Alberta and Saskatchewan Joint Regional Meeting, 2008

Abstract

Confocal microscopic studies of root-endophytic fungi in wheat. L. Abdellatif, S. Kaminisky, S. Bouzid, and V. Vujanovic. Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada; and (S.K.) Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, 112 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7n 5E2, Canada; and (S.B.) Department of Biology, University of Tunis, Tunis 1060, Tunisia. Biological control of fusarium root rot of pea with Trichoderma spp. K.F. Chang, S.F. Hwang, R. Bowness, G. Turnbull, S.E. Strelkov, and D.J.Bing. Field Crop Development Centre, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD), 6000 C & E Trail, Lacombe, AB T4L 1W1, Canada; (S.F.H., G.T.) Crop Diversification Centre North, ARD,17507 Fort Road NW, Edmonton, AB T5Y 6H3, Canada; (S.E.S.) Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, 410 Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada; and (D.J.B.) Lacombe Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 6000 C & E Trail, Lacombe, AB T6r 1W1, Canada. Molecular profiling of fungal functional groups in the rhizosphere of short-rotation willow plantations. A.H. Corredor, K. van Rees, and V. Vujanovic. Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences; and (K.V.) Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada. Assessment and characterization of viral dsRNAs in Fusarium pathogenic species from Canadian cereals. P. Daida and V. Vujanovic. Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada. Effects of abiotic and biotic stress factors on chlamydospore formation by Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium sporotrichioides. Y.K. Goh, P. Daida, and V. Vujanovic. Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada. Assessment of Melanospora -like biotrophic mycoparasite using genus specific real-time PCR for biocontrol of phytopathogenic Fusarium strains in wheat mycorrhizosphere. Y.K. Goh and V. Vujanovic. Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7n 5A8, Canada. Are certain field pea lines tolerant to mmycosphaerella bloght? B.D. Gossen, R.L. Conner, S.F. Hwang, and M.R. McDonald. Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7n 0X2, Canada; (R.L.C.) Cereal Research Centre, AAFC, Modern, MB R6M 1Y5, Canada; (S.F.H.) Crop Diversification Centre North, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, 17507 Fort Road NW, Edmonton, AB T5Y 6H3, Canada; and (M.R.M.) Department of Plant Agriculture, Crop Science Building, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Barley net blotch quantitive trait loci–mapping, validation, and their utilization. T.S. Grewal, B.G. Rossnagel, and G.J. Scoles. Crop Development Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada. Effect of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on growth and development of seedling and root rot of Rhodiala rosea in Alberta, Canada. S.F. Hwang, H. Ahmed, K. Ampong-Nyarko, S.E. Strelkov, R.J. Howard, S. Lutz and G.D. Turnbull. Crop Diversification Centre (CDC) North Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD), 17507 Fort Road NW, Edmonton, AB T5Y 6H3, Canada; (S.E.S.) Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutirional Science, 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre, University of Alberta, Edomonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada; and (R.J.H.) CDC South, ARD, 301 Horticultural Station Road East, Brooks AB T1R 1E6, Canada. Management of leaf spotting diseases of winter wheat in western Canada. C.L. Kirkham, T.K. Turkington, D.L. McLaren, R.B. Irvine, and H.R. Kutcher. Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Melfort Research Farm, P.O. Box 1240, Melfort, SK S0E 1A0, Canada; (T.K.T.) Lacombe Research Centre, AAFC, 6000 C & E Trail, Lacombe, AB T4l 1W1, Canada; and (D.L.M., R.B.I.) Brandon Research Centre, AAFC, P.O. Box 1000A, R.R. 3, Brandon, MB R7A 5Y3, Canada. Brassica napus responses to oxalic acid stress. Y. Liang, S.E.Strelkov, and N.N.V. Kav. Department of Agricultural Food and Nutritional Science, 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada. Genetics of stagonospora nodorum blotch resistance in the wheat population Altar Synthetic/‘Kenyon’. E. Matlock, C.A. McCartney, G. Hughes, and P. Singh. Crop Development Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada; and (P.S.) Wheat Program, CIMMYT, Apartado Postal 6–641, 06600 Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Resistance to the leaf spotting complex in the wheat line 86ISMN 2137. C.A. McCartney, G. Hughes, P. Singh, P. Hucl, and C. Pozniak. Crop Development Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada; and (P.S.) Wheat Program, CIMMYT, Apartado Postal 6–641, 06600 Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Management of clubroot in Brassica vegetables. M.R. McDonald, B. Kornatowska, K. Vander Kooi, K.C. Kalpana, and B.D. Gossen. Department of Plant Agriculture, Crop Science Building, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; and (B.D.G.) Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7n 0X2, Canada. Clubroot incidence on Asian Brassica vegetables in relation to temperature and fungicide application. Department of Plant Agriculture, Crop Science Building, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; (S.M.W.) Simcoe Research Station, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 1283 Blueline Road, P.O. Box 587, Simcoe, ON N3Y 4N5, Canada; and (B.D.G.) Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X2, Canada. Lentil anthracnose–studies on the mating system of Colletotrichum truncatum. J. Menat, Y.D. Wei, and S. Banniza. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada; and (Y.D.W.) Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, 112 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada. Efficacy of selected biofungicides for control of clubroot on canola. G. Peng, B.D. Gossen, S.E. Strelkov, S.F. Hwang, and M.R. McDonald. Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X2, Canada; (S.E.S.) Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada; (S.F.H.) Crop Diversification Centre North, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, 17 507 Fort Rorad NW, Edmonton, AB T5Y 6H3, Canada; and (M.R.M.) Department of Plant Agriculture, Crop Science Building, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Understanding host - and nonhost - plant pathogen interactions using transcriptional analysis of wheat and barley infected with the barley smut pathogen Ustilago hordei. C. penniket, D. Gaudet, M. Frick, G. Bakkeren, and A. Laroche. Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC, P.O. Box 5000, 4200 Highway 97, Summerland, BC V0H 1Z0, Canada. Effects of pyraclostrobin on pasmo disease, yield, and fibre content of flax. K.Y. Rashid. Cereal Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden Research Station, Unit 100, 101 Route 100 Morden, MB R6M 1Y5, Canada. Seedborne transmission of Plasmodiophora brassicae –evaluation of importance and potential for detection. D. Rennie, V.P. Manolii, T.S. Cao, S.F. Hwang, and S.E. Strelkov. Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada; and (S.F.H.) Crop Diversification Centre North, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, 17 507 Fort Road NW, Edmonton, AB T5Y 6H3, Canada. Occurence of bacterial canker in greenhouse tomatoes in Alberta. R.J. Howard, N.A. Savidov, S. Rajput, M. Mirza, P. Cote, and N. butler. Crop Diversification Centre (CDC) South, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD), 301 Horticultural Station Road East, Brooks, AB T1R 1E6, Canada; (M.M.) CDC North, ARD, 17507 Fort Road NW, Edmonton, AB T5Y 6H3, Canada; and (S.R.) Alberta Research Council, P.O. Box 4000, Vegreville, AB T9C 1T4, Canada. Wind trajectories and cereal rust risk, western Canada, 2007. T.K. Turkington, B.D. McCallum, T. Fetch Jr. K. Xi, K. Kumar, D. Gaudet, O.O. Olfert, R. Weiss, and J. Soroka. Lacombe Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 6000 C & E Trail, Lacombe, AB T4L 1W1, Canada; (B.D.M., T.F.), Cereal Research Centre, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, 6000 C & E Trail, Lacombe, AB T4L 1W1, Canada; (D.G.), Lethbridge Research Centre, AAFC, P.O. Box 3000, Lethbridge, AB T1J 4B1, Canada; and (0.0.0., R.W., J.S.), Saskatoon Research Centre, AAFC, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7n 0X2, Canada. Potential distribution and severity of clubroot of canola in western Canada. T.K. Turkington, O.O. Olfert, R. Weiss, H. Klein-Gebbinck, D. Kriticos, H.R. Kutcher, K.C. Falk, and S.E. Strelkov. Lacombe Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 6000 C & E Trail Lacombe, AB T4L 1W1, Canada; (0.0.0., R.W., H.R.K., K.C.F.) Saskatoon Research Centre, AAFC, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X2, Canada; (H.K.-G.) Lacombe Research Centre, AAFC, Beaverlodge Research Farm, P.O. Box 29, Beaverlodge, AB, T0H 0C0, Canada; (D.K.), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia; and (S.E.S.) Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada.