Since 1978, Margery Daughtrey has been an ornamental crop disease management problem-solver, serving the greenhouse, nursery and floriculture industries from her base at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center.
“Some of her most notable discoveries include coleus downy mildew in the northern part of the country and dogwood anthracnose on the East Coast,” writes Parker Schug in a recent profile in The Northforker.
“There are new and interesting and important things [plant diseases] that come along frequently, which gave me fresh material to work on, new things to study and places where I could make a contribution,'” recalled Daughtrey, a Senior Extension Associate, in the School of Integrative Plant Science’s Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section.
