The Director's Corner (June 2021)
Carrie Harmon – Executive Director, NPDN
Dear NPDN friends,
Dear NPDN friends,Resources for Diagnosticians, May 2021
Contact Sara May (srm183@psu.edu) and Lina Rodriguez Salamanca (lina@iasta.edu) for suggestions to include.
Peer review highlights
Evolving Plant Diagnostics During a Pandemic https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-08-20-0074-MRTips for Identifying Fusarium - Part 1: Morphological Identification
Sara R. May, The Pennsylvania State University; Lina Rodriguez Salamanca, Iowa State University; and David M. Geiser, The Pennsylvania State University
Plant Identification? There's an App for That - Actually Several
Erin Hill, Michigan State University
Plant identification apps for smart phones have seen significant improvements over the past several years, offering the opportunity to take a photo and get an instant identification in many cases.
Plant identification apps for smart phones have seen significant improvements over the past several years, offering the opportunity to take a photo and get an instant identification in many cases.
Common Needle Diseases and Disorders of Spruce and Pine
What's in a Name? Fungus Gnats
Matt Bertone
Dawn Dailey O'Brien Retires
By Karen L. Snover-Clift
Tips for identifying Rhizoctonia
By James Woodhall, University of Idaho, Parma and Lina Rodriguez Salamanca, Iowa State University
2021 IT/Diagnostician Meeting Highlights
By Tania Brenes-Arguedas, Jan Byrne, Chandler Day, and Karen Snover-Clift
NPDN Lab Interview with Dr. Raj Singh
LSU AgCenter Plant Diagnostic Center (SPDN)
Raj, give us a little history of your lab.
The lab was established as a plant diagnostic clinic in 1972 and was operated mostly by plant pathology faculty with Extension appointments until 2007.