Camille Carey was told she shouldn’t go to college.
Not that she couldn’t, but she shouldn’t.
She was struggling to pass her high school exit exams because she couldn’t read them. She couldn’t write on them, either.
Despite her severe dyslexia and dysgraphia, Carey eventually did pass those tests. She decided to go to college anyway, and May 7, she graduated with a master’s degree in entomology and plant pathology from Oklahoma State University.
(Camillie Carey uses a portable photosynthesis meter to measure sorghum response to aphid feeding. (
Photo by Wyatt Hoback)
“They told me, ‘Well, it is better if you don t go to college,’” she said. “Well, here I am.”
A recently published article in the
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions journal provides new evidence that pathogens are hijacking the plant immune system to cause disease while providing insights into a newly discovered mechanism.
A large variety of pathogens infect plants and cause different diseases, which can lead to reduced crop yields. During infection, pathogens secrete effector proteins into the plant cell. Some of these proteins target plant proteasomal degradation machinery, which is responsible for recycling proteins to regulate cell processes. Some E1, E2 and E3-ligase proteins have been identified as playing a role in plant susceptibility or resistance to pathogen invasion. SALT- AND DROUGHT-INDUCED RING FINGER1 (SDIR1) is an E3-ligase that degrades regulators of the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) in response to drought stress.
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Ag Biotech Pioneer Fraley Joins Trace Genomics Board
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Trace Genomics announces the appointment of Dr. Robert (Robb) Fraley to its board of directors. Dr. Fraley, who served for nearly 40 years as chief technology officer at Monsanto and helped develop the first genetically modified seed, will provide guidance to the company as it advances its ground-breaking science and products in the field of soil DNA testing.
(PRNewsfoto/Trace Genomics) His role in advancing biotech innovation in global agriculture the past four decades is truly unparalleled, said Dan Vradenburg, chief executive officer of Trace Genomics, a company that developed the first and only soil microbiome test to help farmers predict soil disease, soil health and crop quality using DNA sequencing and machine learning.