AgCenter researchers join study of disease posing growing threat to rice
Felipe Dalla Lana, left, and Vinson Doyle, both of the LSU AgCenter, look at rice plants in a greenhouse while visiting the Philippines for an International Rice False Smut Consortium workshop. (Photo provided by the International Rice Research Institute)
LSU AgCenter researchers are part of an international team studying false smut, a disease affecting rice. (Photo by Felipe Dalla Lana/LSU AgCenter)
A disease called false smut is posing a growing threat to the global rice crop, and LSU AgCenter scientists are part of an international group working to learn more about the problem.
Felipe Dalla Lana, a plant pathologist at the AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station near Crowley, and Vinson Doyle, a mycologist based on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, are working with colleagues from more…
