Glen Rains, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Researches ways to detect plant diseases earlier
From inventing high-tech ways to detect crop problems before they get out of hand to developing ways for injured farmers to maintain their livelihoods, Glen Rains is in the business of solving problems affecting farm families. Currently he’s researching ways to detect plant diseases early in immature plants. Rains hopes to develop a sensing system to discover when plants are first infected. This would reduce the amount of spray applied, saving farmers time and money while reducing environmental consequences.
