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U of Illinois soybean lab’s pending closure due to USAID cuts hinders global disease research
The lab was part of a network studying red leaf blotch, which could potentially decimate the crop. The impending closure of a University of Illinois soybean research lab due to federal funding cuts could impede the study of a fungal disease that experts …