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Agricultural Biotechnology

Diagnosis and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) 

• Diagnosis
  • Field Scouting Check List. If you're going to check a wheat field, you might want to print out and take along this list of things to check.
  • Spring Freeze Injury to Kansas Wheat (PDF) 
  • Diagnosing Wheat Production Problems in Kansas (PDF) - Warning: 2.1 MB, Full color brochure to help diagnose disease, insect, weed, environmental, and fertility problems in wheat. 
  • CIMMYT Wheat Diseases and Pests: A Guide for Field Identification 
• Integrated Pest Management Sites
  • NAPIS (National Agricultural Pest Information System) 
  • National Pest Management Materials Database 
  • APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) 
  • National IPM Network National Server 
  • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) 
  • Wright's PestLaw  - provides full-text pesticide regulatory information
  • Kansas Dept. of Agric. Division of Plant Health 

Insect Management

• Beneficial Insects in Wheat (PDF)
• Gaucho Seed Treatment (PDF)  
• KSU Insect Identification Service (PDF)
• Wheat Insect Management 2003 - This publication was prepared to help producers manage insect populations with the best available methods that have proven practical under Kansas conditions.
• Wheat Variety Disease and Insect Ratings (PDF) 

Insects

• Army cutworms (PDF) 
• Brown Wheat Mite (PDF) 
• Chinch Bug (PDF) 
• Common Aphids on Wheat in Western Kansas (PDF) 
• Fall armyworm
• False Wireworms (PDF)
• Greenbug
  • Greenbug picture
  • Greenbug: A Pest In Wheat (PDF) 
• Hessian Fly 
  • Hessian fly picture
  • The Hessian Fly, MF-1076
  • Wheat Variety Disease and Insect Ratings (PDF) 
• Identifying Caterpillars in Wheat 
• Russian Wheat Aphid 
  • Russian Wheat Aphid picture
  • Russian Wheat Aphid Thresholds (PDF)
  • Aphids in Small Grains 
• Stored Grain Insects
  • Identification and Sampling of Stored Grain Insects (PDF) 
  • Management of Stored Grain Insects (PDF) 
  • Management of Stored Grain Insects- Part 3 (PDF) 
• Wheat Curl Mite (PDF) 
• Winter Grain Mite (PDF) 
• Wheat Stem Maggot (PDF) 

• Be a Good Neighbor: Control Your Volunteer Wheat (PDF) 
• Effects of Reduced Tillage on Wheat Disease 
• Seed Treatments 
• Wheat Foliar Fungicides
• Wheat Variety Disease and Insect Ratings (PDF) 

Diseases

• American Wheat Striate Mosaic Virus * 
• Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus 
• Glume Blotch Complex 
• High Plains Mosaic Pathogen 
• Karnal bunt 
• USDA Karnal bunt homepage 
• NAPIS Karnal bunt homepage 
• KARNAL BUNT Questions and Answers (PDF) 
• Leaf Rust 
• Powdery Mildew
• Scab (Fusarium Head Blight)  
• Speckled Leaf Blotch (Septoria tritici) 
• Stem rust
• Strawbreaker (foot rot) 
• Stripe rust
• Take-all Root Rot *
• Tan Spot 
• Wheat Spindle Streak Mosaic Virus 
• Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus 
• Wheat Soilborne Mosaic Virus 

Links to Other Plant Pathology sites 

• American Phytopathological Society  
• Cereal Disease Lab 
• Kansas State University 
• The Plant Pathology Internet Guide book 
• Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology Home Page 
• Oklahoma State University 
• University of Nebraska Dept. of Plant Pathology 

Weed Management -  Link to the Agronomy Page.