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  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Newly planted Malus sieversii at Cornell AgriTech.

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Fire blight costs the U.S. apple industry an estimated $100 million annually in crop losses. New research from Cornell AgriTech may help apple breeders develop resistant varieties and give growers a more sustainable solution in managing the...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Scott Cosseboom works at the Cornell Hudson Valley Research Laboratory

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The Cornell Hudson Valley Research Laboratory (CHVRL)’s new plant pathologist will focus on sustainable disease management in specialty crops, which is critical to New York’s agriculture industry. Scott Cosseboom started as senior research...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Headshot of Kathie Hodge.

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Two faculty members – one studying killer fungi and the other using yeast to find safer painkillers – are winners of Schwartz grants, given annually to female faculty or faculty who enhance the diversity, equity and inclusion goals of the...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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James W. Lorbeer, whose research on diseases of onion and other vegetables grown in organic soils aided growers around the world, died Oct. 5, 2023, in Ithaca. A professor emeritus of plant pathology, Lorbeer was 91.

  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
Scientists prepare for a training in Kenya

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  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
A storm cloud seen on earth from space.

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Plant pathogens can hitch rides on dust and remain viable, with the potential for traveling across the planet to infect areas far afield, a finding with important implications for global food security and for predicting future outbreaks.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

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Cornell AgriTech’s Summer Research Scholars Program provides hands-on research experience for undergraduate students. The goal of the program is simple but impactful: to excite students about careers in agriculture and food science. Now in its...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • Food Science
A fungi sample growing in a petri dish, yellow edges and furry texture.

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Fungal biologist Lori Huberman will use a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how fungi sense and use nutrients, basic research with potential applications for treatment of cancer, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Kathleen Kanaley

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Kathleen Kanaley is a second-year Ph.D. student working in the lab of Katie Gold , professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology at Cornell AgriTech . Originally from San Francisco, Kathleen came to Cornell AgriTech after receiving her...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Cornell AgriTech's Digital Agriculture team, assistant professor Katie Gold, assistant professor Yu Jiang and graduate student Maylin Murdock testing a drone in a field.

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For more than 50 years, NASA and partner agencies have used satellite imagery to map agriculture worldwide with an eye toward global supply and food security. That technology, however, has largely focused on commodity and row crops. Until now...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Chris Smart giving an extension talk at a hemp field day event

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Christine Smart , a crop pathologist known for her leadership in protecting the health of specialty crops across New York state, has been appointed the Goichman Family Director of Cornell AgriTech , effective Oct. 1. Olga Padilla-Zakour will...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • Food Science
Wheat graphic

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The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announced the 2023 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career and Mentor awardees in recognition of excellence in science and leadership for a wheat-secure future.
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Eric Branch examines a beet with fellow grad student, Pratibha Sharma

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Growing up on his family’s vegetable farm in central Minnesota, Eric Branch had many positive interactions with extension programs, and this eventually led him to pursue extension as a career. Drawn by Cornell AgriTech’s long history of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
ryan maher in the field wearing cornell weed science tee shirt

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Ryan Maher , a research, extension, and soil health specialist for the Cornell Small Farms Program since 2013, has assumed a new leadership position as Organic Coordinator for the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station ( Cornell AES...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
Globe with colored wheat spikes

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  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Attendees sit in a ballroom and listen to a presenter at the Empire State Barley and Malt Summit

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Farmers, brewers, distillers and researchers gathered for the sixth annual Empire State Barley and Malt Summit, to celebrate successes and plan for the future of New York’s growing craft brewery and distillery industries.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Dry beans in a field

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Cornell AgriTech is leading a multidisciplinary research project to increase the sustainability of the organic dry bean industry in the Northeast and upper Midwest by overcoming production challenges while developing improved management...

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Award

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Nominations are now being accepted for the 2023 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) awards honoring exceptional early-career women scientists and mentors working in wheat.
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Steven Beers

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Steven Vincent Beer, professor emeritus of plant pathology who made pathbreaking discoveries about plant immunity to bacterial disease, died Jan. 12.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants