{"id":8,"date":"2023-08-07T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/?p=8"},"modified":"2023-08-07T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:58:19","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/2023\/08\/07\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My lab is currently working on <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) working on the <em>Metarhizium<\/em> (a sporulating soil fungus) project and investigating the effects of microbial biopesticides on controlling varroa mites and understanding the molecular aspects of honeybee-mite-fungus interactions.\u00a0We are also involved in developing new strains which will be more effective in controlling varroa mites and tolerant to warmer temperatures. \u00a0My main research aim is to find out biocontrol strategies to help beekeepers in the Washington and across globe to improve overall health of their honeybee colonies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) studying molecular, biochemical and ecological aspects of complex ecosystem interactions involving plants, insect (both vector and non-vector), pathogens and microbes in agriculturally important crop systems  of PNW to boost crop yield, achieve enhance crop protection and seeking strategies to develop various sustainable, eco-friendy a effective pest and pathogen management strategies <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lab is currently working on 1) working on the Metarhizium (a sporulating soil fungus) project and investigating the effects of microbial biopesticides on controlling varroa mites and understanding the molecular aspects of honeybee-mite-fungus interactions.\u00a0We are also involved in developing new strains which will be more effective in controlling varroa mites and tolerant to warmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/basulab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}