Greg MacDonald

• International collaborators attend events in USA

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  July 22, 2015

  A group of International PMIL Collaborators from Africa and Haiti were joined by partners from the USA, during 2 weeks in July of 2015, to tour the USDA core germplasm collection planted at the University of Florida’s Plant Science Research and Education Unit in Citra, Florida USA. Most of the partners then traveled to Charleston, South Carolina…

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• Greg MacDonald describes field tour in Williston, Fla., USA, with visiting African scientists and PMIL collaborators

  July 21, 2015

  We visited with farmer Andy Robinson of 35 Farms, Williston, FL.  County agent Andrew Drew of Levy county hosted us. We traveled to Andy’s farm where we discussed his practices and farming operations for growing peanuts – specfically for peanut seed production. Andy discussed his fertility operations and told the group he uses site specific…

  Posted in: Field Notes

• PMIL Lead Scientist Greg MacDonald in Growing Georgia: Researching 1,500 Peanuts, One Variety at a Time

  July 15, 2015

  Researching 1,500 Peanuts, One Variety at a Time Published Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 – Growing Georgia By Allison Floyd In the late 1990s, tomato spotted wilt virus took a bite out of peanuts in the Southeast, claiming half of some farmers’ crop and about 10% of the overall yield in 1997. One of the most…

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• July 9 & 10 International Visitors Touring USDA Peanut Germplasm Collection

  July 1, 2015

  July 9-10th, 2015 University of Florida Professor Greg MacDonald is hosting over 40 visitors from different countries including: Ghana, Israel, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, Senegal, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso, as well as representatives from the U.S. peanut research and commercial sectors; for a field tour of peanut germplasm. MacDonald has approximately 1500 different cultivars from the…

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