Pacific Southwest Research Station Sudden Oak Death/Phytophthora ramorum Research Program

Funded Research Projects for FY05, in response to Request for Proposals from:

USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station

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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)

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