2019
Soybean Pathology - Foliar and Soil Disease Monitoring and Management
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
DiseaseField management Pest
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Heather Kelly, University of Tennessee-Institute of Agriculture
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
19-098-R
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board
$120,000
Institution Funded:
University of Tennessee-Institute of Agriculture
$120,000
Brief Project Summary:

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

Information And Results
Project Deliverables

Results from the proposed projects will build the research and Extension material on soybean disease management for Tennessee producers including, but not limited to:
- Disease ratings and yields on commercial varieties and fungicides
- Information on when and where soybean diseases and invasive insects are occurring in the state
- Risk/threshold models for foliar diseases and fungicide resistance to better guide fungicide decisions
- Information on soil pathogens distribution, infestation levels across the state, and management options

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.