U of G Prof. Art Schaafsma discusses an outbreak of vomitoxin in a recent TVO news report.

The plant toxin, which causes vomiting, has been widespread in southwestern Ontario cornfields this fall, impacting the bottom-line of hundreds of farmers.

Schaafsma, a plant agriculture professor at the University’s Ridgetown Campus, said farmers with highly contaminated crops could sustain major financial loses.

Schaafsma is an experience in a number of areas of crop science, including crop resistance to pesticide, the toxins fusarium and mycotoxin, as well as fungicides and insecticides.

 

 

 

Art Schaafsma

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