Please note that this track will be located off-campus in the Jordan Hall Staff Room at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY.
9:00 – 9:30 Questions & answers on Spotted Wing Drosophila (30 min) - Julie Caroll, NYS IPM Program, Geneva
9:30 – 10:00 Research findings using attract & kill for SWD management (30 min) - Peter Jentsch, Entomology, Hudson Valley Research Lab, Highland
10:00 – 10:30 Brown Marmorated Stink Bug - What can we expect in 2017? (30 min) - Peter Jentsch, Entomology, Hudson Valley Research Lab, Highland
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:20 Impact of climate change on occurrence and outbreaks of fire blight and bitter rot in apples (35 min) - Srdjan Acimovic, Plant Pathology, Hudson Valley Research Lab, Highland
11:20 – 12:05 Host resistance for sustainable management of fire blight and apple scab (45 min) - Awais Khan, Plant Pathology, NYSAES, Geneva
12:05 – 12:15 Questions/discussion
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch (provided)
1:15 – 1:50 New directions in modern apple orchards (35 min) - Mario Miranda Sazo, Lake Ontario Fruit Program, Newark
1:50 – 2:20 Toward mechanized fruit harvesting in apple orchards: perspectives from genetic manipulation of tree architecture (30 min) - Kenong Xu, Horticulture, NYSAES, Geneva
2:20 – 2:50 Genetically improving tree architectures for innovative fruit production systems (30 min) - Chris Dardick (Guest presenter, USDA-ARS-AFRS, Kearneysville, WV)
2:50 – 3:00 Questions/discussion
3:00 - 3:15 Results of ENY Commercial Hort Program Strawberry Survey - (Laura McDermott)
3:15 Adjourn
