Graduate Ag Research Spotlight: Jesse Haarmann

Jesse Haarmann is a PhD student in the Botany and Plant Pathology Department at Purdue University. He studies a group of herbicides called PPO inhibitors in a weed called waterhemp, which is resistant to PPO herbicides. By comparing different resistant populations from around the Midwest — plants of the same species but varying genetically — Haarmann hopes to better understand the mechanism of PPO resistance and predict the herbicide’s future impact in the field.

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