Mollie Rappe
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NC State Team Finds Solution for Sweetpotato Problem
![A small, red fly on a blueberry, against a black background.](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/blueberryfly.jpg)
A New IDEA: Pairing Trainees With Computational Experts During the Pandemic
![A sandy field of soybeans](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/soybeansamplinglocation.jpg)
Using Leaf Fungi to Improve Crop Resilience
![A small white box on PVC pipe poles over plots of soybeans in sandy soil.](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/stresscamsoybeans2.jpg)
Low-Cost Cameras Could Be Sensors to Remotely Monitor Crop Stress
![Seedlings with mutations in genes involved in making a plant growth hormone have curly cotyledons, the first two “leaves” of a plant shoot, or short roots. (Labeled seedlings on black)](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/rooty1.jpg)
Complementary Mutations: A Rollercoaster of Scientific Discovery
![Rodolphe Barrangou, professor and co-founder of TreeCo, with genome edited poplars.](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/rodolphebarrangou.jpg)
NC State Spin-off TreeCo To Breed a Better Forest
![A bunch of sweetpotatoes](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sweet-potato-1500x844-1.jpg)
Big Data for Better Sweetpotatoes
![Soybean plants in a laboratory with colorful tubes in the background.](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/labplants.jpg)
CRISPR Plants: New Non-GMO Method to Edit Plants
![Cherry tomatoes](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cherrytomatoes1500.jpg)
Plant Aid: A Big-Data Project to Detect Plant Diseases Faster
![Kellie Burris in the Phytotron, inoculating a plant.](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kellieburris.jpg)
Securely Studying Salmonella to Advance Produce Safety
![Aerial of tractor spraying fields at Lake Wheeler farms.](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/aerial.farm_.1500x844.jpg)
Fertilizer of the Future
![Hannah Levenson, a graduate student, in a field of sunflowers, while conducting a survey of native bees throughout North Carolina.](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/hannahlevenson.jpg)
The Buzz About Native Bees
![Dunaliella saltwater algae](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/dunaliellaweb.jpg)
Salty Algae Leads to Sweet Success
![Anna Stepanova and Jose Alonso in a room for growing plants.](https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/stepanovaalonso.jpg)