Western Ontario Regional Meeting, 2005

Abstract

Suppression of fungal and bacterial pathogens of tomato and pepper, using pseudomonad and streptomycetous biocontrol agents. D.A. Cuppels and J. Traquair. Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1391 Sandford Street, London, ON N5V 4T3, Canada. Histopathology of crown infection by sclerotinia rot of carrot – disease progression from shoot to root. 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. Differential expression of heterogenous PAL5 genes in tomato. K. Haq, R.N. Nazar, and E.J. Robb. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Development of white rot [Sclerotium cepivorum] on onions in relation to cultivar and weather. M.H.Y. Hovius and M.R. McDonald. Muck Crops Research Station, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, 1125 Woodchoppers Lane, Kettleby, ON L0G 1J0, Canada; (M.R.M.) Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Integrated management of onion smut and onion maggot with reduced-risk seed treatments. Z.M. Moineddin, C.D. Scott-Dupree, C.R. Harris, A.G. Taylor, and M.R. Mc- Donald. Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; (A.G.T.) New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY 14456, USA; and (M.R.M.) Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada. Use of qPCR and grid sampling to quantify populations of soilborne plant pathogens in field soils. R.D. Reeleder. Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1391 Sandford Street, London, ON N5V 4T3, Canada. Rusted root disease of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius). R.D. Reeleder and S.M. Hoke. Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1391 Sandford Street, London, ON N5V 4T3, Canada. Screening fungi for potential to biologically control Botrytis diseases of American ginseng. J.A. Traquair and G.J. White. Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1391 Sandford Street, London, ON N5V 4T3, Canada; and (G.J.W.) Department of Plant Sciences, Division of Plant Pathology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Management of soybean cyst nematode with winter wheat – legume rotations. T.W. Welacky, T.R. Anderson, E. Topp, A.E. Tenuta, K. Riga, and J. Potter. Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 2585 County Road 20, Harrow, ON N0R 1G0, Canada; (E.T., J.P.) Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, AAFC, 1391 Sandford Street, London, ON N5V 4T3, Canada; (A.E.T.) Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Ridgetown College of Agriculture, P.O. Box 400, Main Street, Ridgetown, ON N0P 2C0, Canada; and (K.R.) Washington State University, Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extention Centre, 24106 North Bunn Road, Prosser, WA 99350, USA. Mechanisms for the effects of nitrogen application rate on Alternaria and Cercospora leaf blight of carrots. S.M. Westerveld, A.W. McKeown, and M.R. McDonald. Department of Plant Agriculture, Crop Science Building, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; (A.W.M.) Simcoe Campus, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, P.O. Box 587, Simcoe, ON N3Y 4N5, Canada.