New & Emerging Pests and Diseases

Sunday, August 7, 2011: 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
317A
1:15 PM
2-O
Pest interceptions on live plants at US ports of entry: a system overwhelmed
Kerry Britton, USDA Forest Service, Research & Development, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.

2:15 PM
6-O
Tomato leaf curl Peru virus: A locally evolved monopartite New World begomovirus
Tomas Melgarejo, Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, U.S.A.

3:15 PM
9-O
Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) – a worldwide problem
Tamas Komives, Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

3:30 PM
Biological control of invasive common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. with beneficial insect herbivores in China
Fang-Hao Wan, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, Peoples Rep of China

3:45 PM
A new disease of parsley (Petroselinum crispum) in California caused by a fluorescent pseudomonad related to Pseudomonas viridiflava
Stacy Mauzey, California State University, Monterey Bay, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center, Seaside, CA, U.S.A.

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