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- - Symposium addresses how protecting plant health protects life
    Faculty, graduate students, and visiting researchers gathered for the 2020 Translational Plant Sciences Symposium at Virginia Tech on Feb. 28 to discuss how their research is protecting plant health in the four areas of sustainability, environment, development, and monitoring and early warning systems.
- - Researchers apply new technology to identify plant pathogen strains in Virginia
    When emerging plant pathogens go undetected, they have the potential to negatively affect food industries, conservation efforts, and even human health. And, just like emerging human pathogens, such as the 2019 novel Coronavirus, emerging plant pathogens need to be diagnosed as soon as possible to prevent them from spreading.
- - Virginia Tech testing bee-friendly forage for cattle
    A research team will test 20 different wildflowers native to Virginia and Tennessee and will measure which ones attract the most bees and, when planted alongside native grasses, produce the healthiest cattle.
- - Carl Zipper honored with emeritus status
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1986, Zipper has improved the scientific understanding of water, aquatic biota, soil, and vegetation response to and recovery from Appalachian coal mining.
- - Keith Yoder honored with emeritus status
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1976, Yoder made significant contributions to the tree fruit industry in Virginia and across the nation through his scholarship on integrated disease and orchard management strategies.
- - Researchers combine technologies to resolve plant pathogen genomes
    In a recent paper published in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, David Haak and John McDowell, from the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, proved that genomic sequencing and assembly tools can be improved by combining two generations of technology.
- - Susan Clark honored with emerita status
    Clark, associate professor of plant and environmental science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of associate professor emerita by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Ruth Grene honored with emerita status
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1988, Grene made significant contributions to plant biology, providing an increased understanding of the effects of drought and air pollution on crops, trees, and model plants.
- - Institute for Advanced Learning and Research and Virginia Tech launch the Controlled Environment Agriculture Innovation Center in Danville
    The Innovation Center will leverage technology and research to accelerate advancements, economic development, and regional participation in the developing industry of indoor farming.
- - Virginia Tech researchers follow in Darwin’s footsteps: understanding the plant evolution of florist’s gloxinia
    In a new study, a team led by Virginia Tech researchers discovered that in its 200 years of being cultivated and domesticated, florist’s gloxinia, Sinningia speciosa, has reached tremendous levels of physical variation and originates from a single founder population.
- - Researchers receive USDA grant to study transport of pollen from genetically engineered switchgrass and hemp
    Researchers are using drones to uncover how spread of pollen may affect issues like allergies.
- - Students take home top prizes in agricultural competition
    A team of Virginia Tech graduate students captured first place in the 2019 North American Weed Science Contest held at Champaign, Illinois, this summer.
- - When invasive plants take root, native animals pay the price
    A Virginia Tech research team has discovered that native animals are diminishing as invasive plants gain a foothold in their habitats. Their study, which took place over a two-year period, is published in the journal Global Change Biology.
- - Virginia Tech discovery could help boost $40 billion soybean industry
    A new article published by Virginia Tech researchers and graduate students has revealed that soybean root nodules harbor high abundances of atypical non-nitrogen fixing bacteria, a discovery that has the potential to improve the crop resilience and yield of the crop.
- - Gabriel Pent named superintendent of Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center
    Pent brings extensive knowledge of agricultural research and Extension programming.
- - Virginia Tech soil scientist partners with archaeologists to investigate Early Bronze Age civilization on the Isle of Man
    Researcher W. Lee Daniels is partnering with archaeologists on the Isle of Man to examine and analyze soils in order to help the team interpret when human influences give way to natural soils.
- - Virginia Tech high-flying microbe research featured in special issue of Scientific American
    Professors Shane Ross and David Schmale are using unmanned systems and mathematical models to study the transport of microbes in the air and water.
- - 'Sneezing' plants contribute to disease proliferation
    Virginia Tech researchers have found that jumping droplets have an impact in the spread of wheat leaf rust spores.
- - Twenty students awarded Fralin Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
    The SURF program is designed to give students hands-on research experiences during a 10-week curriculum that mimics graduate training.
- - David Schmale receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to New Zealand for harmful algal blooms research
    Schmale, a professor in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to improve the security of water systems by developing new remote-sensing capabilities to sense and respond to harmful algal blooms.

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