Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Room A6, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section P-IE6. Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Moderator(s): Marvin K Harris
Dezene P. W. Huber
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM 0440Evaluation of non-target effects of Bt corn pollen on growth and survival golden tortoise beetles Charidotella sexpunctata bicolor (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Daniel Fahey, Helen Hull-Sanders, John E Losey
8:17 AM 0441Effects of root feeding by Diaprepes root weevil, Diaprepes abbreviatus (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on four woody ornamental plant species
Cliff Martin, Bruce Schaffer, Catharine M. Mannion
8:29 AM 0442Attractiveness of three cucurbit plants to the silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia argentifolii (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae), and their potential as a trap crop for whitefly management on poinsettia
Doo Hyung Lee, Jan Nyrop, John Sanderson
8:41 AM 0443Induced terpenoid defenses in lodgepole and jack pine and possible effects on the eastern spread of the mountain pine beetle
Erin Clark, Dezene P. W. Huber, Allan Carroll
8:53 AM 0444Potential host use by the Mediterranean pine engraver (Orthotomicus erosus) in North America
Abigail Walter, Robert C. Venette, Stephen A. Kells
9:05 AM 0445The effect of plant nutritional quality on the foraging decisions of omnivores
Jessica Fournier, Sherah VanLaerhoven
9:17 AM 0446Host phenological changes in foliar nutrients and chemical defenses constrain the performance of European pine sawfly larvae
Rodrigo A. Chorbadjian, P. Larry Phelan, Daniel A. Herms
9:29 AM Break
9:41 AM 0447Differential stylet penetration behaviors of two Aphis gossypii biotypes in relation to host or vector infection with citrus tristeza virus
Jose D Gutierrez, Elaine Backus, Ray Yokomi, Fred Schreiber
9:53 AM 0448Squash bug feeding behavior on watermelon and watermelon relatives
Kaushal Maskey, Astri Wayadande, B. D. Bruton, Jacqueline Fletcher
10:05 AM 0449Impacts of CO2 pollution on plant-insect interactions: A transcriptional and biochemical analysis of soybean defense signaling
Clare L. Casteel, Evan H. DeLucia, May R. Berenbaum
10:17 AM 0450Favored by plant water stress, harmful spider mites displace plant-defense inducing mites from California vineyards
Menelaos C. Stavrinides, Kent M. Daane, Nick J. Mills
10:29 AM 0451Physical response of Physalis leaves to Heliothis subflexa eggs
Jennifer L Petzold, Fred Gould
10:53 AM 0453Host associated genetic differentiation in cotton fleahopper, Pseudatomoscelis seriatus (Reuter), in Texas
Apurba K. Barman, Raul F Medina, Megha N. Parajulee, Christopher G. Sansone, Charles Suh
11:05 AM 0454Growth by sugarcane plants in response to lesser cornstalk borer Elasmopalpus lignosellus (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) damage during early growth stages
Hardev Singh Sandhu, Gregg S Nuessly, Susan Webb, Ronald H. Cherry, Robert Gilbert

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