0830-0800 Registration
K en Pecota, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
0815 - Call to Order - Introductions,
Announcements, Committee Assignments
Zvezdana Pesic-VanEsbroeck, NCSU,
Raleigh, NC
Advisor Comments - David W. Monks, Assistant Director, North Carolina Agricultural
Research Service, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
0830 - State reports
of last year's crop performance and market condition
Insect, Disease, and Weed Management
Moderator:
, USDA-APHIS,
Beltsville, MD
0900 "Southern
Sweet Potato IPM project in Mississippi - What we've learned"
Jack T. Reed*, William Burdine,
and Dan Fleming. Dept. of Entomology and
Plant Pathology Mississippi State University
0915 "Using
GIS/GPS techniques to evaluate soil insect and/or nematode pest control strategies"
Eugene Burris1*,
Dennis Burns1 and Tara Smith2. 1LSU AgCenter
Northeast Research Station; 2LSU AgCenter Sweet Potato Research
Station
0930 "Assessing
the effects of preplant insecticides on insect damage and yield in Beauregard,
Evangeline, and Covington sweetpotatoes"
Tara P. Smith. LSU AgCenter
Sweet Potato Research Station, Chase, LA
0945 "Relationships
between preharvest conditions and increased susceptibility of sweetpotatoes
to Rhizopus soft rot and bacterial soft rot in Louisiana and North Carolina"
(abstract)
B.A. Edmunds1*, C.A. Clark2, G.J. Holmes1,
D.M. Ferrin2.1North Carolina State University, Department
of Plant Pathology;2LSU AgCenter, Department of Plant Pathology
and Crop Physiology
1000 “Efficacy
of rootworm and white grub control practices in Louisiana sweet potatoes”
Rick Story* and Abner Hammond,
Entomology Department , LSU AgCenter
1015 "Searching
for indicators of postharvest soft rot susceptiblity in Beauregard sweetpotatoes"
C.A. Clark1*, E. D. Gray1, B.A. Edmunds2,
G.J. Holmes2, D.M. Ferrin1.1LSU AgCenter,
Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology; 2North
Carolina State University, Department of Plant Pathology
Alvin Simmons, Kai-Shu Ling*, Howard Harrison, and D. Mike Jackson.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Vegetable
Laboratory, Charleston, SC 29414.
1100 "Efficient
Regeneration and Selection of Virus-free Sweetpotato Plants from Sweet Potato
Leaf Curl Virus Infected Materials and Their Effects on Yields in Field Trials"
(abstract)
Kai-Shu Ling1*, D. Mike Jackson1, Howard Harrison1,
Zvezdana Pesic-VanEsbroeck2, Mary Hoy3 and Christopher
A. Clark3. 1 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service,
U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, SC 29414;2 Department
of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695;
3 Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
1115 "Response
of sweetpotato to infection by the causal agents of sweet potato virus disease"
D. Miano1*, D. Labonte1,
C. Clark2, and C. McGregor1.1LSU AgCenter
School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences;2LSU AgCenter,
Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology.
1130
"The effect of dual formulation and rate on weed control in sweetpotato"
M.W. Shankle*, T.F. Garrett,
and J.L. Main; Mississippi State University, Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods
Branch Experiment Station, Pontotoc, MS 38863.
1145 “Weed
management in Evangeline and Beauregard Sweet Potato”
Donnie K. Miller1*,
Tara P. Smith2, Marcia Matthews1.1LSU
AgCenter, Northeast Research Station, St. Joseph, LA; 2LSU
AgCenter, Sweet Potato Research Station, Chase, LA.
1200 "Differential
clomazone herbicide tolerance among sweetpotato clones"
(abstract)
H. F. Harrison*, Jr and D.M. Jackson. US Vegetable Laboratory, USDA-ARS,
Charleston, SC.
1215Lunch
Post Harvest Physiology, Food Science,
and Marketing
Moderator: Truong Den, USDA-ARS,
Raleigh, NC
1330
"Recent development in processing of sweetpotato puree for functional
food ingredient" (abstract)
V.D. Truong1*, J. Simunovic2,
P. Coronel3, P. Kumar2, L. Steed2, K. P.
Sandeep2, G. Cartwright2 and K. Swartzel2.
1USDA-ARS Food Science Research Unit; 2Department of Food,
Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
NC, 27695; 3Unilever Food and Health Research Institute, 3133 AC,
Vlaardingen, The Netherlands.
Jack D. Osman, Health Science
Department, Towson University, Towson, Maryland 21252.
1400Discussion
Special session on storage root initiation
Objective: To provide updates about the status
of research on molecular, anatomical, and physiological factors that underlie
sweetpotato storage root initiation.
Moderator:
, LSU AgCenter Sweet Potato Research Station
1415 "Anatomical study of sweetpotato
storage root initiation and formation in the leading Israeli variety Georgia
Jet" (abstract)
Yanir Kfir1, Etan Pressman1, Levia Althan1,
Rachel Shaked1 , Amnon Schwartz2, and Nurit Firon1* 1Institute of Plant Sciences, The Volcani Center, Agricultural
Research Organization, P.O.Box 6, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel 2 Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot,
76-100, Israel
1445 "Transcription
profiles of fibrous roots and storage roots of sweetpotato"
D. LaBonte* and C. McGregor.
LSU AgCenter School for Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences.
1515 Break
1530 "Functional characterization
of genes related to storage root development in sweetpotato"
(abstract)
Seol Ah Noh and Jung Myung Bae*. School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology,
Korea University, Seoul, KOREA 136-701.
1600 "Class I knotted1-like
homeobox genes are expressed in storage root of sweetpotato"
(abstract)
Masaru Tanaka1*, Nakao
Kato1, Hiroki Nakayama1, Makoto Nakatani2,
Yasuhiro Takahata1.1 National Agricultural
Experiment Station for Kyushu Okinawa Region, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki 885-0091,
Japan 2 Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council Secretariat,
MAFF, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8950, Japan.
0800 "Methyl
Bromide fumigation alternatives for sweetpotato hotbeds in
California: a preliminary report" (abstract)
C.S. Stoddard1*,
M. Davis1, A Ploeg2, A. Shrestha3, J. Stapleton4.
1UC Cooperative Extension, Merced, CA; 2UCCE Nematology
Specialist, UC Riverside; 3UCCE IPM Weed Ecologist, Kearney Agriculture
Center; UCCE IPM Plant Pathologist, Kearney Agriculture Center.
0815 "Empirical
modeling of sweetpotato yield using heat units and climatic variables: modeling
frames and model performance" (abstract)
A. Villordon1*, C. Clark2, D. Ferrin2, and
D. LaBonte3.1LSU AgCenter Sweet Potato Research Station;
2LSU AgCenter School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences;
3LSU AgCenter Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Phsyiology.
0830 "The "rootcam" and other methods for observing
and quantifying sweetpotato adventitious root initiation, growth, and development."(abstract)
A. Villordon1* and D. LaBonte2.1LSU AgCenter
Sweet Potato Research Station; 2LSU AgCenter School for Plant,
Environmental, and Soil Sciences.
0845 "Back to the future: using
cut seed pieces to produce a sweetpotato crop"
C. Yencho*, K. Pecota, and Blake Bowen. Department
of Horticultural Science, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.
0900 "The effect of sweetpotato
tip and mid vine cuttings on yield, quality and uniformity of Beauregard storage
roots"
Z. Pesic-VanEsbroeck*, C. Averre, T. Guzman and
A. Jackson-Webb . North Carolina State University, Department of Plant Pathology.
1115 - Business Meeting
- Old and New Business, Resolutions Committee Report, Report of Nominations
Committee, Election of Chairperson, Other Business.
P1."Monitoring sweetpotato insects
with sweep net and sticky traps across
Mississippi Delta: A comparative study"
T. Rashid1, A. Muhammad1,
C. Abel2 and L. Adams2.1 Alcorn State University.
Mound Bayou, MS; 2 USDA/ARS. Stoneville, MS.
P2. "Evaluation of alternative fungicides for control of
postharvest Rhizopus soft rot of sweetpotatoes"
B.A. Edmunds and G.J. Holmes. North Carolina State University, Department
of Plant Pathology.
P3" A conservation
tillage system for sweetpotato: Effects on pests and beneficial insects"
(abstract)
D. M Jackson. and H. F. Harrison,
Jr. US Vegetable Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Charleston, SC.
P4. "Sweet Potato
Leaf Curl Virus: Virus Reservoir in Species of Wild Morning Glory"
(abstract)
Kai-Shu Ling, Howard Harrison, Alvin Simmons, and D. Mike Jackson. U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory,
Charleston, SC 29414.
P5. "Use of Soil Barrier Treatments for Wireworm Management"
Mark R. Abney, George G. Kennedy,
and Rebecca Baumler. Dept. of Entomology North Carolina State University Raleigh,
NC 27695.
P6. "Influence
of a plant growth regulator on sweetpotato yield"
J.L. Main, M.W. Shankle, and
T.F. Garrett. Mississippi State University, Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch
Experiment Station, Pontotoc, MS 38863.
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2007* for inclusion in the
Collaborators annual progress report. Abstracts should be sent by e-mail
to the
moderator of your session for review. Please indicate preferred session (GENE,
PEST, CROP, POST, or poster submission). The format of the abstract
should follow the prescribed ASHS format.
Suggested
format for submission:
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Please indicate the name of the presenting author with "*."
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