Don’t miss today’s #PlantHealth2025 Plenary Session. Join us at 12:15 p.m. to hear from our two speakers, Jan Kreuze from CIP and Dr. Momta Sharma from ICRISAT. Like and share this post if you’re looking forward to this session!

There may have been a moth at #2025ISMPMI but #PlantHealth2025 has birds chirping and hopping around the ballroom 😂🐦

Burkholderia glumae quorum sensing regulates various stress responses and secondary metabolite production - Jonas Padilla at #PlantHealth2025

Diel Donne Velasco points out the risk to barley caused by Xanthomonas translucens within US. Field surveys show that a single field can have Xtt strains with different virulence patterns. Inoculated with tagged strains to assess (co-)colonization behavior across clades. #PlantHealth2025

Today is the last day to explore the groundbreaking research at #PlantHealth2025! Poster Viewing is open from 7:00–11:45 a.m. Authors present from 9:30–11:00 a.m. View poster schedule or check the mobile app: planthealth2025.eventscribe.net/agenda.asp?p... #postersession #research #plantpathology

Robert Kemerait ties everything together when presenting a USDA colleagues talk on peanut smut. Gov scientists unable to travel to the meeting. This work is of necessity international. Pathogens and external factors do not know borders. #PlantHealth2025

Jamie Rhoads gives a moving talk on peanut production via the peanut innovation lab. Formerly USAID work, good work that needs to continue. #PlantHealth2025

Next up is Jane Marian S Luis describing the impact of climate calamities in the Philippines. #PlantHealth2025.

Kim Eang Tho covers similar territory with a focus on the CLM Mekong subregion. #PlantHealth2025

Stephen Wegulo highlights the intersection of human factors (poverty, violence, war, climate change) and plant diseases leading to food insecurity. #PlantHealth2025

Important session at #PlantHealth2025 to start the final day. "A world in crisis: Impact on food security... from the front lines".

MAMP treatments reduce CLas infection and HLB resistance. Innovative approach backed by patient data from Jinyun Li. #PlantHealth2025

How to get abx into phloem? Glucose conjugation, for one. Fun and effective strategy described by Jorge Ernesto Santiago Vazquez from UF. #PlantHealth2025

Next up is a technical session on citrus HLB disease, a personal and scientific interest. #PlantHealth2025

Mukesh Dubey shows good data on cross-kingdom RNA silencing and delivery of these sRNAs. Promising work with Clonostachys rosea. #PlantHealth2025

Nice talk describing determining biopesticide mode of action using genetic and molecular micro work. From David Hubert at Indigo Ag. #planthealth2025

Day 1 worked out. Lots to learn today in Honolulu. Starting with geneticically modified biocontrol agents. #planthealth2025

Not a PI on this, but a participant working on STEM transfer students and processes in south Jersey. The work doesn't stop, but the mood is low.

Major gut punch for those institutions and individuals working on this. Hopefully more explanation coming.