University of Kansas: $2.5M Grant Will Support Nature-based Study of Pathogen Resistance in Perennial Crop Systems
January 07, 2025
January 07, 2025
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Jan. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news:
Plant pathogens -- microorganisms and other disease-causing agents -- can wreak havoc on agricultural and forest crop plantings, as well as rangeland. Managing annual monoculture crops to resist disease means using specific products or practices to disrupt the pathogen population.
But researchers think an altogether different strategy could work in an alternate system: perennial po . . .
Plant pathogens -- microorganisms and other disease-causing agents -- can wreak havoc on agricultural and forest crop plantings, as well as rangeland. Managing annual monoculture crops to resist disease means using specific products or practices to disrupt the pathogen population.
But researchers think an altogether different strategy could work in an alternate system: perennial po . . .