Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, P-IE: Plant Resistance (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Monday, December 14, 2009: 8:45 AM-11:00 AM

Room 102, First Floor (Convention Center)

Moderator:

David Ragsdale

8:45 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:57 AM

0356

The role of phenolics and other mechanisms of resistance of poinsettia to the silverleaf whitefly

Karla J. Medina-Ortega, The Ohio State University; Justin Whitehill, The Ohio State University; Pierluigi Bonello, The Ohio State University; Luis Canas, The Ohio State University

9:09 AM

0357

Relating yellow sugarcane aphid, Sipha flava, damage characteristics to resistance of sorghum

Zack Eder, West Texas A&M University; Bonnie Pendleton, West Texas A&M University

9:21 AM

0359

Host range of western spotted cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in California

Andrew Pedersen, University of California-Davis; Larry Godfrey, University of California

9:33 AM

Break

9:45 AM

0360

Do aphid resistant soybeans affect natural enemies of the soybean aphid?

Thelma Heidel, University of Minnesota; David Ragsdale, University of Minnesota

9:57 AM

0361

Thrips tabaci (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) transmission studies of Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV) using onion seedlings

Anitha Chitturi, University of Georgia; David G. Riley, University of Georgia; Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan, University of Georgia

10:09 AM

0362

Pecan cultivar preference assessment of Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in Texas

Chris Swain, Texas A&M University; Roger E. Gold, Texas A&M University; Robert Puckett, Texas A&M University

10:21 AM

0363

The effect of an aphid-resistant soybean genotype on intraguild predation of a soybean aphid parasitoid

Jeremy M. Chacón, University of Minnesota; Mark K. Asplen, University of Minnesota; George E. Heimpel, University of Minnesota

10:33 AM

0364

Weed hosts of onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) and their role in Iris yellow spot virus epidemiology in onion

Erik A. Smith, Cornell University; Antonio DiTomasso, Cornell University; Cynthia L. Hsu, Cornell University; Marc F. Fuchs, Cornell University; Tony Shelton, Cornell University; Brian A. Nault, Cornell University

10:45 AM

Concluding Remarks

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