My program responsibilities reflect Michigan’s diversity and currently include asparagus, snap bean, broccoli, carrot, celery, cucurbits (cucumber, melon, pumpkin, squash), onion, pepper, tomato, greenhouse vegetable transplants, ginseng and hop. I am also involved in floriculture crops, with emphasis on poinsettia, geranium, cut flowers, bedding plants, and herbaceous potted plants. Although my laboratory is involved in a wide variety of research projects reflective of my broad commodity responsibility, my overall goal is to reduce Michigan growers' reliance on fungicides through novel and integrated management strategies and enhanced knowledge of pathogen etiology and epidemiology.