Claudia Nischwitz

Plant Pathology Specialist, Utah State University

Claudia Nischwitz has been at USU since August 2010. She works on diseases of plants with a focus on vegetable and fruit tree diseases. In addition, she does diagnostics for the Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic lab. The main research emphases are currently: effect of soil and foliar nutrients on symptom expression of virus diseases in vegetables, drone use for early disease detection and other planting problems in agriculture, survey for Western X disease in stone fruit in Utah, and survey for vegetable diseases in Utah.