2016
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7:00 AM |
Exhibitor Setup |
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7:30 |
Registration and Trade Show |
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8:30 |
Welcome and Introductions Peggy Mauk, Director of Agricultural Operations, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside Kathryn Uhrich, Dean, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, UC Riverside Michael Anderson, Divisional Dean, Agriculture and Natural Resources, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, UC Riverside Patricia Springer, Chair, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside Jim Baird, UC ANR CE Associate Specialist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside |
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8:40 |
Field Tour Rotation #1 (20 minutes per stop; participants choose four out of six stops) Stop #1: Improvement of Bermudagrass, Kikuyugrass, and Zoysiagrass for Winter Color Retention and Drought Tolerance Adam Lukaszewski, Professor, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside Stop #2: Evaluation of Fungicides for Control of Anthracnose on Annual Bluegrass Putting Greens Katarzyna Jagiello-Kubiec, Visiting Student, Warsaw University, Poland Jim Baird, UC ANR CE Associate Specialist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside Stop #3: Plant Growth Regulators for Bermudagrass, Kikuyugrass, and Seashore Paspalum Management Martino Cuccagna, Visiting Student, University of Padua, Italy Jose Espeleta, Principal Ag Tech, Dept. of Agricultural Operations, UC Riverside Stop #4: Postemergence Control of Crabgrass in Tall Fescue Maggie Reiter, UC ANR CE Advisor, Fresno, Madera, Tulare and Kings Counties, Environmental Horticulture Stop #5: A New Nematicide against the Pacific shoot-gall nematode Anguina pacificae J. Ole Becker, UC ANR CE Specialist and Nematologist, Dept. of Nematology, UC Riverside Stop #6: Evaluation of Products for Salinity Alleviation Marco Schiavon, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside |
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10:00 |
Break and Trade Show |
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10:30 |
Field Tour Rotation #2 (20 minutes per stop; participants choose four out of seven stops) Stop #7: How Much Water Does a Lawn Need? and Products That Can Make Bermudagrass Look Better With Less Water Marco Schiavon, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside Stop #8: Evaluation of Turfgrass Species and Cultivars Under Deficit Irrigation Katarzyna Jagiello-Kubiec, Visiting Student, Warsaw University, Poland Martino Cuccagna, Visiting Student, University of Padua, Italy Stop #9: Kurapia! A New and Improved Groundcover for Drought and Saline Conditions Jim Baird, UC ANR CE Associate Specialist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside Stop #10: Have You Considered Zoysiagrass? Steve Ries, Staff Research Associate, Dept. of Agricultural Operations, UC Riverside Stop #11: Evaluation of Groundcovers with no Supplemental Summer Irrigation for Water Conserving Landscapes Don Merhaut, UC ANR CE Specialist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside Dennis Pittenger, UC ANR CE Area Environmental Horticulturalist, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside Stop #12: Research Update: Minimum Irrigation Requirements of Large Publically and Privately Maintained Landscapes Janet Hartin, UC ANR CE Advisor, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Riverside Counties Loren Oki, UC ANR CE Associate Specialist, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis Dave Fujino, Director, California Center for Urban Horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, UC Davis Stop #13: So, You Think Your Turf/Landscape Plants Have a Disease. What Next? Alex Putman, UC ANR CE Assistant Specialist, Dept. of Plant Pathology, UC Riverside |
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12:00 |
Barbeque Lunch and Trade Show |
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1:30 |
Adjourn |