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Presentations

Mitigating needle blight: A growing economic threat to pine forests - project overview

Component 1 Update (Part 1): Isolation and Idenitification of L. acicola and other foliar pathogens associated with needle blight on Pinus taeda - Andrew Howard

Component 1 Update (Part 2): Susceptibility of Pinus taeda families to L. acicola - Emmanuel Nyarko

Component 2 Update (Part 1): Physiological responses to brown spot needle blight and anatomical variation among families of loblolly pine - Jaden King

Component 2 Update (Part 2): Evaluating a portable NIR-based model to detect susceptibility in loblolly pine trees affected by BSNB - Laura Nieto

Component 3 Update: Remote sensing-based detection of BSNB: A comprehensive review and UAV-based, spacially explicit assessment - Swati Singh

Component 4 Update (Part 1): Lecanosticta acicola's genome features and its significance in BSNB - Temitope Folorunso

Component 4 Update (Part 2): Integrative bioinformatic and molecular approaches to elucidate the genomics of Lecanosticta acicola and its impacts on BSNB - Gabriel Silva

Survival of spores in pine straw litter - Jaden King

Detecting Biological Invasions with Sentinel Plantings in Alabama - William Heaster, Jacob Podemski

Posters

Effects of control burns and weather on L. acicola spore dispersal - Joseph Anglin

Using dendrochronology to evaluate the impacts of brown spot needle blight - Gracey Goldsby

CO-OP Update

Forest Health Diagnostics Update - Pat Gordon

Sentinel Garden Article

First Line of Defense: Faculty developing sentinel gardens to detect pests and diseases