Disease Notebook resources

• Virginia Tech plant pathology faculty websites http://www.ppws.vt.edu/people/faculty/
• A resource: online plant pathology glossary (with illustrations)
• Most recent Virginia Extension Pest Management Guides, mostly chemical recommendations), available as downloadable pdf files. Recommended, almost essential! (but may use equivalents from other states if appropriate)
  • Field crops: grain crops, soybeans, forages, tobacco, peanuts, cotton
  • Home grounds, including lawns and ornamentals
  • Horticultural and forest crops, including professionally managed turf, and nurseries
  • Commercial tree fruit crops
  • Commercial vegetable production recommendations
• Plant Disease Fact sheets from PPWS Virginia Extension. Recommended!
• From the American Phytopathological Society
  • disease lessons
  • web feature articles
• Diagnosis and management of ornamental diseases, http://www.chaseresearchgardens.com/articles.html
• Some sources of references (books, etc.)
  • American Phytopathological Society
    • books, CDs, etc. (APS Press)
  • American Nurseryman listing of books, etc. (browse by "pest, weed & disease control")
• Sources of pesticide labels:
  • http://www.greenbook.net/ (crops, fruits, and vegetables, and now also turf and ornamentals)
  • Crop Date Management Systems at http://www.cdms.net/manuf/manuf.asp
• Search for pesticides registered in Virginia, what is registered on a particular crop, or against a particular disease: official database at www.kellysolutions.com/va/
• A list of selected overview "feature" articles in the professional journal "Plant Disease". This scientific journal regularly publishes good overview articles on specific topics, some of which may be useful for Disease Notebooks. Browse the list; the journal is available in the library and as an on-line E-journal via the Tech library website. Updated 2006.
• USEPA/OPP Chemical Ingredients Database Query; find out what is registered, but little additional info.
• Trade magazine links. Use the "Search" feature of these sites for appropriate, practical literature on diseases
  • Golf Course Management, by the GCSAA, current issue, and can search the archives
  • Grounds Maintenance
  • Lawn and Landscape
  • Turfgrass Trends (disease management section)

An image set on plant disease symptoms, from my introductory plant pathology course, for folks who haven't had this exposure

• Slide set 1 (symptoms) (use your username and password)

Miscellaneous

• Baudoin's home page (other courses, research interests)