John F. Tooker
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
212
Citations
10,013
Est. group size
~1
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
58
Publishing since 1969
John F. Tooker studies interactions between insects and plants, with a focus on agricultural pest management, insect ecology, and the chemical and behavioral signals that plants and herbivores use to interact with each other. His work spans practical topics like pesticide effects and cover-crop-based pest control as well as more basic questions about insect taxonomy (formally naming and classifying wasp and other insect species) and plant defense signaling. Students would likely engage with both field-based agricultural entomology and lab or greenhouse studies of plant-insect chemical ecology.
Publication output rose to a peak around 2019-2020 (13-19 papers/year) and has gradually declined since, settling to roughly 7-8 papers per year in 2024-2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Cryptic or underworked? Taxonomic revision of the Antistrophus rufus species complex (Cynipoidea, Aulacideini)
The Catalogue of Life · 2026
- Managing pests by increasing predators through late termination of cover crops
Pest Management Science · 2026
- Lost in the Weeds No More! Revision of the Robust Herb Gall Wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Aulacideini) in North America
UNL Digital Commons · 2026
- Feeding by slugs on maize imposes variable productivity costs but can induce compensatory growth under some conditions
Pest Management Science · 2025
- Acute toxicity of neonicotinoid insecticides to ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Pennsylvania
Environmental Entomology · 2025
- Insecticides may facilitate the escape of weeds from biological control
PeerJ · 2025
- Two new species of Ormyrus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae) from Cynipidae (Hymenoptera) galls on Silphium L. (Asteraceae: Heliantheae)
Zootaxa · 2025
- Does a shift to a novel host plant create a defence‐free space for a specialist herbivore species?
Functional Ecology · 2025
- Soybean aphids exploit abscisic acid signaling to suppress jasmonate defense responses
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
- A Volatile Cue From a Specialist Herbivore Primes Gene Expression Against Biotic Stress in Tall Goldenrod ( <i>Solidago altissima</i> L.)
Plant Cell & Environment · 2025
- Seasonal bee communities vary in their responses to resources at local and landscape scales: implication for land managers
Landscape Ecology · 2024
- Cryptic or underworked? Taxonomic revision of the Antistrophus rufus species complex (Cynipoidea, Aulacideini)
Journal of Hymenoptera Research · 2024
- An insect pheromone primes tolerance of herbivory in goldenrod plants
Ecology · 2024
- Illuminating patterns of firefly abundance using citizen science data and machine learning models
The Science of The Total Environment · 2024
- Catalog of Endophytic Insects Associated with Rosinweeds (<i>Silphium</i> L., Heliantheae, Asteraceae) in North America
Psyche A Journal of Entomology · 2024
- Environmental Entomology×7
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment×5
- Arthropod-Plant Interactions×5
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×4
- Insects×3
- Elizabeth Y Long
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- P. Larry Phelan
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Ashley Leach
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Young‐gyun Park
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Kelley J. Tilmon
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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