2015

7:00 AM Exhibitor set-up

7:30-8:30 Registration and Trade Show

8:30 Welcome and Introductions

Mikeal Roose, Professor, Dept. of Genetics, UC Riverside

Jim Baird, Associate ANR CE Specialist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside

8:40-10:00 Field Tour Rotation #1 (20 minutes/station; choose 4 stops)

Stop #1: Effects of Fungicides and Wetting Agents on Drought Stress and Recovery from Aeration on a Creeping Bentgrass Putting Green

Tyler Mock, Graduate Assistant

Stop #2: Groundcovers and Buffalograss under Extreme Deficit Irrigation

Don Merhaut, ANR CE Specialist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside

Dennis Pittenger, Area Environmental Horticulturalist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside

Stop #3: Evaluation of Natural and Hybrid Turf for Water Conservation

Jon Montgomery, Graduate Assistant

Stop #4: Research Update: Minimum Irrigation Requirements of Large Publically and Privately Maintained Landscapes

Janet Hartin, ANR CE Advisor, San Bernardino County

Lorence Oki, Associate ANR CE Specialist, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Dave Fujino, Director, California Center for Urban Horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, UC Davis

Bill Baker, Wm Baker & Associates, LLC

Stop #5: NTEP Cultivar Trials: Tall Fescue, Fine Fescue, Bentgrass Fairway, Bermudagrass, Zoysiagrass

Jim Baird, Associate ANR CE Specialist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside

Stop #6: Best Management Practices for Turf under Drought or Water Use Restrictions

Marco Schiavon, Postdoctoral Scientist

10:00 – 10:30 Break and Trade Show

10:30 – 11:50 Field Tour Rotation #2 (20 minutes/station; choose 4 stops)

Stop #7: Evaluation of Products for Alleviation of Salinity and Drought Stress

Marco Schiavon, Postdoctoral Scientist

Matteo Serena, Research Assistant Professor, Extension Plant Sciences Department, New Mexico State University

Stop #8: Plant Growth Regulators for Bermudagrass Management

Pawel Petelewicz, Graduate Assistant

Stop #9: Preemergence Control of Crabgrass in Bermudagrass and Postemergence Control of Crabgrass in Tall Fescue

Jim Baird, Associate ANR CE Specialist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside, Giulio Cremonese, Visiting Student, University of Padova, Italy

Stop #10: Evaluation of Fungicides for Control of Anthracnose on Annual Bluegrass Putting Greens

Tyler Mock, Graduate Assistant

Stop #11: UCR Turfgrass Breeding Project

Adam Lukaszewski, Professor, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside

Stop #12: Effects of Biochar and Biosolid Soil Amendments on Tall Fescue under Deficit Irrigation

Milt McGiffen, ANR CE Specialist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside

Jon Montgomery, Graduate Assistant

12:00 – 1:30 PM Barbeque Lunch and Trade Show

1:30 PM Adjourn