Sentences with phrase «plant pathologist»

A "plant pathologist" is a person who studies and investigates diseases in plants. They help identify and understand the causes of the diseases and find ways to prevent or control them to protect plants and crops. Full definition
And they found that key areas in chromosomes, the centromeric regions, are 25 % smaller in the benign fungus, for reasons unknown but that offer «an excellent starting point for follow - up investigations,» notes Kim Hammond - Kosack, a molecular plant pathologist at Rothamsted and leader of the research team.
Daniel Lindner, a research plant pathologist with the Northern Research Station in Madison and the corresponding author on the study, is leading follow - up research to determine if UV - light can be used as a treatment for bats suffering from white - nose syndrome.
«It's a food fight between the bacterium and the cotton plant,» said Dr. Libo Shan, Texas A&M AgriLife Research plant pathologist in College Station.
Dr. Tom Isakeit, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service plant pathologist in College Station, said this year nothing can be done to minimize fumonisin already present in the standing crop; however, producers can make a few changes during harvest to possibly reduce the amount of contaminated grain collected.
«It's really an explosive, devastating disease,» says plant pathologist Barbara Valent of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.
In addition, sudden death syndrome tends to be worse in fields that have high levels of soybean cyst nematode, according to Mathew and SDSU Extension plant pathologist Emmanuel Byamukama.
The fruit also suffers from an «image problem,» giving consumers the appearance that it is and always will be readily available, UC Davis molecular plant pathologist Ioannis Stergiopoulos said.
Dr. Tom Isakeit, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service plant pathologist in College Station, spent several days collecting samples in the High Plains for fumonisin contamination testing.
MOST SOUGHT AFTER PEPPER IN THE UNITED STATES... After 12 years of developing, plant pathologist Phil Dukes released the Charleston and received over 50,000 requests for seeds.
Dr. Robert «Bob» Zeigler is an internationally respected plant pathologist with more than 30 years of experience in agricultural research in the developing world.
As a trainee plant pathologist, I could offer basic crop health and plant disease diagnostic support to small holder farmers in developing countries.
One of the major and slightly unexpected highlights of the conference was meeting quite a few plant pathologists from around Australia.
At the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Peanut Research Laboratory in Georgia, plant pathologist Renee Arias has been working on a technique in her lab to target and control aflatoxin at the cellular level.
He's a senior plant pathologist with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Nigeria and one of the developers of Aflasafe.
«The leaves turn yellow and drop, and the fruit becomes bitter and misshapen, making it useless,» says Caitlyn Allen, a University of Wisconsin plant pathologist.
«Wherever the disease has shown up, it's been pretty bad,» says Ronald Brlansky, a University of Florida plant pathologist.
No one knows where or when this happened, but plant pathologists discovered last year that yellow rust can reproduce sexually, suggesting the new strain may have picked up genes from local strains by mating with them.
Plant pathologists hope the new parasite will eventually control the old one
Evidence for this reconnaissance emerged in 2009, when University of California, Davis, plant pathologist Pamela Ronald discovered a bacterial protein called Ax21 in some strains of rice.
And Frampton and plant pathologist Michael Benson are trying to develop Fraser firs that can actually resist root rot.
Meanwhile plant pathologist Gary Chastagner of Washington State University and geneticist Ulrik Nielsen of the Forest and Landscape Research Institute in Denmark are developing trees that better retain their moisture — and so drop fewer needles on your carpet.
Federal plant pathologists are now looking to capitalize on that phenomenon as a strategy to fight off food poisoning.
Plant pathologists across the United States are scrambling to halt the potential spread of a funguslike pathogen that kills oaks.
Plant pathologists warn that wheat blast could spread to other parts of south and southeast Asia, and are hurrying to trace its origins.
And they don't eat a whole lot of everything else, so the exposure is so much more acute,» says plant pathologist Kitty Cardwell, who oversees funding for several programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
«It took us six years to get the first product in Nigeria to the field trial level and another five years to get full registration status from regulators,» explained plant pathologist Ranajit Bandyopadhyay via e-mail.
The team on the three - year study includes plant pathologists, breeders, crop nutrient managers, economists, weed scientists, entomologists and outreach specialists from Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. Research on organic rice has been in progress at the AgriLife Research facility in Beaumont for at least five years, Zhou said, and results from those studies, along with some from other areas, will be parlayed into the new study.
University of Kentucky plant pathologist Paul Vincelli estimates that 10 to 15 percent of all U.S. crops are treated with fungicide.
That's why plant pathologist John Helgeson and plant geneticist Jiming Jiang of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and colleagues decided to try genetic engineering instead.
Research plant pathologist Yulin Jia from U.S. Department of Agriculture Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center took this image.
Plant pathologists Dr Joan Webber, from Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, and Professor Clive Brasier found that the defence mechanisms which the Chalara fraxinea (C. fraxinea) fungus uses to defend its territory could make it more resistant to virus - based control methods.
Dr. Zhangjun Fei will work with the project leader, Plant Pathologist Dr. Kai - Shu Ling from the USDA - ARS United States Vegetable Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina.
Plant pathologist Dilip Shah: GMO peanuts could help eliminate a potent threat to human health in the developing world...
The caption said, «U. of Ga. plant pathologist Roger Meadows compares a peanut plant stunted and damaged by the tomato spotted wilt virus (left) with a healthy plant.»
«The amount of different types of microbial life present in the cloud droplets that make up a winter storm is amazing,» says Gary Franc, a microbiologist and plant pathologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
«Organic rice is important to the U.S., and most of the organic rice acreage is located in the southern growing region and California,» said Dr. Xin - Gen «Shane»» Zhou, Texas A&M AgriLife Research plant pathologist in Beaumont and project leader.
AMARILLO — Knowing what diseases are turning wheat fields yellow is half the battle, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research plant pathologist in Amarillo.
In the early 1970s, plant pathologist Gary Griffin of Virginia Polytechnic Institute was hunting in the Blue Ridge Mountains when he stumbled on something far more valuable than the grouse he'd planned to bag.
Such conditions are present in Bangladesh, and the disease could migrate across south and southeast Asia, say plant pathologists.
With new responsibilities as Washington State University Extension plant pathologist, he will divide his time between research (70 percent) and extension (30 percent).
As Hawaii's papaya industry imploded, a plant pathologist at Cornell University in New York named Dennis Gonsalves was quietly working on a solution.
«So in many cases,» says Doug Gurian - Sherman, a plant pathologist and director of sustainable agriculture at the Center for Food Safety, «the particular genes used will only work well in certain genetic backgrounds and environments.»
Here, McGuire, a plant pathologist, explains how her desires to reduce household food waste and influence consumer behavior lead her to the natural products industry.
As a plant pathologist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Rice Research Unit in Beaumont, Texas, Toni Marchetti oversaw a new program in 1972 to develop new cultivars that better resisted costly diseases like rice blast.
Every person exuded a fire in their belly about playing their part to help alleviate food insecurity, whether they be a plant pathologist like myself, an economist, a social researcher or a nutritionist, to name just a few of the vocations I came across.
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