Oklahoma State University Agriculture recently released Scab Stryker, a wheat variety resistant to the fungal disease fusarium head blight. Scab Stryker research trials performed the best against head scab for four years in a row.
Dr. Sergio Abit, professor in the Oklahoma State University Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, is a regional recipient of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ 2024 Excellence in College and University Teaching Award for Food and Agricultural Sciences.
The One Health Innovation Lab has been working to re-sequence genes from the Oklahoma State University wheat research program to establish the new lab and its services of sequencing human, animal and plant genetics.
The IPM OKLAHOMA! team has had a big impact on Oklahoma crop production, and they will continue to do so. Ashleigh Faris, the new OSU IPM coordinator, has spent her first year traveling the state to determine the biggest issues producers face with IPM.