Success Stories

Karnal Bunt of Wheat

Saving the $6 billion U.S. Wheat Export Market

Daylily Rust

Saving one of the most valuable U.S. horticultural crops

Beneficial Fungi

Finding safe biocontrol agents to protect crops from pests and pathogens (in ARS Magazine)

Dogwood Anthracnose

Saving American dogwood trees

Coin Canker of Ash

Identifying a new disease

The Wheat Seed Gall Nematode

Saving Wheat Exports to Brazil

The Brown Citris Aphid

Preventing Infestation of the Florida Citris Crop

The Papaya Mealybug

Finding a natural enemy to protect a wide range of agriculturally important plants

Trichinella

Creating a diagnostic test for a world-wide food-borne disease

Stomach Worms

Rapid diagnosis of livestock pathogens responsible for losses of $2 billion annually in the US

Cryptosporidium

Finding new species and new genotypes to detect sources of infection and reduce infections in humans and livestock

Tapeworms

Understanding an organism that causes significant losses to animal production

Sarcocystis Neurona Parasite

Identifying the host of a severe neurological disease to reduce exposure of horses to equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM)