July 6, 2011

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The UNL Extension Plant Pathology team this week released eight new pictorial disease identification guides. Disease profiles are available for corn, dry bean, sugarbeet, and wheat. The profiles include color photos and brief descriptions of symptoms and management strategies for crop diseases commonly found in Nebraska.  Digital copies of the publications are available free on the UNL Extension Publications website>  High quality prints will be available by late July and can be purchased from your local Extension office.

Tamra Jackson
Loren Giesler
Robert Harveson
Amy Timmerman
Stephen Wegulo
Extension Plant Pathology Team

Crop Disease Profiles

Corn Disease Profiles I, EC1867
Descriptions and photos of foliar corn diseases, including brief management suggestions.

Corn Disease Profiles II, EC1868
Descriptions and photos of stalk rot diseases of corn, including brief management suggestions.

Dry Bean Disease Profiles I, EC1876
Descriptions and photos of dry bean diseases, including viruses, rust, common blight, halo blight, brown spot, and bacterial wilt.

Dry Bean Disease Profiles II, EC1877
Descriptions and photos of dry bean diseases, including Fusarium root rot, Rhizoctonia root rot, Pythium root rot, white mold, and Fusarium yellows.

Sugarbeet Disease Profiles I, EC1878
Descriptions and photos of sugarbeet diseases, including seedling diseases, Aphanomyces root rot, Rhizoctonia root and crown rot, Pythium root rot, and Fusarium yellows.

Sugarbeet Disease Profiles II, EC1879
Descriptions and photos of sugarbeet diseases, including Rhizomania, foliar, beet curly top, beet soilborne mosaic, nematodes, false root-kot, cyst, and root-knot.

Wheat Disease Profiles I, EC1873
Descriptions and photos of wheat diseases, including virus, foliar fungal, and fungal root root and crown rot diseases, plus brief management suggestions.

Wheat Disease Profiles II, EC1875
Descriptions and photos of fungal and bacterial wheat diseases that affect heads and grain and/or leaves, including brief management suggestions.