If you couldn’t make the 38th International Carrot Conference, here’s a blow-by-blow account of what you missed.
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WELCOMING COMMENTS
8:10 Welcome and opening comments -Joe Nunez
8:20 Welcoming comments by – Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh
8:40 Agriculture in Kern County – Beatris Espericueta Sanders, Kern County Farm Bureau
9:00 Carrot production in California – Joe Nunez, UC Cooperative Extension
PLANT PATHOLOGY SESSION
Moderator — D.Corey Noyes, Michigan State University
9:20 Selecting carrots with increased resistance to cavity spot. M. R. McDonald,
K. Vander Kooi, and P.W. Simon
9:40 Distribution of Xanthomonas hortorum pv. carotae in Commercial Carrot Seed Lots. Jeremiah Dung
10:00 Break—View posters; presenters will be at posters to answer questions
10:20 Pythium diseases of carrots. Joe Nunez
10:40 Carrot viruses in the UK – an agronomic challenge! Howard Hinds
11:00 Understanding the ecology and epidemiology of Pythium violae causing cavity spot on carrot.
Kathryn Hales
11:20 Pest management in California fresh carrot from 1995 to 2015. Jim Farrar
11:40 Evaluation of Flea Beetle Phenology and Damage to Carrot Production in California. David Haviland
12:00 PM Lunch!
NEMATOLOGY SESSION
Moderator—Mary Ruth Mc Donald, University of Guelph
1:30 Managing root-knot nematodes in organic carrot production – an overview of California studies.
Antoon Ploeg, J.O. Becker, and J. Nunez,
1:50 Evaluation of new nematicides for control of nematodes in carrots, in Ontario, Canada.
K. Vander Kooi, D. Van Dyk, and M. R. McDonald
2:10 New nematicides provide effective protection against root-knot nematodes.
J. Ole Becker, Antoon Ploeg, and Joe Nunez
2:30 Root-knot variability in response to carrot resistance.
Philip A. Roberts, William C. Matthews, Philipp W. Simon and Tra T. Duong
2:50 Effects of a commercial soil amendment on plant parasitic nematodes. Amanda Hodson
3:10 Break
CARROT PRODUCTION SESSION
Moderator— Jim Farrar, UC Davis
3:40 Effects of biotic and abiotic stress on carotenoid content in carrot. Geoffriau Emmanuel, Perrin Florent, Dubois-Laurent Cécile, Huet Sébastien, Suel Anita, Le Clerc Valérie, Briard Mathilde, Peltier Didier
4:00 Cover crops effects on nitrogen and weeds in MI processing carrots. D. Corey Noyes, Zachary D. Hayden, Haddish Melakeberhan, Ben Werling, and D.C. Brainard
4:20 Adjourn
BREEDING AND VARIETY EVALUATION—SESSION I
Moderator—Phil Simon, USDA/ARS University of Wisconsin
9:00 The Search for Salinity Tolerance in Diverse Carrot Germplasm.
Adam Bolton and Phil Simon
9:20 Characterization of a genomic region under selection in cultivated carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) reveals a candidate domestication gene.
Alicja Macko-Podgórni, Gabriela Machaj, Katarzyna Stelmach, Douglas Senalik, Ewa Grzebelus, Alicja Macko-Podgórni, Gabriela Machaj, Katarzyna Stelmach, Massimo Iorizzo, Philipp W. Simon, Dariusz Grzebelus, Alicja Macko-Podgórni, Gabriela Machaj and Katarzyna Stelmach
9:40 New carrot germplasm from Spain and its use in breeding, genetic, and taxonomic studies.
David M. Spooner, Philipp W. Simon, and Fernando Martínez-Flores
10:00 The influence of organic and conventional production environments on breeding for carrot top size. Charlene Grahn, Erin Silva, Philip Simon
10:20 Break—View posters; presenters will be at posters to answer questions
BREEDING AND VARIETY EVALUATION—SESSION II
Moderator—Emmanuel Geoffriau, University of Angers, France
10:50 Elicitation of anthocyanins in hairy root cultures of black carrots.
Shih-Ti Chen, Gregorio Barba Espin, Trine Bundgaard Andersen, Renate Müller, Henrik Lütken and Bjarne Jørnsgård
11:10 Phenotypic, Genotypic, and Freedom to Operate Variation in US Carrot Cultivars.
Claire Luby, Julie Dawson and Irwin Goldman
11:30 Genetic Analysis of Carrot Root Shape and Top Size Measured by Image Analysis.
Sarah Turner, Nathan Miller, Edgar Spalding and Phil Simon
12:00 Lunch
BREEDING AND VARIETY EVALUATION—SESSION III
Moderator— David Spooner, USDA/ARS University of Wisconsin
1:30 Population Structure in domesticated Carrot (Daucus carota) from USDA NPGS, Historic and Modern Cultivars.
S. Ellison, K. Corak, C. Luby, I. Goldman, P. Simon and J. Dawson.
1:50 Utilizing 2D Imaging to Map Root System Architecture QTL in Carrot (Daucus carota L.)
Shelby Ellison and Philipp Simon
2:10 Sources of Genetic Variation for Early Plant Growth in Diverse Carrot Germplasm.
Adam Bolton and Phil Simon
2:30 Deploying Meloidogyne incognita Nematode Resistance in Carrot.
Phil Simon, Joe Nunez, William Matthews and Phil Roberts
2:50 Marker development for genes of the carrot terpene biosynthesis.
Thomas Nothnagel, Holger Budahn, Detlef Ulrich, Jens Keilwagen, Thomas Berner, Heike Lehnert and Frank Dunemann
3:10 Planning for the 39th International Carrot Conference and other Items
3:30 Adjourn
