Program Highlights

Development of sustainable management scenarios for California crops

• Statewide program with Farm Advisors on multiple crops
• Long term/high risk research in nematode biology on annuals, perennials and ornamentals
• Facilitating the use of cultural practices through development of molecular diagnostic techniques
• Using cultural approaches for annual crops
• Reducing fumigant use through prolonging the life of existing orchards
• Development of a nematode resistant transgenic Easter lily
• Multidisciplinary approach to fumigation research
• US EPA and CDPR registration of biological nematicides and reduced risk products