plant pathology

Samuel Bruce Martin Jr. was born Jan. 9, 1954, in Conway, Ark. After receiving his Ph.D. in plant pathology from North Carolina State University in 1982, he worked on tobacco and a variety of other crops before arriving at Clemson and focusing exclusively on turf grass in 1987.

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.