Oct 30, 2015

WSU, OSU and UI receive $2.7 million SCRI grant

Researchers from Washington State University (WSU), Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Idaho (UI) and the Northwest Potato Research Consortium have received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the USDA’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) to study the psyllids that carry liberibacter, the pathogen that causes zebra chip disease.