Kathryn Homa

Kathryn Homa, Ph.D. student, Department of Plant Biology and Fungicide Coordinator, IR-4 Project. Homa aids in obtaining new product registrations for basil downy mildew control. As a PhD student she is working on breeding sweet basil for Fusarium wilt disease resistance.

A Plant Breeding Breakthrough: Downy Mildew Resistant Sweet Basil

A united effort by four universities delivers four new sweet basil varieties resistant to the disease that almost wiped out field-grown basil in the U.S.

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