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August 24, 2005 |
Volume 2, Number 8 |
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One-stop shopping for tracking, forecasting, and more at http://www.usda.gov/soybeanrust/
Mark your calendars! The 4th Annual Southern Plant Diagnostic Network Meeting will be held October 27-28, 2005 in Atlanta, GA. This year's lodging and meeting site will be Holiday Inn Airport North Hotel. Rooms will be $85.00 under the block name "Southern Plant Diagnostic Network". More information will follow in the coming months. The agenda is now coming together; please send agenda items to clharmon@ufl.edu.
Southern Plant
Diagnostic Network 1453 Fifield
Hall Phone: (352) 392-3631 ext
254 Fax: (352)
392-6532 E-mail: We’re on the
Web! Southern Plant Diagnostic Network (SPDN) All Rights Reserved
Editor: Carrie L. Harmon
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Offerings New August edition of the North-Central IPM Center newsletter "Connection" is at http://ncipmc.org/connection/Connection0805.pdf (Note the new RFA!) New How to make Pink Hibiscus Mealybug slides: http://www.mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/lso/PinkMealybug.htm There is now one-stop shopping for the NPDN SOPs! You can find all the most up-to-date SOPs at a new page on the SPDN website: http://spdn.ifas.ufl.edu/NPDN_SOPs.htm. Training Opportunities Auburn University, in conjunction with LEARN, Inc. and The Animal Agriculture Alliance will be hosting a training event entitled, "Managing Escalating Threats to Food and Agriculture", October 17-19, 2005 at the Auburn Campus, Auburn, Alabama. Researchers, stakeholders in food and agribusiness and public service personnel are cordially invited to attend this important training event. Food and Agriculture continue to gain attention by the government because of escalating threats from both domestic and foreign groups. For more information click here for a PDF of the flyer. Multi-State Fungal In-Service Training and Workshop September 1, 2005, Quincy, FL. Multi-State Tomato In-Service Training and Workshop Oct 18-19, 2005 in Quincy, FL. No registration fee for Land Grant Universities personnel and students. Please send your registration info (name, e-mail, business address) by e-mail to Laura Ritchie before October 1, 2005: LSRitchie@ifas.ufl.edu Registration fee is $20 for other participants. Pest and Pathogen News
New Phytophthora ramorum USDA-APHIS update at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/ispm/pramorum/updates/update08-09-05.pdf Ten new plants added to the host list!
New New Soybean Rust finds across the south: FL, GA, AL, MS, SC. More information can be found at http://spdn.ifas.ufl.edu/soybean_rust.htm, the SPDN Soybean Rust page, and http://www.sbrusa.net/. APHIS
Solicits Input on Soybean Rust Risks
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service released on
February 23, 2004, a report: “Status of Scientific Evidence on Risks
Associated with the Introduction into the Continental United States of
Phakopsora pachyrhizi With Imported Soybean Grain, Seed and Meal.” APHIS
officials are accepting public comments on the information contained
within the document, as well as data gaps. This document may serve to
inform the completion of a risk assessment. You can view the document at:
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