Table 1. Departmental faculty and staff that assisted with diagnoses of samples submitted to the Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory during 2008.1
Faculty/Staff
Number of Diagnoses
Faculty/Staff
Number of Diagnoses
Agronomy
70 (2%)
Entomology
292 (10%)
J. Camberato
12
L. Bledsoe
10
G. Hardebeck2
34
J. Faghihi
6
K. Johnson
7
R. Foster
2
 R. Nielsen
15
T. Gibb
144
Z. Reicher
1
C. Hill
1
    J. Loven
1
Botany & Plant Pathology

1893 (65%)

J. Obermeyer
11
C. Sadof
117
T. S. Abney
3
Wang
1
J. Beckerman
14

G. Buechley
86
Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
138 (5%)
T. Creswell
527
T. Jordan
14
B. Bordelon
6
R. Latin
30
Cassens
1
C. Lembi
8
M. Dana
47
G. Nice
72
P. Hirst
1
G. Ruhl
11104
R. Lerner
24
G. Shaner
5
R. Lopez
17
I. Thompson
3
M. Mickelbart
10
K. Wise
21
S. Weller
32
 
 
Student Workers
515 (18%)
Other
20 (> 1%)
T. McCarthy
2073
E. Christmas, Ret. Fac. AGRY
4
B. Neild
3083
Lockhart, Univ. of MN
1

D. Malvick, Univ. of MN
2

J. McKemy, USDA-APHIS-PPQ
1

L. Nees, OISC
12

 

Total Diagnoses
2928
1 The total number of diagnoses exceeds the total number of samples due to multiple problems/diagnoses per sample. More than one person may assist with a diagnosis.
2 Names in bold type were designated by departments as 2008 P&PDL diagnosticians.
3 Diagnoses were for Asian soybean rust sentinel plots only.
4 414 additional sample diagnoses were provided for P. ramorum nursery survey samples