Through their scientific research and other hard work, they have helped to stop outbreaks of animal and human disease, to strengthen our farm economy and our farmer's ability to feed people, to tackle trade barriers, to beautify and protect the environment, and to guard U.S. agriculture from foreign pests. Bolin helped isolate the causal organism, diagnose the disease and develop control strategies in three epidemics since 1995.
Leptospirosis is an animal disease that can infect humans.
N.Y. Kochian has made key discoveries about the basic plant mechanisms governing toxicity and tolerance to aluminum in acid soils and uptake of metals and radioisotopes in contaminated soils. Neb. Cundiff has helped characterize economically important traits in 33 cattle breeds, allowing producers to take advantage of crossbreeding for the best combinations of traits. Agricultural Research Center . Mattoo deciphered relationships between plant growth regulators and hormones that lead to leaf decay and fruit ripening. For exceptional research and leadership resulting in major advances in controlling livestock diseases, particularly bovine mastitis, that are important nationwide, to Max J. Paape , physiologist, Immunology and Disease Resistance Laboratory , Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.