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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.
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.
Detailing
two years of research in alfalfa seed IPM, this report by Doug
Walsh, Rick Boydston, and Sally O'Neal was presented January 2010 at the
41st Annual Winter Seed Conference of the Western Alfalfa Seed Growers
Association in Las Vegas.
Jaime Cummings, Carol Miles, and Lindsey du Toit published this article
on greenhouse
evaluation of treatments for organic pathogen management in spinach in the December 2009 edition of Plant Disease.
Now Available
The
2008 Legume ipmPIPE (PIPE
= Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education) is now available
online. The PIPE provides near real-time access to legume pest observations,
model output, and pest management information, as
well as communication tools to support pest management decision making.
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.
This
overview
of Pacific Northwest spinach seed production was presented by
Lindsey du Toit at the International Spinach Conference in Fayetteville,
Arkansas in November 2009.
Also presented at the Fayetteville conference, this presentation by du
Toit, Derie, Brissey, Holmes, and Gatch identifies seed treatments effective
against Verticillium in spinach.
In cooperation with the University of Arkansas and the University of California
at Davis, WSU's Mount Vernon staff prepared this presentation on developing
a standarized seed health assay for Verticillium detection in
spinach seed.
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