Erick D. De Wolf

TL;DR: A sustained, coordinated, and collaborative research program that was put in place shortly after the 1993 Fusarium head blight epidemic is summarized, a program intended to quickly lead to improved management strategies and outreach implementation and serves as a model to deal with other emerging plant disease threats.

TL;DR: The relationship of temperature and moisture to disease development and pathogen reproduction serve as the basis for most contemporary plant disease prediction systems as mentioned in this paper, and extensive research efforts evaluating the performance of prediction models as part of operation disease management systems.

TL;DR: Fusarium head blight or scab, incited by Fusarium graminearum, can cause significant economic losses in small grain production and fungicide efficacy in reducing FHB and DON was greater in moderately resistant cultivars than in susceptible ones.

TL;DR: CDNA from infected wheat tissue was sequenced with single-strand, Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology (ONT), and ONT was able to confirm the presence of WSMV, demonstrating that ONT can more accurately identify causal virus agents and has sufficient resolution to provide evidence of causal variants.

TL;DR: Overall, the virus survey and tagged paired-tiller sampling strategy revealed effects of virus infection on grain yield of individual tillers of plants grown under field conditions and may provide a complementary approach toward future estimates of the impact of virus incidence on crop health in Kansas.