Diagnosis and Management of Plant Diseases in Ornamental Greenhouses Workshop

Event Date: Thursday, June 29th, 2023

Hosted by: Leanne Pundt and Rosa Raudales, UConn Extension

Target audience: Commercial growers producing ornamentals or vegetable transplants in heated greenhouses.

Location and Parking Information: Jones Auditorium, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 123 Huntington Street, New Haven, CT. The entrance to Jones Auditorium is on the north end of the building, on the side away from Huntington Street.  In addition to the parking lots on campus, there is street parking on Huntington Street and East Rock Road.

Registration:  $40 per person. Registration includes boxed lunch and five pesticide recertification credits for Connecticut and New England states for presentations marked with ♣. Online registration only at Greenhouse Training Store. Registration will end at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 22, 2023. The registration fee is refundable 48 hours before the event. Please note that we have a maximum capacity of 70 attendees. Walk-in registrations are not an option.

Program

Time	Description	Speaker
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.	Check-in and Coffee
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.	Plant diseases vs. Nutritional disorders Differentiating between biotic and abiotic & immediate management strategies. ♣	Rosa Raudales, PhD Associate Professor & Greenhouse Extension Specialist University of Connecticut
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Collecting high quality samples How to properly collect and submit a sample to a plant diagnostic clinic. ♣	Felicia Millett, MS Plant Diagnostician Plant Disease Information Office  CAES
11:15 -12:15 p.m.	Blame it all on my ROOTS Identify & protect against root diseases with preventive fungicide programs.♣	Emma Lookabaugh, PhD Senior Technical Specialist, BASF
12:15 – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.	Overview of foliar diseases. Coping with key foliar diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, water molds, and viruses.♣	Margery Daughtrey, PhD Senior Extension Associate Cornell University
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.	Help! My leaves are falling How to design a balanced fungicide rotation to prevent foliar diseases– instead of sweeping up the mess they leave behind.♣	Emma Lookabaugh, PhD Senior Technical Specialist, BASF
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.	Diagnosis hands-on Live diagnosis of plant diseases. Attendees are welcome to bring samples.♣	Yonghao Li, PhD Plant Pathologists Plant Disease Information Office CAES

^♣Five pesticide recertification credits have been approved for this program. 

If you have questions about registration or refunds, please contact Carla Caballero at carla.caballero@uconn.edu. If you have any questions about the program or payment, please email Leanne Pundt at leanne.pundt@uconn.edu.

Disclaimer:  Program format is subject to change based on the University of Connecticut and the State of Connecticut’s COVID 19 guidelines and policies. If access to the venue or seating capacity changes, the program will be changed to a virtual format.

This Program is Co-Sponsored by: USDA CCPM project number 2021-70006-35582

An Equal Opportunity Employer and Program Provider. If requested by a program participant at least two weeks in advance, every effort will be made to provide special accommodations. If you are an individual with a disability and need accommodations, please contact Carla Caballero at carla.caballero@uconn.edu.