COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A University of Missouri plant researcher is turning to computer science to help unravel the inner workings of a common soybean parasite.
Dmitry Korkin recently received a five-year, $613,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to apply computer science methods to the study of soybean cyst nematodes.
The organism is a parasitic roundworm that infects the roots of the soybean plant.
Korkin will study how "molecular mimicry" allows pathogens such as the soybean nematode to infect host plants.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
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