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Students Kayla Murphy and Elijah
Columbia, plant biology research
assistants, work with Associate Professor
of Biology Margot Becktell, PhD, on a
late blight research project. The project
involves understanding how certain
plants in the Family Solanaceae, such
as petunias, wild potatoes and wild
tomatoes, are able to fight off the plant
disease known as late blight (the disease
that destroyed potato crops during
the Irish Potato Famine). The project is
focused on understanding how sugary
compounds produced by the plants'
leaves help fight off late blight.
