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Margery Daughtrey: Keeping plants healthy for nearly 50 years
Since 1978, Margery Daughtrey has been an ornamental crop disease management problem-solver, serving the greenhouse, nursery and floriculture industries from her base at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center. “Some of her...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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New species of downy mildew named in honor of SIPS researcher
There are species named after scientists like Charles Darwin ( Geochelone nigra darwini) and figures in popular culture ( Notiospathius johnlennoni). Dick Korf, who worked as a fungal taxonomist in Cornell's Plant Pathology Department from 1951...
  • Long Island Research & Extension Center
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section