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Penn State Cooperative Extension


The Plant Disease Clinic The Plant Disease Clinic provide clinical diagnoses of plant diseases for more than 2,600 samples submitted annually by Pennsylvania producers and homeowners. There is no charge for this service but we ask that the plants be located in a garden or landscape in the state of Pennsylvania only.

Solution Source Solution Source is a Web-based information system provided by Penn State Cooperative Extension. The system provides access to practical information on agriculture, lawn and garden care, and many other topics. The information provided is based upon university research.

Mushroom Sales Mushrooms are available for sale at the Mushroom Test Demonstration Facility (MTDF). The Facility is located on Big Hollow Road on the University Park Campus, Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. $C:\Documents and Settings\Kimberly\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\64R2OYKU\MCj02376770000[1].wmf$ For more information please call (814) 865-1197.

Extension and Outreach Faculty
Extension faculty play an important role in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and provide leadership within the College, University, Commonwealth, and northeastern region in Sustainable Agriculture. Faculty with adaptive research and extension education and outreach responsibilities conduct regionally and nationally recognized programs in field crops, grapes, mushrooms, ornamentals, potatoes, tree fruits, turf, and vegetables.

BEYER, David M.	Associate Professor. Mushroom technology, production, and farm management. E-mail: dmb8@psu.edu
GUGINO Beth K.	Assistant Professor. Diseases of vegetables; development of integrated vegetable crop management educational programming. E-mail: bkgugino@psu.edu
HALBRENDT, John M.	Associate Professor. Research/Extension. Plant parasitic nematodes and nematode-transmitted virus diseases of fruit. Development of ecologically sound and sustainable nematode management practices. Biology and ecology of plant parasitic nematodes. E-mail: jmh23@psu.edu
KULDAU, Gretchen A.	Assistant Professor. Mycotoxicology; role of mycotoxins in fungal biology and in fungus-plant interactions; fungal endophytes; genetics and molecular biology. E-mail: kuldau@psu.edu
MOORMAN, Gary W.	Professor. Influence of greenhouse cultural practices on floricultural crop diseases; detection and monitoring resistance to fungicides in Pythium and Botrytis; development of strategies for managing fungicide-resistance populations in the greenhouse environment. E-mail: g1m@psu.edu
ROMAINE, C. Peter	Professor. Biochemistry, genetics, and replication of plant viruses and viroids. E-mail: cpr2@psu.edu
ROYSE, Daniel J.	Professor. Germplasm enhancement of cultivated mushrooms; Plant Pathology Extension, mushroom production, mushroom diseases. E-mail: djr4@psu.edu
STEWART, Elwin L	Professor. Systematics and molecular evolution of fungal plant pathogens. E-mail: els4@psu.edu
UDDIN, Wakar	Associate Professor. Epidemiology and management of blast disease (gray leaf spot) of ryegrass turf; biology of Pyricularia grisea and host-parasite interactions; dollar spot management; fungicide efficacy. E-mail: wxu2@psu.edu

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