News
Lexington, KY USA April 2008 - Soybean Rust Programs TV Coverage - Growing Kentucky (a Kentucky Educational Network program) produced and aired a segment about our Soybean Rust Project on April 19th (program #104) with repeat...for more see UK Project update for April 2008.
Louisville, KY USA December 2007 - 2007 National Soybean Rust Symposium - All three PI's for the project were in attendance with the research team from UK presenting...for more see UK Project update for December 07.
Lexington, KY USA - REAP Tour Visits UK - The Southern Regional Exchange and Awareness Program (REAP) tour sponsored by the American Soybean Association (ASA) and EMD Crop BioScience visited our plots at Spindletop Farm on August 2. The group included growers from... more.
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky
Project Mission
The University of Kentucky (UK) was awarded a grant (Project PI: Saratha Kumudini) to develop a soybean rust (SBR) yield loss prediction tool. This project website was developed as a result of this grant. The goal of the project is to develop a risk management tool to help soybean producers decide how to better manage SBR.
Specifically, this project shall lead to the development of an interactive internet site which will calculate potential yield loss due to SBR (for a preliminary draft, see calculator). For more information about this project follow the about us link.
Our Research Partners
This project involves both national and international collaborators. Asian soybean rust arrived in Brazil in 2001, consequently researchers in Brazil have had a head start in conducting research on this pathogen. The University of Kentucky is proud to have a collaborative agreement with Brazil's national agriculture department Embrapa. It is Brazils' equivalent to the USDA here in the United States. Our national collaborators include Louisiana State University (LSU) and more recently we are also collaborating with Clemson University. For more information about the scientific staff working on this project follow the contact us link.
Our Funding Partners
Funding for the project comes from the Risk Management Agency (RMA), United States Department of Agriculture(USDA)
the Southern Soybean Research Program (SSRP) and the Kentucky Soybean Board (KSB).
Clemson University is being supported by the South Carolina Soybean Growers Association.
