Welcome to Madison, Wisconsin

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Mission:
The Madison, WI Location comprises four Management Units: Plant Disease Resistance, Cereal Crops, Vegetable Crops and U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center. Plant Disease Research involves fundamental studies on those interactions between disease-causing agents and their host plants that define resistance and susceptibility, and ability to manipulate these parameters with results applied to providing practical solutions to disease resistance problems. Cereal Crops Res. identifies & characterizes biological & biochemical mechanisms that affect cereal quality leading to enhanced germplasm or improved production practices and evaluates barley and oat germplasm for quality. The Vegetable Crops Research investigates the genetics, cytogenetics, taxonomy, molecular biology and breeding strategies of vegetable crops. The U.S. Dairy Forage Res. Center addresses national problems which limit effective & efficient use of foragefor production of milk; increase yields & quality of forage grown and harvested, reducing losses associated with harvesting, storage & feeding, and maximizing use of forage nutrients by dairy cows for milk production.