b'I N D U S T R Y N E W S Delivering the news you need to know. Submissions welcomeemail us at news@issuesink.com. Texas A&M AgriLife Researchers Make Breakthrough in Fighting Agricultural Plant DiseasesTexas A&M AgriLife researchers have made a discov-ery that will help combat fastidious pathogens, which cost U.S. agriculture alone billions of dollars annually. For the past few years, Kranthi Mandadi, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist and associate professor in Texas A&Ms Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, along with his colleagues, has been working on developing new biological technologies to fight fastidious or unculturable pathogens. UC Riverside entomologist Hollis Woodard and beeSorghum As Grain Based Ethanol Productionresearchers at 11 other institutions are leading the chargeKansas State University researchers are tracking the to gather the kind of data that will help governmentsnitrous oxide emissions associated with grain sorghum and land managers justify new protective regulations. Inproduction, and its effect on the carbon intensity score a new Biological Conservation paper, Woodard and her a measure of how much carbon and carbon dioxide equivalentit takes to produce a bushel of grain. The colleagues lay out the need for this alliance of researchers,Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a environmental organizations and federal entities includingUnited Nations body that assesses the science related to the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Forest Service, andclimate change, has previously reported that direct emis-the Bureau of Land Management. sions from sorghum productionderived from the amount of nitrogen fertilizer that is put outis estimated at 1%.70/ SEEDWORLD.COMJANUARY 2021'