IS-MPMI Interactions – Issue 1, 2021
InterView with Professor Emeritus Dr. Valerie Williamson
Dr. Valerie M. Williamson, professor emeritus at UC Davis, in the Department of Plant Pathology, was recently interviewed by Ani Chouldjian and Jennifer D. Lewis concerning her career at UC Davis and her studies on the Mi gene. The Mi gene is found in tomato and confers resistance to root-knot nematodes, such as Meloidogyne incognita, which infect thousands of crops worldwide.