Agriculture and Environment

Image of a turkey close-up next to a headshot image of Kahina Boukherroub.
Talking with University of Minnesota

Talking turkeys with University of Minnesota

About 46 million turkeys are eaten around Thanksgiving in the United States every year, and Minnesota farmers play a huge role in raising these birds and getting them safely from farm to table. Learn more from Assistant Professor Kahina Boukherroub.

Nick Rajtar, a postdoctoral associate in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, sampling rhododendron plants at a Minnesota nursery (left). The sudden oak death pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum, under the microscope (right).
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Sudden oak death pathogen detected for the first time in Minnesota nursery

University of Minnesota researchers detected the pathogen that causes sudden oak death in Minnesota for the first time. Sudden oak death is a tree disease that has devastated forests on the West Coast for decades and is expanding east with no cure. Early detection and containment are the best available tools to slow the spread of the disease. 
 

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