Thomas E. Loynachan

Professor of Agronomy
Professor of Microbiology

Iowa State University
Department of Agronomy
1126H Agronomy
Ames, Iowa 50011-1010

Office: 515-294-3064
FAX: 515-294-8146
e-mail:teloynac@iastate.edu

Tom Loynachan received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Iowa State University in 1968. He taught Vocational Agriculture at Grinnell, IA only a short time before being drafted into the army. He received his Master of Science Degree in Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry from Iowa State in 1972 and his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Soil Science from North Carolina State University in 1975. From 1975 until 1978, he was on the staff as an assistant professor at the University of Alaska doing research on oil-spill remediation. He has been a member of the Department of Agronomy at Iowa State since 1978, and currently serves the department as Director of Graduate Education.

Teaching:

Dr. Loynachan has a 90% teaching appointment. His current courses include:

  • SOIL FERTILITY, AGRON 354
  • SOIL BIOLOGY, AGRON 485/585
  • ORIENTATION SEMINAR, AGRON 500
  • SOIL-PLANT ENVIRONMENT, AGRON 512 (Distance Education)

    • Research:

    Dr. Loynachan has a 10% research appointment. Current research activities center around organismal ecology in soil, including establishment, persistence, and environmental interactions of organisms. Efforts are mainly directed at field ecology relationships. Earlier worked involved Bradyrhizobium on soybean and more recent work the mycorrhizae of soybean.


    Selected Publications (recent years):

    Ali, F. S., T. E. Loynachan, A. M. M. Hammad, and Y. Aharchi. 1998. Polyvirulent rhizobiophage from a soybean rhizosphere soil. Soil Biol. and Biochem. 30:2171-2175.

    Loynachan, T. E. 1998. Soil life by digitized video for the Internet. J. Nat. Res Life Sci. Ed. 27:107-109.

    Khalil, S., T. E. Loynachan, and M. A. Tabatabai. 1999. Plant determinants of mycorrhizal dependency of soybean. Agron. J. 91:135-141.

    Loynachan, T. E., K. W. Brown, T. H. Cooper, and M. H. Milford. 1999. Sustaining our soils and society (book). American Geological Institute (with Soil Science Society of America), Washington, D.C.

    Troeh, Z. I., and T. E. Loynachan. 2003. Endomycorrhizal fungal survival in continuous corn, soybean, and fallow. Agron. J. 95:224-230.

    Ishii, S., and T. E. Loynachan. 2004. Rapid and reliable DNA extraction techniques from trypan-blue-stained mycorrhizal roots: comparison of two methods. Mycorrhiza 14:271-275.

    Loynachan, T. E., K. W. Brown, T. H. Cooper, J. M. Kimble, M. H. Milford, and D. B. Smith. 2005. Soils, society, and the environment (book). American Geological Institute (with Soil Science Society of America), Washington, D.C.

    Loynachan, T. E. 2006. Soil biology (laboratory manual). Iowa State University Bookstore, Ames.

    Loynachan, T. E. 2006. Quick, easy method to show living soil organisms to high school or beginning-level college students. J. Nat. Res Life Sci. Ed. 35:202-208.

    If you REALLY want to be bored, read my complete CV.

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