The Plant Diagnostic Clinic serves the state of South Dakota and the Great Plains region by providing fast and accurate plant health and diagnostic information for the agricultural and horticultural industries. We perform routine diagnosis of field crop and horticultural crop diseases, and occasionally serve as a point of contact in SD for major agricultural biosecurity issues related to plant health.
The Plant Diagnostic Clinic is also the SDSU Soybean Cyst Nematode Testing Service. We provide sample analysis and management recommendations to crop managers dealing with the most damaging pest of soybeans in the world - the soybean cyst nematode (SCN). SCN samples are analyzed, free-of-charge, for SD growers thanks to a grant from the SD Soybean Research and Promotion Council.
The Plant Diagnostic Clinic works cooperatively with other colleges and departments at SDSU (i.e. College of Education & Human Sciences on a Food Safety Challenge Grant to create an educational module; Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences on moldy grain and feed issues; Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape & Parks on diagnostic collaborations), as well as other partners in diagnostics/biosecurity across the country.
Please meet at the west end of the Plant Science Building.
