Lav Khot, a biological systems professor at Washington State University, leads a tour at the university’s Center for Precision and Automated Agriculture Systems in Prosser, Washington, in 2017. Khot and a team of collaborators have received a $300,000 New Innovator grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research to explore ways to reduce pesticide residues. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower) Fighting pests by spraying ozonated water and steaming them with hot, highly refined oil vapors: Those are two ideas researcher Lav Khot of Washington State University wants to put to the test through a $300,000 three-year New Innovator grant from […]