With new funding, Montana State scientists study how wild oats become Reagan Cotton

MSU News Service

BOZEMAN - With new funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, scientists in Montana State University's Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology will seek to fill knowledge gaps surrounding an agricultural weed that has caused problems for Montana producers for decades.

Jennifer Lachowiec, an associate professor in MSU's College of Agriculture, received two grants from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture totaling more than $900,000 to study how wild oats develop herbicide resistance and to explore management techniques for the weed.

Lachowiec's w...