Cambodian researches bacterial disease in onions

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Cambodian researches bacterial disease in onions

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One of Cambodia's bright young students is studying plant disease management in the US, with the aim of assisting Cambodian farmers and improving crop yields in Cambodia.

Onions hold key to plant disease management for Cambodian scholar
20 November 2017
Tho Kim Eang, a scholar with the Borlaug Higher Education for Agricultural Research and Development program, wants to become one of the experts who manage Cambodia’s plant diseases, thereby increasing food security and reducing poverty in his home country.

The goal of BHEARD, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, is to develop agricultural scientists and increase agricultural research capacity in its partner countries. The program is named after Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called “the father of the Green Revolution.”

Having grown up on a rural farm, Tho’s long-term goal is to become a competent researcher and lecturer, ultimately helping to improve the productive capacity of Cambodian agriculture. More specifically, he wants to compile lists of strategic agricultural crops, their diseases and their control options — information that will have important ramifications for the country’s quarantine and exporting procedures.

Tho is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in plant pathology at Michigan State University. His research topic is bacterial disease management in onions. He is studying the bacterial species infecting onions, their virulence on plants and bulbs, their epidemiology, their resistance to copper and the mechanism of disease resistance exhibited by resistant cultivars — all with the goal of better understanding bacterial disease pathogens so he can figure out how to control them...
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/onion ... n-scholar/
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