Mississippi Business Journal » Plant Pathology http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:16:50 +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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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/23/msu-scientists-looking-to-stop-leaf-blight-in-soybeans/feed/ 0 Merging research http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/02/20/merging-research/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=merging-research http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/02/20/merging-research/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:01:39 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=37162 As at all of Mississippi’s public institutions of higher learning, Mississippi State University is looking to cut costs where possible. However, a recently announced merger of two of the land grant university’s departments is also expected to increase the quality of scientists’ research. Late last year, Mississippi State University announced it was merging the Department [...]

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