UW-Extension/Madison Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (PDDC) Update

Brian Hudelson, Ann Joy, Erin DeWinter and Joyce Wu, Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic

The PDDC receives samples of many plant and soil samples from around the state.  The following diseases/disorders have been identified at the PDDC from June 29, 2013 through July 5, 2013.

Plant/Sample Type, Disease/Disorder, Pathogen, County

FIELD CROPS

Corn, Seedling Blight, Pythium sp., Fusarium sp., Bipolaris sorokiniana, Adams, Walworth

Soybean, Seedling Blight, Fusarium oxysporum, Grant

FORAGE CROPS

Alfalfa, Aphanomyces Seedling Blight, Aphanomyces euteiches, Brown

Alfalfa, Aphanomyces Root Rot, Aphanomyces euteiches, Iowa

Alfalfa, Root Rot, Rhizoctonia solani, Fusarium sp., Iowa

FRUIT CROPS

Apple (‘Gala’), Fire Blight, Erwinia amylovora, Lincoln

VEGETABLES

Garlic, Aster Yellows, Aster Yellows Phytoplasma, Waukesha

Tomato, Late Blight, Phytophthora infestans, Sauk

For additional information on plant diseases and their control, visit the PDDC website at pddc.wisc.edu.