Season 1 Episode 9: Conversation with Sara May, Penn State’s Head Diagnostician and Plant Disease Clinic Manager

Keeping It Green

Margaret and Tim have a conversation with Sara May, Penn State’s Head Diagnostician, and Plant Disease Clinic Manager. What trigger’s one’s interest in studying plant diseases? Sara describes her beginning in a nursery/landscape operation to running a lab that deals with sick and dying plants. A short discussion details the journey of submitted samples, from processing, testing, and reporting. And speaking of the journey, how can plant samples be packaged, so they are not a bag of mush by the time they arrive at the Plant Disease Clinic?
Penn State Plant Disease Clinic
Margaret Pickoff, Penn State Extension (host)
Tim Abbey, Penn State Extension (host)
Sara May, Penn State’s Head Diagnostician, and Plant Disease Clinic Manager
Lead photo: Amy Duke, Penn State. Creative Commons
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