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Graciela Godoy-Lutz
visiting scientist at UNL
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~from Santo Domingo,
Dominican
Republic
~Ph.D in Plant Pathology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
~ Researcher Plant Pathologist at the Instituto Dominicano de
Investigaciones Agropecuaria y Forestales, IDIAF- Dominican Republic
~ PI of the Bean/Cowpea project at the Estacion Experimental
de Arroyo Loro in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic . |
Project- legume diseases / CRSP
~mainly
Phaseolus
vulgaris L. (dry beans) with emphasis
in fungal and viral diseases which are widespread throughout Central America
and the Caribbean.
~ characterization, by traditional and molecular means, of Thanatephorus
cucumeris (anamorph: Rhizoctonia solani) causal agent of web
blight of dry beans. We have determined that web blight is caused by at
least 5 subgroups of R.solani, three
of which have not been previously described.
~identification and characterization of begomovirus and potyvirus
associated with legumes in the Caribbean region. |
