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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hand holding grape cluster with rot

Field Note

Sour Rot in Grapes: alternative management strategies update
Sour rot is a potentially devastating, late-season bunch rot of particular concern on tight clustered grapevine varieties in warm, wet years. This causes the disease to have sporadic effects on grape harvests, with some years showing only small...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Viticulture and Enology
2026 Bouchet Scholars

News

Ten inducted into Bouchet Honor Society

Ten doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and service in doctoral education.

  • Department of Communication
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Illustration of three piles of manure with a photo of a gardener with soil in their hands

News

Animal and human waste could slash synthetic fertilizer use in US

Waste could fulfill 102% of nitrogen and 50% of phosphorus needs for the nation’s agriculture, and significant amounts could be distributed locally and sustainably.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Hannah McMillan Landscape

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Hannah McMillan
Academic focus: Plant-microbiome-environment interactions Research summary: Plants interact simultaneously with microbes and their abiotic environment, but molecular studies often focus only on interactions with one or the other. My research...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
Zachariah Hansen landscape

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Zachariah Hansen
Academic focus: Vegetable pathology Research summary: My applied vegetable pathology research program is aimed at improving disease management for important vegetable crops in New York state. Topics include fungicide resistance screening and...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture

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.