In May 2016, Extension and Outreach faculty member Dr. Robert Schlub in collaboration with the director of the Louisiana State Extension Plant Diagnostic Center, Dr. Raghuwinder Singh conducted a four-day diagnostic training workshop in an effort to strengthen the diagnostic capabilities of Agriculture Professionals in the region. Over the course of the training, agricultural professionals from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands received classroom instruction, which was reinforced with plant disease specimen collection field trips and laboratory exercises. The training emphasized diagnoses based on field symptoms and those revealed through the use of a hand-lens.
This manual will serve as a modified online version of that training.
For additional information please contact:
Dr. Robert Schlub
Office: (671) 735-2089
Home: (671) 734-3346
Unit: (671) 735-2080
Fax: (671) 734-1244
Email: rlschlub@triton.uog.edu
Dr. Raghuwinder Singh (left) and Dr. Robert Schlub (right)
Presentation Powerpoints
Louisiana State Extension Plant Diagnostic Center Presented – Dr. Raghuwinder Singh
• LSU Plant Diagnostic Center
• Plant Diagnostics 101: What’s normal, what’s not and why
• Plant Diagnostics 102: Plant pathogens and their symptoms…
• Plant viruses
• Huanglongbing Citrus Greening
• Immunostrip testing
University of Guam, WPTRC – Dr. Andrea Blas
• Diseases of local importance
University of Guam, Extension & Outreach – Dr. Robert Schlub
• Basics of scouting
• Ironwood tree decline
• Phellinus noxius on avocado
• Resources and things to take to the field
• Tree Diseases
Factsheets
• Banana bunchy top disease
• Collecting disease and insect pest samples
• Coconut rhinoceros beetle
• CRB trapping method
• Citrus Greening in Guam
• Diagnostic samples storage
• Diagnostic tip
• How to make a wet mount
• Phytopthora Black Rot of Orchid
• Sample photography – diagnostics
• Tobacco screen bacteria – diagnostics
• Louisiana Home Vegetable Gardening
• Information Resource List
• Plant Diagnostic Sample Submission Form
Publications
• Diseases of the Pacific
• Eggplant, Pepper, and Tomato Production Guide
• Guam Cucurbit Guide
Presenters:
Dr. Andrea Blas: WPTRC, University of Guam
Dr. Jim McConnell, WPTRC, University of Guam
Dr. Robert Schlub: Extension and Outreach, University of Guam
Dr. Raghuwinder Singh: Plant Disease Diagnostic Center, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
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