Award-Winning Film Highlights Rutgers Efforts to Protect Basil From Blight

Rutgers researchers and students out in their field of basil. Micah Seidel

Fields of Devotion provides a window into the science behind developing disease- and climate change-resistant food crops. When a devastating disease wiped out New Jersey farmers’ basil fields, growers turned to Rutgers scientists for help. Now the public will be able to follow the unique partnership between local farmers and Rutgers scientists in Fields of Devotion, a science-in-action film and the winner of the …