1st Annual Report
December 2003

Principal
Investigator

Title of Proposal

Annual Report

Bentley, Walt

Developing a Management Program for San Jose Scale and Oriental Fruit Moth for Organic and Non Organic Stone Fruit Farmers

report

Blumwald, Eduardo
Teuber, Larry

Salt-tolerant alfalfa

report

Brennan, Eric
Fennimore, Steve
Cahn, Michael
Ferris, Howard
Smith, Richard
Tourte, Laura

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

report

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

report

Daane, Kent
Johnson, Marshall
Messing, Russell
Hielmer, Kim

Importation and host range testing of parasitoids that attach the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae

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de la Fuente, Maria

Developing technology to grow mushrooms from recycled urban waste and food scraps and paper waste (vermicompost)

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Evans, Richard
Hackett, Wesley
Giles, Ken

Improvement of methods for vegetative propagation of California native plants

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Gaskell, Mark
Faber, Ben
Lobo, Ramiro
Mitcham, Elizabeth

Development of off-season fresh market blueberries as a new crop for coastal California

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Giles, Ken
Lanini, Tom
Slaughter, David

Precision weed control for organic vegetable growers

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Hoddle, Mark
Michael Brownbridge
Paul De Ley

Assessing organic mulches for thrips control in avocado orchards

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Jackson, Louise
Scow, Kate

Nutrient management and soil microbial ecology for organically-grown fresh-market tomatoes

report
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Koike, Steven
Brennan, Eric
Smith, Richard

Investigation of organic seed treatments for spinach disease control

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Lukaszewski, A.J.
Gibeault, V.A.

Development of Intergeneric Hybrids of Ryegrasses with Fescues as New Cool Season Turfgrasses for California

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Michailides, Themis

Efficient determination of spore inoculums potential of brown rot pathogen (Monilinia fructicola) in stone fruit orchards by using molecular techniques

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Mitchell, Jeff
Southard, Randal

Does conservation tillage reduce dust emissions in central valley specialty crop rotations?

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Qualset, C.O.

Development and extension of new barley varieties for human consumption in California

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Zalom, Frank
Ferguson, Louise

Ecological management system for controlling olive fruit fly in California olives
on-line project results

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