Dr. Christine Casey, North Carolina State University, $12,500, 3 year project
Executive Summary
The tospoviruses are a group of plant-infecting viruses that are transmitted by several species of thrips. These insects are small, highly mobile, and distributed worldwide. This virus group causes one of the most serious disease problems in agriculture.
Tospovirus management in flower crops is complicated [...]
Dr. Mary Hausbeck, Michigan State University and Ms. Margery Daughtrey, Long Island Horticulture Research Center, $40,000, 3 year project
Executive Summary
Powdery mildew (PM) and downy mildew (DM) epidemics develop quickly and destroy the value of ornamental crops. Disturbingly, each year new PM and DM diseases with new biology are being discovered, correlated with the off-shore production [...]
Dr. James Buck, University of Georgia, $19,656, 2 year project
Other Project Team Members -
Dr. Steve N. Jeffers, Associate Professor, Clemson University
Ms. Erika Stocco, Graduate Student, University of Georgia
Executive Summary
The presence of rust diseases on floriculture plants can result in total loss of a crop. Once lesions are present the plants are no longer marketable and [...]
Dr. Stephen Marek, Oklahoma State University, $18,000, 3 year project
2006 Annual Progress Report
Stephen Marek, Entomology and Plant Pathology
Todd Cavins and Sophia Kamenidou, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Oklahoma State University
INDUSTRY NEEDS ADDRESSED
The floriculture industry loses billions of dollars to plant diseases annually. Producers need effective, economical disease management methods to reduce these losses. Nutritional supplementation with [...]
