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One of Joe Burrow's former LSU Tigers teammates has tragically died at 26 years old. Devonta Lee, who played wide receiver at LSU from 2019-21, catching passes from the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, tragically passed away this week. He was battling cancer. The family issued a statement on his... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kim Mulkey and the No. 2 seed LSU Tigers did not have the finish to the 2025-26 women's college basketball season they were hoping for. After finishing the regular season with a 27-5 overall record and 12-4 in SEC play, the Lady Tigers went on to defeat the No. 15 seed Jacksonville Dolphins in the... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kim Mulkey and Flau'jae Johnson helped the LSU Tigers finish the 2025-26 college basketball regular season with a 29-5 record and 12-4 in SEC play, earning a No. 2 seed in the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Lady Tigers easily took out No. 15 seed Jacksonville 116-58 in the first round, before defeating... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study was conducted to assess the utility of the LSU-FES powered walking orthosis for paraplegics in various activities of daily living in addition to simple level walking. It was determined that with relatively simple modifications it is possible for thoracic paraplegics to perform daily functions such as food preparation, outdor barbecuing, working at a workbench, inspecting automobile fluid levels, target shooting and playing ball. Although such activities are possible with relatively minor adaptations, they are still limited and call for significant increase in research activities that improve daily functions.

Species definitions for plant pathogens have considerable practical impact for measures such as plant protection or biological control, and are also important for comparative studies involving model organisms. However, in many groups, the delimitation of species is a notoriously difficult taxonomic problem. This is particularly evident in the obligate biotrophic downy mildew genera ( Peronosporaceae, Peronosporales, Oomycetes), which display a considerable diversity with respect to genetic distances and host plants, but are, for the most part, morphologically rather uniform. The recently established genus Hyaloperonospora is of particular biological interest because it shows an impressive radiation on virtually a single host family, Brassicaceae, and it contains the downy mildew parasite, Arabidopsis thaliana, of importance as a model organism. Based on the most comprehensive molecular sampling of specimens from a downy mildew genus to date, including various collections from different host species and geographic locations, we investigate the phylogenetic relationships of Hyaloperonospora by molecular analysis of the nuclear ribosomal ITS and LSU sequences. Phylogenetic trees were inferred with ML and MP from the combined dataset; partitioned Bremer support (PBrS) was used to assess potential conflict between data partitions. As in other downy mildew groups, the molecular data clearly corroborate earlier results that supported the use of narrow species delimitations and host ranges as taxonomic markers. With few exceptions, suggested species boundaries are supported without conflict between different data partitions. The results indicate that a combination of molecular and host features is a reliable means to discriminate downy mildew species for which morphological differences are unknown.