Spore traps are placed in the several sites in Michigan counties for the field season. Each trap operates by continuously pulling in air and all associated particles (spores, pollen, dust, etc.) and impacting them onto sticky tape on a reel inside the trap. The reel with the spores is brought back to the lab where downy mildew […]
Hausbeck Lab @ MSU
Mary Hausbeck is an Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist at Michigan State University. Members of her lab include Charles Krasnow and Sheila Linderman.
Project receives $2.3 million grant to combat downy mildew
USDA has awarded Michigan State University (MSU) researchers and collaborators at six other universities across the country a four-year, $2.3 million grant to develop management plans for downy mildew. Read more from the Vegetable Growers News
2015 Soilborne Oomycete International Conference
Genetics, Taxonomy, & Pathogen Diversity Session leader: Lina Quesada-Ocampo Development of microsatellites from whole-transcriptome sequences in Phytophthora capsici for population studies C. H. Parada-Rojas & L. M. Quesada-Ocampo Sequencing the genome of the downy mildew plant pathogen Plasmopara obducens: progress and utility M. J. Bowman, J. Chow, L. M. Cano, E. Góngora-Castillo, L. M. Quesada-Ocampo, […]
MSU to lead $6.5 million research on disease resistance in cucurbits | MSU
A national team of 20 scientists led by MSU Horticulture Professor Rebecca Grumet has been awarded $6.5 million grant to accelerate the development of disease-resistant cucurbit crops through leveraging applied genomics. Read More
