Joi-Anne Strauss
Unclassified

New York State Agricultural Experiment Station Dept. of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
630 West North Street, Barton Lab
Geneva, NY 14456

PHONE:315-787-2376
FAX: 315-787-2389

E-mail: js577@cornell.edu

Dillard lab website:
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/faculty/dillard

A.A.S. 2007 Natural Resource Conservation, Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaguia, New York

A.A.S. 2006 Ornamental Horticulture, Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaguia, New York

Address critical disease management issues of vegetables including both applied and extension activities. Overall program efforts concentrate on the biology, etiology, epidemiology, and control of fungal and bacterial diseases of vegetable crops.

Extension Organizations
Cornell Cooperative Extension, Master Gardener, Seneca County
Cornell Cooperative Extension, 4H, Seneca County

Research and Extention Areas
Biology, ecology, and management of fungal and bacterial pathogens of vegetable crops
Epidemiology of foliar pathogens
Sustainable disease management strategies
Disease management in transitional and organic cropping systems
Control of pathogens in greenhouse vegetable crops
Specializing in the following genera of pathogenic fungi: Sclerotinia, Botrytis, Alternaria, Plasmodiophora brassicae

Technical Articles

Cobb, A. C., Dillard, H. R., and Strauss, J. 2008. Evaluation of pesticides for control of white and gray mold in snap beans, field Crittenden, 2007. Plant Disease Management Reports (online) The American Phytopathological Society. St. Paul, MN. In press.

Cobb, A. C., Dillard, H. R., and Strauss, J. 2008. Evaluation of pesticides for control of white and gray mold in snap beans, field RN31, 2007. Plant Disease Management Reports (online) The American Phytopathological Society. St. Paul, MN. In press.