'Red Blotch: Challenges and opportunities' - UC Davis Seminar (Grower)
Location:
UC Davis Conference Center Ballroom
Old Davis Road Extension, Davis CA
This special seminar is free, but you must register, below, to attend.
Dr. Marc Fuchs is a Plant Virologist at Cornell University. He will be giving a seminar titled Red Blotch: Challenges and Opportunities on November 14, 2013 at the UC Davis Conference Center Ballroom from 10:00 am to 11:00 am.
Dr Fuchs has worked on viruses of fruit crops and vegetables for the past 30 years, developing detection techniques, understanding spread, and investigating management strategies. His program emphasizes translational research on virus diseases of vegetable and fruit crops. Primary goals are to determine the genetic variability of virus populations to advance the understanding of virus spread and to study interactions between viruses, vectors, and plant hosts with the aims of developing robust detection methodologies and implementing innovative approaches for crop improvement.