PPFS-GEN-14: Don't Eat Those Wild Mushrooms

Ellen Crocker, Nicole Ward Gauthier | Feb. 1, 2016 (New)

Mushrooms are strange and wonderful things--some are beautiful, some are ugly, some are delicious, and some are deadly. Mushroom hunting is a fun and rewarding hobby that can turn a hike through local woods into a puzzle-solving adventure. Many people are drawn to mushroom hunting and the potential to forage for food. Unfortunately, there is a dark side to mushroom foraging: poisoning. Each year, wild mushrooms lead to numerous illnesses and even a few deaths.

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PPFS-GEN-9: Submitting Plant Specimens for Disease Diagnosis

Julie Beale, Brenda Kennedy, Sara Long, Nicole Ward Gauthier | Mar. 1, 2014 (New)

Diagnosis of plant diseases is one of the many ways that the University of Kentucky Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and UK Cooperative Extension serve the citizens of Kentucky. This publication is designed to help growers collect and submit the best plant samples for an accurate diagnosis.

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PPFS-GEN-11: Diagnosis of "No Disease"

Julie Beale, Brenda Kennedy, Sara Long, Nicole Ward Gauthier | Mar. 1, 2014 (New)

Extension Agents and growers may occasionally receive diagnostic reports from the University of Kentucky Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory that indicate "no disease was found." One or both of the following explanations may account for the diagnosis of "No Disease."

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PPFS-GEN-5: Fruit, Orchard, and Vineyard Sanitation

David Koester, Faye Tewksbury, Nicole Ward Gauthier | Aug. 1, 2013 (New)

Diseases can become a significant problem in commercial and home fruit plantings, resulting in premature leaf drop, fruit decay, dieback, decline, and even plant death. When diseases do occur, it is often presumed that fungicides are the most important and effective disease management tools available. However, a good sanitation program can help reduce the need for chemical controls and can improve the effectiveness of other practices for managing disease. This often-overlooked disease management tool reduces pathogen numbers and eliminates infective propagules that cause disease.

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PPFS-GEN-4: Landscape Sanitation

Amanda Sears, Nicole Ward Gauthier | Jul. 1, 2013 (New)

Diseases can become a significant problem in commercial and home landscape plantings (Figure 1a), resulting in premature leaf drop, dieback, decline, and even plant death. When diseases do occur, it is often presumed that fungicides are the most important and effective disease management tools available. However, a good sanitation program can help reduce the need for chemical controls and can improve the effectiveness of other practices for managing disease. This often-overlooked disease management tool reduces pathogen numbers and eliminates infective propagules that cause disease.

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PPFS-GEN-3: Damping-off of Vegetables and Herbaceous Ornamentals

Kenny Seebold, Nicole Ward Gauthier | Feb. 1, 2012 (New)

Damping-off can occur on any herbaceous crop grown from seed, including vegetables, ornamentals, and field crops. Seeds, seedlings, and young plants may be affected, resulting in poor stands in home gardens, greenhouses, and commercial fields. Losses to damping-off can be severe, especially when cool, wet weather prevails at seeding or seed emergence.

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PPFS-GEN-12: Foliar Fungicide Use in Corn and Soybeans

Don Hershman, Cheryl Kaiser, Paul Vincelli | Oct. 1, 2011 (New)

Interest in the use of foliar fungicides for corn and soybean has expanded dramatically in the U.S. over the past few years, resulting in a major change in how these crops are being produced on many farms. Until recently, foliar fungicides for soybeans and corn were reserved for seed production fields to protect seed quality in very specific circumstances or for specialty crops. Applications for the purpose of protecting crop yield were rarely economical. However, the current trend in Kentucky, as well as many other corn/soybean producing states, is towards an increased use of foliar fungicides on these crops as a means of maximizing yields.

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PPFS-GEN-2: Powdery Mildew

Brian Eshenaur, John Hartman | Aug. 1, 2004 (Minor Revision)

Powdery mildew may affect numerous ornamentals, fruits, vegetables, and agronomic crops. In Kentucky, mildew diseases are most commonly observed on apple, begonia, crabapple, cherry, dogwood, lilac, phlox, pin oak, rose, sycamore, tuliptree, turfgrass, zinnia, squash, pumpkin, cantaloupe, wheat and barley.