PPPMB Section News

CALS News, Spotlights, Field Notes and FutureCasts of interest to the Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology Section community in the School of Integrative Plant Science.

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DEWAS team

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Battling crop diseases without borders
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Camilo H. Parada-Rojas Headshot

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Camilo H. Parada-Rojas
Academic focus: Field crops pathology Research summary: We study diseases of major field crops in New York state with one goal: better decisions for growers. We ask how pathogen populations change under selection from host resistance, fungicides...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Headshot of Lindsey Becker

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Lindsey Becker
Academic focus: Plant microbiomes Research summary: Plants coexist with dynamic and complex microbial communities. I study how host genetics and environmental stressors collectively influence microbiome composition and function. By studying crop...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
Robotics technician Cole Regnier works on an autonomous robot designed to detect disease on grapevines on the Cornell AgriTech campus in Geneva, New York.

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Robot matches humans in scouting for vineyard diseases

The development of the robot is critical as managing such diseases as powdery and downy mildews in vineyards is the top concern for grape growers and viticulturists.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
Terry Bates, director of the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory, works at the experimental vineyard in Portland, New York

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Farm of the future sows digital seeds

An experimental vineyard at the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory is becoming the university’s first living laboratory of precision, autonomy and sustainability, supporting the grape industry in New York and Pennsylvania.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Lake Erie Research and Extension Lab
  • School of Integrative Plant Science

Land Acknowledgment

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ leadership. Learn more from the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program website.