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

Room A10, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section P-IE9. Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Moderator(s): Sherilyn G. F. Smith
Monica A. Farfan
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM0478Effects of fungicide timing and active ingredient on soybean aphid fungal epizootics
Karrie A. Koch, David W. Ragsdale
8:17 AM 0479Transmission of grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 by the vine mealybug (Planococcus ficus)
Lisa Fernandez, Chi-Wei Tsai, John Chau, Domenico Bosco, Kent M Daane, Rodrigo P.P. Almeida
8:29 AM0480Determining the threat of Pierce's disease to Virginia vineyards
Anna K. Wallingford, Douglas Pfeiffer, Sue Tolin, Peter M. Sforza
8:41 AM 0481Novel bacterium vectored by the tomato psyllid to Solanaceous plants
Allison Hansen, Timothy Paine
8:53 AM0482Lack of Pythium aphanidermatum transmission by adult fungus gnats (Bradysia impatiens)
Sarah Braun, John Sanderson, Eric Nelson, Margery Daughtrey, Stephen P. Wraight
9:05 AM0483Differences in PVY transmissibility by three aphid vectors in Idaho potato fields
Felix Cervantes, Juan M. Alvarez
9:17 AM0484Identifying weed hosts for onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) and implications for Iris yellow spot virus management in onion
Erik Smith, Antonio DiTommaso, Marc Fuchs, Anthony M. Shelton, Brian A. Nault
9:29 AM Break
9:41 AM0485GC-EAD responses of Microplitis croceipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to headspace volatiles from cotton plants damaged by host (Heliothis virescens) and non-host (Spodoptera exigua) caterpillars
Esther Ngumbi, Li Chen, Henry Fadamiro
9:53 AM0486An immunological approach to assess trophic interactions:  Evaluating the efficacy of a hemlock woolly adelgid-specific monoclonal antibody
Rachael Elaina Mallis, Lynne Rieske, James D. Harwood
10:05 AM0487Evaluation of the possibility for mechanical transmission of powdery mildew conidia by a mycophagous coccinellid
Andrew Sutherland
10:17 AM0488Egg survival and seasonal phenology of the soybean aphid on its overwintering hosts in Indiana
Diana Castillo, Robert O'Neil
10:29 AM 0489Effect of dietary diversification on growth and development of the exotic terrestrial mollusk, Deroceras reticulatum
Anna K. Thomas, James D. Harwood
10:41 AM 0490Effects of host plants on life history of potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc)
Xiangbing Yang, Tong-Xian Liu
10:53 AM0491Host preference and fertility life table of Campoletis sonorensis (Cameron) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) as a larval endoparasitoid of the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Henry Murillo, Sherah Vanlaerhoven, David Hunt

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