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Stephen L. Clement

Posted by entomology.office | June 20, 2011

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Stephen L. Clement

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

(Retired) Research Entomologist and Lead Scientist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Plant Germplasm Introduction and Testing Research Unit, Washington State University. Pullman, WA. 1986-2010.

Honorary Member, Entomological Society of America

Areas of Interest:

-Development and implementation of sustainable solutions (biological control, host-plant resistance) for pest problems that adversely affect food legume, rice, maize, wheat, and forage grass production in the U.S. and other countries. Overseas work in southern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and India.

-Plant and microbial biodiversity (acquisition, conservation, re-generation, use).

-Biological weed control (foreign exploration, host-specificity).

-Pollination biology, insect behavior.

Education:

Ph.D. Entomology, University of California, Davis, 1976.

Specialty areas: Agricultural entomology, insect ecology, aquatic entomology, plant pathology, plant ecology.

Dissertation: “A Structural and Phenological Analysis of the Chironomid Community of California Rice Fields: Implications to Injury of Rice Plant Seedlings.”

M.S. Entomology (Pollination biology, insect behavior), University of California, Davis, 1972.

Thesis: “Biological Investigations of Aculeate Hymenoptera from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.”

B.S. Entomology, University of California, Davis, 1967.

Publications:

(Approximately 140, including 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, 7 book chapters and one co-edited book. Selected examples listed).

  1. Clement SL et al. 1977. The colonization of California rice paddies by chironomid midges. J. appl. Ecol. 14:379-389.
  2. Clement SL et al. 1982. Black cutworm pheromone trapping in strawberries. California Agriculture 36(7):20-21.
  3. Levine, E, Clement SL et al. 1982. Black cutworm pheromone trapping: a regional research effort. Bull. Entomol. Soc. Amer., 28:139-142.
  4. Clement SL. Insect natural enemies of yellow starthistle in southern Europe and the selection of candidate biological control agents. Environmental Entomology 19:1882-1888.
  5. Clement SL et al. 1990. Opportunities for integrated management of insect pests of grain legumes, pp. 467-480. In Linking Research and Marketing Opportunities for Pulses in the 21st Century. (R. Knight, ed.). Kluwer Academic. (Invited Chapter).
  6. Sharma HC, Clement SL et al. 2008. Insect pest management in food legumes: the future strategies, pp. 522-544. Proc. 4th International Food Legume Res. Conf., New Delhi, India. (MC Kharkwal, ed.). Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding.
  7. Clement SL, Cristofaro M. 1995. Open-field tests in host-specificity determination of insects for biological control of weeds. Biocontrol Science and Technology 5:395-406.
  8. Clement SL, Quisenberry SS. (Eds.). 1999. Global Plant Genetic Resources for Insect- Resistant Crops. CRC Press, 295 pp.
  9. Doss RP, Oliver JE, Proebsting WM, Potter SW, Kuy S-R, Clement SL et al. Bruchins: insect-derived plant regulators that stimulate neoplasm formation. Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA. 97:6218-6223.
  10. Clement SL et al. 2001. Incidence and diversity of Neotyphodium fungal endophytes in tall fescue from Morocco, Tunisia, and Sardinia. Crop Science 41:570-576.
  11. Clement SL et al. 1994. Acremonium endophytes in germplasms of major grasses and their utilization for insect resistance. pp. 185-199. In Biotechnology of Endophytic Fungi of Grasses (eds. CW Bacon, I White). CRC Press (Invited Chapter).
  12. Clement SL et al. 2004. Cereal aphid and natural enemy populations in cereal production systems in eastern Washington. Journal Kansas Entomological Society 77:165-173.
  13. Clement SL et al. Pea weevil, Bruchus pisorum L. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), resistance in Pisum sativum x Pisum fulvum interspecific crosses. Plant Breeding 128: 478-485.
  14. Clement SL et al. (2010). Ecological factors influencing pea aphid outbreaks in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. pp. 107-128. In Aphid Biodiversity Under Environmental Change: Patterns and Processes (eds. P Kindlmann et al.). Springer. (Invited Chapter).
  15. Smith CM, Clement SL. Molecular bases of plant resistance to arthropods. Annual Review of Entomology 57:309-328.