Mary Centrella joins our lab coming from the University of Wyoming. She is interested in the effects of competition, pesticides and landscape diversity on bees and will be jointly advised by Brian Danforth and me!
Welcome Mary!
More funding!
We just received funding for our project: “Increasing potato yield through genetic and biochemical analysis of compensatory growth responses during tuber moth infestation” from the USDA!
New Funding!
We received funding from NIFA-Multistate to study
1) trade-offs between CPB and late blight resistance in different potato varieties.
2) plant tolerance to CPB damage and its potential use in agriculture.
This data will allow us to enhance a current late blight Decision Support System with information on CPB-potato variety interactions. We will be able to identify the varietal needs in the NE US, as well as forecasting the timing for fungicide and insecticide applications in potato fields.