UF IFAS GCREC Strawberry Lab

12/23/2021

Season's Greetings! May the peace and joy of Christmas be with you and throughout the New Year!

Friendly Reminder: The diagnostic clinic is closed until January 2nd.

Enjoy your holiday and please be safe! ❄☃️🎄

12/21/2021

Hats off to our new graduates who earned their Master's Degree in Plant Pathology last Saturday, December 18th: Mayara Bolognesi de Morais, Paulo Pinto de Mello Neto, and Carolina Tiemi Suguinosh*ta Rebello. Bravo!!! We are very proud of you! All your hardwork and dedication has paid off! Go Gators!!! 💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡👨‍🎓👩‍🎓

07/12/2021

Sulfur inhibits strawberry powdery mildew, but many growers avoid using it because of its purported phytotoxicity under conditions defined as “hot.” Onofre et al. set out to determine phytotoxicity of sulfur on strawberry cultivates treated in controlled environments at different temperatures and time periods. Their results suggest that sulfur has benefits that greatly surpass minimal phytotoxicity observed. https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PHP-04-20-0034-RS

04/29/2021

In the news..

Pestalotiopsis-like species have been reported affecting strawberry worldwide. Recently, severe and unprecedented outbreaks have been reported in Florida commercial fields where leaf, fruit, petiole, crown, and root symptoms were observed and yield was severely affected.

03/05/2021

In the news.......

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- When the light goes on, it’s lights out for a ruinous strawberry pathogen. Just imagine this: Pulling an ultraviolet lamp behind a...

01/11/2021

Check out our video about our on-going trial looking at fungicide efficacy for managing the emerging disease on strawberry caused by Neopestalotiopsis spp.

Drs. Natalia Peres and Juliana Baggio describe the disease Pestalotia in strawberry.

12/16/2020

Congratulations to AgroClimate's Strawberry Advisory System App on receiving the
World Meteorological Organization International Weather App Award for Weather/Climate Information for Farming! Learn more about this app at http://agroclimate.org/tools/sas/about.

10/08/2020

And so the Strawberry Season has begun - and social distancing was observed! Team Peres is a hardworking team! Go Gators!

10/06/2020

Our EDIS publication about Pestalotia leaf spot and fruit rot is online! This document will provide valuable information to strawberry nursery and fruit production growers about the disease and control practices.
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pp357

10/06/2020

Dr. Natalia Peres and her staff would like to congratulate Dr. Jim Mertely, UF-GCREC Plant Diagnostic and Research Coordinator, on his recent retirement. We appreciate his 22 years of service to the university and to our local growers. His wisdom and expertise in the strawberry research will surely be missed. He had also been a great mentor for our students and interns. Jim plans to do some hiking and fishing in and around the country. Enjoy the retirement life, Jim!

09/09/2020

During the past two strawberry seasons, severe outbreaks of a new disease, caused by the fungus Neopestalotiopsis, impacted Florida’s strawberry industry. In this APS journal publication, we showed that this new strain of the pathogen is more aggressive and may belong to a new species.