Carlos A. Sendoya-Corrales

Are you interested in learning how to successfully integrate #biological products into your #ornamental plant production? Join us for a hands-on, in-person workshop hosted by the UF/IFAS Tropical Research & Education Center and Miami-Dade Extension. This event is designed specifically for growers and will provide real-world insights, the latest research updates, and practical guidance from top industry experts. 🌱 Biological Control Workshop for Ornamental Plant Production 📅 Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 📍 Location: Miami-Dade Extension Office Address: 18710 SW 288th St, Homestead, FL 33030 🕒 Schedule: Registration: 8:30 am – 8:45 am Workshop: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Lunch (included): 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 💲 Cost: FREE 🎓 CEUs Available Why Attend? ✔ Learn how to use biopesticides, beneficial insects, microbial inoculants, and biofertilizers effectively ✔ Discover strategies to reduce chemical inputs while improving plant health ✔ Gain expert guidance on application, compatibility, and storage best practices ✔ Network with peers and biological product companies ✔ Set realistic expectations for disease and pest management outcomes Featured Companies & Experts: Harrell’s • BioWorks • BioBee • Syngenta • Bioline • BASF 🔗 Pre-register now: ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cx… 📧 For questions, contact: r.gazisseregina@ufl.edu #organic #biologicals #biocontrol #IPM #pest #planthealth

Two @IR4_Project fungicide trials done! One on #postharvest #avocado and one on miracle fruit 💪🏼 @CaSendoyaC_ Thank you to all the lab for helping with the 🥑 harvest! @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @APS_PHC @plantdisease @FDACSDPI @USDA @FSHS_Hort

The hardest part of #avocado Laurel Wilt integrated managemet is to remove “aparently” clean trees. Not many growers can do, is against our nature.

First sample collection for our #avocado #laurelwilt flutriafol field trial - three months after treatment 🌳💉. Sapwood and fruit samples were taken and will be sent soon for residue analysis 🧪. This is part of our ongoing efforts to find short-mid-and long term management tools for Laurel Wilt. Supported by @USDA and @IR4_Project 💪🏼 We hope to find the active ingredient at fungicidal levels in the vascular tissue and no residue in the fruit 🤞🏻🤞🏻 To learn more about our greenhouse flutriafol trials check out this pub: doi.org/10.1094/PHP-02… @andrewmann_ @CaSendoyaC_ @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @NifaScriAvocado @plantdisease @APS_Tropical @ippcnews @UF_IFAS_GFSI @UF_EPI @FDACSDPI @FSHS_Hort

Stay tuned for the results of the field trials in collaboration with the @IR4_Project! @andrewmann_ @CaSendoyaC_

Establishing the basis of an #avocado #aguacate 🥑breeding 🧬program for Laurel Wilt disease 🍄. Survivor plants are let re-sprout and grown for future evaluation 📋through a second artificial inoculation💉. Promising material will be genotyped and established in the field for downstream testing. It’s a long process but we are ready for it 💪🏼 @CaSendoyaC_ @pmanosalva1 @USDA_NIFA @USDA @NifaScriAvocado @UF_IFAS @UFPlantPath @UF_IFAS_GFSI @IUFROdivision7 @FDACS @FlaFarmBureau @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @ippcnews @icpp2023 @APS_Tropical @Plant_Pathogens @USDA_APHIS @DadeCountyAg @FSHS_Hort

Gazis Lab well represented at #FPS2025! @FPSFloridaPhyt1 🤓🤓🤓 @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @UF_IFAS @APS_Tropical @USDA @USDA_NIFA @FDACS @IUFROdivision7 @plantdisease @UFCALS @UF_IFAS_GFSI @UF_EPI @USDA_APHIS @icpp2023 @ippcnews @UFIFAS_IRREC

We are ready for #FPS2025 @FPSFloridaPhyt1 !!! Most of the Gazis lab is attending 🤓 hope to see you there! @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @UF_IFAS @FDACS @FDACSDPI @USDA @plantdisease @APS_OIP @APS_PHC @APS_Tropical @APS_Extension @ippcnews @FNGLA @FlaFarmBureau #plantdisease #planthealth #mycology #fungi #Florida

Great day hosting researchers from Lavras University, #Brazil 🇧🇷 hoping for future collaborations on tropical fruit research 🤓 #planthealth #FoodSecurity @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @APS_OIP @plantdisease @icpp2023 @ippcnews

A day full of #avocado #aguacate 🥑🥑science 🤓🤓 First day of @pmanosalva1 visit to @UFTropical and the start of our field fungicide trial 💪🏼 Great job by @andrewmann_ @CaSendoyaC_ @fungindrublic and Lucas! @UFPlantPath @IUFROdivision7 @USDA_NIFA @NifaScriAvocado @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @APS_Tropical @plantdisease

All hands on deck! 💪🏼 We harvested one of the many #avocado germplasm screening trials we are running in our quest to find tolerant materials to the lethal #laurelwilt 🍄💀🥑 Interesting patterns in disease response across materials - host genetics 🧬 to follow 🤓🤓 #aguacate #palta #planthealth @IUFROdivision7 @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @UF_IFAS @USDA_NIFA @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @fungindrublic @CaSendoyaC_ @USDA @USDA_APHIS @APS_Tropical @plantdisease @IUFRO @icpp2023 @ippcnews @UF_EPI @GlobalGators @forestservice @CABI_Research @NifaScriAvocado

For more days like this! 😬 #Avocado orchard @carlosdlt280 visit in the early morning and tree injection 💉🌳training the rest of the day 💪🏼💪🏼🤓🤓 We are almost ready to start our #aguacate #field #fungicide 🧪trial as part of @IR4_Project integrated solutions program. We hope that our greenhouse results (article accepted!) hold in field trees 🤞🏻🤞🏻 @UFTropical @UFPlantPath @UF_IFAS @USDA @NifaScriAvocado @FlaFarmBureau @FDACS @FDACSDPI @IUFROdivision7 @icpp2023 @ippcnews @FSHS_Hort

We make plants sick 😷 to test potential management solutions 💪🏼 we continue our #avocado 🥑germplasm screening in the search for a #laurelwilt tolerant/resistant genotypes and we are almost done with the first @IR4_Project #fungicide #guava trial of the year 🤓 Great work by a great team 🤝 #teamwork #research #planthealth #plantdisease @UFTropical @UFPlantPath @UF_IFAS @APS_Tropical @APS_Extension @plantdisease @IUFRO @IUFROdivision7 @USDA @NifaScriAvocado @USDA_NIFA @ippcnews @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @FSHS_Hort

📢 Are you growing #dragonfruit #pitaya #pitahaya? Don't miss this webinar on crop management! 🧑‍🏫🖥️🛜 Pest Management Strategies for Dragon Fruit When: Thursday, March 6, 2025; 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Where: Webinar via Zoom Cost: Free CEU: One Ag Row Tree Crop CEU will be awarded to attendees Registration required: ufl.zoom.us/meeting/regist… @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @UF_IFAS @MiamiUrbanHort @FDACS @FruitnetMedia @FruitPortal @FlaFarmBureau @UFCALS @USDA @ASHS_Hort @FSHS_Hort @APS_Tropical @ufhorticulture @UFEntNem @RareFruitMiami @FairchildGarden @EdibleSoFla @FruitnetLive

Research diversity- in one day: we planted #avocado #aguacate #palta survivors from our #laurelwilt germplasm screening in the field; troubleshoot #diagnostic #LAMP assay; collected potential scab on mamey, and calibrated spray equipment for the upcoming #fungicide @IR4_Project field trial on guava 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🚜🚜 @CaSendoyaC_ @fungindrublic @labmanagershel @UFTropical @UFPlantPath @UFPlantPath @APS_Tropical @APS_Tropical @FDACS @FDACSDPI @USDA @USDA_NIFA @USDA_APHIS

New lab 📸 A smaller group but still a happy bunch 🐊😎 #plantdoctors #planthealth #gators 🥑🍌🥭🍍🥥🌺🍄🍄‍🟫@labmanagershel @CaSendoyaC_ @fungindrublic @UFTropical @UFPlantPath @UF_IFAS

Gearing up for another large inoculation experiment 💉🍄. We plan on validating results from our previous #laurelwilt disease screening and keep testing unique #avocado #aguacate #palta germplasm 💪🏼💪🏼 for disease tolerance/resistance. Great teamwork 🤓🤓🥑🥑 @USDA @USDA_NIFA @NifaScriAvocado @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @IUFRO @IUFROdivision7 @EPPOnews @USFSRegion8 @FDACS @USDA_ARS @FlaFarmBureau @FlaFruitandVeg @UFCALS @UF_IFAS_GFSI @UF_EPI @plantdisease @APS_Tropical @fungindrublic @CaSendoyaC_

Another busy Monday 💪🏼, working hard to keep #avocado #aguacate #palta 🥑🥑🥑healthy through the development of better/faster diagnostic tools 🔬🧫🧪🧬 @fungindrublic @CaSendoyaC_ @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @UF_IFAS @NPDN @USDA_APHIS @APS_Tropical @icpp2023 @icpp2028 @EPPOnews @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @FDACSDPI @plantdisease @IUFROdivision7 @FSHS_Hort @USFSRegion8 @USDA @NifaScriAvocado #planthealth #invasive #laurelwilt #surveillance #diagnostics

Two of our lab's 2024 publications on #avocado #aguacate #palta diseases are trending! 🎆🎆 🥑🥑🍄🍄 You can read them here 👇: #LaurelWilt #genetics #germplasm #foodsecurity apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PD… AND #scab #Elsinoe apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PH… @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @UF_IFAS @IUFRO @IUFROdivision7 @FAOKnowledge @EPPOnews @USDA @USDA_NIFA @PlantDiseaseJ @icpp2023 @ippcnews @APHIS @FlaFarmBureau @FLAgCoalition @FSHS_Hort @FPSFloridaPhyt1 @FDACS @plantdisease @NZ_Avocado @Plant_Pathogens @SEFitopatologia @corpohass @INRAE_PV @ASCOLFIColombia @SBFitopatologia @FruitPortal @FruitnetMedia

Fungal taxonomists attempting to identify #ambrosia #beetles 🪲🍄 😵‍💫 Making progress with our #laurelwilt #avocado #surveillance LAMP 🧬detection project 💪🏼 @fungindrublic #foresthealth #aguacate #invasivespecies #fungi @USDA_APHIS @IUFRO @IUFROdivision7 @NPDN @USDA @usfs_r9 @forestservice @EPPOnews @Invasivesnet @UFPlantPath @UFTropical @Invasivesnet @UF_EPI @FAO @sfiwc22 @ippcnews @APS_Tropical @plantdisease