The mission of plant pathology program is to protect agricultural crops, forest trees, horticultural plants, and native plants from exotic plant diseases and nematodes through integrated approaches of exclusion, early detection and eradication, monitoring, and management. The Plant Pathology Laboratory serves as a scientific resource, providing timely and accurate diagnostic services and professional expertise to the agency’s inspection and certification programs and statewide clientele including nursery/landscape professionals, pesticide applicators, private consultants, growers, and the public.  About Plant Pathology   LabSvcs  DiseaseRegs

                                                                         

NPDN Program   Becoming a NPDN first detector by taking online training Nevada First Detector Information Capsule No. 2  (pdf) Nevada First Detector Information Capsule #1 (pdf)       forms  oak  fact	Plant Disease          Regulations Daylily Rust Enforcement Plant Pathogen Rating Code Phytosanitary Certification Ozonium Root Rot Certification Seed Potato Certification Seed Potato Certification Standard Disease Quarantine         Disease Home	Laboratory Services About the Laboratory Guideline for collecting samples Description of most common symptoms Ask Plant Doctor Laboratory  Home	Invasive Diseases A list of diseases that are being monitored.   Daylily rust disease Plum pox virus Sudden Oak death Potato wart disease Pierce's disease Potato virus Y-ntn strain  Invasive Disease Home	Contact Us   Shouhua Wang, Ph.D. Plant Pathologist (775) 353-3765 Fax: (775) 353-3657 Email ---  Sandhya Garneni Staff Research Assoc. (775) 353-3764 Fax: (775) 353-3657 Email
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Hot Issues/News Canary Island Date Palm Disease (pdf) Bleeding canker disease of silver maples (pdf) What causes the pine needle blight in northern Nevada landscapes? (pdf) Fusarium Wilt of Canary Island Date Palm (pdf) Disease Gallery (pdf) The visible faces of plant diseases and pathogens    NewDiseaseAlert	Sudden Oak Death  SOD fact sheet (pdf) Updated SOD host list (pdf) SOD Trace Forward Protocol (pdf) Suspect sudden oak death disease? (pdf) OSU Phytophthora Online Course (free) Phytophthora kernoviae: a new threat to trees and shrubs	Forms for Sample           Submission Specimens for Diagnosis of Plant Diseases and Disorders (pdf)  (word) Instructions for Filling the Plant Diagnostic Form 2008 (pdf) PPQ 391 (state & federal inspector use only)	Fact Sheets            of Diseases Pumpkin virus alert (pdf) Anthracnose disease (pdf) Pierce's disease (pdf) Shot hole disease (pdf) Cytospora canker (pdf) Fairy rings in lawn (pdf) Necrotic ringspot of lawn (pdf) Wetwood on ornamental trees (pdf) Plant parasitic nematodes (pdf)	Other Links Search Nevada Pesticides for Disease Control Western Plant Diagnostic Network APS (American Phytopathological Soc) USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine SON (The Society of Nematologists)  Comprehensive Phytopathogen Genomics Resource          Links Home
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New Disease Alert   Citrus Greening Disease Alert (pdf) Gladiolus Rust (pdf) Soybean Rust (pdf) Ralstonia Solanacearum (pdf)