Cross-disciplinary project targets fall armyworm, western corn rootworm
Two researchers in Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have received a $499,865 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture to study corn resistance mechanisms against the insect pests, the fall armyworm and the western corn rootworm.
Michael Kolomiets, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, and Julio Bernal, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Entomology, will collaborate on the cross-disciplinary project involving molecular genetics and entomology to increase resistance to these insect pests.