Mississippi Business Journal » leaf blight http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 MSU scientists looking to stop leaf blight in soybeans http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/23/msu-scientists-looking-to-stop-leaf-blight-in-soybeans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=msu-scientists-looking-to-stop-leaf-blight-in-soybeans http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/23/msu-scientists-looking-to-stop-leaf-blight-in-soybeans/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:45:21 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=60121 STONEVILLE — Mississippi State University scientists are trying to identify soybean varieties resistant to a disease that can reduce yields by more than 20 bushels per acre. MSU plant pathologist Gabe Sciumbato and research associate Walter Solomon are checking soybean varieties for purple leaf blight through MSU’s soybean variety trials. Both are Mississippi Agricultural and [...]

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