2009-07-02 OSU ag professorships to target high-profile crop issues.
STILLWATER, Okla. – After nearly a year, separate gifts of $250,000 each given to Oklahoma State University to create two professorships is coming to head.
The OSU A&M Board of Regents recently approved the Dillon and Lois Hodges Professorship in Plant and Soil Science to Jeff Hattey, professor with OSU’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.
Also, Bill Raun, Regents professor in DASNR’s department of plant and soil sciences, was named the Nutrients for Life Foundation Professor of Soil and Crop Nutrition. more...
2009-06-29 Wheat concerns stem from fungus.
Experts around the world are racing to create disease-resistant strains of plants. More than the searing heat is making Brett Carver sweat big beads this summer. He’s worried about the Ug99 fungus, called stem rust. The Los Angeles Times described the fungus this month as a "time bomb” that could "wipe out more than 80 percent of the world’s wheat as it spreads from Africa.” more...
STILLWATER, Okla. – After nearly a year, separate gifts of $250,000 each given to Oklahoma State University to create two professorships is coming to head. 
Also, Bill Raun, Regents professor in DASNR’s department of plant and soil sciences, was named the Nutrients for Life Foundation Professor of Soil and Crop Nutrition. 
Wheat concerns stem from fungus.
Experts around the world are racing to create disease-resistant strains of plants.