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When our trial had more winter rye biomass than the research farm planter could handle, the Naeve Lab helped us out! Big thanks to these colleagues for getting our beans (soybean and dry bean) planted 🫘!

Take our new Video Tour! Join us on a walk through the fields, labs, classrooms, and community spaces of University of Minnesota Plant Pathology's Saint Paul, Minnesota campus. youtube.com/watch?v=cIrl8q…

Checking on plots and assessing emergence this morning. Canola, dry bean, and soybean Sclerotinia and Rhizoctonia trials are underway in St. Paul!

Irrigation is up and running just as canola is reaching initial flowering and drier weather is on the way (thanks Peter and Alvaro!). We’ve had plentiful moisture + cool temps + plenty of inoculum added. 🤞for disease pressure in our white mold biocontrol study!

The latest National Academies report finds that to improve soil health, federal agencies need to promote the importance of soil health, support translational research, and develop a coordinated national approach to monitor soil health over time and space. More: nap.edu/catalog/27459

The latest group of UMN Plant Pathology soilborne fungi and oomycete researchers! We recently welcomed new MSc student, Hunter; MAST student, Alvaro; REEU student, Carah; and independent undergraduate researchers Linnea, Flannery, and Hazel to the lab 🍄🌱.

Spotted in the dept. front office. This brightened my day!

Hello white mold 👋! What will your severity and incidence tell us about biological control of WM in canola? TBD, but good to see uniform disease pressure in our St. Paul canola plots!

Apothecia are emerging close to the plants in our St. Paul soybean white mold trials. These cool, moist conditions + canopy formation are kicking in. 📸 by REEU student, Carah Anteck.

All you mycologists out there.... This is a great faculty position in an outstanding department. Still taking applications. 🍄

New Op-Ed from Extension Professor Dean Malvick: "What does this rain mean for corn, soybean diseases in Minnesota in 2024?" dglobe.com/opinion/column…

UMN Soybean Research isn't just 'at the U.' Our researchers have collaborations and sites across a large swath of the state which allows them to target their learning in a variety of growing conditions that farmers face here in MN to return those benefits right back to farmers.

Chat with Hsuan Fu Wang and Alisha Mildenberger at the 4:00 poster session today! These students are investigating tools to manage white mold in soybean. Research supported by NSI and MN Soybean Research & Promotion Council. Both students received travel awards from APS/UMN Plant Pathology 🎉!

Nice work, Hsuan Fu and Alisha! The lab’s graduate students discussed their work in Sclerotinia biology and management during the 4:00 poster session at #PlantHealth2024.

Cool work by my second half! He’s managed to be *very* productive and collaborative, despite the inconvenience/isolation of remote work (oh, and a new baby)🤩!

The lab is down in Waseca at the UMN SROC phenotyping lines for our plant architecture-white mold trial, in collaboration with UMN Soybean Breeding and supported by MN Soybean Research & Promotion Council. Plants are at R4 and the field looks great!

Please RT! The Gold Lab at Cornell AgriTech is hiring a lab/project manager to join our interdisciplinary team of plant pathologists, computer scientists, engineers, and remote sensing scientists. Apply by *Sept 16th* for full consideration: tinyurl.com/goldlabmanager…