The USDA-ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research group stationed in Salinas, CA reported recent presentations to growers and industry.<\/p>\n
On Thursday December 7, 2017, Dr. Jim McCreight presented \u201cMelon powdery mildew race variation in California\u201d at\u00a0the Imperial County 28th Annual Fall Desert Crops Workshop hosted by\u00a0Cooperative Extension and the University of California.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, January 4, Dr. Bill Wintermantel presented \u201cEvaluations of RNAi Strategies for Reducing Whitefly Populations on Melons\u201d and Dr. Jim McCreight presented \u201cEvaluation and Breeding of New Sources of Host Plant Resistance to Sweet Potato Whitefly Biotype B.\u201d at the California Melon Research Board Annual Research Symposium in\u00a0San Diego.<\/p>\n
On January 13\u201317, 2018\u00a0 Drs. Kaori Ando, Bill Wintermantel and Jim McCreight will present \u201cPhylogenetic analysis of an orphan melon, Cucumis melo<\/em> ssp. agrestis <\/em>var. texanus<\/em> via genotyping-by-sequence.\u201d at the\u00a0Plant and Animal Genome XXVI in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n Dr. Jim McCreight provided expertise on cucurbit powdery mildew (CPM) races and melon host differentials to the International Seed Federation (ISF) Pathology Working Group (sub-Working Group for CPM on Melon) and the Collaboration for Plant Pathogen Strain Identification (CPPSI), University of California, Davis. Three international video conferences with ISF and CPPSI in 2017 related to a European project funded by the French Ministry of Agriculture and several international seed companies to characterize powdery mildew variation in France, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Morocco. Dr. McCreight will travel to The Netherlands to participate in an ISF and CPPSI meeting February 13 and 14 that will further refine a set of melon CPM race differentials for the EU and international CPM communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The USDA-ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research group stationed in Salinas, CA reported recent presentations to growers and industry. On Thursday December 7, 2017, Dr. Jim McCreight presented \u201cMelon powdery mildew race variation in California\u201d at\u00a0the Imperial County 28th Annual Fall Desert Crops Workshop hosted by\u00a0Cooperative Extension and the University of California. On Thursday, January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,241],"tags":[335,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5920,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Cucurbit Powdery Mildew Consulting in 2017 and February 2018<\/h2>\n