Graduate student discovers, names bacterium linked to psyllid yellows
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 07:21
in Biology & Nature
To make a discovery and get to name it is just about every scientist's dream. For one graduate student at UC Riverside that dream already has come true. Allison Hansen, a doctoral student in entomology, has discovered and named a new bacterial pathogen that could be responsible for 'psyllid yellows,' a disease that infects and kills tomato and potato plants...
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