Sentences with phrase «plant pathologist in»

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.

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.

With this information, corn breeders could someday build more durable resistance in future hybrids,» says Santiago Mideros, plant pathologist in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

«But if the frost - free zone were to expand northward sometime in the future, there would be a greater potential for soybean rust to impact Midwestern growers,» says Glen Hartman, plant pathologist in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois and crop pathologist for USDA - ARS.

«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.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

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.

Dr. Robert «Bob» Zeigler is an internationally respected plant pathologist with more than 30 years of experience in agricultural research in the developing world.

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.

As a trainee plant pathologist, I could offer basic crop health and plant disease diagnostic support to small holder farmers in developing countries.

«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.

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 baIn 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 bain the Blue Ridge Mountains when he stumbled on something far more valuable than the grouse he'd planned to bag.

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 ByamukamIn 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 Byamukamin fields that have high levels of soybean cyst nematode, according to Mathew and SDSU Extension plant pathologist Emmanuel Byamukama.

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.

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.

«This is an extremely important crop with major problems,» says study co-author Gert Kema, a plant pathologist and banana breeder at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.

One possibility is that a wheat - infecting strain was brought in from South America, says Nick Talbot, a plant pathologist at the University of Exeter, UK.

«It's really an explosive, devastating disease,» says plant pathologist Barbara Valent of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.

Such conditions are present in Bangladesh, and the disease could migrate across south and southeast Asia, say plant pathologists.

«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.

Soybean pathologist Anne Dorrance was less worried about plants in the greenhouse than DNA and related materials in her department's freezers.

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.

The work represents «a really nice collaboration between molecular biologists and plant breeders,» says Jan Leach, a plant pathologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

In 1944 Borlaug, trained as a plant pathologist, left the U.S. for Mexico to fight stem rust, a fungus that infects wheat, at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.

The pathogen's genome does hold promise, agrees Alan Collmer, a plant pathologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

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.

The decision came in the form of a letter to Yinong Yang, a plant pathologist at Pennsylvania State University who created the new mushroom.

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.

The U.S. native, who is retiring in December, is a plant pathologist with extensive knowledge and experience in plant breeding, forest ecology, and soil science.

Leading the charge of GR2.0 and 3.0 will be a crop of vibrant and intelligent young scientists in league with IRRI through the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and spread out across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, «many of whom are attending their first International Rice Congress now,» said Zeigler, himself a plant pathologist who started young working on various crop staples.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — For the first time, tomato growers using high tunnels (low - cost greenhouses, http://mtvernon.wsu.edu/hightunnels/) in western Washington can manage one of the most serious plant diseases organically, said plant pathologist Debra Inglis.

After preliminary work in 1943, plant breeders, soil scientists, plant pathologists, and entomologists working as a team, began a concentrated attack on the various aspects of wheat production in 1944.