North American Strawberry Growers Association
Research Projects Funded in 2006

Title of Project: Maintaining Agroecosystem Health in an Organic Strawberry/ Vegetable Rotation System (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigator: Stephen R. Gliessman, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Joji Muramoto, PICA & Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, University of California, Santa Cruz

Title of Project: Control of Sap Beetles in Strawberry (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Rufus Isaacs and Keith Mason. Dept. of Entomology, Michigan State University

Title of Project: Evaluation of strobilurin fungicides (Abound and Cabrio), Potassium phosphite and Ridomil Gold for control of strawberry leather rot and Vascular collapse, caused by Phytophthora cactorum (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigators: Dr. Michael A. Ellis and Angel Rebollar-Alviter, Dept. of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University/OARDC

Title of Project: Pilot High-Throughput Sequencing of Strawberry Gene Sequence Using 454 Technology (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigators: Dr. Kevin M. Folta, Dept. of Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida

Title of Project: Understanding habitat colonization by Tarnished Plant Bug as basis for developing an attraction-based management system for berry crops
Greg Loeb, Juliet Carroll, and Dong Cha
(Click here to read report)

Principal Investigator: Greg Loeb, Dept. Entomology, NYSAES; Juliet Carroll, NY State IPM Fruit Coordinator; and Dong Cha, Dept Entomology, NYSAES

Title of Project: Evaluating Hot-Water Treatment as Means for Eradicating Xanthomonas fragariae in Nursery Stock (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigators: Bill Turechek and John Hartung

Title of Project: Development of a Global Conservation Strategy for Strawberries (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigators: Kim E. Hummer, USDA ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, Oregon

Title of Project: Biofumigation of a Strawberry Matted-row Site with Brassica Green Manure Cover Crops (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigators: Martin Kaps, Patrick Byers,and John Avery, Department of Agriculture, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO

Title of Project: Better common groundsel control using predictions of seedling emergence (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigators: Frank Forcella, Steve Poppe, Dave Archer, and Kurt Spokas

Title of Project: Using fertigation to optimize nitrogen use efficiency and maximize fruit quality in three strawberry production systems (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigators: J. W. Zandstra and Laura Van Eerd, Ridgetown College, University of Guelph

Title of Project: Intra and interspecific molecular genetic relatedness of the core collection of Fragaria virginiana, F. chiloensis and a diverse collection F. vesca using SSRs (Click here to read report)

Principal Investigators: Jeremy A. Pattison, Virginia Tech, Southern Piedmont AREC