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Happy Friday! 🎉
shoutout to Dr. Ada Sczcepaniec, Associate Professor at CSU AgBio, for co-authoring a new article just published in Frontiers in Insect Science! 🪲📖

Check it out here 👉 doi.org/10.3389/fins...
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Frontiers | Activity of sorghum aphid and its natural enemies in the context of agroecological and weather conditions
Agroecological-oriented areawide pest management leverages the innate ability of agroecosystem to suppress pests, and thus to utilize ecosystem services, a k...
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June 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🌱 What if the scrappy traits we try to weed out… are exactly what crops need to survive?
“weedy” traits like drought & pest resistance could power a new Green Revolution 🌎🌾💪
Read more below, co-authored by AgBio alum, Jake Montgomery
#CSUAgBio #weedscience #CropGenetics #ClimateSmartAg
Using weedy traits in crops as part of a new green revolution
Crop production faces major challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and global food insecurity, with the need to produce more food under increasingly difficult climatic conditions wi....
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June 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
New article alert! AB faculty member Dr. Jan Leach co-authored a global review on rice resistance genes and smarter strategies to fight bacterial blight 🌾🧬

#CSUAgBio #PlantPathology #RiceResearch #Phytopathology
Pathogen-Informed Strategies for Durable Resistance in Rice: Lessons from Bacterial Blight | Annual Reviews
Bacterial blight (BB), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pathovar oryzae (Xoo), is a major rice disease in Asia and Africa. Xoo possesses virulence factors for pathogenicity and race differentiation that c...
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June 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM