"A Resource for Pests and Diseases of Cultivated Palms: Symptoms of Diseases and Disorders"

See below and the attached announcement – another set of tools to help with palm problem diagnosis.  The first link is for palm symptoms, including insect damage (the insect is gone, but the damage is left behind).  The second link is a basic identification tool for arthropod pests of palms.  The third link is for the entire resource.  More tools in the resource are forthcoming by UF-IFAS and DPI staff that will deal with precise insect and mite identification and palm species identification.

 

Symptoms of Diseases and Disorders can be accessed at: http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/palms/symptoms/

Screening Aid to Pests can be access at:  http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/palms/sap/

 

A Resource for Pests and Diseases of Cultivated Palms can now be accessed at: http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/palms/resource/

 

We would appreciate any feedback you would like to provide regarding the symptom tool.  While not the first, we fully understand now why there aren’t a lot of symptom keys available – it just isn’t easy to do!!  Also, the fact sheets associated with this tool are not specific for Florida and have no management recommendations, so the palm EDIS publications will still be more applicable here in the state.

 

Happy New Year!

Monica

 

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Monica L. Elliott, Ph.D.

Professor and Interim Center Director

University of Florida – IFAS

Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center

3205 College Avenue

Fort Lauderdale (Davie), FL 33314

954.577-6315

melliott@ufl.edu

 

A Resource for Pests and Diseases of Cultivated Palms:
Symptoms of Diseases and Disorders
Authors: Timothy K. Broschat, Monica L. Elliott, and Ian Maguire

CPHST is pleased to announce the release of its newest identification tool: A Resource for Pests and Diseases of Cultivated Palms: Symptoms of Diseases and Disorders, developed through collaboration between USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST and University of Florida. Symptoms of Diseases and Disorders is part of the commodity-based A Resource for Pests and Diseases of Cultivated Palms, developed to support Federal, State, and County plant protection agencies and other organizations involved with surveillance, detection, and monitoring of pests and diseases associated with cultivated palms. Palms are commonly cultivated as ornamentals and have been used as crop plants for centuries, providing important sources of food and a variety of other products. As such, palms are one of the most economically important groups of plants.

Symptoms of Diseases and Disorders features illustrated fact sheets with descriptions of each disease and disorder, as well as an interactive key to support the user in the identification of palm problems based on visual symptoms. Some commonly confused types of insect damage are included as well. In the key, common language terms are generally used to help support its use by a wider audience. The key is fully illustrated, providing the user with photographs of live specimens to support identification. A glossary is provided to assist the user in understanding the specialized botanical terminology that appears in the fact sheets. An illustrated guide to palm anatomy is also provided.

Symptoms of Diseases and Disorders can be accessed at: http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/palms/symptoms/

Attached is a copy of the announcement containing an overview of CPHST's new Lucid identification tool.
               

Please feel free to forward this email and/or the attachment to your colleagues.

Terrence Walters, ITP Coordinator
CPHST Fort Collins

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Terrence Walters, Ph.D., Identification Technology Program Coordinator
USDA-APHIS-PPQ CPHST@Fort Collins
2301 Research Boulevard, Suite 108; Fort Collins, Colorado 80526-1825

Phone: 970-490-4471;  Fax: 970-482-0924
Email: terrence.w.walters@aphis.usda.gov
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