Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab

  I have neglected this page a little in the past couple of weeks as things have gotten busy. To ensure continued flow of “goodies” from the clinic, I have assigned a student worker and plant disease enthusiast to post photos of what we saw at the Plant Clinic’s Facebook page.  If you have not been there, check us out – http://www.facebook.com/TXPlantClinic. In the past few days, we have been getting reports and samples of ornamental pear trees with nasty looking black shoots.  This is one of the symptoms of a… Read More →

One of the most devastating diseases of cotton is a disease commonly known as Cotton Root Rot, caused by the fungus Phymatotrichopsis omnivora.  This pathogen is one that can attack many different plants and is quite aggressive on many.  In the landscape, this disease have done much damage to ornamental pears, lacey elms, pittosporiums and others.  The devastating effect of this disease is noted in history of Texas. In Northeast Texas (around the Dallas-Fort Worth area and some parts of the blacklands (along the I-35 corridor) in Central… Read More →