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Dominican University receives $1 million to study Sudden Oak Death
October 26, 2009SAN RAFAEL – Dominican University of California is receiving a $989,798 grant from the 2008 Farm Bill to establish the National Ornamentals Research Site at Dominican University.
Scientists from the national and international research community will conduct studies focused on understanding and controlling Phytophthora ramorum, the plant pathogen known to cause Sudden Oak Death and ramorum blight on nursery stock.
The research site will be the first in the United States dedicated to the study of diseases of ornamental plants in a simulated nursery setting.
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