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 '05

• Factors influencing Phytophthora ramorum infection in Christmas tree plantations. Gary Chastagner. Washington State University. - $39,553
• Enhanced plant-mediated and microbe-induced suppression of Phytophthora ramorum through application of specific amendments and foliar treatments. Michael Cohen. Sonoma State University. - $15,000
• 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. - $81,966
• Evaluating the sporicidal efficacy of yellow-cedar heartwood toward Phytophthora ramorum spores in the litter and soil; Rick G. Kelsey. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. - $17,600
• 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. - $114,579
• Determining the efficacy of a systems approach for producing nursery stock free of plant pathogenic Phytophthora species; Jennifer Parke, Oregon State University, and Niklaus J. Grunwald, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis  - $150,000
• Adaptive management of Phytophthora ramorum in the Big Sur Ecoregion; David Rizzo et al. University of California Davis. - $125,000
• 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.  - $48,428
• Dissecting the population genetics of Phytophthora ramorum using a high density SNP Chip; Brett Tyler and others. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. - $100,631
• 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. - $66,560 ($14,560 in 2005 and 52,000 in 2006)