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Professor Robert A. Blanchette
e-mail: [email protected]

Office:
Phone: 612.625.0202
Fax: 612.625.9728

Laboratory:
Phone: 612.625.6231

University of Minnesota
Department of Plant Pathology
1991 Upper Buford Circle
495 Borlaug Hall
St. Paul, MN 55108

College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences

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  • Home
  • Research Projects
    • Microorganisms causing decay in trees and wood
    • Antarctic Microbes
      • Introduction
      • Historic Expedition Huts
      • Deception Island
    • Microbes in the Arctic
      • Introduction
      • Melampsora rust
      • Historic woods at Fort Conger and Peary huts
    • Sustainable Agarwood Production in Aquilaria Trees
      • Introduction
      • Field demonstration sites
      • Photos and information
      • Cultivating agarwood in Papua New Guinea
      • Cultivating agarwood in Bhutan
      • First International Agarwood Conference
    • Deterioration in Historic and Archaeological Wood
    • Investigations on Eucalyptus Diseases in Uruguay
    • Investigations into resistance to white pine blister rust
    • Phytophthora diseases on woody plants in Minnesota
      • Introduction
      • Sudden Oak Death and Phytophthora Diseases of Woody Plants
    • Biological control of sapwood staining fungi
  • Publications
  • Student Opportunities
  • Disease of Forest & Shade Trees
  • People
  • Give
  • Links