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July 7, 2022
MSU receives $590K USDA grant for corn tar spot resistance research
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A team of scientists, led by Addie Thompson, has received more than $590,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study resistance to tar spot, a devastating corn disease.
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