His doctoral work was on the prevention and fight against the most dangerous disease of cotton - Verticillium wilt.
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One example is the resistance to verticillium wilt of the "Todd's Mitcham" cultivar of peppermint which was produced from a breeding and test program at Brookhaven National Laboratory from the mid-1950s.