The 36th Annual Tomato Disease Workshop on November 2, 2021 will start at 12 pm EST with opening remarks.
Regional updates
| Time | Region | Speaker | Institution |
| 12:05 pm | Canada |
Ana M. Pastrana |
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre |
| 12:09 pm | Australia | Matthew Stewart aptrc.idm@outlook.com |
Australian Processing Tomato Research Council Inc. |
| 12:13 pm | Asia | Cherry Relevante-Belagantol cherry.relevante@eastwestseed.com |
East-West Seed Co., Inc. |
| 12:17 pm | India | Basavaprabhu L. Patil blpatil2046@gmail.com |
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) |
| 12:21 pm | Europe/Mediterranean | Dirk Janssen dirk.janssen@juntadeandalucia.es |
Andalusian Institute of Agricultural Reseach and Training – IFAPA |
| 12:25 pm | Africa | Emmanuel Alao alaoemma@gmail.com |
Ahmadu Bello University |
| 12:29 pm | Brazil | Fernando Pereira Monteiro fernandomonteiro@epagri.sc.gov.br |
Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina – EPAGRI |
| 12:33 pm | Mexico | Erika J. Zamora-Macorra ezamoram@chapingo.mx |
Universidad Autonoma de Chapingo |
| 12:37 pm | U.S. Midwest | Sally Miller / Francesca Rotondo miller.769@osu.edu / rotondo.11@osu.edu |
Ohio State University |
| 12:41 pm | U.S. New England/New York | Angela Madeiras madeiras@umass.edu |
University of Massachusetts |
| 12:45 pm | Florida | Gary Vallad gvallad@ufl.edu |
University of Florida |
| 12:49 pm | California | Cassandra Swett clswett@ucdavis.edu |
University of California, Davis |
| 12:53 pm | Q&A | ||
Oral presentations
| Time | Presenter | Institution | Title |
| 1:00 pm | Jean Beagle Ristaino jbr@ncsu.edu |
NC State University
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Digital decision support tools for monitoring tomato diseases |
| 1:10 pm | Adam Mott adam.mott@utoronto.ca |
University of Toronto | Addition by subtraction: Engineering pathogen resistance through receptor removal |
| 1:20 pm | Charith Raj Adkar-Purushothama charith.adkar@usherbrooke.ca |
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada | RNA silencing could potentially reduce viroid accumulation in tomato plants |
| 1:30 pm | Brittany Ehrlich brittany.ehrlich@ag.tamu.edu |
Texas A&M AgriLife Research | Impact of planting date in a high tunnel production on thrips population and incidence of TSWV |
| 1:40 pm | Break | ||
| 1:45 pm | Jennifer D. Lewis jdlewis@berkeley.edu |
University of California, Berkeley | High-throughput screen identifies resistance to Pseudomonas syringae in wild tomato |
| 1:55 pm | Gary Vallad gvallad@ufl.edu |
University of Florida | To spray or not to spray: a cost-benefit analysis regarding the chemical management of tomato bacterial spot in Florida |
| 2:05 pm | Joseph Tomecek joseph.tomecek@gmail.com |
University of Guelph | Enhancing late blight surveillance and management in tomatoes |
| 2:15 pm | Dilip R. Panthee Dilip_Panthee@ncsu.edu |
NC State University | Screening of tomato breeding lines for late blight resistance in NC |
| 2:25 pm | Ella Reeves ereeves2@ncsu.edu |
NC State University | Sensitivity of the early blight pathogen (Alternaria linariae) on tomato to QoI and SDHI fungicides in North Carolina |
| 2:35 pm | Cheryl Trueman ctrueman@uoguelph.ca |
University of Guelph | Evidence that long-term cover cropping suppresses anthracnose (Colletotrichum spp.) in processing tomatoes |
| 2:45 pm | Justine Beaulieu jbeaulieu@ucdavis.edu |
University of California, Davis | Analyzing deficit irrigation and drought stress traits in processing tomato cultivars – Fusarium falciforme |
| 2:55 pm | Kelley Paugh krpaugh@ucdavis.edu |
University of California, Davis | Effect of rotation crops on survival of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici race 3 and development of Fusarium wilt in California processing tomato |
| 3:05 pm | Jingya Yang yang.j@ufl.edu |
University of Florida | Effector screening from Florida Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici isolates reveals multiple race 3 isolates with race 1 effector profiles |
| 3:15 pm | Kai-Shu Ling kai.ling@usda.gov |
USDA-ARS, U.S | Effective disinfectants against tomato brown rugose fruit virus on tomato |
| 3:25 pm | Closing remarks | ||
| 3:30 pm | Conclusion | ||
