Northeast Region IPM Grants Projects Funded, 1998

Diversity is the key concept in describing the projects funded by the 1998 Northeast Integrated Pest Management Grants Program. As with last year's program, 10 grants were funded. Projects address pest management for insects, mites, diseases, and “all pests”. They deal with seven crops or crop systems (nursery, urban, vegetables & potato, apple, field corn, alfalfa, and soybean). At least seven concentrations are involved (education/outreach, host plant resistance, cultural methods, growth regulators, physical controls, biological controls, pest forecasts).

Each year the Northeast Region Integrated Pest Management Grants Program supports selected research and extension projects. Funds for this program originate at the USDA and are matched in part by the institutions sponsoring each project. The projects described here were selected by the regional review committee, and await final approval from USDA.

A competetive grant proposal process is used to select projects for funding. Proposals are reviewed and rated by a review committee comprised of experts in IPM from outside the region. The criteria for judging proposals this year included:

• Relevance to the Northeast Region IPM priorities, including explicit linkage to stakeholder expressed needs.
• Appropriate objectives, design, and methodology
• Degree of interdisciplinary and/or multi-organization collaboration, including appropriate state-wide and multiple state collaboration among research, extension, private consultants, industry, and the user community, appropriately scaled to the problem
• Appropriate strategy/process to evaluate the success or the project, including milestones, developed by IPM implementation team
• Appropriateness of the budget
• Professional expertise of the project team.

A pool of 36 proposals was submitted this year. Of these, 10 proposals were funded. The table below provides information about the 10 funded proposals. Links in the first column take you to pages with more information about each project, including executive summary and project objectives. .

All Projects:

10 proposals funded for extension, research, and research/extension.
Sum of these 10 awards = $602,272

Extension Projects

3 proposals funded, sum of awards = $66,480

Title	State	Principle Investigator	Crops	Emphases
A diagnostic web site for plants, pests, and landscapes	Maryland (CT, DE, NJ, PA cooperating)	Mary K. Malinoski Jon Traunfeld David Clement	ornamentals	education; non-chemical, biorational, and biological tactics
Development of a model integrated pest management recommendation document	New York	Curtis H. Petzoldt Michael P. Hoffman Stephen Reiners.	vegetables potatoes	integrating pesticide alternatives into crop management recommendation documents
A training program to predict the risk of scab in apple orchards	New Hampshire	William E. MacHardy	apples	training; disease forecasting

Research Projects

4 proposals funded, sum of awards = $342,184

Title	State	Principle Investigator	Crops	Emphases
Integrated Management of Shoot and Rootstock Phases of Fire Blight on Apple	New York (Pennsylvania cooperating)	Herb S. Aldwinckle M. Timor Momol John L. Norelli	apple	host plant resistance; cultural methods (nutrient managment); growth regulators
Mite Biological Control in Apples Through Distribution and Augmentation of Typhlodromus pyri	New York (6 New England IPM Programs cooperating)	Jan P. Nyrop	apple	biological control
Area-wide decision support system for potato late blight (Phytophthora infestans)	New York	William E. Fry Dan Wilks	potato	pest forecasts; modeling
Evaluation of non-corn plants as refugia in a resistance management program for ECB on Bt-corn	New York, (Pennsylvania, Delaware cooperating)	John E. Losey	field corn	resistance management; biological control

Research-Extension Projects

3 proposals funded, sum of awards = $206,866

Title	State	Principle Investigator	Crops	Emphases
Evaluation and Implementation of Glandular-Haired Alfalfa for Pest Management	Maryland, Pennsylvania	William O. Lamp Betty Marose Wesley Musser	alfalfa	host plant resistance
Row Cultivation for Zone-till: Implications for Reduced Inputs and Soil	New York	Robert Gallagher	field corn, soybean	physical controls;cultivation
Comparison of Herbicides, Fabric Discs and Mulches for Preventing Weeds in Nursery Containers	Connecticut	Timothy M. Abbey Todd L. Mervosh	nursery crops	physical management methods for weeds; fabric discs; mulches

Links

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