Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section P-IE9. Plant-Insect Ecosystems (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

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

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

Moderators:

Sherilyn G. F. Smith
Monica A. Farfan

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

0478

Effects of fungicide timing and active ingredient on soybean aphid fungal epizootics

Karrie A. Koch, University of Minnesota; David Ragsdale, Texas A&M University

Audio File

8:17 AM

0479

Transmission of grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 by the vine mealybug (Planococcus ficus)

Lisa Fernandez, University of California; Chi-Wei Tsai, University of California at Berkeley; John Chau, University of California at Berkeley; Domenico Bosco, Universitá degli Studi di Torino; Kent M. Daane, University of California at Berkeley; Rodrigo P. P. Almeida, University of California Berkeley

8:29 AM

0480

Determining the threat of Pierce's disease to Virginia vineyards

Anna K. Wallingford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Douglas Pfeiffer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sue Tolin, Virginia Tech; Peter M. Sforza, Virginia Tech

Audio File

8:41 AM

0481

Novel bacterium vectored by the tomato psyllid to Solanaceous plants

Allison Hansen, University of Illinois; Timothy D. Paine, University of California

8:53 AM

0482

Lack of Pythium aphanidermatum transmission by adult fungus gnats (Bradysia impatiens)

Sarah Braun, Cornell University; John Sanderson, Cornell University; Eric Nelson, Cornell University; Margery Daughtrey, Cornell University; Stephen P. Wraight, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

Audio File

9:05 AM

0483

Differences in PVY transmissibility by three aphid vectors in Idaho potato fields

Felix Cervantes, University of Idaho; Juan M. Alvarez, University of Idaho

Audio File

9:17 AM

0484

Identifying weed hosts for onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) and implications for Iris yellow spot virus management in onion

Erik A. Smith, Cornell University, NYSAES; Antonio DiTommaso, Cornell University; Marc F. Fuchs, Cornell University; Tony Shelton, Cornell University; Brian A. Nault, Cornell University

Audio File

9:29 AM

Break

9:41 AM

0485

GC-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, Auburn University; Li Chen, Auburn University; Henry Fadamiro, Auburn University

Audio File

9:53 AM

0486

An immunological approach to assess trophic interactions: Evaluating the efficacy of a hemlock woolly adelgid-specific monoclonal antibody

Rachael Elaina Mallis, University of Kentucky; Lynne Rieske-Kinney, University of Kentucky; James D. Harwood, University of Kentucky