Current and Emerging Trends in Vegetable Insect Pest Management

Tuesday, December 15, 2009: 8:10 AM-11:00 AM
Room 105, First Floor (Convention Center)
Organizers:
Thomas P. Kuhar
Mark R. Abney
8:25 AM
Transgenic vegetables for control of insects and insect-vectored pathogens
Tony Shelton, Cornell University; Marc F. Fuchs, Cornell University; Mao Chen, Monsanto Company
8:40 AM
8:55 AM
Area-wide impact of Bt field corn on European corn borer and cumulative benefits to non-Bt sweet corn and other vegetable crops
William D. Hutchison, University of Minnesota; Galen Dively, University of Maryland
9:25 AM
Break
9:40 AM
9:55 AM
10:10 AM
Advancements in seed treatment and coating technologies for vegetable insect control
Alan G. Taylor, Cornell University, NYSAES; Brian A. Nault, Cornell University
10:40 AM
Potential impact of the anthranilic diamide insecticides on vegetable IPM
Thomas P. Kuhar, Virginia Tech; Jim Walgenbach, North Carolina State University
10:55 AM
Concluding Remarks
8:10 AM
Introductory Remarks
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