Continued, unbiased research on disease management tools provides information on cultural practices, cultivar resistance and fungicide efficacy to guide production decisions. Multiple parts to this project address that need. It implements and monitors a statewide sentinel program to screen samples for early detection and population shifts of soybean pests and diseases including soybean rust, frogeye leaf spot, septoria brown spot, target spot and cercospora blight. The project also evaluates soybean cultivars and various fungicides in high to low disease pressure situations to determine yield potential, efficacy and value, as well as fungicide resistance screening. And, it evaluates different cover crop species disease potential for pathogens of soybean.
Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension agents