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

Monday, December 14, 2009: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM

Room 212, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Moderator:

Tracy C. Leskey

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

Subterranean herbivore-induced volatiles released by citrus roots upon feeding by Diaprepes abbreviatus recruit entomopathogenic nematodes

Jared G. Ali, University of Florida; Hans T. Alborn, USDA - ARS; Lukasz L. Stelinski, University of Florida

8:47 AM

0311

Efficacy of pheromone-baited traps for detection and quantitative sampling of longtailed mealybug (Pseudococcidae: Psuedococcus longispinus) in production nurseries

Rebeccah A. Waterworth, University of California; Jocelyn G. Millar, University of California, Riverside; Ian M. Wright, University of California-Riverside; J. Steven McElfresh, University of California

8:59 AM

0312

Armyworm feeding plasticity trumps structural defenses of fescue pasture grasses

Craig P. Keathley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory (USHRL); Daniel A. Potter, University of Kentucky

9:11 AM

0313

Purification and identification of a lepidopteran fatty acid amide hydrolase and its role in larval metabolism

Emily H. Kuhns, University of Florida; Irmgard Seidl-Adams, Pennsylvania State University; James Tumlinson, Pennsylvania State University

9:23 AM

0314

Comparing the behavioral responses of a specialist (Microplitis croceipes) and a generalist (Cotesia marginiventris) parasitoid to different types of host-related volatiles

Esther Ngumbi, Auburn University; Henry Fadamiro, Auburn University

9:35 AM

Break

9:47 AM

0315

Herbivore-induced ethylene: plant-herbivore interaction of ethylene-insensitive petunias and western flower thrips

Claudia H. Kuniyoshi, Ohio State University; Luis Canas, The Ohio State University

9:59 AM

0316

Stop and smell the flowers: an approach to attract syrphids into apple orchards

Lessando M. Gontijo, Washington State University; Elizabeth Beers, Washington State University

10:11 AM

0317

Deceptive chemical signals induced by a plant virus attract insect vectors to inferior hosts

Kerry Mauck, Pennsylvania State University; Consuelo M. De Moraes, Pennsylvania State University; Mark Mescher, Pennsylvania State University

10:23 AM

0318

Unraveling the semiochemical mediated oviposition behavior of female dogwood borer (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)

Daniel L. Frank, West Virginia University; Aijun Zhang, USDA-ARS; Tracy C. Leskey, USDA - ARS; J. Christopher Bergh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

10:35 AM

0319

Semiochemical mediated host plant preference in the yellowmargined leaf beetle, Microtheca ochroloma Stål (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Rammohan Rao Balusu, Auburn University; Henry Y. Fadamiro, Auburn University

10:47 AM

Concluding Remarks

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