Tudor Borza

Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences

Faculty of Agriculture

Tudor Borza

Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences

Email: tudor.borza@dal.ca
Fax: 902.893.1404

Education

PhD (Plant Genetics), 1998, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
BSc, Honours (Biology), 1992, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Current research interests

The effects of bioactive compounds and of fungicides on plants and plant pathogens, molecular plant, animal and microbial genetics, plant systematics and population genetics, the development of genetic markers, genome organization and evolution, transcriptomics and metabolomics

Researcher profile

Teaching (lectures) 鈥� currently

Course No.	Course name
BIOA 2008	Plant Diversity
BIOA 2000	Cell Biology
CHMA 3009	Environmental Chemistry
ENVA 3004	Principles of pest management

Teaching (lectures) - past

Course No.	Course name
RESM 4014	Honours Thesis I
MCRA 2000	Microbiology
BIOA 2005	Principles of Plant Pathology
HORT 2010	Controlled environment agriculture I
RESM 4006	Environmental Project Seminar I
CHMA 3006	Mammalian Biochemistry

Teaching (labs)

Course No.	Course name
BIOA 2008	Plant Diversity
BIOA 3002	Weed Science
BIOA 0103	Weed Science
ENVA 3004	Principles of pest management

Adjunct

2018 - 2022: Adjunct, Faculty of Graduate Studies, 黑料吃瓜网, NS, Canada

Supervision

Kuldeep Anjana. Thesis Title: Plant diseases in 黑料吃瓜网 Agricultural Campus鈥檚 Community and Demonstration Gardens. (BSc (Honours); registered August 2022; completed).
Vijaya Raje Singh. Thesis Title: Effect of soilless substrate formulations on the growth of lettuce cultivars in a hydroponic system. (BSc (Honours); registered August 2022; completed).

Service

Curator of the A.E. Roland Herbarium
Management of growth chambers

Publications (last 5 years)

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Rathor P, Borza T, Bahmani, R., Stone S, Tonon T, Yurgel S, Potin P, Prithiviraj B (2023) Expression of a heat shock protein 70 from the brown alga Ectocarpus sp. imparts salinity stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Applied Phycology 35, 803鈥�819. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-022-02897-7

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Patel JS, Selvaraj V, More P, Bahmani R, Borza T, Prithiviraj B (2023). A plant biostimulant from Ascophyllum nodosum potentiates plant growth promotion and stress protection activity of Pseudomonas protegens CHA0. Plants, 12, 1208. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12061208

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Sutton KM, Eaton CW, Borza T, Burkey TE, Mote BE, Loy JD, Ciobanu DC (2022) Genetic diversity and detection of atypical porcine pestivirus infections. Journal of Animal Science, 100(1), 1鈥�7. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skab360

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Shukla PS, Borza T, Critchley AT, Prithiviraj B (2021) Seaweed-based elicitors for sustainable protection against plant pathogens. Marine Drugs 19(2), 59.

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Rathor P, Borza T, Stone S, Tonon T, Yurgel S, Potin P, Prithiviraj B (2021) A novel protein from Ectocarpus sp. improves salinity and high temperature stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(4), 1971.

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Han X, Xi Y, Zhang Z, Mohammadi MA, Joshi J, Borza T, Wang-Pruski G. (2021) Effects of phosphite as a plant biostimulator on metabolism and stress response for better plant performance in Solanum tuberosum. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 210, 111873.

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Rathor P, Borza T, Liu Y, Qin Y, Stone S, Zhang J, Hui J.P.M, Berrue F, Groisillier A, Tonon T, Yurgel S, Potin P, Prithiviraj B (2020) Low mannitol concentrations in Arabidopsis thaliana expressing Ectocarpus genes improve salt tolerance. Plants 9, 1508.

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Coffin R, Borza T, Alam MZ, Liu Y, Desai F, Xi Y, Zhang Z, Beaton B, Goyer C, Coffin J, Wang-Pruski G (2020) Assessing the suppressive effects of biopesticides and phosphite on common scab development in potatoes. Biocontrol Science and Technology 30(10), 1133-1149.

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Xi Y, Han X, Zhang Z, Joshi J, Borza T, Mohammadi MA, Zhang B, Yuan H, Wang-Pruski G (2020) Exogenous phosphite application alleviates the adverse effects of heat stress and improves thermotolerance of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) seedlings. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 190, 110048.

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Borza T, Peters RD, Gao X, Wang-Pruski G (2019) Effects of phosphite on the in vitro growth of Verticillium nonalfalfae and Verticillium dahliae and on their in vivo ability to infect potato plants. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 155 (4), 1333鈥�1344.

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Sutton KM, Lahmers KK, Harris SP, Wijesena HR, Mote BE, Kachman SD, Borza T, Ciobanu DC (2019) Detection of atypical porcine pestivirus genome in newborn piglets affected by congenital tremor and high pre-weaning mortality. Journal of Animal Science, 97 (10), 4093-4100.

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Borza T, Govindarajan A, Stephen J, Best K, Pruski K, Wang-Pruski G (2019) Verticillium dahliae and Verticillium nonalfalfae occurrence and abundance in several agricultural fields from Nova Scotia, Canada, assessed by real-time quantitative PCR. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 154 (4), 1171-1177.

路&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫; Wu L, Gao X, Xia F, Joshi J, Borza T, Wang-Pruski G (2019) Biostimulant and fungicidal effects of phosphite assessed by GC-TOF-MS analysis of potato leaf metabolome. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 106, 49-56.