Oral Presentation and Poster Sessions (program will be updated as presentations received.)

Monday, 26th July 2010

11:00 am - 1:00 pm   Registration desk open

1:00-1:15 pm   General announcements. Lindsey du Toit, Vegetable Seed Pathologist and Co-chair of Organizing Committee, Washington State University, Mount Vernon, WA, USA.

Welcome. Randy Baldree, College of Agricultural, Human, & Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.

1:15-4:00 pm   Opening Session: Carrot Production in the Pacific Northwest USA

1:15-1:45         Carrot breeding. Roger Freeman, Nunhems, Brooks, OR, USA.

1:45-2:15         Hybrid carrot seed production in central Oregon. Mike Weber, Managing Partner, Central Oregon Seeds, Inc., Madras, OR, USA

2:15-2:45         Nutrient use and requirements of carrots grown for seed. John Hart, Soil Scientist, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.

2:45-3:00 pm   Break with refreshments

3:00-3:30         Carrot root crop production in the Pacific Northwest USA.Jim Klaustermeyer, Klaustermeyer Farms, Basin City, WA, USA.

3:30-4:00         40 years of organic carrot production in the Pacific Northwest. Nash Huber, Nash’s Organic Produce, Sequim, WA, USA.

4:00-5:00 pm Carrot Pests and Diseases

4:00-4:20         An experimental approach in controlled conditions for understanding biofumigation effects at the succession scale on Rhizoctonia solani expression on carrots. Françoise Montfort, François Collin, Emile LeMarchand, Stéphanie Morliere, Sylvain Poggi, Institut National de la Recherche (INRA),France.

4:20-4:40         Evaluation of systemic induced resistance for suppression of Xanthomonas hortorum pv. carotae in carrot seed crops. Bo-Ming Wu, Oregon State University, Madras, OR, USA.

4::40-5:00        Influence of fungicides and cultivar on development of cavity spot of carrot. Mary Ruth McDonald, Kevin Vander Kooi, Michael Tesfaendrias and Catarina Saude, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

6:00-8:30 pm Banquet at the Red Lion Hotel

History of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. Guest speaker, Mick Qualls, Qualls Ag Laboratory, Ephrata, WA, USA.

Tuesday, 27th July

8:00-8:40 am   Carrot Pests and Diseases (Continued)

8:00-8:20         Can insecticide seed treatments protect carrots from damage by carrot weevil and carrot rust fly? Mary Ruth McDonald and Kevin Vander Kooi, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

8:20-8:40         Evaluation of biological and botanical nematicides for the control of root-knot nematodes of carrots. Joe Nunez, University of California Kerney Co. Extension, Bakersfield, CA, USA.

8:40-9:40 am Carrot Production and Marketing

8:40-9:00         Carrot production in southern Africa. Vincent Sequeira, Greenway Farms, Tarlton, South Africa.

9:00-9:20         Residual phosphorous influence on carrot productivity in African humid tropics. Ojo Olubiyi David, HiHort, Ibadan, Nigeria.

9:20-9:40         The sensory quality of carrots: Effects of some cultural factors.François Villeneuve, Centre Technique Interprofessionnel des Fruits et Légumes, France.

9:40-10:00 am  Break with refreshments

10:00-11:00 am  Carrot Breeding and Genetics

10:20-10:40     Is quantitative resistance qualitative? An example with two Alternaria leaf blight resistant carrot genotypes and four resistance assessment techniques. Romain Berruyer, University of Angers, France.

10:40-11:00     The search for new Meloidogyne incognita nematode resistance.Joshua D. Parsons¹, William C. Matthews², Philip A. Roberts², Philipp W. Simon^1,3. ¹University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; ²University of California, Riverside, CA; ³USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, USA.

11:00 am-Noon View Carrot Posters with Authors

Poster 1. Antioxidant content of carrots with different pigments grown in Ontario, Canada.Chanli Hu, Rong Cao, and Mary Ruth McDonald, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Poster 2. Efficacy of Scholar (fludioxonil) for control of Sclerotinia rot of carrot in cold storage. Mary Ruth McDonald and Kevin Vander Kooi, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Poster 3. Regional ascospore detection correlates to disease incidence providing accurate timing for disease management of Sclerotinia rot of carrot.  M. Parker, Mary Ruth McDonald and G.J. Boland, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Poster 4. Diversity of volatile and non-volatile compounds in a gene bank collection of cultivated carrot.Thomas Nothnagel, Institute for Breeding Research on Horticultural and Fruit Crops, Quedlinburg, Germany.

Poster 5. Heterosis for quality traits in ems based hybrids of tropical carrot (Daucus carota L.). Nouri Kushlaf, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.

12:00-1:30 pm Lunch provided at the Red Lion Hotel

1:30-3:10 pm Carrot Breeding and Genetics (Continued)

1:30-1:50         Development and analysis of SSR and SNP markers for a carrot mapping population. Pimchanok Satapoomin¹ and P.W. Simon²; ¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; ²USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, USA.

1:50-2:10         Genetic analysis of prominent lateral root formation in carrot. Syed Salim Shah¹ and Philipp W. Simon²; ¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; ²USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, USA.

2:10-2:30         Analysis of phytoene desaturase (PDS) during the development of root and leaf tissue of the Rp mutant in carrot (Daucus carota). Megan J. Bowman¹, Anne E. Atkins¹, Irwin L. Goldman¹, and Philipp W. Simon²; ¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; ²USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, USA.

2:30-2:50         Progress in the deployment of nutrient-rich nematode resistant carrots to benefit growers, consumers, and the environment. Philipp W. Simon¹ and Philip A. Roberts²; ¹USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, USA; ²University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.

2:50-3:10         Isolation of cold responsive genes in carrot by suppression subtractive hybridization. Rajeev Kumar Sarma, Anandhan Sivalingam, Mani Chandra Harish, Dhivya Selvaraj, Varghese Philipose Inchakalody, Zakwan Ahmed, and Ramalingam Sathishkumar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.

3:10-3:30 pm Break with refreshments

3:30-4:30 pm Carrot Breeding and Genetics (Continued)

3:30-3:50         Evaluation of vernalization requirement in different carrot populations. María S. Alessandro¹, Claudio R. Galmarini², and Philipp W. Simon³; ¹Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, La Consulta, Mendoza, Argentina; ²UNCuyo y CONICET, Argentina; ³USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, USA.

3:50-4:10         Unlocking the potential of genebank carrot collections: creating a carrot diversity set as a research and pre-breeding resource. Charlotte Allender, Ann Baker and Dave Pink, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK.

4:10-4:30         Carrot chromosomes and linkage groups. Marina Iovene¹, Pablo F. Cavagnaro², Philipp W. Simon³; ¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; ²CONICET and INTA-EEA La Consulta, Mendoza, Argentina; ³USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, USA.

4:30-4:45 pm:   Wrap-up & Planning for Next International Carrot Conference

4:45-5:30 pm: Discussion Groups

            Carrot breeding

            Carrot diseases and pests

            Carrot production

            Carrot marketing

Others

6:00 pm:           Dinner 'on your own'

Wednesday, 28th July

8:00-4:00 pm   Field Tour

                   Buses depart from the Red Lion Hotel promptly at 8:00 am and return by approximately 4 pm. The tour through the southern Columbia Basin of Washington State, a semi-arid region of extensive, high-value, irrigated agriculture, will include stops at processing carrot crops, carrot seed crops, and the Washington State University carrot cultivar demonstration. Lunch will be provided.