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Extension Publications
- Botrytis Blight (PPFS-GEN-19)
- Cleaning & Disinfecting Tools & Equipment (PPFS-GEN-17)
- Cleaning & Sanitizing Commercial Greenhouse Surfaces (PPFS-GH-07)
- Damping-off (PPFS-GEN-03)
- Diagnosis of "No Disease" (PPFS-GEN-11)
- Fusarium Bud Blight and Head Blight Contamination in Stored Hemp
- Fusarium Head Blight of Hemp (PPFS-AG-H-02)
- Greenhouse Sanitation (PPFS-GH-04)
- Managing Greenhouse & High Tunnel Environments to Reduce Plant Diseases (PPFS-GH-01)
- Organic Disease Management Guide for Specialty Crop Production
- Powdery Mildew (PPFS-GEN-02)
- Rhizoctonia Diseases in Specialty Crop Production (PPFS-GEN-21)
- Root-knot Nematode in Vegetable Cropping Systems (PPFS-VG-28)
- Septoria Leaf Spot of Field Hemp (PPFS-AG-H-01)
- Sooty Molds Associated with Insect Pests (PPFS-GEN-22)
- Southern Blight (PPFS-GEN-16)
- Tobamovirus Management in Greenhouse Production (PPFS-GH-08)
Educational Videos
- Budding Solutions: A Series on Disease and Pest Management in Cannabis sativa - 12 video playlist
- Septoria Leaf Spot of Hemp - Presented by Henry Smith
- Preventing Fusarium in Post Harvest Hemp - Presented by Dr. Nicole Gauthier
- Minimal Munitions: Disease Management in Field Hemp - Presented by Dr. Misbah Munir
- Field Diagnostics: Recognizing Common Leaf Diseases - Presented by Dr. Nicole Gauthier
- Hemp Disease in Kentucky: Grasping the Reality of Yield Loss - Presented by Dr. Nicole Gauthier
Research Reports
- Biological and Biorational Fungicides May Be Effective Against Common Hemp Leaf Spot Pathogens: A Bioassay Study (PPRR-03)
- First Report of Hirsutella thompsonii as an Entomopathogenic Fungus of Hemp Russet Mite (Aculops cannabicola) in Kentucky (PPRR-10)
- Fusarium species Recovered from Postharvest Hemp Materials from Kentucky Fields (PPRR-05)
- Incidence and Distribution of Fusarium species Associated with Hemp in Kentucky (PPRR-12)
- Leaf Spot Disease Development and Its Effect on Yield of Essential Oil-Producing Hemp Cultivars in Kentucky (PPRR-08)
- Occurrence and Distribution of Com m on Diseases and Pests of U.S. Cannabis: A Survey (PPRR-04)
- Using Silicon to Suppress Hemp Powdery Mildew (PPRR-02)
- 2021 Science of Hemp: Production and Pest Management Conference Proceedings
- 2019 Science of Hemp: Production and Pest Management Conference Proceedings (SR-112)
Additional Resources
- Diagnostic Services: Growers should contact their local county extension agent for assistance with plant disease diagnoses.
- Compendium of Cannabis Diseases
- Department of Plant Pathology Extension Publications
Insect & Arthropod Pest Resources
Extension Publications
Educational Videos
- Hemp Pesticides: A Short but Growing List - Presented by Dr. Ric Bessin
- Four and Six Legged Pests of Hemp - Presented by Dr. Raul Villanueva
- Hemp Pesticides in Kentucky: Working through the Confusion - Presented by Dr. Ric Bessin