Three faculty members from Cornell University’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station have retired. Together, they represent 91 years of experience in research at Cornell. Tom Burr, a professor of plant pathology, joined Cornell in 1977. He served as station director from 2005-15. He led a research program focused on bacterial-plant interactions, with an emphasis on Agrobacterium vitis, which causes crown gall disease, and Xylella fastidiosa, which causes Pierce’s disease in grapes. Wayne Wilcox, also a professor of plant pathology, came to Cornell in 1984. He led the university’s grape pathology research and extension program and specialized in diseases of […]