Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, P-IE: Host Plant Resistance & Biological Control (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Monday, December 13, 2010: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Pacific, Salon 3 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Moderator:

Thomas L. Clark

9:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:05 AM

Effects of varying ratios of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur on Neotyphodium endophyte-mediated resistance in tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus (Schreb.) Dumort)

Victoria A. Caceres, Purdue University; Douglas S. Richmond, Purdue University

9:17 AM

0415

Impacts of host plant resistance on Pandora neoaphidis, a fungal pathogen of soybean aphid

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

9:29 AM

0416

Influence of plant genotype and prey availability on omnivory by western flower thrips

Justin Fiene, Texas A&M University; Lauren Kalns, Texas A&M University; Marvin K. Harris, Texas A&M University; Julio S. Bernal, Texas A&M University; Peter Krauter, Texas A & M University; Christian Nansen, Texas A&M University

9:41 AM

0417

Investigating host-plant resistance against the hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)

Kelly F. Oten, North Carolina State University

9:53 AM

0418

Induced resistance in rice to oviposition by the sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis

Jason C. Hamm, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Michael J. Stout, Louisiana State University

10:05 AM

0419

Synergist effects of early planting dates and Russian wheat aphid resistant varieties on aphid populations in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska

Paola Andrea Sotelo, Kansas State University; C. Michael Smith, Kansas State University

10:17 AM

Break

10:29 AM

0420

Compatibility between biological control and host plant resistance against the soybean aphid

Camila Botero, University of Wisconsin-Madison; David B. Hogg, University of Wisconsin

10:41 AM

0421

Feeding behavior comparison of soybean aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) biotypes on different soybean entries

Predeesh Chandran, Kansas State University; John C. Reese, Kansas State University; Dechun Wang, Michigan State University; Shah Alam Khan, Kansas State University; William T. Schapaugh, Kansas State University; Leslie R. Campbell, Kansas State University

10:53 AM

0422

Microbial pathogens and classical biological control of Popillia japonica in Arkansas

B. M. Petty, University of Arkansas; DT. Johnson, University of Arkansas; Donald C. Steinkraus, University of Arkansas

11:05 AM

0423

Field assessment of two encyrtid parasitoids of Planococcus minor (Maskell) in Trinidad

Antonio Francis, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Moses T.K. Kairo, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University

11:17 AM

0424

Biological control of the ambermarked birch leafminer (Hymenoptera: Tenthredindae): monitoring establishment, spread, and native parasitism

Anna L. Soper, California Polytechnic University Pomona; Roy G. Van Driesche, University of Massachusetts; R. Reardon, USDA Forest Service

11:29 AM

0425

Evaluation of two biological control strategies against the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis Hübner) in fresh market sweet corn

Elsa Etilé, Université du Québec à Montréal; Josée Boisclair, Institut de Recherche et Développement en Agroenvironnement; Daniel Cormier, Centre de recherche et siège social; Éric Lucas, Université du Québec à Montréal

11:41 AM

0426

Predatory mites Amblyseius swirskii (Athias-Henriot) and A. cucumeris (Oudemans) as potential biocontrol agents of Thrips palmi Karny – pest of field cucumber in south Florida

Garima Kakkar, University of Florida; Dakshina Seal, University of Florida; Vivek Kumar, University of Florida

11:53 AM

Concluding Remarks

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