PMN Update 165

Brought to you by APS / ACSESS Issue 165: December 29, 2015  In this Issue "From the Network" News "Focus on" Webcasts PMN Crop News Featured Journal Articles Last Month's Most Popular Journal Articles Job/Internship Listings "From the Network" News PMN Welcomes New Partner The Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) represents more than 43,000 soybean farmers in Illinois through the state soybean checkoff and membership efforts. The checkoff funds market development, soybean production and profitability research, promotion, issues management and analysis, communications and education. Membership and advocacy efforts support Illinois soybean farmer interests in local areas, Springfield and Washington, D.C. ISA programs are designed to ensure Illinois soy is the highest quality, most dependable, sustainable and competitive in the global marketplace. For more information, visit www.ILSoyAdvisor.com. Writing Grants? PMN Can Help Facilitate Outreach We provide measureable, impactful, and complementary communications for your outreach efforts by producing webcasts, information hubs, and other useful resources for applied scientists and practitioners. Learn more, and contact Phil Bogdan at pbogdan@scisoc.org or 651-994-3859. PMN Adds New Webcasts for CCA Credit... Certified Crop Advisers (CCAs) can now maintain certification through PMN webcasts. For just a small administrative fee charged through the CCA program, you can gain credit for viewing these presentations without the need to take a quiz: Focus on Soybean Big Data, Drones, and Their Uses in Agriculture Focus on Potato "It's Significant to Me!" The Purpose of Using Statistics in Agricultural Research Optimizing Shank Injection Fumigation Using Metam Sodium Managing Diseases with Biopesticides in Potato Production Focus on Tomato Tomato Crop Protection Series 1: Powdery Mildew and Curly Top Tomato Crop Protection Series 2: Organic Weed Management and Viroids Focus on Corn Larval Corn Rootworm Management Adult Corn Rootworm Suppression CRW Biology and Behavior and RNA Interference as a Pest Management Tool Resistance Evolution and IRM for Corn Rootworm Re-learning CRW Management in the Transgenic Era Focus on Cotton Cotton Nutrition in the Southeastern U.S.        Fertilizing for High-Yield Cotton Whitefly Management and Prevention of Excess Sugars in Cotton Questions or issues? Please contact certification@agronomy.org.   back to top "Focus on" Webcasts FOCUS ON POTATO Pythium Leak of Potato - Lyndon Porter, USDA-ARS  back to top PMN Crop News Agronomy Independent Research Documents Yield Increases From Application of NutriSphere-N Through Irrigation Systems - Verdesian Life Sciences Researchers Look for Ways to Slow Runoff, Soil Erosion in Farm Fields - Kansas State University Responding to Your Soil Test Results - United Soybean Board Researchers Eye Cover Crops, Fertilizer to Boost Water Quality - Kansas State University New Seed Treatment Technology Accelerates Nutrient Uptake to Give Soybean, Corn and Wheat Crops a Head Start - Verdesian Life Sciences Soil Health Has Its Benefits - United Soybean Board Irrigation Method Saves 50 Percent of Water Needed for Potato Growth - University of Florida Soybean Variety Tests Show Surprisingly Good Yields - University of Missouri Crop Varieties High Oleic Soybeans Introduced for 2016 Planting in Nebraska - United Soybean Board Soybean Variety Suggestions for 2016 - Mississippi State University Forage and Rangeland Management Will Grassland Soil Weather a Change? - American Society of Agronomy Researcher Studies Cover Crop Effects on Winter Pasture - The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Horticulture Container-Grown Conifers Benefit From Irrigation Based on Daily Water Use - American Society of Horticultural Sciences Best Basil Varieties for Hydroponic Greenhouse Production - American Society of Horticultural Sciences How LED Lighting Treatments Affect Greenhouse Tomato Quality - American Society of Horticultural Sciences Insect Pests / Entomology Red Palm Weevils Can Fly 50 Kilometers in 24 Hours - Entomological Society of America-PIE Division 2016 Insect Control Guide Now Available - Mississippi State University Four New Plant Bug Species Found in Australia - Entomological Society of America-PIE Division Miscellaneous DuPont Pioneer and Trimble Enable Wireless Data Transfer Between Encirca Services and Connected Farm - DuPont Pioneer Scientists Study Plant-Microbe Interactions in Switchgrass - The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Soy Industry Leaders Discuss Big Data Implications - Illinois Soybean Association DuPont Pioneer, Ag Processing Announce New 2016 Pioneer Brand Plenish High Oleic Soybean Program - DuPont Pioneer Plant Diseases New Book Provides Diagnostic, Management Aid for Soybean Pests - The American Phytopathological Society Did it Pay to Apply Foliar Fungicides in Soybeans - South Dakota State University New APS PRESS Book Delivers Foundational Research for the Novel, Efficient, and Sustainable Management of Bacterial Plant Diseases - The American Phytopathological Society Updated 2016 SE Strawberry IPM Guide Available - North Carolina State University Devastating New Race of Banana Disease and its Wide-Ranging Impacts Highlighted in Phytopathology Journal Article  - The American Phytopathological Society Phytopathology Journal Article Chronicles "Big Rust's" Impact on Coffee Disease Management - The American Phytopathological Society Weed Management Texas Farmers Need to Continue to be 'Vigilant' With Herbicide-Resistant Weeds ? Texas A&M University Study on Genetically Engineered Crops Nears Completion - Weed Science Society of America Herbicides, Not Insecticides are Biggest Threat to Bees - Mississippi State University Dicamba Drift Affects Non-Target Plants and Pollinators - Penn State University Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other: the Future of Weed Management? - Penn State University back to top Featured Journal Articles Plant Health Progress Research Using Recombinant Inbred Lines to Monitor Changes in the Race Structure of Phytophthora capsici in Chile Pepper in New Mexico Reaction of Sorghum Lines to Zonate Leaf Spot and Rough Leaf Spot Effect of In-Furrow and Early-Season Banded Applications of Fungicides on Incidence of Early Leaf Spot of Peanut Briefs First Report of Target Spot Caused by Corynespora cassiicola in Louisiana Cotton First Report of Orobanche ludoviciana Parasitizing Sunflowers First Report of Sudden Death Syndrome of Soybean Caused by Fusarium virguliforme in Louisiana   Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management Research Industrial Hemp Response to Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Fertilization Herbicides Applied at or Shortly after Seeding Are Effective for Weed Control in Seedling Buffalograss Survey of Glyphosate- and Imazapic-Resistant Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) in Florida Input-based Stress Management Fails to Increase Soybean Yield in Kentucky Drought-Tolerant Corn Hybrid Response to Nitrogen Application Rate in Ohio Field Corn Response to Diclosulam Phenolic Compounds Affect Bloat Potential of Wheat Forage back to top Last Month's Most Popular Journal Articles Plant Health Progress: Effectiveness of Nine Different Fungicides for Management of Crown and Root Rot of Chile Pepper Plants Caused by Phytophthora capsici  back to top Job/Internship Listings Submit new employment/intern listings online. It's free for partners! Graduate Research Assistant – Ph.D. Seed Production Supervisor View these postings at the PMN Employment/Internship Posting Service. back to top Plant Management Network © 2015 www.plantmanagementnetwork.org Click here to unsubscribe

 

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