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Date: April 21, 2006
Category: Diseases
Subject: News from Bangladesh - Robert Wick, Mymensingh Bangladesh

My stay in Mymensingh, Bangladesh is getting shorter as I will be returning to Amherst by the end of May. I am thoroughly enjoying life here on the other side of the world. I teach diagnostic plant pathology to about 60 M.S. students; three 2-hour labs per week and a 2-hour lecture. Not much in the way of closely mowed turf. In fact I have not seen a lawn mower anywhere in this country. Cows and goats tend to keep the grass short, and villagers cut the grass with sickles to use as animal feed. The man in the two pictures has cut this sward of grass entirely with a sickle (Figs. 1 & 2). He will sweep it all up and use it to feed his cow. The main grass here is rice and it grows in a significant water hazard. If you would like to learn more about my stay here and view pictures of Bangladesh, visit my journal at http://people.umass.edu/wick/fulbright/index.html

I will be back live and in person by June 1. In the meantime, Bess Dicklow is in a newly equipped lab and is currently handling turf and nematode samples. Shawn Massoni, my assistant who has been identifying nematodes for me the past few years will also help out this spring, and is training our new help. There are some significant nematode problems here in Bangladesh as you can see from the picture of root-knot nematode on pointed gourd roots (Fig. 3).

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Submitted by: Dr. Robert Wick

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