Northeast Region IPM Grants Projects Funded, 1999

The 1999 Northeast Regional IPM Grants Program has funded six different projects, five of which involve multi-state cooperation.

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 20 proposals was submitted this year. Of these, 6 proposals were funded. The table below provides information about the funded proposals. Links in the first column take you to pages with more information about each project, including executive summary and project objectives. .

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6 proposals funded for extension, research, and research/extension.

Extension Projects

1 proposal funded

Title	States	Principle Investigator	Crop	Objectives
Creation Of A Distance Learning Center To Aid IPM Adoption	New York , Pennsylvania	T. Weigle	Grapes	1) Develop a web-based distance learning center integrating existing information on vineyard pest management, grape production systems, vineyard business management and the Food Quality Protection Act. 2) Develop a network of growers and industry personnel across the Lake Erie Grape Belt for exchange of information using the distance learning center and electronic mail.

Research Projects

3 proposals funded

Title	State	Principle Investigators	Crops	Objectives
Impact of Weed Management Approaches on Population Shifts	Delaware	VanGessel, M.J. and S. Sankula	many	1. Study impacts of various weed management programs on weed population dynamics with emphasis on glyphosate-resistant crops. Selected treatments will result in various approaches to weed management and differing levels of weed management. 2. Evaluate the temporal changes of weed seedbank of a long-term cropping system in order to better manage weed communities.
Phytophthora infestans Aerial Dispersal Risk to Potato Late Blight IPM	Connecticut, NewYork	Aylor, D.E. and W.E. Fry	potato	Our overall objective is to provide quantitative understanding for the production, escape from the crop canopy, and dispersal of sporangia of Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary for subsequent use in constructing more effective disease management strategies. This quantitative understanding will be organized by a system of models.
Bio-Based Methods of Reducing Insecticide Use Against Two Key Apple Pests	Massachusetts, Maine	Prokopy, R.J. and G.W. Koehler	apple	Objective 1. Optimization of patterns of deployment of odor-baited spheres for direct control of apple maggot flies in commercial apple orchards. Objective 2. Development of models for predicting optimal timing of sprays against plum curculio; evaluation of traps for monitoring and pinpointing plum curculio abundance and for directly controlling plum curculio.

Research-Extension Projects

2 proposals funded

Title	State	Principle Investigators	Crops	Emphases
Sweet Corn IPM in Diversified Cropping Systems	Pennsylvania, Maryland	Fleischer, S.J, D.D. Calvin and G.C. Dively	sweet corn, fresh-market vegetables	The goal of the project is to advance the IPM information on diversified fresh-market vegetable farms by focusing on sweet corn with pests relevant to multiple crops grown on the same farm. The work will emphasize monitoring programs, and experiment with the possibility of capitalizing on the diversified cropping structure when implementing transgenic sweet corn. Specific objectives include: Extension: To improve information access and organization with WEB-based structures for multistate collaboration, and to incorporate phenological predictions into monitoring programs. Research: To assess the neighborhood effect of transgenic sweet corn in diversified crop structures and evaluate its feasibility as a farm-scale management strategy.
Economic Decision Making and Biological Management of European Corn Borer in Potatoes	Maine, Virginia	Groden, E., J. Dill and J.D. Dwyer	potato	1. Determine the influence of timing of European corn borer infestion and varietal response of potatoes to damage and its effects on tuber yield. 2. Evaluate two types of pheromone traps to determine the most effective for predicting European corn borer incidence in commercial potatoes. 3. Evaluate the potential to manage European corn borers in potatoes with the fungal pathogen, Beauveria bassiana.

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