Boris Vinatzer, assistant professor of plant pathology, physiology,
and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is
using new genome sequencing technology to test a hypothesis about how
agriculture's early beginnings may have impacted the evolution of
plant pathogens. He is investigating whether plant pathogenic
bacteria evolved from relatively weak pathogens that caused disease
in many plants to highly virulent pathogens of single crops.
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