Researcher finds new soil analysis approach for soybeans
A researcher from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is enlisting another tool in the ongoing battle against soybean Sudden Death Syndrome – the soil in which the plants grow.
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Ahmad Fakhoury, associate professor of plant pathology and fungal genetics at SIU, pioneered a new way to analyze soil for its ability to suppress a leading soybean disease, Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS). His research appears in “Phytobiomes,” the transdisciplinary journal of The American Phytopathological Society. (Photo by Russell Bailey)
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