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Improving quality and reducing losses in specialty fruit crops through storage …
Petri dish with bright green and blue sections
Deterring pest aphids on crops using probiotic bacteria
Harvested apples
Managing nutrients for reducing bitter pit in ‘Honeycrisp’
Woman looking at tomato plants in a greenhouse
Research and development of germplasm and breeding methods for tomato Improveme…
Yellow and white corn cob in a sweet corn field
Improving sweet corn varieties for the Northeast
Rows of broccoli in a field.
Optimizing tillage and cover crops for organic vegetable farms
Beans growing in a high tunnel
Vegetable variety improvement for high tunnel production
Leaves and fruit of a hop plant
Improving management of hop powdery mildew
A child eating sweet corn
Improving the nutritional quality of sweet corn
Onions on the field, pulled for harvest
Unwrapping the mysteries of fungal diseases of onion
Apple with a big brown spot and a tiny center of mold
New apple disease spoils even pasteurized foods
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