Graduate Students Attend the 2025 World Food Prize Event in Des Moines and visit the Borlaug Heritage Farm
Five students traveled to Iowa with Brian Steffenson to celebrate plant health excellence and visit the Borlaug Farm.
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Foxtail barley found to be host for fungal pathogens of barley
Steffenson Lab research has found that foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum) serves as an alternate host for fungal pathogens of cultivated barley.
Deb Samac on "I See Dead Plants" Podcast
In "Blightmare on Stem Street," Samac discusses bacterial stem blight on alfalfa with host Ed Zikora.
Malvick talks red crown rot on Minnesota Public Radio
Professor Dean Malvick talked with MPR correspondents about this disease appearing in Minnesota soybean this year.
Fungal secrets of a sunken ship
Ninety-eight years underwater did a lot of structural damage to Civil War sunken ship the Cairo. In collaboration with Terra Mare Conservation and the Vicksburg National Military Park, Blanchette and Ben Held are using wood microbiology and pathology skills to diagnose this ailing ship.
UMN-Uruguay Partnership Strengthens Global Agricultural Research
Thank you to alumna and friend Silvia Pereyra for sharing this article, which was previously published in the original Spanish in the INIA newsletter.
