plant pathology

The other speakers included Brian Pace, who introduced himself as a lecturer teaching psychedelic studies in the Department of Plant Pathology at Ohio State University, and Russell Hausfeld, who stated that he was there in his capacity as a journalist who reports on psychedelics and never claimed expertise in the psychedelic field.

Rupesh Kariyat, an associate professor of entomology and plant pathology with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, has been studying silverleaf nightshade for more than a decade.

Vasquez, now an entomology and plant pathology Ph.D. student at the University of Arkansas, was the lead author.

Galen Collins, assistant professor in MSU's Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, co-authored the groundbreaking paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS, in April.

"We went back to original descriptions of the potato disease outbreaks in the United States because they occurred between 1843 and 1845, before outbreaks occurred in Europe," says Jean Ristaino, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of a paper in Scientific Reports that describes the study.