Steven E. Smith
Associate Professor
School of Renewal Resources

Biological Sciences East Building, Room 211
P.O. Box 210043
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 621-5325
Email: azalfalf@ag.arizona.edu
 

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Background and Interests
 
Steven Smith received a Ph.D. and a Master's degree from Cornell University. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Plant Sciences, which he received from the University of California, Davis. Here at the University of Arizona he teaches Plant Biology, Native Plant Taxonomy, and Grazing Ecology and Management. His research interest is evolutionary genetics of wildland plants. For more information on his publications, courses or current research please visit his website listed above.

 
Selected Publications
 
Ward, J.P., S.E. Smith, and M.P. McClaran. 2006. Water requirements for emergence of buffelgrass (/Pennisetum ciliare/). Weed Sci. 54:720-725.

Smith, S.E., D. Fendenheim, and K. Halbrook. 2006. Epidermal conductance as a component of dehydration avoidance in Digitaria californica and Eragrostis lehmanniana, two perennial desert grasses. J. Arid Environ. 64:238-250.

Ridgeway, S.C., M. Livingston, and S.E. Smith. 2005. Visitor behavior in zoo exhibits with underwater viewing. Visitor Studies Today 8:1-10.

Smith, S.E. 2005. Deserts: The living drylands. Quart. Rev. Biol. 80:261-262 (Book review).

Smith, S.E. and K. Halbrook. 2004. A plant genetics primer. Basic terminology. Native Plants J. 5:105-111.

Bean, T.M., S.E. Smith, and M.M. Karpiscak. 2004. Intensive revegetation in Arizona’s hot desert: the advantages of container stock. Native Plants J. 5:173-180.

Smith, S.E., M.R. Haferkamp, and P.W. Voigt. 2004. Gramas. p. 975-1002. In: L.E. Moser, B.B. Burson, and L.E. Sollenberger (ed.) Warm-season (C4) grasses, Am. Soc. Agronomy, Madison, WI.

Smith, S.E. 2004. Breeding synthetic cultivars. p. 205-206. In: R.M. Goodman (ed.), Encyclopedia of Plant & Crop Science, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.

Maren E. Veatch, S.E. Smith, and G. Vandemark. 2004. Shoot biomass production among accessions of Medicago truncatula exposed to NaCl. Crop Sci. 44:1008-1013.

Fernandez-Gimenez, M.E. and S.E. Smith. 2004. Nitrogen effects on Arizona cottontop and Lehmann lovegrass seedlings. J. Range Manage. 57:76-81.

Bean, T.M., M.M. Karpiscak, and S.E. Smith. 2003. A prescription for restoring native vegetation on former agricultural land (Arizona). Ecol. Restor. 21:214-215.

Vaughn, Laura V., Jennifer W. MacAdam, Steven E. Smith, and Lynn M. Dudley. 2002. Root growth and yield of differing alfalfa rooting populations under increasing salinity and zero leaching. Crop Sci. 42:2064-2071.

Soleri, Daniela, David A. Cleveland, Steven E. Smith, Salvatore Ceccarelli, Stefania Grando, Ram B. Rana, Deepak Rijal, and Humberto Ríos Labrada. 2002. Understanding farmers’ knowledge as the basis for collaboration with plant breeders: Methodological development and examples from ongoing research in Mexico, Syria, Cuba and Nepal. p. 19-60. In D.A. Cleveland and D. Soleri (eds.) Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding. Integrating Knowledge and Practice, CABI Pub., Wallingford, UK.

Soleri, D. and S.E. Smith. 2002. Rapid estimation of broad sense heritability of farmer-managed maize populations in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico, and implications for improvement. Euphytica 128:105-119.

       
 
 


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