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UC Nursery and Floriculture Alliance

2015 California Nursery Conference

2015 California Nursery Conference

2015 CALIFORNIA NURSERY CONFERENCE

October 22, 2015

Southern California Edison Energy Education Center
6090 N. Irwindale Avenue
Irwindale CA 91702

NURSERY DISEASES, PESTS, AND POLICIES
HOW THEY AFFECT YOU AND HOW TO SURVIVE THEM

Click on the presentation title to see the linked slide show.

Agenda

8:00 am    Welcome  Loren Oki Ph.D., Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
John Kabashima Ph.D., UCCE Orange County
   
8:10 am     Session I Moderator: Loren Oki
   

Timing weed management techniques for optimal control

  

Inexpensive, safe, and easy to use pest control options

 

Overview of insect pests affecting greenhouse and nursery production

Cheryl Wilen Ph.D. 
UCCE San Diego County, Area IPM Advisor

Dustin Meador Ph.D.
Center For Applied Horticultural Research 

Shimat Joseph Ph.D.
UCCE Monterey County

   
10:10 am   Session II  Moderator: John Kabashima
   

Light brown apple moth


Status of Light Brown Apple Moth Quarantines in California


A growers perspective of the LBAM quarantine and its potential expansion within the State

Steve Tjosvold
UCCE Santa Cruz


Duane Schnabl
CDFA


Mike Babineau
Village Nurseries

   
1:20 pm    Session II  Moderator: Loren Oki
   

  

Polyphagous shot hole borer as an emerging risk in nursery and landscape trees

Biology and control of Euwallacea sp., the vector of Fusarium dieback disease in California nursery landscape trees
(NOTE: Kabshima and Paine presentations are together in the above presentation)

Sharpshooters and whiteflies: What’s new in ornamental research

 

Asian citrus psyllid and citrus greening/huonglongbing



John Kabashima Ph.D.
UCCE Orange County

Timothy Paine Ph.D. 
Department of Entomology, UC Riverside

 

Richard Redak Ph.D.
Department of Entomology, UC Riverside

James Bethke
UCCE San Diego and Riverside Counties

   

    3:30 pm    Adjourn

 

 

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