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Interns learn valuable life lessons while studying tropical plant pathology in Costa Rica
Mary Lewis spent six weeks in the summer of 2012 traveling around Costa Rica working on research designed to shed light on one of the most important diseases affecting bananas. While her focus was the fungal disease black sigatoka, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences student says the experience taught her just as much – or more – about what it takes to work in a foreign country and to interact with people from other cultures.
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Congratulations to Xiaomei Shu, Miranda Ganci, Joseph Roberts, and Matt Bertucci
Congratulations to Xiaomei Shu, Miranda Ganci, Joseph Roberts, and Matt Bertucci who represented NCSU Plant Pathology extremely well yesterday with their posters presented at the annual NCSU Graduate Research Symposium. A special congratulations to Joseph who was awarded first place in the Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources section!!!
Joseph Roberts - 1st Place (Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources)
Matthew Bertucci
Xiaomei Shu
Mirandi Ganci
Governing Council of the American Phytopathological Society visits the Plant Pathology Department at NCSU
The governing council of the American Phytopathological Society met in the Research Triangle Park, NC February 11 to 13. During their meeting they met with representatives from various Agriculturally oriented companies headquartered in RTP exploring novel ways to strengthen relationships between the Society and its members with industry. In addition, they visited the department of Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University where they learned about the Department, had informal...
Interns learn valuable life lessons while studying tropical plant pathology in Costa Rica
Mary Lewis spent six weeks in the summer of 2012 traveling around Costa Rica working on research designed to shed light on one of the most important diseases affecting bananas. While her focus was the fungal disease black sigatoka, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences student says the experience taught her just as much – or more – about what it takes to work in a foreign country and to interact with people from other cultures.
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Faculty Fight Asian Soybean Rust
Two College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty members were involved in award-winning efforts to protect soybean growers from Asian soybean rust, a new disease that threatened the United States soybean crop beginning in 2004. Steve Koenning, research associate professor in plant pathology, and Jim Dunphy, professor of crop science, led efforts in North Carolina to protect growers from the disease. Those efforts were honored recently by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and...
Tobacco Day 2012
Please see the following link concerning 2012 Tobacco Day sponsored by Bayer CropScience, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Services, NC State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Annual Tobacco Review.
Tobacco Day 2012
N.C. State Scientists Work to Stop the Spread of Boxwood Blight
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/news-center/perspectives/n-c-state-scientists-work-to-stop-the-spread-of-boxwood-blight/
Meeting with Dean Linton - Department of Plant Pathology - Overview
The Plant Pathology faculty, students, and staff met with Dean Linton Wednesday, October 31st to discuss the department's current state and future strategic initiatives.
Congratulations Drs. Shuijin Hu & Dave Shew
Congratulating to Shuijin, Dave, Lei Cheng, their former Graduate Student, and colleagues in crop science on their paper in this weeks issue of Science. A synopsis appears on the NCSU web site under news http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/mkhusoil/. The paper entitled, Aruscular mycorrhizal fungi increase organic carbon decomposition under elevated CO2, challenges long held assumptions regarding the role of AMF in protecting soil carbon degradation by showing that elevated CO2 actually increases...
Welcome New Students
(L-R) Miranda Ganci, Jessica Brown, Mary Lewis, Alyssa Koehler, Al-Sayed Mashaheet
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