By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
LSU AgCenter plant pathologist Jonathan Richards in his lab, where is working on pinpointing the location of a gene in rice that would help farmers control a potentially devastating plant disease. Photo by Olivia McClure/LSU AgCenter
An LSU AgCenter plant pathologist will use a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pinpoint the location of a gene in rice that could help farmers control a potentially devastating plant disease.
“Our goal is to characterize the resistance to narrow brown leaf spot at the genetic and functional level,” said Jonathan Richards.