Sentences with phrase «plant pathologist with»

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.

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 huge undertaking,» says Anni Self, a plant pathologist with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.

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 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.

Not exact matches

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.

While you're busy decking the halls with boughs of holly this season, geneticists, plant pathologists and forestry professors are hard at work making better Christmas trees for the future.

Plant breeder Zagipa Sapakhova spent two months this summer studying tan spot and Septoria leaf blotch with SDSU small grains pathologist Shaukat Ali.

«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.

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.

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.

«It hurts... these are my people, they're lefties, I'm with them on almost everything,» Michael Shintaku, a plant pathologist at the University of Hawaii told New York Times reporter Amy Harmon.

With new responsibilities as Washington State University Extension plant pathologist, he will divide his time between research (70 percent) and extension (30 percent).

'' Managing systemic diseases like HLB is a difficult challenge that has faced plant pathologists for many years,» said Johnson «It is a privilege to work with an excellent team of researchers from many different disciplines with the goal of developing new tools that are both effective and safe.»

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.

Ackley wasn't just blowing the whistle: he would be an expert witness who, along with a team of arborists and a plant pathologist, would compile data to support the cities» case.

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.

For molecular geneticist Katie Coats, that means working with the WSDA and WSU Puyallup plant pathologist Gary Chastagner to understand the genetics of the exotic plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of sudden oak death.

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.»