Alejandro K. Llanos

Plant pathologist–Agronomist| M.S.@NCState| B.S@UNALaMolina| Disease management-Fungicide Resistance-Plant Defense Inducers| Teaching=passion|#Firstgen 🇵🇪🇺🇲

[Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab @ClinicPlant]

We are always surrounded by #fungi 🍄cultures 🧫, the good ones #Trichoderma and the bad ones #plantpathogens.
Here @andrewmann_ and @carlosdlt280 looking at isolates from #avocado in the search for potential #biological control agents and our new @NSF intern Nathan working on identifying fungi recovered from #ambrosia #beetles.
Lots of good stuff coming soon💪🏼🤓
@IUFROdivision7 @USDA_NIFA @NifaScriAvocado @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @ippcnews @APS_OIP @plantdisease @MSAFungi @FDACSDPI @UF_IFAS @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @FSHS_Hort @USDA_ARS

[Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab @ClinicPlant]

📢 Are you growing #dragonfruit #pitaya #pitahaya?

Don't miss this webinar on crop management! 🧑‍🏫🖥️🛜

Pest Management Strategies for Dragon Fruit
When: Thursday, March 6, 2025; 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Where: Webinar via Zoom
Cost: Free
CEU: One Ag Row Tree Crop CEU will be awarded to attendees

Registration required: https://t.co/pf0tJRQzUq

@UFPlantPath @UFTropical @UF_IFAS @MiamiUrbanHort @FDACS @FruitnetMedia @FruitPortal @FlaFarmBureau @UFCALS @USDA @ASHS_Hort @FSHS_Hort @APS_Tropical @ufhorticulture @UFEntNem @RareFruitMiami @FairchildGarden @EdibleSoFla @FruitnetLive

[Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab @ClinicPlant]

Don't miss this FREE webinar🧑‍🏫💻 on a lethal viral disease affecting the most common turf cultivar planted in residential lawns 🌱 in south #Florida (floratam).

Details below.

2025 Sugarcane Mosaic Virus / Lethal Viral Necrosis Updates

Registration:
https://t.co/CYd0gbRYUU

#turf #lawns #landscape #garden #Florida #SoFL

@UFTropical @UFPlantPath @FNGLAMiamiDade @MiamiDadeParks @MiamiDadeCounty @MiamiUrbanHort @CityofMiami @pbcgov @FNGLA @SyngentaTurf @FloridaMGs @NPDN @APS_Turfgrass @FloridaTGA @EREFlorida @UF_IFAS @turfdrman @FDACS @Broward_FCS

[Daria Chrobok (Ph.D.) @DC_SciArt]

This is the sign-up link, can't wait to see you!

https://t.co/i9LTbmcyTG

[Alejandro K. Llanos @alejandrokllm]

@DC_SciArt Thanks for sharing your talent and spreading motivation Daria

[Wilmer Cuellar @WJCuellar]

This week the Cassava Crop Protection Team from @BiovIntCIAT_eng has been collaborating with FREDON French Guiana in the identification of #cassava diseases, as part of the recent phytosanitary alert in the region.

https://t.co/zuG51ZIF2o

[Lina Quesada at The IR-4 Project @IR4_Director]

The lab was featured in Colombian TV!
@InformantesTV from @CaracolTV came to visit us at @NC_PSI @NCSU_DEPP @NCStateCALS this Spring and the episode aired last night. Check it out 😁 🇨🇴 #CienciaColombia

@KellyJAvilaM @MPrietoTorres @Carlomatrax

@plantdisease @APS_OIP

[Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab @ClinicPlant]

Happy to share our research on #aguacate #palta #avocado diseases and to raise awareness about #laurelwilt with #Guatemala fruit growers @FruitPortal @AvosFromMexico @Mission_Produce @apeamac @apeajal @corpohass @NZ_Avocado @APS_OIP @IntFreshProduce @avosfromperu @AvosColombia🥑

[Michelle Hulin @michhulin]

We are excited to recruit a PhD/MSc student to work on the bacterial plant pathogen P. syringae and its interactions with plasmids and phage. My group utilizes genomics, molecular bacteriology, protein biochemistry and fieldwork to study bacterial evolution 🧫🌱 Please share! 🤩

[Alejandro K. Llanos @alejandrokllm]

@EdgarNietoFungi Hey, It was great to see you Edgar!

[Maíra Duffeck 🌾🍄🦠🔎🔬💻📊👩‍🔬👩🏼‍💻 @MahDuffeck]

Dr. Larry Madden talking about the benefit of model ensemble for plant disease prediction 🌱

#PlantHealth2024

[NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology @NCSU_DEPP]

A great group of past, present and future @NCSU_DEPP at #PlantHealth2024 #GoPack

[Alejandro K. Llanos @alejandrokllm]

Do you like blueberries and are interested in fungicide resistance in Botrytis cinerea? Visit me at poster P-233 to talk about the first study on resistance profiles in Peru's largest production area. See you there! 🌱🫐#PlantHealth2024 @plantdisease

[Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab @ClinicPlant]

If you are attending #PlantHealth2024 @plantdisease don’t miss @Chrissiebely poster on #blueberry 🫐 leaf #rust! Super 😎 research project on an important #Florida crop #Gators #planthealth @UFPlantPath @UF_IFAS @FSHS_Hort @ASHS_Hort @APS_Tropical @turfdrman
📢 Poster P-290!⭐️⭐️

[Maíra Duffeck 🌾🍄🦠🔎🔬💻📊👩‍🔬👩🏼‍💻 @MahDuffeck]

Come to see my poster number #266 on Cercospora spp. causing CLB of soybean resistant to QoI fungicides

I will be presenting on July 30th from 4:00 to 4:45 PM

#PlantHealth2024

[Alejandro K. Llanos @alejandrokllm]

The APS @plantdisease meeting is not a society of great plant pathologists but a society of incredibly supportive and kind people! Thanks to the @QuesadaLabNCSU for always being so welcoming. It makes the long travel worthwhile. Thanks, Dr. Lina! #PlantHealth2024

[Lina Quesada at The IR-4 Project @IR4_Director]

One of my favorite things to do at #PlantHealth2024: lab lunch! @HCollinsNCSU @KellyJAvilaM @cahuparo @alejandrokllm @Jack_Masca @MPrietoTorres @Carlomatrax @sarah_m_cochran @Tmiles_MSU

[Alejandro K. Llanos @alejandrokllm]

Day 1 of #PlantHealth2024 has ended. It was a great experience to see dear professors and friends again, and to learn about new technologies to identify plant pathogens!"

[Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab @ClinicPlant]

Although I will not be attending #PlantHealth2024 @plantdisease this year, my collaborative research will be shared in the following posters: P-289; P-581; P-481.

Please pass by to learn the latest research on #avocado #Phytophthora #DragonFruit #Pitahaya #laurelwilt 🥑🍄

[Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab @ClinicPlant]

Unlikely to work but one can hope 🤞🏻 Testing air-layering on #avocado to propagate clonal material for #laurelwilt 🍄💀🥑screening #horticulture #aguacate @FSHS_Hort @UFTropical @ASHS_Hort @UFPlantPath @UF_IFAS @NifaScriAvocado @USDA_NIFA @USDA

[Lina Quesada at The IR-4 Project @IR4_Director]

@Tmiles_MSU from @MSU_PSM found different clades of Plasmopara viticola (grape #downymildew) in MI, but no resistance to CAA fungicides, which occurs in other US states @plantdisease #PlantHealth2024 #oomycetes