Research Findings and Disease Occurrences of Note in 2012 on Long Island Meg McGrath Dept. of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology LIHREC, Cornell University, Riverhead, NY Cornell University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer.
Late Blight of Tomato and Potato
Date Late Blight First Detected Each Year on Long Island, NY 29 Jun Jun Oct Jun Jul Jun Aug May Oct 2008
Source(s) of Phytophthora infestans on Long Island in 2012 Infested seed potato? Infected volunteer potato?? Infected garden tomato seedling???
20 Jun 2012
Garden with unmanaged diseases 22 Aug 2012
Trifold Brochure Educating gardeners + farmers about late blight distributed > 20,630 brochures AFRI LB Project
Organic research block, Cornell University, LIHREC, LI, NY Evaluation of Tomatoes Resistant to Late Blight
JulietMt Fresh Plus Reported resistant
New YorkerMt Fresh Plus Ph1
LegendMt Fresh Plus Ph2
Plum RegalMt Fresh Plus Ph3
Defiant PHRMt Fresh Plus Ph2 + Ph3
Cornell Line Brandywine Ph2 + Ph3
Jasper
Mt Merit
Tomato Varieties + Experimentals Genes for Late Blight Resistance New Yorker (Ph1)Mountain Fresh Plus Legend OP (Ph2)Brandywine Plum Regal (homozygous Ph3)Juliet ?? JTO-545 (plum)(heterozygous Ph3) Matt's Wild Cherry (undetermined, Ph3?) Jasper (cherry)(undetermined resistance)Iron Defiant PHR (heterozygous Ph2+Ph3)Lady Mountain Magic (campari) (Ph2+Ph3) Mountain Merit (heterozygous Ph2+Ph3) Experimentals from Cornell Univ (Ph2+Ph3): NC123S x CU- TR5, NC123S x CU-TR3, and Brandywine x CU-TR3. US-23
Evaluating late blight resistant variety fruit
Resurgence in Phytophthora blight in 2011 and 2012 ; associated with intense rain events.
Phytophthora Blight in Previous Sod Fields Farms on Long Island. 5 Fields.
Carrot Powdery Mildew
Sweet Corn – Northern Corn Leaf Blight
Basil Downy Mildew Yellow banding on upper surface opposite dark spores produced on lower.
Downy Mildew - Cucumber new resistant varieties
Powdery Mildew – Cucurbits New mobile fungicides: Torino (Code U6) Fontellis (Code 7) Luna fungicides (Code 7) Fungicides - resistance issues: Pristine (Code ) Rally, Procure, etc (Code 3)