Interview with Granville Stokes, June 25, 1985
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Granville Stokes, Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky, discusses tobacco research. As head of the tobacco breeding program, he worked to develop varieties with greater disease resistance and fewer adverse health effects. He talks about several varieties, plant pathology, and the work of his mentor, William Dorney Valleau.Interview Accession
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blank shank disease blue mold virus (nailhead) E.E. Clayton educational background Edward M. Johnson foreign tobacco production Fusarium wilt graduate research work health issues and tobacco Heritage farms Kentucky 10 variety Kentucky 16 tobacco variety Kentucky 41-A variety Kentucky 9 variety nicotine and tar issues Select Burley 21 variety Stephen Diachun Thomas Poe Cooper tobacco mosaic virus tobacco production tobacco viruses wildfire virus William Dorney ValleauInterview Rights
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Stokes, Granville Interview by John Klee. 25 Jun. 1985. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Stokes, G. (1985, June 25). Interview by J. Klee. Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Stokes, Granville, interview by John Klee. June 25, 1985, Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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