NDSU Extension Soybean Pathologist Wade Webster spoke at Central Dakota Ag Day providing an update on soybean diseases like Sudden Death Syndrome. “It is a major disease issue and probably one of the most yield-reducing diseases so we’re trying to raise awareness for SDS.” Webster also shared the recent discovery of a new species of Phytophthora. “Again, I’m the bearer of bad news in the soybean pathology world, but just a few weeks ago, my lab was able to identify a new phytophthora species on soybean that is able to still cause the same disease as our other phytophthora.” So far, this new variant of phytophthora is unable to be controlled by traditional resistant varieties leaving researchers searching for new methods of control.
