Beech Leaf Disease: Can IPM save our native and ornamental beech trees?

Margery will describe the new disease of beech that was first noticed in North America in 2012. The survival of both native and non-native ornamental species of beech is threatened by a leaf galling nematode. We have an ever-improving understanding of how this nematode parasitizes its host—now we need to learn how to successfully thwart it.

Speaker

Margery Daughtrey is a Senior Extension Associate with the Section of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology of Cornell University. She has conducted a research and extension program on the management of diseases of ornamental plants since 1978, at Cornell’s Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center in Riverhead, NY. She educates growers on management of greenhouse and nursery crop diseases, runs a diagnostic laboratory and investigates controls for boxwood blight, impatiens downy mildew, and other terrible diseases. Daughtrey holds a B.S. degree in Biology from the College of William and Mary, an M.S. in Plant Pathology from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She is coauthor of 4 books, including Diseases of Herbaceous Perennials and the Compendium of Bedding Plant Diseases and Pests and is a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society.

NYSIPM Academic Seminars

This event is part of the New York State Integrated Pest Management academic seminar series which is designed increase awareness of new research and techniques that advance Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and its adoption in all types of pest management settings.