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Christie Williams, Purdue University

Caption: Though small, the Hessian fly is a destroyer of wheat crops. Christie Williams, a Purdue University adjunct assistant professor and USDA-Agricultural Research Service scientist, is studying ways to increase wheat plant resistance to the insect. She and her team of scientists have identified a wheat gene that can cause the fly larvae to starve to death.

Credit: Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell

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