Workshop Agenda
Wednesday, October 15
| 12:00 pm |
Registration, |
| 1:00 pm |
Welcome- Dr. Joe Street Associate Director, MSU-ES Welcome- Mr. Dwayne Wheeler Head, Central MS R&E Center |
| 1:15 pm |
Update on Kasumin, Evito and Midas- Alan Kurtz, Arysta Lifescience North America, Plymouth, IN |
| 1:30 pm |
North American Greenhouse Tomato Industry Pesticides, Needs and Current Developments Michael Bledsoe, Village Farms, Orlando, FL |
| 2:00 pm |
Greenhouse Tomato Diseases: Viroids, the Latest in the Saga- Karin Tifft, EuroFresh Farms, Wilcox, AZ |
| 2:30 pm |
Bacterial Canker: Dealing with the Genetic Diversity of the Pathogen- Anne Alvarez, University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:20 pm |
Survival and Transmission of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis in Tomato Seed- Anne Alvarez, University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI |
| 3:50 pm |
Southern tomato virus: Plant Pathogen or Just a Scientific Curiosity? - S. Sabanadzovic* - Mississippi State University R.A. Valverde - Louisiana State University J.K. Brown - University of Arizona R.R. Martin - USDA-ARS Corvallis OR I.E. Tzanetakis - University of Arkansas |
| 4:10 pm |
Biological and Molecular Characterization of Viroids Infecting Greenhouse Tomatoes in North America- Kai-Shu Ling, USDA-ARS, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, SC |
| 4:30 pm |
Efficacy of Biopesticides for Foliar Diseases in Organically-Produced Tomato- Meg McGrath, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Riverhead, NY |
| 4:50 pm | Adjourn |
| 6:30 pm |
Dinner |