 So I'm just going to give a few updates from the Auburn Plant Diagnostic Lab. The first thing that we saw this year was a lot of cold damage, as you can expect from the deep freeze that we had around Christmas time, and then the two freezes later in the spring. Cold damage can look different on different species. It can range from complete death of the plant to bleaching of the foliage to just discoloration of the plant and dieback. One of the telltale signs of cold damage, you can see here at the base of the plants is the bark cracking. So this happens because the moisture, the water inside the plant freezes and it expands and it has nowhere to go, so it just busts right through the bark. So a lot of the times that can lead to dieback that also opens up a big wound in the plant that other pathogens can get in and start causing disease. So we saw a lot of dieback on a lot of different species. And then our strawberry woes continued into the spring. We saw a lot of black root rod and this just creates these small, unthrifty looking plants look like they're not growing. This is because we had a cold and wet spring during the beginning of the strawberry season this year. And that's not really conducive for plant growth, but it is conducive for fungi to grow. And so when growers see these plants not growing, they start putting out more fertilizer and it causes even more problems with black root rod. If you cut the crowns open, the crown looks completely healthy, but the roots are black. And this is actually a complex of fungi. And the main one that we saw this year was rhizoctonia. And then we started seeing plants collapsing. And this is when anthracnose and phytophthora started causing problems. So whenever we see plants collapsing, we always cut the crowns open and examine the crowns. So these top three pitchers here, these are anthracnose crown rot. And you can tell anthracnose crown rot because you get this marbling of browns and reds and normal plant tissue. And then this is phytophthora crown rot. You can tell that because you see this dark brown discoloration that's very discreet. And then we even saw some cold damage in strawberries this year, especially from growers that didn't cover their plants during the deep freeze that we had around Christmas. And you can tell that because you get this water soaking in the crowns of the plants. And Edgar and Edsacora and myself have been looking out for the Neopastolatiopsis leaf spot and fruit rot. We have found it in seven counties so far this year. In Baldwin, in Scambia, Chilton, Houston, Geneva, Coleman and Tuscaloosa. But the good thing is that we have only seen it coming in and being a problem late in the season. And it starts out as these leaf spots on the leaves and they look like every other leaf spot out there. But then it starts moving down into the petioles when you get the spots on the petioles it will girdle it, and then that leaf will collapse. And then from there it moves down into the crown and that's when you start having a lot of problems like they've had in Florida. It's when you get crown rot and collapse of the whole plants. So we haven't seen it move down into the crown yet we've only seen it causing leaf spots and in one case we saw it causing lesions on the petioles causing leaves to die. We've also seen it causing fruit rot. The way you tell this disease. If you look at it with a hand lens you can see these blacks for tendrils that come up. It looks like little dots of pepper on the leaf spot. And then these sport tendrils are just filled with millions and millions of spores. We did have two locations this year where we found it at the same location two years in a row. So that's kind of concerning. It could be establishing there. And remember this is the disease that is really hard to control. The University of Florida did a fungicide trial and they found that switch and theorem were the best fungicides to control it. But even they only provided about 50% control compared to the actual controls in the test. And switch did not previously have a label for controlling this particular pathogen although it was able to be used on strawberries. So Ed Secura got us a label to EE for switch so that we can actually recommend for growers to use this product to control this pathogen. Another disease that I wanted to talk about that's being surveyed for right now is bascular street dieback. So this has popped up in several places across the southeast. Most of them have been traced back to Tennessee. And so in certain species, they're seeing a dieback and multiple plant species only in nursery production settings. We haven't really found it in the landscape yet. So since Tennessee seem to have kind of spread this around a little bit, they took initiative to get a grant to do a survey across the southeast and our department of agriculture is teamed up with them. And so they are actively surveying for this in the nurseries in Alabama now. So it's caused by seratobacidium, which is in the risoctonia species complex. And one thing that I say about risoctonia is that it never hides itself. And I'll explain more about that in just a minute. There is a similar disease to this one also caused by seratobacidium in cocoa in southeastern Asia. It causes a lot of problems there. So these are the hosts of bascular streak. All of these have been shown to be hosts, but the top five are the main ones. It's the eastern redbud, flowering dogwood, cusa dogwood, red maple and freemans maple. So that's what it looks like in redbud. You start getting yellow foliage, and then it'll turn necrotic, and you'll start getting dieback of the branches. And then you get these little bitty leaves that stay yellow that they call mousier leaves. And then, especially in redbud, you get this very prominent streaking in the vascular system. And what's happening is the fungus is clogging up the vascular system. This is the transport of water throughout the plant causing all this dieback. This is what it looks like in maple. You just get a non-screep dieback. And in dogwood, you get dieback and you can get some foliar scorching, and then the leaves fall off. And that's something that Rhizoctonia doesn't like to hide. So what happens with this pathogen is when you're under, when it's under the right conditions, which are abundant moisture. The fungus will start growing out of wounds in the plant tissue, and it can be very thick and yellow at times. It can also come off of leaf scars, cut ins, pruning ins, anything like that. So like I said, we haven't found this in Alabama yet. I expect that if they do find it in Alabama, it's probably going to be in North Alabama because they get a lot of their material out of Tennessee there. The last thing I want to show here, because Meredith and I looked at an IV sample of this recently, is broad mites. So broad mites are very tiny mites, and their saliva is toxic to plant tissue. So you end up getting these leaves that won't expand, and they get distorted and everything. A lot of the times this gets written off as herbicide damage. So I just wanted to show this and point it out. You can get strappy looking leaves. You can get distorted leaves. Well, to me, it looks like herbicide damage until you look at it closer and you find the mites. These are, like I said, tiny mites. They're smaller than spider mites, so you're never going to see them with a naked eye. And they can get, their population can expand very rapidly. So miticides are needed once you find them. But not all miticides will control them, and you do have to do rotations because they can build up resistance to miticides very easily. And that was all I had for today.