New alfalfa variety resists ravenous local pest

Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:22 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —Cornell plant breeders have released a new alfalfa variety with some resistance against the alfalfa snout beetle, which has ravaged alfalfa fields in nine northern New York counties and across the St. Lawrence River in Canada.

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