Botany and Plant Pathology

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Daniel S Egel

Botany and Plant Pathology 

  • Clinical Engagement Associate Professor - SWPAC
812.886.0198
812.886.6693
4669 North Purdue Road
Vincennes, IN 47591

Dr. Egel's program is designed to provide disease management recommendations to commercial vegetable growers in Indiana with an emphasis on sustainability.  Some of the programs that help me to answer grower questions include:

 

·      The use of host resistance to manage anthracnose and Fusarium wilt in watermelon.

·      MELCAST, a weather-based disease-forecasting program that, on average, cuts fungicide applications down by 2-3 a year. 

·      The assessment of organically certified products for use against tomato diseases.

·      Fungicide trials that include a diverse array of products to manage diseases on cucurbits and solanaceous crops in the field and in the greenhouse. 

 

The applied research (briefly) described above is driven by the extension needs I witness as I travel around the state.  His extension program, in turn, depends on the results of applied research.  To get the message out, I use bulletins, newsletters, presentations around Indiana, his blog as well as the one-on-one interactions that come with phone calls and office visits.  

 

Useful links to Egel's program include:

         ·      watermelondr.info

         ·      veggiediseaseblog.org

Awards & Honors

(2007) 2007 Eric G. Sharvelle Distinguished Extension Specialist Award. Purdue University Cooperative Extension.

(2007) Fairborn High School Hall of Fame. Fairborn Community Schools.

Selected Publications

Egel, D., Everts, K., Langston, D., & Zhou, X. (2014). Chemical management of fusarium wilt of watermelon. crop protection, 66, 114-119. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/science/article/pii/S0261219414002865

Soto, M., Egel, D., Canales, R., & Orona, F. (2013). Evaluacion de MELCAST en sandia y melon el estado de Campeche. Simposio Internacional en Produccion Agroalimentaria Tobasco, 9.

Egel, D., Foster, R., & Maynard, E. (2013). Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers 2013. (ID-56), 204. Retrieved from http://mwveguide.org

Kleczewski, N., & Egel, D. (2012). A diagnostic guide for fusarium wilt of watermelon. plant health progress, 2011. Retrieved from http://doi:10.1094/PHP-2011-01-DG

Egel, D., Foster, R., & Maynard, E. (2012). midwest vegetable production guide for commercial growers 2012. (I-56), 204. Retrieved from http://www.btny.purdue.edu/Pubs/ID/ID-56/

Gunter, C., & Egel, D. (2012). Staminate Flower Production and Fusarium wilt Reaction of Diploid Cultivars used as Pollenizers for Triploid Watermelon. Hort Technology, 2012(22), 694-699.

Kleczewski, N. (in press). a diagnostic guide for fusarium wilt of watermelon. plant health progress.

Ojiambo, P., Holmes, G., Britton, W., Keever, Babadoost, M., Adams, M., . . . Draper, M. (2011). Cucurbit downy mildew ipmPIPE: A next generation web-based interactive tool for disease management and extension outreach. plant health progress, 10. doi:10.1094/PHP-2011-0411-01-RV

Ruhl, G., Hoke, S., Dicklow, M., & Wick, R. (2011). first report of black leg of hydroponic basil in the us casued by plectosporium tabacinum. plant disease, 94(4), 484. Retrieved from http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/loi/pdis?cookieSet=1

Kleczewki, N. (2011). Fungicide Resistance Management for Indiana Vegetables. (BP-183-W), 5. Retrieved from http://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/BP/BP-183-W.pdf

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