{"id":3339,"date":"2013-11-06T18:34:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2013-11-06T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:39:03","slug":"nny-research-advancing-battle-vs-brown-root-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/06\/nny-research-advancing-battle-vs-brown-root-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"NNY Research Advancing Battle vs. Brown Root Rot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In 2013, a Cornell University research team funded by the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) is taking a proactive approach to brown root rot (BRR), a fungus that damages alfalfa crops.<\/strong> The disease was first discovered in the eastern U.S. in Northern New York in 2004 at Chazy.<\/p>\n<p>Research leader Dr. Julie L. Hansen, with the Cornell University Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, says, \u201cWe have begun breeding BRR-resistant alfalfa to identify the most commercially-viable varieties under Northern New York field conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hansen; Cornell plant breeder Dr. Donald Viands, and research support specialist Jamie Crawford are using cuttings of plants that survived significant 2011-2012 winter ice-sheeting and BRR at the Miner Institute in Chazy to breed a genetic capacity for BRR resistance into future generations of alfalfa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBased on data from western Canada where brown root rot has long been a problem for alfalfa producers, the breeding of BRR-resistant alfalfa varieties can help Northern New York growers stem stand losses and regain yield and profitability<\/strong>,\u201d Hansen says.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NNYADPBRRResistBreedingPR.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NNYADPBRRResistBreedingPR.pdf\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, a Cornell University research team funded by the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) is taking a proactive approach to brown root rot (BRR), a fungus that damages alfalfa crops. The disease was first discovered in the eastern U.S. in Northern New York in 2004 at Chazy. Research leader Dr. Julie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}