<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pri-news/link-072023_MSUT_Thompson.aspx" dsn="blogs"><title>MSU receives $590K USDA grant for corn tar spot resistance research</title><description><span>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.</span></description><pubDate>07/07/2022</pubDate><image><img src="/_assets/images/Thompson-headshot-sq.jpg" alt="Addie Thompson"/></image><externalNewsArticleLink>https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2022/msu-receives-590k-usda-grant-for-corn-tar-spot-resistance-research</externalNewsArticleLink><tags><tag>Addie Thompson</tag><tag>MSU Today</tag><tag>Maize</tag><tag>Tar Spot</tag><tag>USDA</tag></tags></item>