UC Davis and UC Cooperative Extension will host the UC Dry Bean Field Day on Thursday, September 1, 2022 from 9:00am to 11:00am. The field day will begin at the Campbell Tract on the UC Davis campus, which is a different location from where it has been in recent years. The agenda is pasted below, and a downloadable version is attached to the bottom of this post. CCA continuing education credits have been requested (2.0 units of Crop Management). Thanks for your interest, and we hope to see you at the field day!
Agenda:
9:00am Sign-in, welcome, and introductions
Christine Diepenbrock, Antonia Palkovic, Travis Parker, UC Davis and
Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, UC Cooperative Extension
9:05am Lima breeding program for lygus resistance and high yield
Paul Gepts and Antonia Palkovic, UC Davis
9:20am Remote sensing of plant traits under drought stress in common and tepary beans
Chris Wong, Tom Buckley, Matthew Gilbert, and Travis Parker, UC Davis
9:35am Nitrogen fertility in beans following whole orchard recycling
Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, UC Cooperative Extension
Travel to second field location (38.532139, -121.782306). See map
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10:05am Cowpea MAGIC population
Bao-Lam Huynh, UC Riverside
10:15am Interspecific common bean x tepary bean population
Santos Barrera Lemus, Plant Sciences, Inc., Watsonville
10:25am Improving productivity and nutritional quality in grain legumes under a changing climate
Sassoum Lo and Jonny Berlingeri, UC Davis
10:35am Developing, testing, and deploying complementary sensors for high-efficiency trait prediction
Earl Ranario and Jonny Berlingeri, UC Davis
10:45am Characterizing bioaccessible nutrition, seed coat patterning, and their genetic and environmental basis in common bean
Tayah Bolt, UC Davis
11:00am Discussion and evaluation
11:00-noon Viewing of field plots
Attendees are invited to venture into the fields to look at the lima breeding materials, cooperative dry bean nursery, and heirloom-like dry beans at the student farm (38.541667, -121.767111), with Travis Parker, UC Davis
