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Applications for the Browning Plant Medicine and Health Travel Award are due April 22!

Submit an abstract and register for the 2014 APS Caribbean Division joint meeting with the Caribbean Food Crop Society, July 7-9.

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Melanin and the Corn Pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola
Melanin is required for the successful penetration of leaf surfaces by fungal appressoria, but the nature of this requirement is not entirely clear. In the April issue, Ludwig and colleagues use a melanin-deficient mutant of Colletotrichum graminicola to demonstrate that melanin is not needed for appressoria to generate turgor pressure and penetrate ultrathin synthetic membranes. Rather, melanin provides the cell-wall strength needed for penetration of intact leaves.

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George Washington Carver and the Fungal Plant Disease Survey

Although the global peanut industry is famously indebted to George Washington Carver, new historical research shows that he made important but little-known contributions to global food security and plant pathology.

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Tipburn of Lettuce

APSnet 2014 Feature Image - Tipburn of Lettuce

The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a nonprofit professional, scientific organization dedicated to the study and control of plant diseases. MORE>>