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Up one levelResistance Key to Soybean Rust Control
Resistance is the long-term solution to controlling soybean rust. In 2005, Ohio State University’s OARDC Soybean Breeding Program joined a nationwide effort to identify varieties that may exhibit resistant characteristics.
Bird Flu in Humans: OARDC in National Effort to Understand, Prevent, Control It
Bird flu is now a threat to both poultry and people. Outbreaks already cost U.S. poultry producers millions of dollars a year (for example, $130 million in Virginia in 2002; a $3.3 billion industry is at stake in Ohio). Now one particular strain, a highly virulent one called H5N1, has spread from chickens to humans in Asia, resulting in more than 50 deaths since 2003, and is raising the specter of a global pandemic. Exactly how influenza viruses jump from one species to another remains unclear to scientists. Finding out is Mo Saif’s mission.