Western Ontario Regional Meeting, 2004

Abstract

Sudden oak death: update on a new invasive plant disease. M. Celetti. Ministry of Agriculture and Food, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Susceptibility of processing and dry pea cultivars and efficacy of fungicides on ascochyta blight. M.J. Celetti, M.R. McDonald, B.D. Gossen, K. Vander Kooi, M.S. Melzer, E. Roddy, and G.J. Boland. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF), University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; (M.R.M.) Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; (B.D.G.) Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X2, Canada; (K.V.) Muck Crops Research Station, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 1125 Woodchoppers Lane, Kettleby, ON L0G 1J0, Canada; (M.S.M., G.J.B.) Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; and (E.R.) OMAF, Ridgetown College, University of Guelph, Main Street East, Ridgetown, ON N0P 2C0, Canada. The influence of Trichoderma harzianum (T-22™) on arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization of Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem). A.J. Dickson, J.N. Klironomos, and G.J. Boland. Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; and (J.N.K.) Department of Botany, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Canadian response to the discovery of plum pox. B. Ferguson. Ontario Program Network, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Government of Canada, 1200 Commissioners Road East, Unit 19, London, ON N5Z 4R3, Canada. Pepino mosaic virus: a new invasive disease in greenhouse tomato in Ontario. G. Ferguson. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre, Harrow, ON N0R 1G0, Canada. Validation of a disease-forecasting system for sclerotinia rot of carrot. A.J. Foster, M.R. McDonald, and G.J. Boland. Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; and (G.J.B.) Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Involvement of a metacaspase of amp; Nicotiana benthamiana in anthracnose disease resistance. L. Hao, T. Hsiang, and P.H. Goodwin. Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Update on National Invasive Alien Species Strategy. K. Marchant and L. Cree. Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ontario Area, 174 Stone Road West, Guelph, ON N1G 4S9, Canada; and (L.C.) Plant Health Risk Assessment Unit, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 3851 Fallowfield Road, Nepean, ON K2H 8P9, Canada. Integrated management of onion smut and onion maggot with reduced-risk seed treatments. Z. Moineddin, C. Scott-Dupree, and M.R. McDonald. Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; and (M.R.M.) Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Soybean rust: a new disease risk to Canada. A. Tenuta. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Ridgetown College, University of Guelph, Main Street East, Ridgetown, ON N0P 2C0, Canada. Control of septoria late blight on celery using reducedrisk fungicides. C.L. Trueman, M.R. McDonald, M.H.Y. Hovius, and A.W. McKeown. Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.