Dr. Christopher A. Clark is professor and Mary W. Hoy is research associate in the Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology. Their research focuses primarily on sweetpotato diseases. Research conducted at the Burden Research Plantation involves field plots on disease resistance and/or cultivar decline in sweetpotato. They also do postharvest tests on various storage diseases of sweetpotato. These activities are summarized in the PowerPoint presentation provided below.
Additional information is available describing the most common diseases of sweetpotato in Louisiana at the Sweet Potato Research Station website.
Additional information on Dr. Clark's programs is available at the Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology website.
The LSU AgCenter provides a wide variety of information related to sweet potatoes which may also provide additional information.