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A $1.2 million award will allow UGA plant pathologist Melissa Mitchum to study the metabolic basis of a devastating soybean pathogen and its effects on plant growth.

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ATHENS — University of Georgia plant pathology researcher Melissa Mitchum will co-direct a $1.2 million award from the joint National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture Plant-Biotic Interactions Program to help combat a devastating soybean pathogen with colleagues at the University of Missouri.

The soybean cyst nematode, a microscopic roundworm, is responsible for annual crop losses of $1 billion in the U.S. alone. Mitchum, a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will co-direct the four-year award with MU biochemistry researcher Lesa Beamer.

Maria M. Lameiras is a managing editor with the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

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