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  • Q&A with Rick Brandenburg: Southern Africa Value Chain Interventions

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    Rick Brandenburg is Lead Scientist on PMIL’s Southern Africa Value Chain Interventions project and a collaborator on both the Ghana and Haiti Value Chain projects. In addition to his work with PMIL, he is a Wm. Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Turfgrass Environmental Research and Education at North Carolina State University.

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  • PMIL Lead Scientist publishes article on using FTIR-PAS for Aspergillus detection

    PMIL Lead Scientist Kumar Mallikarjunan is one of three main authors on a publication in the April 23rd 2015 edition of the Journal of Food Analytical Methods, “Characterization of Invasion of Genus Aspergillus on Peanut Seeds Using FTIR-PAS.”  Other authors are Dr. Hande Kaya-Celiker, a post-doctoral associate in the current PMIL project at Virginia Tech…

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  • PMIL collaborators mentor African Borlaug Fellows to study aflatoxin

    As part of the Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program, two visiting researchers are working to ensure the safety the peanut crop in Africa with the help of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The college’s Office of Global Programs hosted the researchers, Agnes Mwangwela from Malawi…

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