St. Louis, Missouri, USA
November 27, 2012
The Plant Management Network (PMN) announces the launch of two new tomato management presentations in its Focus on Tomato webcast resource.
“Late Blight Pandemic in Northeastern USA in 2009” by Dr. Bill Fry, Professor of Plant Pathology at Cornell University, discusses the causes of the 2009 late blight epidemic and also features a new online decision support system (DSS) that provides information to practitioners in near-real time for in-season disease management decisions. Fungicide trials involved in the making of this DSS are also covered in this talk.
“Novel Isothermal Amplification Technology for Identifying Plant Pathogens” by Tania Spenlinhauer, Molecular Diagnostic Product Development Specialist at Envirologix, offers an overview of a new technology, DNAble, used for identifying plant pathogens. The talk provides an overview of the amplification reaction and assay procedure, as well as a comparison of this new technology with other available diagnostic platforms.
Both presentations are open access through February 28, 2013.
Users can view other recent webcasts in the Focus on Tomato resource at
www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/fot.
Focus on Tomato is a publication of the Plant Management Network (PMN), a nonprofit online publisher whose mission is to enhance the health, management, and production of agricultural and horticultural crops. It achieves this mission through applied, science-based resources. PMN is jointly managed by the American Society of Agronomy, American Phytopathological Society, and Crop Science Society of America.
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