
Mary Joy C. Mendoza
University Researcher III
Education
MS Plant Pathology, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Specialization/Research Interests
Phytobacteriology, Molecular Plant Pathology, Disease Management
Biography
Mary Joy C. Mendoza is a graduate of BS Agriculture (Plant Pathology) and MS Plant Pathology (Molecular Plant Pathology) at UPLB. She worked before as research assistant in several projects including Fusarium wilt and black Sigatoka of banana, banana viruses, sugarcane diseases, and oil palm virus disease. She joined NCPC under Pest management division on 2015. Her project involvements are on applied and/or basic research on tomato bacterial wilt, mango stem-end rot, rice diseases, emerging and re-emerging diseases of sugarcane, and garlic viruses.