Excited to serve the The American Phytopathological Society community as Vice-Chair of the #postharvest APS Postharvest Pathology Committee committee. Let’s keep the momentum and great work done by Lina Quesada 🟧 and group members 💪🏼 #PlantHealth2024 If you have not joined yet… it’s time to join! UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UFPostharvest

This is Geotrichum sour rot, an important postharvest disease of #sweetpotato that we don’t know much about, mostly because we didn’t have a reliable inoculation method until today. Thanks to Kelly J. Avila a new and needed research area for the lab is open 🍠 🤩 N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative APS Postharvest Pathology Committee

Anthracnose is an important disease of cucurbits, having a semi selective media for the pathogen would be a great contribution! Sarah Cochran-Murray NC State Veggie Pathology

With some of my favorite NC State Extension colleagues at N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative! It’s Agent training week 🔬 🍄 NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

Congrats to Horacio!!! A rising star at OhioStatePlantPath

Sharing our newest publication on another tropical fruit host for Meloidogyne enterolobii in Florida. #nematode #dragonfruit bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy anniversary to the Colombian Association of Phytopathology and Related Sciences - Asociación Colombiana de Fitopatología 50 years promoting and supporting the plant health in Colombia APS Office of International Programs APS Tropical Plant Pathology Committee Embassy of Colombia in the United States IPPC | International Plant Protection Convention Food Security

Exciting news for our graduate student Isabella Magna Yannuzzi!! Check out this cool paper about research conducted at Cornell AgriTech 🍎

Congrats Kevin Childs and team!

Fantastic team that were critical for another successful field day! Thank you all!

On August 9, 2024 cucurbit downy mildew was confirmed on cucumber in south-central Kentucky. Cucurbit downy mildew has also been reported in neighboring states. Disease is expected to become widespread across the area. buff.ly/3AojlWy

Glad to have helped organize and participated in this great session! Discussing how #diversity enhances and enriches our #extension and #research programs UF IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UF IFAS Solutions Dr. Andra Johnson APS_Extension APS Office of International Programs UF Office of Global Learning University of Florida International Center Food and Agriculture Organization Dept. of Agriculture NIFA

🚨Fall armyworms are no joke, y'all. Hitting NC hard and fast after Debby. Keep an eye out for egg masses, caterpillars and be sure to soap flush. Pyrethroids for immediate control, diamides for long-term.

Found this while harvesting peppers from a P. capsici trial! While likely not happy that I removed it from home, it was at least kind enough to leave me alone. Also, wash your fruits and veggies! NC State Veggie Pathology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

Finally, got the🚦to announce wonderful news! My first F1 Assistant Professor! Congratulations 🍾 to Monica Monica Navia-Urrutia for accepting a faculty position UF IFAS Everglades REC - Belle Glade Happy she will stay in the UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department family! #proudPI #womeninSTEM #Gators 🐊 📸 2017 & 2024 celebrations 🫶🏻

Dr. B, Thank you for the immeasurable impact you've made in the lives of those around you. You will be sorely missed, but far from forgotten. From your Extension family, we wish you nothing but the best moving forward! Check out our farewell messages: ncst.at/ugbj50T7LKA

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

Check out this story on one of the awesome projects we’ve been working on!🌱🤖 NC State Veggie Pathology NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative

Rich Bonanno, director of NC State Extension, shares his final goodbye video message for employees before his departure at the end of August. It's been a great run, and we're going to miss him!

We would like to wish a warm congratulations to Rich Bonanno, outgoing director of NC State Extension, for having been awarded The Order of the Long Leaf Pine! 🎉 This is the highest award for state service given by the North Carolina Governor.