University of Minnesota

New Approaches to Plant Disease and Pest Management
Alternatives to Pesticides

Date: 1st of April 2002
Time: 9:00 am

Overview

1.To provide an overview of current approaches to non-chemical methods of plant disease and pest control.
2.Provide insight into methods being used in a wide range of economically important plant species such as vegetables, fruits, field crops, and turf grasses.
3.To provide students with a chance to discover and debate the latest research ideas and to network with top researchers in the field.

Format:
We will have speakers presenting different types of alternatives to pesticide use in different crop categories.
The crops we will focus on are:
1) Grains
2) Vegetables
3) Fruit
4) Turf.

Each presentation will focus on a different type of control for each crop. Our current list is:
1) Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
2) Classical biocontrol.
3) Cultural practices
4) Breeding
5) Insect/vector control
6) Genetic diversity and gene flow

The format of this symposium will be to bring a renowned researcher to discuss disease control from each of the major commodity groups: grains, vegetables, fruits, and turf. The topics covered will include: genetically modified organisms, classical biocontrol, cultural practices, breeding, insect/vector control, and genetic diversity and gene flow. This diverse symposium allows for the interest in subject matter to come from the commodity, or the research methods being discussed. We feel this will help to broaden our attendance pool.

Schedule

Cultural Practices

9:05-9:15 am "Overview of Biological Control"
Dr. Carol Windels, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota.

9:20-10:10 am "New approaches to plant disease and pest management: Alternatives to pesticides"
Dr. Harry Hoitink, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University.

10:10-10:20 am Coffee Break

10:20-11:10 am "Management of Root Diseases of Strawberry
Dr. Frank N. Martin, USDA-ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit.

11:15-12:05 pm "Spermosphere Control Over Biological Control Processes"
Dr. Eric Nelson, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University

12:05-1:00 pm Lunch Break

Molecular Practices

1:05-1:55 pm "Cellular and molecular mechanisms of coat protein mediated resistance to TMV"
Dr. Roger Beachy, President of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO.

2:00-2:50 pm "Insect Resistance in Bt corn: Management, Monitoring and Response"
Dr. David Andow, Department of Entomology, U. of MN.

2:50-3:00 pm Coffee Break

3:00-3:50 pm "Innovative Approaches to Management of Cereal Root Diseases"
Dr. R. James Cook, Professor and Scientist of the Endowed Chair in Wheat, Washington StateUniversity.

3:55-4:45 pm "Molecular Determinants of Biological Control of Plant Disease"
Dr. Joyce E. Loper, USDA-ARS; Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, Oregon State University.

General Discussion and closure of the Symposium

Committee members:
Rubella Sanyal, Crystal Floyd, Elizabeth Wiggins, Kurt Wilhelm, and Charlie Barnes

View the abstracts

Sponsors by

Campus Involvement Center
Syngenta
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly
The College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences
Coca-Cola
Department of Plant Pathology