Graduate students Marcelo Moretti—Dr. Brad Hanson's lab—and Whitney Brim-DeForest—also from the Fischer lab—received first and second place (respectively) for their student research posters. Marcelo's work was on the Assessment of Glyphosate and Paraquat Resistance in Hairy Fleabane and Horseweed Populations of the Central Valley, while Whitney's poster was on the Resistance of Leptochloa fusca spp. fascicularis (bearded sprangletop) to ACCase Inhibitors in California Rice.
2015 CWSS Student Research Paper awards
- ($500) Rafael Pedroso, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis ∴ Uncovering the Mechanism of Resistance to Propanil in Ricefield Bulrush (Schoenoplectus mucronatus (L.) Palla from Rice Fields in California
- ($300) Sarah Parry, Undergraduate Student, California State University, Fresno ∴ Duration of Weed-Free Period in Organic Lettuce: Crop Yield, Economics, and Crop Quality
- ($200) Elizabeth Mosqueda, Graduate Student, California State University, Fresno ∴ A Comparison of Automated Thinners with Hand Thinning of Lettuce in the Salinas Valley
2015 CWSS Student Research Poster awards
- ($500) Marcelo Moretti, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis ∴ Assessment of Glyphosate and Paraquat Resistance in Hairy Fleabane and Horseweed Populations of the Central Valley
- ($300) Whitney Brim-DeForest, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis ∴ Resistance of Leptochloa fusca spp. fasicularis (bearded sprangletop) to ACCase Inhibitors in California Rice
- ($200) Mala To, Undergraduate Student, California State University, Fresno ∴ Effect of Light Intensity on the Efficacy of Some Post-Emergent Herbicides on Different Biotypes of Hairy Fleabane from the Central Valley
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