Fungal taxonomists attempting to identify #ambrosia #beetles 🪲🍄 😵‍💫 Making progress with our #laurelwilt #avocado #surveillance LAMP 🧬detection project 💪🏼 Jorge Ronny Díaz Valderrama #foresthealth #aguacate #invasivespecies #fungi USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service IUFRO IUFRO Division 7 Forest Health National Plant Diagnostic Network Dept. of Agriculture USFS Eastern Region

Two of our lab's 2024 publications on #avocado #aguacate #palta diseases are trending! 🎆🎆 🥑🥑🍄🍄 You can read them here 👇: #LaurelWilt #genetics #germplasm #foodsecurity apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PD… AND #scab #Elsinoe apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PH… UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UF IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center

Another busy Monday 💪🏼, working hard to keep #avocado #aguacate #palta 🥑🥑🥑healthy through the development of better/faster diagnostic tools 🔬🧫🧪🧬 Jorge Ronny Díaz Valderrama Carlos A. Sendoya-Corrales UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UF IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center UF IFAS Solutions National Plant Diagnostic Network USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service APS Tropical Plant Pathology Committee ICPP2023 @icpp2028 EPPO OEPP

Gearing up for another large inoculation experiment 💉🍄. We plan on validating results from our previous #laurelwilt disease screening and keep testing unique #avocado #aguacate #palta germplasm 💪🏼💪🏼 for disease tolerance/resistance. Great teamwork 🤓🤓🥑🥑 Dept. of Agriculture NIFA

New lab 📸 A smaller group but still a happy bunch 🐊😎 #plantdoctors #planthealth #gators 🥑🍌🥭🍍🥥🌺🍄🍄‍🟫Shelby Weber Carlos A. Sendoya-Corrales Jorge Ronny Díaz Valderrama UF IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UF IFAS Solutions

📢 Are you growing #dragonfruit #pitaya #pitahaya? Don't miss this webinar on crop management! 🧑‍🏫🖥️🛜 Pest Management Strategies for Dragon Fruit When: Thursday, March 6, 2025; 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Where: Webinar via Zoom Cost: Free CEU: One Ag Row Tree Crop CEU will be awarded

Research diversity- in one day: we planted #avocado #aguacate #palta survivors from our #laurelwilt germplasm screening in the field; troubleshoot #diagnostic #LAMP assay; collected potential scab on mamey, and calibrated spray equipment for the upcoming #fungicide The IR-4 Project

We make plants sick 😷 to test potential management solutions 💪🏼 we continue our #avocado 🥑germplasm screening in the search for a #laurelwilt tolerant/resistant genotypes and we are almost done with the first The IR-4 Project #fungicide #guava trial of the year 🤓 Great work by a

For more days like this! 😬 #Avocado orchard Carlos de la Torre. Avocado grower visit in the early morning and tree injection 💉🌳training the rest of the day 💪🏼💪🏼🤓🤓 We are almost ready to start our #aguacate #field #fungicide 🧪trial as part of The IR-4 Project integrated solutions program. We hope

All hands on deck! 💪🏼 We harvested one of the many #avocado germplasm screening trials we are running in our quest to find tolerant materials to the lethal #laurelwilt 🍄💀🥑 Interesting patterns in disease response across materials - host genetics 🧬 to follow 🤓🤓 #aguacate

A day full of #avocado #aguacate 🥑🥑science 🤓🤓 First day of Patty Manosalva visit to UF IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center and the start of our field fungicide trial 💪🏼 Great job by Andrew Mann Carlos A. Sendoya-Corrales Jorge Ronny Díaz Valderrama and Lucas! UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department IUFRO Division 7 Forest Health NIFA NIFA SCRI Avocado

Great day hosting researchers from Lavras University, #Brazil 🇧🇷 hoping for future collaborations on tropical fruit research 🤓 #planthealth #FoodSecurity UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UF IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center APS Office of International Programs The American Phytopathological Society ICPP2023 IPPC | International Plant Protection Convention

We are ready for #FPS2025 FPS_FloridaPhytoPath !!! Most of the Gazis lab is attending 🤓 hope to see you there! UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UF IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center UF IFAS Solutions Florida Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services FDACS-Plant Industry Dept. of Agriculture The American Phytopathological Society APS Office of International Programs APS Postharvest Pathology Committee APS Tropical Plant Pathology Committee APS_Extension IPPC | International Plant Protection Convention Florida Nursery, Growers & Landscape Association Florida Farm Bureau #plantdisease

Gazis Lab well represented at #FPS2025! FPS_FloridaPhytoPath 🤓🤓🤓 UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UF IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center UF IFAS Solutions APS Tropical Plant Pathology Committee Dept. of Agriculture NIFA Florida Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services IUFRO Division 7 Forest Health The American Phytopathological Society UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences The Global Food Systems Institute at UF IFAS Emerging Pathogens Institute USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ICPP2023 IPPC | International Plant Protection Convention UFIFAS_IndianRiverREC

Establishing the basis of an #avocado #aguacate 🥑breeding 🧬program for Laurel Wilt disease 🍄. Survivor plants are let re-sprout and grown for future evaluation 📋through a second artificial inoculation💉. Promising material will be genotyped and established in the field for

Stay tuned for the results of the field trials in collaboration with the The IR-4 Project! Andrew Mann Carlos A. Sendoya-Corrales

First sample collection for our #avocado #laurelwilt flutriafol field trial - three months after treatment 🌳💉. Sapwood and fruit samples were taken and will be sent soon for residue analysis 🧪. This is part of our ongoing efforts to find short-mid-and long term management

The hardest part of #avocado Laurel Wilt integrated managemet is to remove “aparently” clean trees. Not many growers can do, is against our nature.

Two The IR-4 Project fungicide trials done! One on #postharvest #avocado and one on miracle fruit 💪🏼 Carlos A. Sendoya-Corrales Thank you to all the lab for helping with the 🥑 harvest! UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department UF IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center FPS_FloridaPhytoPath APS Postharvest Pathology Committee The American Phytopathological Society FDACS-Plant Industry Dept. of Agriculture FSHS

Are you interested in learning how to successfully integrate #biological products into your #ornamental plant production? Join us for a hands-on, in-person workshop hosted by the UF/IFAS Tropical Research & Education Center and Miami-Dade Extension. This event is designed