Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission
Cynthia M. Ocamb
Ext. Specialist and Assistant Professor Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU
Nathan Miller
Graduate Student, OSU, Corvallis
John Luna
Asst. Professor, Horticulture
Dan McGrath
Linn County, Regional Ag. Agent - Marion County
Jim Myers
OSU Dept of Horticulture
Mary Powelson
OSU Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology
Alex Stone
OSU Dept of Horticulture
Objectives:
- Continue greenhouse and laboratory screenings of seed treatments and evaluate the best seed treatments in large plot field studies for reduction of sweet corn root, crown and stalk rot.
- Evaluate use of microbial seed treatment on wheat cover crop for reduction of sweet corn root, crown and stalk rot.
- Evaluate rhizosphere populations of F. oxysporum var. redolens on rotational crops in laboratory and greenhouse studies.
- Evaluate 'Golden Jubilee' and Supersweet Jubilee' seeds for presence of Fusarium species.
- Cooperate with other sweet corn research projects.