14th Ornamental Workshop on Diseases and Pests - College of ...

17 th <strong>Ornamental</strong> <strong>Workshop</strong> on Diseases and Pests
Plant Pathology Program
Kanuga Conference Center
Hendersonville, NC
September 20 - September 24, 2010
Monday: September 20, 2010
4:00- 6:00 PM Registration (Kanuga Lake Inn, Cunningham Lobby)
6:00 – 7:00 Dinner
7:00 –10:30 Entertainment & Social (Waterfront Pavilion)
Tuesday morning: September 21
8:00 – 8:45 AM Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10 Announcements (Balthis-Rodwell Building)
9:10 – 9:20 Welcome – Dr. Johnny Wynne, Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, NC State University,
Raleigh
Plenary Session: “IPM: Where we are in 2010” Steven Frank, Moderator
9:20 – 10:20 A Systems Approach to IPM - Critical Control Points. Jennifer Parke, Oregon State University,
Corvallis
10:20 – 11:20 Pest Abundance in Urban Habitats and Performance of Natural Enemies. Dan Herms, Ohio State
University, Wooster.
11:20 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:00 1000 Cankers Disease: the Pathogen & Knoxville find. Mark Windham, U. Tennessee
12:00 – 12:30 1000 Cankers Disease: the Vector. Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State
12:30 – 1:15 Lunch
“Phytophthora in <strong>Ornamental</strong>s” Kelly Ivors, Moderator (Balthis-Rodwell Bldg.)
1:30 – 1:55 Ecology of Phytophthora spp. in ornamental irrigation water. Chuan Hong, VA Tech
1:55 – 2:20 Inoculum in runoff from plants roots infected by P. ramorum. Nina Shishkoff, ARS, Ft. Detrick
2:20 - 2:45 The Great Debate: Phytophthora tolerant plants for the landscape. Kelly Ivors, Mike Munster, NC
State Univ., and Tom Creswell, Purdue Univ.
2:45 - 3:00 Break
“Host Resistance in <strong>Ornamental</strong>s” Mark Windham, Moderator
3:00 – 3:45 Host Resistance: Where we are and what’s in the future. Mark Windham, Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville
3:45 – 4:00 Resistance in Cornus florida toward dogwood anthracnose. Ken Cheng, Univ. Tennessee,
4:00 – 4:15 Resistance to foliar diseases in roses. Jimmy Mynes, Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville
Hosted by the Department of Plant Pathology and the Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
North Carolina State University

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4:30 – 5:30 Joint poster session (titles listed at end of program)
6:00 Dinner
“New Crops and New Diseases” Alan Windham, Univ. Tennessee, Moderator (Balthis-Rodwell Bldg.)
7:30 – 8:30 New diseases. Bring your images, unknowns welcome
8:30 – 10:30 Social (Kanuga Lake Inn -- Johnson Fireplace Lounge/Rocking Chair Porch)
Moon Pie Decorating Contest – (Bring or decorate a Moon Pie. Prize for best Moon Pie)
Prizes awarded to best insect and best disease Moon Pie on Wednesday night.
Wednesday morning: September 22 nd
8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast
“Diseases and Disease Control” Mike Benson, Moderator (Balthis-Rodwell Bldg.)
9:00 – 10:00 New Fungicides for <strong>Ornamental</strong>s. Ann Chase, Chase Research, Inc., Mt. Aukum, CA
10:00 – 10:15 Industry updates. Company representatives
10:15 – 10:45 IR4 <strong>Ornamental</strong>s Program & 2010 Priorities. Cristi Palmer, IR4 Program Manager, Rutgers
10:45 – 11:00 Break
“What’s New with Diagnostics” Margery Daughtrey, Moderator
11:00 – 11:30 Diagnostics and Diagnoses. Margery Daughtrey, Cornell Univ., Riverhead.
11:30 – 11:45 Agrobacterium and Rhodococcus Diagnosis: What Does a PCR+ Mean? Melodie Putnam, Oregon
State Univ.
11:45 – 12:00 NPDN Update. Karen Snover-Clift, Cornell Univ.
12:00 - 12:15 iPhone App Design for Diagnosis. Margery Daughtrey.
12:15 Group Picture (lakeside amphitheater)
12:30 Lunch
1:30 – 6:00 Greenhouse IPM Tour (Implementation of IPM in commercial floriculture production),
Fungal & Bug foray: DuPont Forest,
Free time – hiking, birding, paddling, napping
6:00 Dinner
Social (Kanuga Lake Inn -- Johnson Fireplace Lounge/Rocking Chair Porch)
7:30 –10:30 Pest ID 101 and Kanuga Konfusion Band (a.k.a. Crossnore Philharmonic)
Dress to test your colleagues’ knowledge of pests and pathogens
Play a musical instrument or think you do? Bring it along and jam.
Moon Pie decorating contest results with not even vaguely valuable Prizes!
Thursday morning: September 25 th
8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast
“Contributed Presentations” Gary Moorman, Moderator, (Balthis-Rodwell Bldg.)
9:00 – 9:15 Elm yellows: 1) How to ruin your summer and 2) if you can't see the crick bottom, don't wade in!
Gary Moorman, Penn State
9:15 – 9:30 Bedding plants resistant to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Michelle Grabowski, Univ. Minnesota
9:30 – 9:45 Chrysanthemum root rot caused by a new species, Phytophthora chrysanthemi. SeongHwan
Kim, Penn Dept Ag, Harrisburg
9:45 – 10:00 Pseudomonas savastanoi –new hosts. Melodie Putnam, Oregon State, Univ.
10:00 – 10:15 Foliage blight on pieris plants caused by P. hibernalis: a first report. Inga Meadows, Clemson
Hosted by the Department of Plant Pathology and the Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
North Carolina State University
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--Plant Pathology Program --
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 10:45 Black spot resistance & characterization in rose. Andrea Clark, Univ. Minnesota
10:45 – 11:00 Fusarium wilt of crape myrtle & Choanephora wet rot of sedum. Meg Williamson, Clemson
11:00 – 11:15 Widely Prevalent Plant Pathogen Lists. Joseph LaForest, Bugwood Network, UGA
11:15 – 11:30 Annual vinca and Phytophthora nicotianae: an interaction between host resistance and
pathogen virulence. Steve Jeffers, Clemson
11:30 – 11:45 The Phytophthora ImmunoStrip - Bringing your lab to the field. Janet Lamborn, Agdia, Elkhart, IN
11:45 – 12:00 New diseases: Fusarium – liriope; Quince rust – flowering pear. Steve Jeffers, Clemson
12:00 Group Picture (lakeside amphitheater, rain date)
12:30 – 1:15 Lunch
Contributed Presentations. Kelly Ivors, Moderator
1:30 – 1:45 Comparing PCR techniques for pathogen detection in ornamentals. Elizabeth Campoverde, Univ.
Florida
1:45 – 2:00 Overwintering of chrysanthemum white rust in PA. SeongHwan Kim, Penn Dept Ag, Harrisburg
2:00 – 2:15 IPM Practices of Nursery Growers: SNIPM's Southeast Survey. Anthony LeBude, NC State
2:15 – 2:30 AmplifyRP - Amplify Anywhere. Janet Lamborn, Agdia, Elkhart, IN
2:30 – 2:45 Diagnostician’s Cookbook & Plant Pathogen Media Gallery. Joseph LaForest, Bugwood Network
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 3:15 Pythium in the greenhouse. Gary Moorman, Penn State U.
3:15 – 3:30 Sign of the times: changes in cultural practices can impact disease. Kelly Ivors, NC State Univ.
4:00 – 5:30 Tried and True Diagnostic Techniques. (Gail Ruhl, Kelly Ivors, Mike Munster)
This 1.5 hour session will highlight a range of new and almost forgotten diagnostic techniques including
tape mounts, negative background stains, float incubation, immunostrip assays and more.
4:30 – 6:00 Free time
6:00 Dinner
7:30 –8:30 Best images: Entomology vs. Plant Pathology, Round 4 (Balthis-Rodwell Building)
8:30 – 10:30 Social (Kanuga Lake Inn -- Johnson Fireplace Lounge/Rocking Chair Porch)
Plant Pathology Poster Titles
Distribution and Host Range of Phytophthora Species in Indiana Nurseries, Greenhouses and Landscape
Plantings. Leonberger, A.J., Speers, C., Ruhl, G., Creswell, T., and J.L Beckerman. Purdue University
Phylogenetic relationship and genetic diversity of Phytophthora cryptogea and P. drechsleri isolates from North
Carolina floriculture crops. Heather Olson, I. Carbone, and D.M. Benson, NC State University
The NPDN-PSU Basic Technique <strong>Workshop</strong> and Fusarium Basic Training for Diagnosticians. Karen L. Snover-Clift,
Cornell University and Sara May, Pennsylvania State University.
Root susceptibility and inoculum production from roots of eastern oak species to Phytophthora ramorum. Nina
Shishkoff, USDA ARS Ft. Detrick
Hosted by the Department of Plant Pathology and the Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
North Carolina State University
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