UC Riverside - Citrus Day, February 19

Registration Fee: $50 per person

Registration fee includes lunch. Online registration is open through February 16, 2026.

Location and Parking Instructions

Parking is available in Lot 30 (across Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd from the Ag Operations office). The cost for parking is $11 and must be paid for through the ParkMobile app. There will be shuttles available from the parking lot to the event location.

Please note: This is an OUTDOOR event

Agenda

February 19, 2026

8:45 AM     

Registration and Parking 

9:00 AM     

Welcome - Dr. Peggy Mauk and Dr. Tracy Kahn, University of California, Riverside

9:15 AM    

Updates on Changes in Pesticide Regulations, Fruit Fly Quarantine, ACP/HLB Regulations - Delia Cioc, Agricultural Commissioner and Chris Blake, Deputy Agricultural Commissioner, Riverside County

10:00 AM

First Rotation (30 minutes per speaker)

Strategies for Controlling Phytophthora spp. in Citrus – Dr. Jim Adaskaveg, University of California, Riverside

Role of the California Citrus Clonal Protection Program in Disease Prevention – Dr. Georgios Vidalakis, University of California, Riverside

11:10 AM

Second Rotation (30 minutes per speaker)

Strategies for Controlling Asian Citrus Psyllid – Dr. Bodil Cass, University of California, Riverside

Weed Control Strategies – Dr. Matt Fatino, University of California, Agricultural and Natural Resources San Diego/Riverside Co.

12:15 PM

Lunch and Tasting Selections

Tables for Tasting Selections:

• Long-term Solutions for Citrus Huanglongbing - Dr. Chandrika Ramadugu, University of California, Riverside
• UCR Citrus Scion Breeding and Evaluation Program Fruit Display - Toni Siebert Wooldridge, Karen Trunnelle, Dr. Tracy Kahn, Dr. Mikeal Roose, Dr. Danelle Seymour, and Dr. Claire Federici, University of California, Riverside
• Citrus Relatives Rootstock Trial Tasting: Determining if using relatives as rootstocks impacts the flavor of navel oranges - Zach Thomas and Dr. Mikeal Roose, University of California, Riverside

1:30 PM

Third Rotation (30 minutes per speaker)

Research Update and Overview of the CRaFT Program – Dr. Melinda Klein and Dr. Ivan Milosavljević, Citrus Research Board

Strategies for Nutritional Management – Dr. Ben Faber, University of California, Agricultural and Natural Resources Ventura

2:30 PM

Wrap Up

3:00 PM

Adjourn

Questions?

Please call UCR Ag Operations at (951) 827-5906 or email agops@ucr.edu

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