The Turfgrass Pathology Committee will be hosting a Turfgrass Disease Diagnostics Workshop at Plant Health 2024 in Memphis this year. The workshop will be taught by the Committee’s own Jim Kerns and Lee Butler from NCSU!
Visit the NPDN 2024 National Meeting webpage for up-to-date information on all things national meeting.
Important dates to remember
Jiahuai (Alex) Hu (WPDN)
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2024
Carrie Lapaire Harmon, SPDN Co-Director
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2024
Clarissa Balbalian (Editor)
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2024
Allina Bennett, NPDN Professional Development Coordinator
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2024
Tom Creswell, Purdue University (NCPDN)
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2024
Contact Sara May (srm183@psu.edu), Sam Fieweger (sam.fieweger@wisconsin.gov
Tania Brenes- Arguedas (WPDN)
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2024
Recently, the NPDN data committee (NDC) tackled a complex issue. How to enter diseases caused by complexes of organisms or caused by interactions among multiple pathogens and/or abiotic factors in the National Data Repository (NDR).
Jordan Withycombe1, Megan McConnell2, Xiao Yang1
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