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Award Announcements
2002-2004 Specialty Crops Research Program
University of California
There were 62 proposals submitted to the program requesting
$6.9 million.
Seventeen proposals were funded for a total of $1.8+ million.
Each submitting PI will receive a summary of the Technical Committee comments on their proposal.
Proposals to be funded (in alphabetical order by submitting PI):
|
Principal |
Title of Proposal |
Amount funded |
|
Bentley, Walt |
Developing a Management Program for San Jose Scale and Oriental Fruit Moth for Organic and Non Organic Stone Fruit Farmers |
$139,169 |
|
Blumwald, Eduardo |
Salt-tolerant alfalfa |
$75,000 |
|
Brennan, Eric |
Effect of cover crop variety and seeding rate, and supplemental fertilization on yield, weed management, nitrate leaching, soil quality, and profitability of organic cool-season vegetable production on the central coast |
$124,667 |
|
Crisosto, Carlos |
Evaluation of food additives and low-toxicity compounds as alternative chemicals to synthetic fungicides for the control of the main postharvest diseases of California stone fruits |
$121,461 |
|
Daane, Kent |
Importation and host range testing of parasitoids that attach the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae |
$180,000 |
|
de la Fuente, Maria |
Developing technology to grow mushrooms from recycled urban waste and food scraps and paper waste (vermicompost) |
$109,398 |
|
Evans, Richard |
Improvement of methods for vegetative propagation of California native plants |
$101,948 |
|
Gaskell, Mark |
Development of off-season fresh market blueberries as a new crop for coastal California |
$123,275 |
|
Giles, Ken |
Precision weed control for organic vegetable growers |
$122,538 |
|
Hoddle, Mark |
Assessing organic mulches for thrips control in avocado orchards |
$124,777 |
|
Jackson, Louise |
Nutrient management and soil microbial ecology for organically-grown fresh-market tomatoes |
$124,969 |
|
Koike, Steven |
Investigation of organic seed treatments for spinach disease control |
$44,600 |
|
Lukaszewski, A.J. |
Development of Intergeneric Hybrids of Ryegrasses with Fescues as New Cool Season Turfgrasses for California |
$57,050 |
|
Michailides, Themis |
Efficient determination of spore inoculums potential of brown rot pathogen (Monilinia fructicola) in stone fruit orchards by using molecular techniques |
$119,290 |
|
Mitchell, Jeff |
Does conservation tillage reduce dust emissions in central valley specialty crop rotations? |
$121,373 |
|
Qualset, C.O. |
Development and extension of new barley varieties for human consumption in California |
$75,000 |
|
Zalom, Frank |
Ecological management system for controlling olive fruit fly in California olives |
$50,000 |