Blight Research

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Personnel

Bode Adebowale Olukolu
Assistant Professor

Groups and Facilities

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Phytophthora Plant Pathogens
Soybeans, vegetables, the Irish potato blight, and Sudden Oak Death.

Video

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Preparing to plant 1,200 chestnut trees
1,200 chestnut trees were prepared at the University of Tennessee forest genetics greenhouse to be planted in national forests in the South.

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Chestnuts
Partially restoring the chestnut tree may happen in our lifetime.

Recent Publications

Comparison of conventional and organic fungicides, application intervals, and cultivars to manage tomato early blight, 2018. Hansen, Z. R. 2019. Plant Disease Management Reports, 13:V003.

Comparison of conventional and organic fungicides, application intervals, and cultivars to manage tomato early blight in Tennessee. Hansen, Z. R. 2019. American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting.

First report of honeysuckle leaf blight on Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) caused by Insolibasidium deformans in Tennessee. Plant Disease. Klingeman, W. E., E. C. Bernard, S. Boggess, G. M. Pietsch, D. Hadziabdic Guerry, and R. N. Trigiano. 2019. Plant Disease, 103(4): 772.

Virulence phenotypes on chili pepper for Phytophthora capsici isolates from Michoacán, Mexico. Reyes-Tena, A., A. Castro-Rocha, and K. H. Lamour. 2019. HORTSCIENCE. [Abstract]

Effects of two-treatment fungicide programs on grain yield and quality of Fusarium head blight-affected Wheat. Salgado, J.D., H. M. Kelly, et al. 2019. Phytopathology, 109 (10), 65-65.

Sample Budgets for Large-scale Bell Pepper Operations and the Impact of Phytophthora Blight on Farm Revenue and Costs, 2019. Velandia, M., A. L. Wszelaki, Z. R. Hansen, F. A. Hale, S. A. Smith, J. Moore, and A. Ahles. 2019. University of Tennessee Extension Publication. July, W831.

Boxwood Blight. Windham, A. S., and M. T. Windham. 2019. UT Extension, 3pp, W816.

Boxwood Blight. Windham, A. S., and M. T. Windham. 2019. Turf and Ornamental Field Day, #UTTurfFD19 pp 36-38.

Evaluation of apple cultivars for resistance to Alternaria blotch caused by Alternaria alternata apple pathogtype and fire blight. Y. Li, X. L. Hu, R. N. Trigiano, H. Adwinckle, W. Srmack, G. Y. Zhong, and Z. Cheng. 2019. HortScience, HortScience 54:1268-1274.

First report of an aerial blight of Chrysogenum virginianum (Green and Gold) caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in the United States. Trigiano, R. N., S. L. Boggess, and B. H. Ownley. 2018. Plant Disease, 102(2): 450.

Boxwood Blight. Windham, A. S. 2018. Proceedings of the UT Turf and Ornamental Field Day, pp. 22-23, Knoxville, Aug 30, J. Brosnan, editor.

Keep your garden healthy: boxwood blight. Windham, A. S. 2018. Cultivate, Fall/Winter P.13.