Tesfaye Mengiste, professor of botany and plant pathology at Purdue University, looks at sorghum infected with anthracnose. Mengiste led a team of researchers that identified a single gene that confers broad resistance to the fungal disease. TOM CAMPBELL/PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Pat Melgares Special to Newton Kansan USA TODAY NETWORK MANHATTAN — Scientists with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and…