Dr Shepherd is additionally co-convenor of an extensive pan-African network of crop scientists and virologists that is carrying out the world's largest ongoing plant pathogenic virus diversity studies. (sciforum.hu)
PULLMAN, Wash. — Crop scientists at Washington State University have explained how genes in the barley plant turn on defenses against aging and stressors like drought, heat and disease. (news.wsu.edu)
«Results showed glyphosate use and transgenic traits were not factors in disease susceptibility,» says Martin Williams, a USDA - ARS ecologist and University of Illinois crop scientist. (sciencedaily.com)