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Karnal Bunt of Wheat: Saving the $6 billion U.S. Wheat Export Market
Daylily Rust: Saving one of the most valuable U.S. horticultural crops
Beneficial Fungi: Finding safe biocontrol agents to protect crops from pests and pathogens (in ARS Magazine)
Dogwood Anthracnose: Saving American dogwood trees
Coin Canker of Ash: Identifying a new disease
The Wheat Seed Gall Nematode: Saving Wheat Exports to Brazil
The Brown Citris Aphid: Preventing Infestation of the Florida Citris Crop
The Papaya Mealybug: Finding a natural enemy to protect a wide range of agriculturally important plants
Trichinella: Creating a diagnostic test for a world-wide food-borne disease
Stomach Worms: Rapid diagnosis of livestock pathogens responsible for losses of $2 billion annually in the US
Cryptosporidium: Finding new species and new genotypes to detect sources of infection and reduce infections in humans and livestock
Tapeworms: Understanding an organism that causes significant losses to animal production
Sarcocystis Neurona Parasite: Identifying the host of a severe neurological disease to reduce exposure of horses to equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM)

Last Modified: 09/14/2006

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