date:Dec 24, 2013
ulture Donald Halseth evaluates the new varieties. They also work with virologist Keith Perry and USDA molecular biologist Xiaohong Wang to understand and test for the nematode.
With plants, you dont cure the patient; your main goal is to prevent the disease. The only tool we have is resistance, Perry said. Golden nematode is present on thousands of acres in New York, but we have been able to keep the population under control because it cannot reproduce and we have prevented it from spreading.