2014
Statewide soybean disease monitoring sentinel support
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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
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Brief Project Summary:

This continuing project is designed to be a first alert system for the presence of soybean rust to advise Tennessee soybean producers when fungicide applications are necessary and unnecessary to manage yield loss from soybean rust. The project has expanded to include monitoring for other Soybean Diseases and pests, including QoI/strobilurin fungicide resistant Cercospora sojina, the causal agent of frogeye leaf spot and invasive insects such as the kudzu bug. The statewide soybean sentinel plot program provides valuable information throughout the growing season on the presence of potentially destructive Soybean Diseases such as soybean rust, which is very influential when determining if...

Unique Keywords:
#soybean diseases
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.