2015
Improving management practices for fungicide resistant Cercospora sojina, the causal agent of frogeye leaf spot disease
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Crop protectionDiseaseField management
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Heather Kelly, University of Tennessee-Institute of Agriculture
Co-Principal Investigators:
Alemu Mangistu, (not specified)
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
University of Tennessee-Institute of Agriculture
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

This project develops best management practices that control frogeye leaf spot and reduce the development of fungicide-resistant strains of Cercospora sojina that causes the disease. Research seeks to evaluate fungicides and tillage effects of frogeye leaf spot severity, C. sojina pathogen population and soybean yield, to target when and where C. sojina inoculum is originating and how it is surviving, to develop an economic threshold for frogeye leaf spot and to develop information to build, test and evaluate a disease threshold model for frogeye leaf spot in soybean.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension agents

Information And Results
Project Deliverables

Final Project Results

The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.