1:00 – 1:15 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks

Mike Schmidt, SSDW President

1:15 - 1:30 Potential Resistance to Pythium spp. in the Soybean Cultivar, ‘Archer’

Gary Bates, C.S. Rothrock

1:30 – 1:45 Heritance of Field Response to Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome

Rizwan Hashmi, Ryan Whelan, Mike Schmidt, Jim Klein

1:45 – 2:00 Development of Screening Assays for Resistance to Phomopsis longicolla in Soybeans

Eric Jackson and Patrick Fenn

2:00 – 2:15 Response of Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome to Planting Date, Soil Temperature and Soil Moisture

Jason Vest, Sally Stetina, Ken Stetina, and John Russin

2:15 – 2:30 Cultivar Differences in Pod and Seed Infection by Phomopsis spp.

Patrick Fenn and Pam Miller

2:30 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 3:15 Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome and the Soil Physical Environment: a Two Year Study

Chris Vick, S.K. Chong, Jason Bond, John Russin

3:15 – 3:30 Characterization of Phomopsis spp. by way of Molecular Techniques

John Mayfield, Kathy McLean and Aaron Palmateer.

3:30 – 3:45 Soybean Herbicide Effects on Charcoal Rot Fungus, Macrophomina phaseolina.

Aaron Hoskins, Bryan G. Young, and John Russin

3:45 – 4:00 Soybean Disease Loss Estimates for the Southern United States

Stephen Koenning

4:00 – 4:30 State Reports

4:30 – 4:40 Business Session

4:40 – 5:00 SSDW – Where Do We Go From Here?