2015
White mold
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Crop protectionDiseaseField management
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Gary Bergstrom, Cornell University
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Brief Project Summary:

Soybean shows great economic promise in NY and the acreage in the region is expanding rapidly. Emerging and re-emerging diseases are a continual threat to the sustainability of soybean and the profit margin for crop producers is often a narrow one. Based on a disease survey of four counties in NY in 2013, white mold was determined to be the most prominent disease of the season, affecting 85% of the fields inspected at moderate to high severity. White mold can be a devastating disease affecting soybeans in many production areas of the state. Due to the longevity of the pathogen in the soil, infected fields may experience epidemics during any year the weather conditions are favorable. White...

Unique Keywords:
#soybean diseases
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