Author Topic: ATTENTION COMMERCIAL AVOCADO GROWERS Current status of laurel wilt research  (Read 487 times)

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FOR THOSE COMMERCIAL AVOCADO  IN PLACES WHERE THE DISEASE HAS NOT REACHED, CHILE, PERU, NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, MEXICO, CALIFORNIA GET FAMILIAR WITH THE CHALLENGES THIS DISEASE PRESENT.
Current status of laurel wilt research. Wednesday May 20 2020, 9:00-11:30

https://ufl.zoom.us/j/275226269?pwd=bGpOVEYrZGFQOFVlVzNxVnp5ZlVIQT09

Participants
INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME

9:00 Jiri Hulcr: Short introduction to the Bark Beetle Mycobiome group (5 minutes)
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Jeff Rollins: Studying R. lauricola pathogenesis through comparative genomics and transcriptomics
Josh Konkol: GFP strain, colonization of the host plant by R. lauricola
Qiang Wang: An efficient CRISPR/Cas9 gene knock-out system in R. lauricola
Ross A. Joseph: Generation of multiple R. lauricola reporter strains and their use in colonization and infection studies
BIOLOGY

Daniel Carrillo: Laurel wilt vectors in avocado
Octavio Menocal Sandoval: Research proposal, Xyleborus bispinatus: A case of symbiont flexibility?
Kirsten Stelinski: Investigating the role of the Xyleborus microbial community in R. lauricola transmission
ECOLOGY,

Denita Hadziabdic: Laurel wilt advancing North
Robin Choudhury: LW dispatch from the Texas front
Andrés Lira Noriega: Modelling for risk assessment of laurel wilt in Mexico
Jason Smith: Redbay heritable resistance, rebounding populations and re-thinking transmission
DETECTION

Caterina Villari: Rapid in-field detection of R. lauricola from host and vector tissues using LAMP
Julian Mendel and DeEtta (Dee) Mills: Detector dogs
Pedro Parra Giraldo: Culture-independent Laurel Wilt diagnosis in avocado groves
MANAGEMENT

Romina Gazis: Testing “Out-Of-The-Box” Ideas to Control Laurel Wilt of Avocado
José Luis Olivares-Romero: Synthesis of novel insecticides for the management of ambrosia beetles
Jonathan Crane: Laurel wilt status in avocado groves and grower-initiated control testing
Xavier Martini and Derrick Connover: Push-pull system to protect redbay and avocado against Laurel Wilt
Carlos
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