Corn is grown all over our planet and is an important crop in all parts of our lives. ARS Research Entomologist, Xinzhi Ni at ARS’s Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit in Tifton, Georgia is looking at how corn plants get stressed, and how those stressors invite diseases and pathogens to proliferate inside the crop. Ni is hopeful their work will benefit future entomologists and breeders to find solutions to these perennial problems.
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