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Welcome!
This web page is a product of the statewide WSU Seed Crop Team, a partnership funded by the CAHNRS Agricultural Extension Issue-Focused Teams Initiative in December 2007. This new team, led by entomologist Doug Walsh and plant pathologist Lindsey du Toit, seeks to protect and enhance the seed industries of Washington State. Other team members include weed scientists Tim Miller and Rick Boydston, plant pathologists Lyndon Porter and Ken Eastwell, Extension educators Tim Waters, Don McMoran, and Carrie Wohleb, and communications specialist Sally O'Neal.
The Seed Crop Team brings faculty and staff from numerous disciplines and both sides of the state together to address issues impacting production of many types of seed crops.
Watch This Space!
The WSU Seed Crop Team is in its infancy. Our cross-state, interdisciplinary efforts are sure to bear fruit (or rather, seeds...) in the months ahead. Stay tuned for more links, more presentations, and more information to help the seed crop industries of Washington State say viable and competitive.
New Reports & Articles
The following are new to this website. Many archived reports and articles can be found under the Production, Diseases, Insect/Mite, and Weed links in the navigation bar on the far left.
Report
on two years' work on integrated weed
and insect management in alfalfa seed by Doug Walsh, Rick Boydston, and Sally O'Neal presented January 2008
Two
2007 reports by Lyndon Porter about management of seed and root rot pathogens
of processed peas. First, efficacy of various commercial
and organic seed treatments in reducing seed and root rot of peas in
the presence of metalaxyl-resistant Pythium. Second, an assessment
of organic
seed treatments to manage seed and root rot on peas in a commercial
organic field.
Article
on real-time, quantitative PCR seed assay
for Botrytis spp. that cause neck rot of onion by Martin Chilvers
et al., from May 2007 issue of Plant Disease
Feature article from the December 2006 issue of Plant Disease on iris yellow spot virus in onion by David Gent, Lindsey du Toit et al.
Article on Cladosporium and Stemphylium leaf spot in spinach by Pablo Hernandez-Perez and Lindsey du Toit from February 2006 issue of Plant Disease
Article
on sequence diversity of the iris
yellow spot virus NP gene by Hanu Pappu et al. in November 2005 issue
of Archives of Virology
"First
Report of Powdery
Mildew of Carrot and Parsley Caused by Erysiphe heraclei in
Washington State," article by Dean Glawe et al. in January 2005 issue
of Plant Health Progress
New Presentations
The following presentations are new to this website. Many archived presentations can be found under the Production, Diseases, Insect/Mite, and Weed links in the navigation bar on the far left.
Presentation
by Lyndon Porter on organic and commercial seed
treatments to manage seed rot of peas. Reports
on the efficacy of the treatments discussed can be
found on the Seed Crop
Diseases subpage of this website.
Presentation
on puncturevine
biology and control by Rich Affeldt at the January 2007
meeting of the Columbia Basin Vegetable Seed Association.
Presentation on the infection
of seed and transmission of seed borne pathogens by Lindsey du Toit at the February 2008 Organic Seed Conference in Salem,
Oregon
Short course in disease
management in vegetable seed crops presented by
Lindsay du Toit at the February 2008 Organic Seed Conference in Salem,
Oregon
Poster
on protecting
alkali bees and leafcutter bees, critical pollinators
in alfalfa seed fields, by Holly Ferguson and Doug Walsh
New Documents
The following documents are new to this website. Archived documents can be found under the Production, Diseases, Insect/Mite, and Weed links in the navigation bar on the far left.
Crop Profile for Table Beet Seed in Washington by Lindsey du Toit, released December 2007
Crop
Profile for Cabbage Seed in Washington by Lindsey du Toit,
released December 2007
"Management of Diseases in Seed Crops" chapter by Lindsey du Toit from the Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science, 2004
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