Tika Adhikari describing microbiome dynamics in strawberry grown in NC NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

Clearly he's a budding sweetpotato disease expert!

Soil fungal community and response of fungal isolates to copper oxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles from Teresita Dalisay

Wendell Hutchins sharing spring dead spot epidemic factors

Improving hemp for grain production in KY from Maria Magdalena Ricciardi KY Plant Disease

Cucurbit anthracnose fungicide sensitivity in GA from Navjot Kaur

Rebecca Melanson shared the multinational effort to communicate about and improve management of cucurbit viruses ecucurbitviruses.org

Bill Wintermantel describing the competitiveness of white fly transmitted yellowing viruses

Katherine D'Amico-Willman sharing genetic mechanisms underlying susceptibility to bacteriophages in X. arboricola pv. pruni strains from South America Alejandra I. Huerta

Field detection of Rose Rosette with RPA presented by Amirudeen Abdul Kader Jailani

UAV multispectral quantification of peanut disease defoliation presented by Rebecca Barocco Ian M. Small

Peiqi Zhang sharing the identification of Xoo TALes with Nanopore long read sequencing

Xanthomonas spp. causing leaf spot on sesame in NC described by Kimberly Montalban Alejandra I. Huerta

Kiersten Bushong describing her characterization of 9 Pseudomonas spp. affecting cucurbits

See everyone at the #SDAPS2023 awards banquet. Wear your favorite decade of plant pathology gear!

We had a blast in the 100th APS SouthernDivision meeting! NC State Veggie Pathology Sarah Cochran-Murray Mariana Prieto Torres Camilo Parada 🦋 @cahuparo.bsky.socia Jack Mascarenhas

#SDAPS2023 excursion crew hearing about NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology from Carolyn Anne Young after touring the Plant Sciences Building #IAmPSI The American Phytopathological Society

Today we hosted #SDAPS2023 at N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative along with NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and The IR-4 Project. The future looks bright for APS Graduate Student Committee with such diverse employment options 🤩 APS SouthernDivision Lindsey Thiessen

Read the first study to use culture-independent methods to examine the effects of edaphic factors & rhizospheric bacterial composition on Granville wilt-infested, flue-cured tobacco fields in NC—conducted by Raymond O’danny García Rodriguez and Lindsey Thiessen doi.org/10.1094/PHYTOF… NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

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