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Proposals are due September 30, 2021 via WISPR. Award decisions will be announced by the end of December 2021. Funding will be available beginning July 1, 2022 with the anticipation that postdoctoral fellows will start on or shortly after July 1, 2022.
The Dairy Innovation Hub, which launched in 2019, is a $7.8 million annual investment by the State of Wisconsin to build a world-class talent pool and enable bold discoveries to ensure that Wisconsin’s dairy community is at the global forefront in producing nutritious dairy products in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable manner.
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March 16, 2021 |
Distant cousins of cultivated potato may hold the key to unlocking new sources of resistance to the tuber crop’s most devastating disease, late blight.
That’s the hope of a team of USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), who conducted laboratory trials in which they exposed the leaves of 72 different species of wild potato to spores of the late blight pathogen
Phytophthora infestans the same culprit that triggered the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s.
Late blight remains a worldwide threat today to not only potato, but also tomato crops, inflicting an estimated $6.7 billion annually in yield losses and control costs. In susceptible varieties, the fungus-like pathogen causes dark lesions and other disease symptoms that rapidly destroy the plant’s leaves, stem, fruit or tubers, noted Dennis Halterman, a plant geneticist with the ARS Vegetable
How UW helped Nasonville Dairy become an industry leader
Nasonville Dairy in Marshfield has been making Feta cheese since 1986. UW-Madison CALS
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The Center for Dairy Research’s work with Nasonville Dairy, a family-owned dairy processing plant in Marshfield, Wis., highlights the ways that CDR helps Wisconsin dairy processors succeed.