University of Minnesota. Dept. of Plant Pathology.

The Department of Plant Pathology and Physiology was originally established at the University of Minnesota in 1907 as the Division of Vegetable Pathology and Botany, making the program at Minnesota one of the first to study plant diseases in the country. The department has focused on the diseases in trees and plants, rusts of cereal, resistance to diseases in plants and physiology of plant pathogens, with particular emphasis on "variability and adaptability of microorganisms and in the understanding and use of genetic control of plant diseases."