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Fungi

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Fungi nutrient sensing breakthrough may aid green tech, disease control

Fungal diseases can contribute up to 20% of staple crop losses and drug-resistant fungal infections lead to some 3.8 million human deaths, globally per year.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Headshots of Lori Huberman and Heather Feaga

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Grants fund high-risk research on fungal disease and antibiotic resistance

Schwartz Research Fund Visionary Grants for faculty members in the life sciences aims to provide significant assistance for innovative, visionary research that opens an important new line of inquiry.

  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
2026 Bouchet Scholars

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Ten inducted into Bouchet Honor Society

Ten doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and service in doctoral education.

  • Department of Communication
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Illustration of three piles of manure with a photo of a gardener with soil in their hands

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Animal and human waste could slash synthetic fertilizer use in US

Waste could fulfill 102% of nitrogen and 50% of phosphorus needs for the nation’s agriculture, and significant amounts could be distributed locally and sustainably.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Hannah McMillan Landscape

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Hannah McMillan
Academic focus: Plant-microbiome-environment interactions Research summary: Plants interact simultaneously with microbes and their abiotic environment, but molecular studies often focus only on interactions with one or the other. My research...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants

Land Acknowledgment

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ leadership. Learn more from the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program website.