Sentences with phrase «says plant pathologist»
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.
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«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.
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.
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«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.»
«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.
It didn't take long for one infected plant to infect thousands — never through the air, never through insects, but simply by human propagation,» says Bill Zettler, a plant pathologist at University of Florida.
«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.
«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.
This is the first such analysis,» says co-author Sarah Gurr, a plant pathologist also at Exeter.
«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 huge undertaking,» says Anni Self, a plant pathologist with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.
«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.
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.
Even though the campus is not yet safe for the public, «it looks 10,000 percent better than a week ago,» says Larry Madden, a plant pathologist.
«We know the three species of grasses that wheat was originally derived from» about 10,000 years ago, says Robert Zeigler, a plant pathologist and director of the IRRI.
«Kansas wheat producers are challenged by weather, pests and disease,» said Andrew Barkley professor of agricultural economics and lead researcher of a multi-disciplinary team that included agronomists and plant pathologists.
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.
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.
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.
'' 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.»
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.
Ibrahim and Rudd said the wheat improvement program consists of many more team members, from wheat geneticists, crop physiologists, plant pathologists and cereal chemists to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists and county agents.
«Nobody can grow roses like a plant pathologist,» was all she said.
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.»