WESLACO ?Dr. Bhimu Patil has been named the new director of Texas A&M University's Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center in College Station.

Patil, who was a citrus scientist at the Texas A&M-Kingsville Citrus Center at Weslaco, will assume his duties Jan. 3. He replaces Dr. Leonard Pike, who created the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center in 1992. Pike will retire as director of the center in January, but continue as a researcher there on a part-time basis.

Patil gained acclaim for his Rio Grande Valley research linking citrus phytonutrients, or naturally-occurring compounds, with the prevention of chronic human diseases, including certain cancers and heart disease.  AgNews

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