Monday, December 11, 2006: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room 117 (Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section Fa. Host Plant Resistance

Moderator(s): Sharron Quisenberry
Gary Hein
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AM0467Interactions between chestnut foliage and stem galls produced by Dryocosmus kuriphilus (Yasumatsu) on chestnut shoots  [ Recorded presentation ]
William Cooper, Lynne Rieske
8:47 AM0468Physiological responses of resistant and susceptible barley to the Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko)
Andrea R. Gutsche, Lisa D. Franzen, Tiffany M. Heng-Moss, Leon G. Higley, Dolores Mornhinweg
8:59 AM0469Genotypic variation between and within Diuraphis noxia (Homoptera: Aphididae) biotypes found in the US  [ Recorded presentation ]
Tracey L. Payton, Kevin A. Shufran, Gary J. Puterka
9:11 AM0470Use of qRQ-PCR to quantify changes in peroxidase gene expression of greenbug, Schizaphis graminum, -resistant and -susceptible sorghum cultivars 
Thomas E. Eickhoff, Tiffany M. Heng-Moss, Paul Twigg, Teresa Donze, Gautam Sarath, Frederick P. Baxendale
9:23 AM0471Host plant resistance studies with the sugarcane aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae) on sugarcane in Louisiana  [ Recorded presentation ]
W. Akbar, T. E. Reagan
9:35 AMBreak
9:47 AM0472Screening for resistance to green peach aphid, Myzus persicae Sulzer (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Solanum etuberosum derived germplasm
Loida Tobias, Denise L. Olson
9:59 AM0473Biological activity of romaine lettuce latex against banded cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)  [ Recorded presentation ]
Amit Sethi, Heather J. McAuslane, Hans T. Alborn, Russell T. Nagata, Gregg Nuessly
10:11 AM0474The nutritive value of senescing maize and Setaria roots for western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) development  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kurt J. Olmer, Bruce E. Hibbard
10:23 AM0475Potential impacts of refuge contamination on Bt resistance in pink bollworm
Shannon M. Heuberger, Yves Carrière, Timothy J. Dennehy, Bruce E. Tabashnik
10:35 AM0476Tomato plant defense gene expression to caterpillar labial salivary glands  [ Recorded presentation ]
Spencer Williams, Heiko Vogel, Richard Musser

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