FYI - Symposium announcement:
Current Issues in Vineyard Health
Date: November 30, 2010
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Contact: Student Services staff is available M-F, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Phone: (800)752-0881 From Davis or Woodland (530)757-8777
Sponsor: UC Davis Extension
Location: Da Vinci Building
Address: 1632 Da Vinci Ct. Davis, CA
Event Details
Guest instructors, chosen for their involvement in developing solutions to the problems associated with grape pests and diseases, provide the latest management information on current topics. This year's topics include: breeding grapevines for Pierce's Disease resistance; controlling grape fungal disease such as powdery mildew and Botrytis bunch rot diseases; the grape growers' role in managing exotic pests and diseases; and mealybugs and grapevine leafroll viruses. Lectures are provided by a talented group of speakers comprised of UC faculty, departmental experts and UC farm advisors and cover: the biology of mealybugs in California and their control; the dangers of spreading mealybugs in pomice and the prevention of the disease; and damage reduction in the vineyards.
Instructor(s): Deborah Golino, Ph.D., is director of Foundation Plant Services and is a UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis. Her research focuses on the study of grapevine virus, virus-like diseases and the reduction of the damage they cause.
When: Nov. 30: Tues., 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: Da Vinci Building, 1632 Da Vinci Ct, Davis, CA
More info available at:
http://ucanr.org/sites/intvit/?calitem=25056
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