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Bingyu Zhao, Virginia Tech

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Bingyu Zhao, assistant professor of horticulture, has received a $1 million, five-year Faculty Early Career Development Award from the NSF to discover why the disease-resistant gene Rxo1 violates a rule in modern plant pathology and remains functional when it was transferred into a plant species that belongs to a different plant taxonomic family.

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