The ongoing research is headed by Jim Simon, Department of Plant Biology & Pathology in New Brunswick, and Andy Wyenandt, located at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center near Bridgeton, New Jersey. Collaborators in the project include researchers, extension personnel, and graduate students from Rutgers, Cornell University, University of Massachusetts, and the University of Florida. Efforts are part of a large, four-year 1.8 million dollar SCRI Grant funded by the USDA.
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