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| The man on the street may not know what treehoppers and leafhoppers are, but IU Southeast Professor Randy Hunt certainly does. His study of the mating signals of the two insects has earned two national grants worth $80,579. One is from the National Science Foundation, and the other is from U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Plant Health Inspection Service. The latter research will help Southern California grape growers curb the spread of Pierce’s Disease spread by the leafhopper known as the “glassy-winged sharpshooter.” His collaborators are scientists at the University of Missouri at Columbia and the University of Delaware.
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