LSU-Ag Center: Multistate Team Awarded $5M to Research Invasive Species Harmful to Sweet Potatoes
December 14, 2021
December 14, 2021
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 14 (TNSRes) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news on Dec. 13, 2021:
A team of LSU AgCenter researchers, along with those from four other universities, have been awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant of more than $5 million to develop sweet potato varieties resistant to the invasive guava root-knot nematode.
The AgCenter team, spearheaded by nematologist Trist . . .
A team of LSU AgCenter researchers, along with those from four other universities, have been awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant of more than $5 million to develop sweet potato varieties resistant to the invasive guava root-knot nematode.
The AgCenter team, spearheaded by nematologist Trist . . .