Terri W. Starman

Associate Professor
Department of Horticultural Sciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-2133

Phone: 979-862-2910 FAX: 979-845-0627 E-Mail: tstarman@tamu.edu

Terri Starman received her B.S. and M.S. in Horticulture from University of Missouri in 1977 and 1980, respectively. She received her PhD in Horticulture from Texas A&M University in 1986. Dr. Starman was Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale from 1986 to 1991. She was Assistant and Associate Professor at University of Tennessee-Knoxville from 1991 to 2000. Dr. Starman became a member of the faculty at Texas A&M in 2000.

Dr. Starman's area of research is commercial greenhouse floral crop production.

"The overall goal of my teaching and research program is to provide future leaders and advanced technology to enhance the Texas floriculture industry economy by making it more efficient and productive."

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

MacKenzie, A.J., Ownley, B.H., Starman, T.W. and M.T. Windham. 2000. Effect of delivery method and population size of Trichoderma harzianum on growth response of unrooted chrysanthemum cuttings. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 46: 730-735.

Starman, T.W. and M.S. Williams. 2000. Growth regulators affect growth and flowering of scaevola. HortScience: 35(1):36-38.

Starman, T.W., X. Duan and S. Abbitt. 1999. Nucleic acid scanning techniques distinguish closely related cultivars of poinsettia. HortScience 34(6): 1119-1122.

Williams, M.S., T.W. Starman and J.E. Faust. 1999. High temperatures reduce postharvest flowering of specialty floral crop species. HortTechnology 9(1):94-98.

Starman, T.W. and S. Abbitt. 1997. Evaluating genetic relationships of geranium using arbitrary signatures from amplifications profiles. HortScience 32:1288-1291.

Cerny, T.A., G. Caetano-Anollés, R.N. Trigiano and T.W. Starman. 1996. Molecular phylogeny and DNA amplification fingerprinting of Petunia taxa. Theor. Appl. Genet. 92:1009-1016.

Starman, T.W., T.A. Cerny and A.J. MacKenzie. 1995. Productivity and profitability of some field-grown specialty cut flowers. HortScience 30(6):1217-1220.

MacKenzie, A.J., T.W. Starman and M.T. Windham. 1995. Enhanced root and shoot growth of chrysanthemum cuttings propagated with the fungus Trichoderma harzianum. HortScience 30(3):496-498.