MSU College of Agriculture Professor Barry Jacobsen (IMAGE)

Montana State University

MSU College of Agriculture Professor Barry Jacobsen

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MSU College of Agriculture Professor Barry Jacobsen holds a sample of an agricultural disease-fighting technology that could save farmers around the world millions of dollars. Research has shown the technology, a naturally occurring bacterium dubbed BmJ, works on a wide array of crops and diseases and initiates an innate immune response by activating a gene found in most plants.

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MSU Photo by Kelly Gorham

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