KSU Plant Path was thrilled to host the North Central APS Division Mtg last week w > 160 attendees from many states & Canada incl many students & early career scientists. This photo shows student & postdoc travel awardees along w poster & talk competition winners. Congrats all!

Congrats to our own Madison Kessler from K-State Applied Row Crop Pathology Program for winning first place in the poster competition!

Congrats to our own Leticia Camara Vieira on her travel award, from K-State Applied Row Crop Pathology Program lab.

Congratulations to our own Dr. Jessica Rupp Noller on being selected for the North Central APS Early Career Award! Pictured here with Dr. Daren Mueller from Iowa State (Distinguished Service Award) and Dr. Upinder Gill from NDSU (Mid-Career Award). Congrats to all! Jessica Rupp

Following on our conference highlights - congratulations to our own Dr. Raissa Debacker Moura for a earning postdoctoral award! KSU Wheat Pathology

More meeting highlights! Congratulations to our own Lawrence Tidakbi for receiving a student travel award! Jessica Rupp

More meeting highlights! Congratulations to our own Claudio Dias da Silva for earning a student travel award! KSU Wheat Pathology

🌽 Southern rust is now active in Kansas 🌽

Our KSU Plant Diagnostic Lab supports stakeholders across Kansas & beyond. As example here is article about helping wheat industry. KSU is regional hub for the Great Plains Diagnostic Network (GPDN) which is part of the National Plant Diagnostic Network. npdn.org/newsletter/202…

Kansas Corn southern rust and tar spot update 👇

#SorghumConnection is a series of events put on for farmers by farmers! Very productive day with Maddy Meier Kansas Sorghum AGENDA👇 Field Days Bavaria 9/4 Jay Wisbey Dighton 9/11 Hineman Farms Russell 9/18 Craig Dinkel Winter Schools Hays 12/4 Salina 12/5 Garden City 12/6

KSU Plant Path getting ready to represent at 2024 Turf & Ornamental Field Day at Rocky Ford Turf Research Center. Judy O’Mara and student Olivia DeWolf covering pine problems and Megan Kennelly sharing a multistate dollar spot research collaboration

Thanks to Eduard Akhunov WGRC and IGF for putting on this great program again this year. Thank you to all the students from across the country who participated. Excited to help train the next gen of wheat geneticists and breeders.

The Kansas Wheat Variety Guide for 2024 is live! This is your ‘plot tour in print’ with updated disease, insect, and agronomic ratings based on multi-year data for more than 85 wheat varieties. Link: tinyurl.com/mpbrr43u Romulo Lollato KansasWheat

Get ready for the Sorghum Connection series launch in just ONE WEEK! 🥳 Maddy sat down with Jay Wisbey for a sneak peek at the Bavaria field day event. RSVP today! rb.gy/a4wfbl #SorghumConnection K-State Applied Row Crop Pathology Program

A Plant Nematology position (Assistant or Associate Professor) is available at Kansas State University. 90% research, 10% teaching. Listing open to wide range of research areas within Plant Nematology. Details: careers.k-state.edu/jobs/assistant…

Low levels of corn stunt disease have been confirmed in Kansas Link: shorturl.at/TBrNs

What a great turnout at our first Kansas Sorghum #SorghumConnection field day at the Jay Wisbey plots! Interested in sorghum fertility, cropping systems, hybrid selection, and stalk rot management? Mare sure to join us in📍Dighton 9/11 Hineman Farms &📍 Russell 9/18 Craig Dinkel

KSU Plant Pathology is hiring a faculty nematology position. Check here for all the details and please help share to qualified candidates: careers.k-state.edu/jobs/assistant…

Congratulations to Dr. Erick De Wolf and colleagues on their new project to investigate heat tolerant stripe rust of wheat. ksre.k-state.edu/news-and-publi…