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Tracking Transgenic Crop-Produced Mutations in the Corn Earworm
Supported by a USDA grant, two UMIACS researchers have teamed up to study the corn earworm’s growing resistance to non-chemical pesticides.
CBCB Researchers Present Four Papers at Prestigious Algorithms in Bioinformatics Workshop
The researchers are discussing work that includes a new algorithm for the parallel construction of suffix arrays—one of the key tools for processing vast…
Developing a Genomic Method of Monitoring for Pesticide Resistance
UMIACS affiliate faculty member Megan Fritz is lead author of a study that identified genomic changes in the corn earworm—considered the costliest crop pest in…