Huge virulence gene superfamily responsible for devastating plant diseases

September 07

New type of rice grows better and uses water more efficiently than other rice crops

June 07

Small, self-controlled planes to detect airborne pathogens above agricultural fields

May 07

The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute completes largest ever Affymetrix GeneChip microarray study for a plant experimental system in an academic research setting

April 07

Virginia Tech offers new online master's degree in agriculture and life sciences

October 06

Asian soybean rust found in Virginia, but not a threat to current crop

August 06

U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute describe evolutionary origin, disease-causing mechanisms of sudden oak death and related soybean disease pathogens

Sequences reveal benign origin of deadly plant pathogens

April 06

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to develop tomato metabolite database

February 06

Virginia Tech helping to develop higher quality, disease-resistant wheat varieties

New method enables gene disruption in destructive fungal pathogen

August 05

Pssible discovery of Asian soybean rust spores in Suffolk, Virginia

July 05

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher receives USDA functional genomics grant to develop control of major soybean pathogen

March 05

New winter hulless barley Virginia Tech’s Small Grains Breeding Program has high protein

Plan to protect Virginia's soybean crop is ready

Virginia Tech computer program helps farmers make decisions about pastureland

November 04

Virginia Tech researchers discover defense mechanisms in some plants believed bred out by humans

Virginia Tech's scientists working to protect the state's largest crop from disease

Virginia Tech and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) sign memorandum for new alliance

August 04

Virginia Tech researchers monitor crop-killing soybean disease

Tobacco is promising factory for biopharmaceuticals
 

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