On November 21, ISRC Co-director and Iowa State Professor of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology Greg Tylka led a hands-on, educational workshop for farmers and agriculture media on soybean cyst nematode (SCN). The event was organized for and sponsored by BASF as part of the SCN Coalition. 

Tylka opened the workshop with a review of SCN biology and ISU Research Scientist Chris Marett demonstrated how SCN cysts are extracted from soil samples and how eggs then are extracted and recovered from the SCN cysts to be counted. Also, ISU Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic Diagnostician Chelsea Harbach took the group to a teaching lab and participants were able to look at SCN eggs, juveniles that hatch from the eggs and cysts under microscopes. Tylka and BASF Seed Treatment Product Manager Jeremiah Mullock concluded the workshop by answering questions after a presentation on SCN management.