Patricia McManus

Patricia McManus, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has been on the faculty since 1995. Her expertise is in identifying and managing diseases of temperate zone fruit crops. She has expertise on fire blight, a serious bacterial disease of apple and pear trees, antibiotic use on plants, and bacterial diversity in agricultural ecosystems. She is affiliated with Cooperative Extension, and in that role works closely with fruit growers to solve disease management problems.