Rosario, Otilia Macarisin, Yingjian Liu, Kari A. Peter, Verneta L. Gaskins, Tianbao Yang, Joseph Mowery, Gary Bauchan, Nancy P. Keller, Bret Cooper, 2020, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics on p. 344-361

Bitter rot of apple in the mid-atlantic united states: Causal species and evaluation of the impacts of regional weather patterns and cultivar susceptibility

Phillip L. Martin, Teresa Krawczyk, Fatemeh Khodadadi, Srdan G. Aćimović, Kari A. Peter, 2021, Phytopathology on p. 966-981

Erwinia amylovora auxotrophic mutant exometabolomics and virulence on apples

Sara Klee, Klee Sara, Judith Sinn, Melissa Finley, Erik Allman, Philip B. Smith, Osaretin Aimufua, Viji Sitther, Brian Lehman, Teresa Kraczyk, Teresa Krawczyk, Kari A. Peter, Timothy McNellis, 2019, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 19

An Erwinia amylovora yjeK mutant exhibits reduced virulence, increased chemical sensitivity and numerous environmentally dependent proteomic alterations

Sara M. Klee, Islam Mostafa, Sixue Chen, Craig Dufresne, brian L. Lehman, Judith P. Sinn, Kari A. Peter, Timothy W. McNellis, 2018, Molecular Plant Pathology on p. 1667-1678

Whole-genome comparisons of Penicillium spp. Reveals secondary metabolic gene clusters and candidate genes associated with fungal aggressiveness during apple fruit decay

Guangxi Wu, Wayne M. Jurick, Franz J. Lichtner, Hui Peng, Guohua Yin, Verneta L. Gaskins, Yanbin Yin, Sui Sheng Hua, Kari A. Peter, Joan W. Bennett, 2019, PeerJ