Felipe Dalla Lana da Silva

I am the State Rice Pathologist specialist and responsible for developing and validating new technologies and management for disease control in the rice production system. Our lab collaborates with researchers from public and private institutions, growers, and extension agents to build an integrated pest management.

My research is focused on understanding the ecology and evolution of the disease in space and time, how it interacts with the environment, and yield loss estimation. We use statistical approaches to modeling these complex interactions and provide a better picture of the scenario seen in the field. Our studies efforts are currently concentrated on sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani), blast (Pyricularia grisea), Cercospora (Cercospora janseana), bacterial panicle blight (Burkholderia glumae and B. gladioli), kernel smut (Tilletia barclayana), and false smut (Ustilaginoidea virens).

Our lab works closely with the Rice Breeding program to phenotype the disease reaction of commercial, pre-commercial, and in-development lines of rice varieties. We are also interested in the more applied aspects of disease control, such as chemical and biological control, application technology, and cultural management.

Dalla Lana, F., Madden, L. V., Carvalho, C. P., and Paul, P. A. 2022. Impact of Gibberella Ear Rot on Grain Quality and Yield Components in Maize as influenced by Hybrid Reaction. Plant Disease. XXX:XXX-XXX DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-01-22-0148-RE

Dalla Lana, F., Madden, L. V., and Paul, P. A. 2021. Logistic Models derived using Lasso Methods for Quantifying the Risk of Natural Contamination of Maize Grain with Deoxynivalenol. Phytopathology 111:2250-2267. DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-03-21-0104-R

Dalla Lana, F., Madden, L. V., and Paul, P. A. 2021. Natural Occurrence of Maize Gibberella Ear Rot and Contamination of Grain with Mycotoxins in Association with Weather Variables. Plant Dis. 105:114–126. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-05-20-0952-RE

Dalla Lana, F., Paul, P. A., Minyo, R., Thomison, P. R., and Madden, L. V. 2020. Stability of Hybrid Maize Reaction to Gibberella Ear Rot and Deoxynivalenol Contamination of Grain. Phytopathology 110:1908-1922. DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-05-20-0194-R

Kleczewski, N. M., Plewa, D. E., Bissonnette, K. M., Bowman, N. D., Byrne, J. M., LaForest, J., Dalla-Lana, F., Malvick, D. K., Mueller, D. S., Chilvers, M. I., Paul, P. A., Raid, R. N., Robertson, A. E., Ruhl, G. E., Smith, D. L., and Telenko, D. E. P. 2020. Documenting the Establishment, Spread, and Severity of Phyllachora maydis on Corn, in the United States. J. Integr. Pest Manag. 11:1-5. DOI: 10.1093/jipm/pmaa012

Valle-Torres, J., Ross, T. J., Plewa, D., Avellaneda, M. C., Check, J., Chilvers, M. I., Cruz, A. P., Dalla Lana, F., Groves, C., Gongora-Canul, C., Henriquez-Dole, L., Jamann, T., Kleczewski, N., Lipps, S., Malvick, D., McCoy, A. G., Mueller, D. S., Paul, P. A., Puerto, C., Schloemer, C., Raid, R. N., Robertson, A., Roggenkamp, E. M., Smith, D. L., Telenko, D. E. P., and Cruz, C. D. 2020. Tar Spot: An Understudied Disease Threatening Corn Production in the Americas. Plant Dis. 104:2541-2550. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-02-20-0449-FE.

Cordova, L., Dalla Lana, F., Paul, P. A., Peres, N., 2019. A quantitative synthesis of the efficacy and profitability of conventional and biological fungicides for Botrytis fruit rot management on strawberry in Florida. Plant Dis. 103:2505-2511. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-03-19-0453-RE

Dalla Lana, F. Plewa, D., Phillippi, E., Garzonio, D., Hesterman, R., Kleczewski, N., Paul, P. A. 2019. First report of tar spot of maize (Zea mays), caused by Phyllachora maydis, in Ohio. Plant Dis. 103:1780. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-01-19-0070-PDN

Paul, P. A., Bradley, C. A., Madden, L. V., Dalla Lana, F, Bergstrom, G. C., Dill-Macky, R., Wise, K. A., Esker, P. D., McMullen, M., Grybauskas, A., Kirk, W. W., Milus, E., and Ruden, K. 2018. Effects of pre- and post-Anthesis applications of demethylation inhibitor fungicides on Fusarium head blight and deoxynivalenol in spring and winter wheat. Plant Dis. 102:2500-2510. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-03-18-0466-RE.

Paul, P. A., Bradley, C. A., Madden, L. V., Dalla Lana, F, Bergstrom, G. C., Dill-Macky, R., Esker, P. D., Wise, K. A., McMullen, M., Grybauskas, A., Kirk, W. W., Milus, E., and Ruden, K. 2018. Meta-analysis of the effects of QoI and DMI fungicide combinations on Fusarium head blight and deoxynivalenol in wheat. Plant Dis. 102:2602-2615. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-02-18-0211-RE.

Sylvester, P.N., Dalla Lana, F., Mehl, H.L., Collins, A. A., Paul, P. A., and Kleczewski, N. M. 2018. Evaluating the profitability of foliar fungicide programs in Mid-Atlantic soft-red winter wheat production. Plant Dis. 102:1627-1637. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-09-17-1466-RE

Dalla Lana, F., Paul, P. A., Godoy, C. V., Utiamada, C. M., Silva, L. H. C. P. P., Siqueri, F. V., Forcelini, C. A., Jaccoud-Filho, D. S., Miguel-Wruck, D. S., Borges, E. P., Juliatti, F. C., Campos, H. D., Nunes, J., Carneiro, L. C., Canteri, M. G., Ito, M. F., Meyer, M. C., Martins, M. C., Balardin, R. S., Furlan, S. H., Carlin, V. J., Del Ponte, E. M. 2018. Meta-analytic modeling of the decline in performance of fungicides for managing soybean rust after a decade of use in Brazil. Plant Dis. 102:807-817. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-03-17-0408-RE.

Dalla Lana, F., Ziegelmann, P.K., Maia, A.H.N., Godoy, C. V., and Del Ponte, E. M. 2015. Meta-analysis of the relationship between crop yield and soybean rust severity. Phytopathology 105:307-315. DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-06-14-0157-R