Pacific Southwest Research Station

Pacific Southwest Research Station
800 Buchanan Street
West Annex Building
Albany, CA 94710-0011

(510) 559-6300

Funded Projects for the FY '06

• Epidemiology of Phytophthora ramorum in tanoak forests. Everett Hansen. Oregon State University - $115,000
• Effects of clone size and structure of tanoak on spread of sudden oak death disease in California forests - Richard Dodd. UC-Berkeley - $33,000
• Optimization of management strategies for sudden oak death using epidemiological models and GIS technologies - C.A. Gilligan, University of Cambridge, D.M. Rizzo, UC-Davis and R. K. Meentemeyer, University North Carolina, Charlotte - $114,545
• Detecting and Monitoring Phytophthora ramorum and other Species of Phytophthora in Forest Streams in the Eastern USA. S. N. Jeffers and Jaesoon Hwang. Clemson University - $60,000
• Long-Term Study of Disease Dynamics and Forest Impacts Caused by Phytophthora ramorum in Northern California. J. H. Cushman, N. E. Rank, Sonoma State University and R.K. Meentemeyer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte - $40,000
• Monitoring migration, population structure and evolution of the Sudden Oak Death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum in North America. N.J. Grunwald, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis  and E. M. Hansen, Oregon State University - $99,433
• Importance of Water-Runoff in Spreading Inoculum and Supporting New Infections of Phytophthora ramorum in Nursery and Landscape Conditions - Steve Tjosvold, UC Cooperative Extension - $41,417
• Eradication of Phytophthora ramorum from contaminated sites - J. D.  MacDonald, UC-Davis - $20,905*
• Management of Phytophthora ramorum in tanoak and oak stands - Matteo Garbelotto, UC-Berkeley; Ted Swiecki, Phytosphere Research; Yana Valachovic, UC Cooperative Extension - Humboldt and Del Norte Counties - $140,484

*Jointly funded with USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and Quarantine

Second year funding (from the 2005 RFP)

• Factors influencing Phytophthora ramorum infection in Christmas tree plantations. Gary Chastagner. Washington State University. - $38,220
• Phenotypic and genotypic comparisons between nursery and wild populations of Phytophthora ramorum. Matteo Garbelotto, University of California Berkeley & Niklaus J. Grunwald, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis. - $82,000
• Systemic spread, asymptomatic infection, and infection potential of soilborne propagules in the disease cycle of Phytophthora ramorum; Jennifer Parke, Jeff
• Stone & Everett Hansen. Oregon State University. - $120,200
• Adaptive management of Phytophthora ramorum in the Big Sur Ecoregion; David Rizzo and others, University of California Davis. - $181,551 and Ross Meentemeyer, University of North Carolina - $24,333
• Biological and ecophysiological factors mitigating in planta survival of Phytophthora ramorum in California bay laurel. David Rizzo and Elizabeth Fichtner, UC Davis and Daniel Huberli, UC Berkeley - $70,000.
• Phytophthora ramorum canker (sudden oak death) in coast live oak and tanoak: factors affecting disease risk, disease progression, and failure potential; Tedmund J. Swiecki & Elizabeth Bernhardt. Phytosphere Research, California. - $38,000
• Seasonal symptom expression, detection, and potential for infectivity of Phytophthora ramorum on rhododendron and camellia; Steve Tjosvold. University of California Cooperative Extension. Santa Cruz Co. and Cheryl Blomquist, California Department of Food and Agriculture. - $50,241
• In vivo study of host-Phytophthora ramorum-interaction, using green fluorescent protein (GFP); Sabine Werres et al. Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA), Germany. - $52,000
• Zoospore infection of bark, host specificity and field resistance to bark infecting Phytophthoras. Clive M. Brasier & Anna Brown. Forest Research Agency, United Kingdom. - $29,975
• Acorn composition following tree application of phosphanate. Alyson Mitchell & Tedmund J. Swiecki. University of California Davis & Phytosphere Research, California. - $10,000