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Corn Disease Profiles
$3.00This set of three Extension Circulars covers foliar, stalk rot, and ear rot diseases that affect corn and the management of these diseases.
Corn Disease Profiles I, EC1867, contains descriptions, photos and brief management suggestions of foliar corn diseases such as gray leaf spot, common rust, southern rust, eyespot, physoderma brown spot, Goss’s bacterial wilt and blight, Holcus spot, Stewart’s bacterial wilt, and various viral diseases including high plains disease, maize chlorotic mottle, maize dwarf mosaic, wheat streak mosaic, and corn lethal necrosis.
Corn Disease Profiles II, EC1868, contains descriptions, photos and brief management suggestions for anthracnose stalk rot, fusarium stalk rot, gibberella stalk rot, diplodia stalk rot, charcoal rot, and bacterial stalk rot.
Corn Disease Profiles III, EC1901, contains descriptions and photos of ear rot diseases and grain molds of corn with brief management suggestions. Diseases included are aspergillus ear rot; diplodia ear rot; fusarium ear rot; gibberella ear rot; pencillium ear rot; and cladosporium ear rot.
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Dry Bean Disease Profiles
$2.00This pair of publications covers various diseases that can affect dry beans and the management of those diseases.
Dry Bean Disease Profiles I, EC1876 contains descriptions and photos of bean common mosaic, bean yellow mosaic, rust, common blight, halo blight, brown spot, and bacterial wilt.
Dry Bean Disease Profiles II, EC1877 contains descriptions and photos of fusarium root rot, rhizoctonia root rot, pythium root rot, white mold and fusarium yellows.
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Managing Wheat Streak Mosaic
$1.00Wheat streak mosaic virus affects spring wheat, oats, and barley, but is particularly devastating in winter wheat. Wheat streak mosaic virus is most prevalent in the western Great Plains. This 8-page Extension Circular covers risk factors, symptoms, disease life cycle, and management of wheat streak mosaic virus and its vector, the wheat curl mite, in winter wheat. Learn More -
Nematodes of Nebraska Field Crops
$1.00Photos and brief descriptions and management suggestions for the more common and/or damaging nematodes found in Nebraska field crops. Learn More -
Pesticide Selection Guide for Plant Diseases Affecting Woody Ornamentals and Herbaceous Perennials in Nebraska
$1.00This 48-page guide will help growers and users identify the most prominent disease problems affecting ornamental plants and how to treat them. The guide also contains information on pesticides registered for control of diseases affecting woody ornamentals and herbaceous perennials in Nebraska.
Sections include:
- Developing a successful disease management program
- Host/pest guide to plant diseases on herbaceous perennials
- Select agent and high risk pathogen list for woody ornamentals and herbaceous perennials
- Woody ornamental hosts and diseases, and herbaceous perennial hosts and diseases
- General disease guide on woody ornamental and herbaceous perennials
- Fungicide/bactericide information
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Soybean Disease Profiles
$2.00This pair of publications covers various diseases that can affect soybeans and the management of those diseases.
Soybean Disease Profiles I, EC1903 contains descriptions and photos of foliar diseases of soybean with brief management suggestions. Diseases included are bacterial blight; bacterial pustule; brown spot; purple seed stain; downy mildew; frogeye leaf spot; soybean rust; powdery mildew; and bean pod mottle virus.
Soybean Disease Profiles II, EC1904 contains descriptions and photos of stem and root rot diseases of soybean with brief management suggestions. Diseases included are brown stem rot; charcoal rot; fusarium wilt and root rot; phytophthora root and stem rot; pod and stem blight; phomopsis seed decay; seedling blight; rhizoctonia root rot; sclerotinia stem rot; soybean cyst nematode; stem canker; and sudden death syndrome.
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Sugarbeet Disease Profiles
$2.00This pair of publications covers various diseases that can affect sugarbeets and the management of those diseases.
Sugarbeet Disease Profiles I, EC1878 contains descriptions and photos of seedling diseases, aphanomyces root rot, rhizoctonia root and crown rot, pythium root rot, and fusarium yellows.
Sugarbeet Disease Profiles II, EC1879 contains descriptions and photos of rhizomania, foliar diseases, beet curly top, beet soilborne mosaic, nematodes, false root-knot, cyst, and root-knot.
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Wheat Disease Profiles
$2.00These Extension Circulars cover a variety of viral, fungal, and bacterial diseases affecting wheat and explain how to manage them.
Wheat Disease Profiles I, EC1873 contains descriptions and photos of wheat diseases, including viral, foliar fungal, and fungal root and crown rot diseases, plus brief management suggestions. Diseases covered include barley yellow dwarf, wheat soilborne mosaic, wheat streak mosaic, high plains disease, wheat spindle streak mosaic, stripe rust, leaf rust, stem rust, tan spot, septoria tritici blotch, common root rot and crown rot, and powdery mildew.
Wheat Disease Profiles II, EC1875 contains descriptions and photos of fungal and bacterial wheat diseases that affect heads and grain and/or leaves, plus brief management suggestions. Diseases covered include loose smut, common bunt (sticking smut), ergot, fusarium head blight (scab), take-all, stagonospora nodorum blotch, bacterial streak and black chaff, cephalosporium stripe, black head molds (sooty head molds), and black point.
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