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  <title>Disease Controls - Plant Diseases - Penn State Extension</title>
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    <title>Vegetable Pest Walk</title>
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    <description>Join Penn State Extension on a vegetable pest walk on July 18.</description>
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    <dc:creator>Tom Butzler</dc:creator>
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        	<dc:date>2011-06-13T20:35:00Z</dc:date>
        
    
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    <title>Cucurbit downy mildew update</title>
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    <description>First cucurbit update of the 2011 growing season!</description>
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    <dc:creator>Beth K. Gugino</dc:creator>
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    <title>Biological Control Of Plant Diseases (Greenhouse)</title>
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    <title>Disinfecting Tools, Equipment, Pots, Flats and Benches</title>
    <link>http://extension.psu.edu/pests/plant-diseases/all-fact-sheets/disinfecting-tools-and-equipment</link>
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    <title>Fungal Root Rots And Chemical Fungicide Use</title>
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    <title>Fungicide Resistance</title>
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    <title>Assessing the Threat of Disease in Nurseries</title>
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    <title>Assessing the Threat of Disease in Greenhouses</title>
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    <title>Heat Treatments to Control Soil-Borne Pests</title>
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    <title>Organic And Biological Control Of Plant Diseases</title>
    <link>http://extension.psu.edu/pests/plant-diseases/all-fact-sheets/organic-and-biological-control-of-plant-diseases</link>
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    <title>Weighing Pesticides - Weigh it Before you Spray it</title>
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    <description></description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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  <item rdf:about="http://extension.psu.edu/plants/green-industry/news/2012/butternut-a-new-host-for-the-walnut-twig-beetle-and-thousand-cankers-disease">
    <title>Butternut - A New Host for the Walnut Twig Beetle and Thousand Cankers Disease</title>
    <link>http://extension.psu.edu/plants/green-industry/news/2012/butternut-a-new-host-for-the-walnut-twig-beetle-and-thousand-cankers-disease</link>
    <description>Previously, butternut was thought to be not susceptible to Thousand Cankers Disease. Recent reports have clearly shown now that butternut is susceptible. </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Norma Jeanne Young</dc:creator>
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      <dc:subject>plant-disease-general</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>green-industry-contacts</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-woody</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-controls</dc:subject>
    
    
    
        
        	<dc:date>2012-02-03T03:30:00Z</dc:date>
        
    
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  <item rdf:about="http://extension.psu.edu/plants/green-industry/news/2012/early-reports-of-downy-mildew">
    <title>Early Reports of Downy Mildew</title>
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    <description>There are reports noting that in the sunny South, they are finding a lot of downy mildew on various plants...already!</description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Norma Jeanne Young</dc:creator>
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      <dc:subject>plant-disease-perrenial</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-general</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>green-industry-contacts</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-controls</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-bedding</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-woody</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-spanish</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-foliage</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-flower</dc:subject>
    
    
    
        
        	<dc:date>2012-02-21T19:44:16Z</dc:date>
        
    
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    <title>Resource for Tracking Growing Degree Days &amp; Emerald Ash Borer</title>
    <link>http://extension.psu.edu/plants/green-industry/news/2012/resource-for-tracking-growing-degree-days-emerald-ash-borer</link>
    <description>This is a great tool to use when monitoring for any turf or landscape pests.</description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Norma Jeanne Young</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-perrenial</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-general</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>green-industry-contacts</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-controls</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-bedding</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-woody</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-spanish</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-foliage</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-flower</dc:subject>
    
    
    
        
        	<dc:date>2012-03-28T16:50:00Z</dc:date>
        
    
    <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>
    

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  <item rdf:about="http://extension.psu.edu/plants/green-industry/news/2012/greenhouse-plants-threatened-with-impatiens-necrotic-spot-virus">
    <title>Greenhouse Plants Threatened with Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus</title>
    <link>http://extension.psu.edu/plants/green-industry/news/2012/greenhouse-plants-threatened-with-impatiens-necrotic-spot-virus</link>
    <description>Important information for all who work with greenhouse crops!</description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Norma Jeanne Young</dc:creator>
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      <dc:subject>plant-disease-perrenial</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-general</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>green-industry-contacts</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-controls</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-bedding</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-woody</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-spanish</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-foliage</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-flower</dc:subject>
    
    
    
        
        	<dc:date>2012-04-03T19:05:00Z</dc:date>
        
    
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    <title>Name the Disease: March</title>
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    <description>Look out Rudbeckia, here I come!</description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Norma Jeanne Young</dc:creator>
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      <dc:subject>plant-disease-general</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>green-industry-contacts</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-controls</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-bedding</dc:subject>
    
    
      <dc:subject>plant-disease-foliage</dc:subject>
    
    
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        	<dc:date>2013-03-04T19:10:00Z</dc:date>
        
    
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  <item rdf:about="http://extension.psu.edu/plants/green-industry/news/2013/spring-a-key-time-for-plant-diseases-and-disease-control">
    <title>Spring: A Key Time for Plant Diseases and Disease Control</title>
    <link>http://extension.psu.edu/plants/green-industry/news/2013/spring-a-key-time-for-plant-diseases-and-disease-control</link>
    <description>Spring is a key time for disease control.  This is especially true for many leaf, needle, and flower diseases, regardless of the type of plant involved.
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Norma Jeanne Young</dc:creator>
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      <dc:subject>plant-disease-general</dc:subject>
    
    
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        	<dc:date>2013-04-02T00:45:00Z</dc:date>
        
    
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