Presentations
Nematodes That Attack Corn and Soybean: Situation and Management
Many companies are marketing or developing new seed treatments for management of nematodes that parasitize corn and soybean. We know too well how the soybean cyst nematode (SCN) can impact soybean yield, but we until now we have not had good information on the distribution of corn-parasitic nematodes, much less their effects on corn yields. The final results of the Illinois Corn Nematode Survey and the results of two years’ data on seed treatments for nematode management will be discussed.
Speakers
Dr. Terry Niblack
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
BIO: Dr. Niblack is a professor in the Crop Sciences Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tennessee, and Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Georgia in Plant Pathology, where she specialized in complex soybean disease interactions. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Iowa State University, spent 13 years at the University of Missouri in the Department of Plant Microbiology and Pathology, and moved to the University of Illinois in 2001. Among the awards she has received is the Outstanding Achievement Award from the United Soybean Board in 2003 and the Excellence in Soybean Research Award from the Illinois Soybean Association in 2007. She has been involved in research and extension programs on Heterodera glycines, the soybean cyst nematode, for nearly 30 years, and has recently begun working on emerging problems related to corn nematodes.
