Curt Hill, Senior Creative Plant Breeder-Pathologist

Email: curthill@illinois.edu
Phone: (217) 244-3257

Research Focus

Soybean aphid resistance. High-throughput multiple disease resistance screening technology. Causes and genetics of soybean green stem disorder.

PUBLICATIONS:

• 2009: [link] Hill, C.B., K.S. Kim, L. Crull, B.W. Diers, and G.L. Hartman. 2009. Inheritance of resistance to the soybean aphid in soybean PI200538. Crop Science (in press).
  
  
• 2009: [download] Pham, T. A., Miles, M. R., Frederick, R. D., Hill, C. B., and Hartman, G. L. 2009. Differential responses of resistant soybean entries to isolates of Phakopsora pachyrhizi. Plant Disease 93:224-228.
  
  
• 2008: [download] Kim, K. S., Hill, C. B., Hartman, G. L., Mian, M. A. R., and Diers, B. W.2008. Discovery of soybean aphid biotypes. Crop Science 48:923-928.
  
  
• 2007: [link] Li, Y., Hill, C. B., Carlson, S. R., Diers, B. W., and Hartman, G. L. 2007. Soybean aphid resistance genes in the soybean cultivars Dowling and Jackson map to linkage group M. Molecular Breeding 19: 25-34.
  
  
• 2006: [download] Hobbs, H. A., Hill, C. B., Grau, C. R., Koval, N. C., Wang, Y., Pedersen, W. L., Domier, L. L., and Hartman, G. L. 2006. Green stem disorder of soybean. Plant Disease 90:513-518.
  
  
• 2006: [download] Hill, C. B., Hartman, G. L., Esgar, R., and Hobbs, H. A. 2006. Field evaluation of green stem disorder in soybean cultivars. Crop Science 46:879-885.
  
  
• 2006: [download] Hill, C. B., Li, Y., and Hartman, G. L. 2006. A single dominant gene for resistance to the soybean aphid in the soybean cultivar Dowling. Crop Science 46:1601-1605.
  
  
• 2006: [download] Hill, C. B., Li, Y., and Hartman, G. L. 2006. Soybean aphid resistance in soybean Jackson is controlled by a single dominant gene. Crop Science 46:1606-1608.
  
  
• 2006: [download] Wang, Y., Hobbs, H. A., Bowen, C. R., Bernard, R. L., Hill, C. B., Haudenshield, J. S., Domier, L. L., and Hartman, G. L. 2006. Evaluation of soybean cultivars, ‘Williams’ isogenic lines, and other selected soybean lines for resistance to two Soybean mosaic virus strains. Crop Sci. 46:2649-2653.
  
  
• 2006: [download] Ferro, C.R., C.B. Hill, M.R. Miles, and G.L. Hartman. 2006. Evaluation of soybean cultivars with the Rps1k gene for partial resistance or field tolerance to Phytophthora sojae. Crop Science 46:2427-2436.
  
  
• 2005: [download] Wang, Y., H.A. Hobbs, C.B. Hill, L.L. Domier, G.L. Hartman, and R.L. Nelson. 2005. Evaluation of ancestral lines of U.S. soybean cultivars for resistance to four soybean viruses. Crop Sci. 45:639-644.
  
  
• 2004: [download] Hill, C. B., Li, Y., and Hartman, G. L. 2004. Resistance of Glycine species and various cultivated legumes to the soybean aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae). J. of Econ. Entomol. 97:1071-1077.
  
  
• 2004: [download] Hill, C. B., Li, Y., and Hartman, G. L. 2004. Resistance to the soybean aphid in soybean germplasm. Crop Sci. 44:98-106.
  
  
• 2004: [download] Li, Y., Hill, C. B., and Hartman, G. L. 2004. Effect of three resistant soybean genotypes on the fecundity, mortality, and maturation of the soybean aphid, Aphis glycines (Homoptera: Aphididae). Journal of Economic Entomology 97:1106-1111.