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

Room C2/C3, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section P-IE4. Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Moderator(s): John Reese
J. Terry Pitts
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM0414Orientation cues of soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura, to plants
Nicole Lamont, David Hunt, Dana Gagnier, Sherah VanLaerhoven
8:17 AM 0415Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov), falling rates from resistant and susceptible wheats
Lauren M. Kerzicnik
8:29 AM 0416Resistance to Aphis glycines Matsumura during the reproductive stages of soybeans
Lanae M. Pierson, Thomas E. Hunt, Tiffany M. Heng-Moss, John C. Reese
8:41 AM0417The effect of host plant cultivar on the fitness of aphids
John Herbert, Russell Mizell
8:53 AM 0418Modeling the effect of gene flow on the evolution of resistance to transgenic crops in developing countries
Shannon M. Heuberger, David W. Crowder, Yves Carriere
9:05 AM0419Competitive release as an ecological cause of stink bug outbreaks in transgenic Bt cotton in the southeast U.S
Adam Zeilinger, Dawn M. Olson, David Andow
9:17 AM0420Effect of Monsanto corn event 88017 and adult diet on selected western corn rootworm life history traits
Stephen T. Young, Lance J. Meinke
9:29 AM Break
9:41 AM0421Population dynamics of stink bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in transgenic dual-toxin Bt cotton
Richard B. Reeves, Jeremy Greene, Peter H. Adler, Francis P. F. Reay-Jones, M. D. Toews, Ahmad Khalilian
9:53 AM0422Expression of selected tomato genes involved in plant defense following application of a systemic insecticide imidacloprid
Adrianna Szczepaniec, Michael J. Raupp
10:05 AM 0423Tomato plants are primed by Helicoverpa zea (tomato fruitworm) oviposition for impending neonate feeding
Jinwon Kim, Gary Felton
10:17 AM 0424Screening for resistance and yield losses caused by onion thrips (Thrips tabaci Lindeman) and Iris yellow spot virus on onions
John Diaz-Montano, Anthony M. Shelton, Brian A. Nault, Marc Fuchs
10:29 AM0425The effects of elevated CO2 and O3 on paper birch resistance to bronze birch borer
Vanessa L. Muilenburg, William J. Mattson, Daniel A. Herms
10:41 AM0426Sugarcane aphid dynamics in Louisiana: identification of biochemical bases of resistance
W. Akbar, Allan T. Showler, T. E. Reagan

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