Plant Disease magazine, June 2006 issue, Volume 90, Number 6
Selection of articles relevant to seed professionals

Radar Used to Measure Rainfall in the Texas Panhandle as Part of a Sorghum Ergot Risk Assessment System http://www.apsnet.org/pd/summaries/djn06sum.asp#Workneh
Authors: F. Workneh, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station; B. Narasimhan and R. Srinivasan, Department of Forest Science, Spatial Statistics Laboratory, Texas A & M University; and C. M. Rush, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station

Researchers Develop a New Method of Detecting Resistance to Soybean Rust http://www.apsnet.org/pd/summaries/djn06sum.asp#Bonde
Authors: M. R. Bonde, S. E. Nester, C. N. Austin, C. L. Stone, and R. D. Frederick, USDA-ARS, Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit; G. L. Hartman, USDA-ARS and Dept. of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois; and M. R. Miles, USDA-ARS, University of Illinois

Weather a Predominant Factor in Sorghum Ergot Development in the Texas Panhandle
http://www.apsnet.org/pd/summaries/djn06sum.asp#Workneh2
Authors: F. Workneh and C. M. Rush, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station

Wheat spindle streak mosaic virus Widespread in Belgium http://www.apsnet.org/pd/summaries/djn06sum.asp#Vaianopoulos
Authors: C. Vaïanopoulos, A. Legrève, C. Lorca, and V. Moreau, Unité de Phytopathologie, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL); S. Steyer, Département Lutte biologique et Ressources phytogénétiques, Centre wallon de recherches agronomiques, CRA-W; and H. Maraite and C. Bragard, Unité de Phytopathologie, UCL

Offspring of Fungus More Aggressive than Parents
http://www.apsnet.org/pd/summaries/djn06sum.asp#Rubin
Authors: Evgenia Rubin and Yigal Cohen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University

Winter Wheat Disease can be Transmitted through Seeds http://www.apsnet.org/pd/summaries/djn06sum.asp#Murray
Author: Timothy D. Murray, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University

Isolates of Tomato chlorosis virus Found to be Closely Related http://www.apsnet.org/pd/summaries/djn06sum.asp#Wintermantel
Authors: William M. Wintermantel, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service; and Gail C. Wisler, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida

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