Monday, December 10, 2001: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Pacific Salon 6-7(Convention Center, Level 2)

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Subsection Cc. Insect Vectors in Relation to Plant Disease, Ce. Insect Pathology and Microbial Control, Cf. Quantitative Ecology

Moderator(s): Tim Lockley
Dan Mahr
1:00 PM0346Efficacy of insecticide application for management of bean pod mottle virus
Rayda K. Krell, Larry P. Pedigo, John H. Hill, Marlin E. Rice
1:12 PM0347Conflicting defense pathways in the tritrophic relationship of a plant virus, its vector, and their plant host
Richard Oliver Musser, Sue Mei Hum-Musser, John Brad Murphy, Gary Felton, Rose Gergerich
1:24 PM0348The role of a bacterial symbiont in thrips/Tospovirus interactions
Melissa L. Erickson, Thomas L. German, Diane E. Ullman
1:36 PM0349Twig beetles, Pityophthorus spp., as vectors of the pitch canker pathogen (Fusarium circinatum) to Monterey pines (Pinus radiata) in California
Joyce M. Sakamoto, Thomas R. Gordon, Andrew J. Storer, David L. Wood
1:48 PM0350Site-specific management of green peach aphids in seed potato--Windows of opportunity for targeted application
Matthew W. Carroll, Ian V. MacRae, Robert A Suranyi, Edward B Radcliffe, David Ragsdale
2:00 PMBreak
2:12 PM0351Mechanism for high levels of resistance against Cry1 toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis in Heliothis virescens
Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, Fred Gould, Michael J. Adang
2:24 PM0352Proposed mechanisms of black cutworm decreased susceptibility to the entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema carpocapsae
Brian A. Kunkel, Parwinder S. Grewal
2:36 PM0353Evolution of a spot growth model: From FORTRAN to genetic algorithms
Sarah Satterlee
2:48 PM0354Butterfly populations in the Florida Big Cypress Swamp: Can they be used as bioindicators?
Michelle A. DaCosta

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