Northeast IPM 1997 Grants Program: Funded Projects

Project Title:

Northeast Pepper IPM Project

*Award shown is total amount to be used over the course of the project term.

Objectives

OBJECTIVES - Research:

1) Evaluate the yields, horticultural characteristics, and degree of tolerance for BLS resistant pepper varieties through inoculated and uninoculated trials and determine the efficacy of hot-water treating seeds.

2) Investigate potential sources of the BLS pathogen and determine the race structure in the northeast.

3) Evaluate a decision system for timing copper sprays and evaluate integrated control options (chemical/genetic) for BLS management.

4) Determine the efficacy of cultural techniques, alone or in combination for Phytophthora blight management (higher, shaped, raised beds/filling soil depressions around transplants to eliminate saturated conditions/resistant plants).

5) Determine the relationship between ECB moth flight and egg oviposition/larvel infestation in fruit, and improve thresholds for initial and final insecticide applications for ECB control.

6) Develop and determine the efficacy of separate and combined biointensive methods of controlling ECB (B.t. applications and Trichogramma ostriniae), and evaluate the effect of these methods on natural controls of the green peach aphid.

7) Evaluate degree of pungency (capsaicin content) as a factor in host resistance to ECB, and determine what modifications of existing IPM thresholds and guidelines may be possible.

8) Quantify the extent of CEW and FAW infestation on unsprayed plots throughout the region to assess potential threat as secondary pests once cover sprays are removed.

9) Refine and perfect a practical and reliable monitoring system for the PM to avoid damage in the absence of cover sprays.

10) Develop efficacy data for the alternative insecticide option (neem/azadirachtin) in PM management, and evaluate its effect on the beneficials which control aphids.

11) Determine the critical weed and living-mulch free period for peppers grown in black polyethylene mulch.

12) Evaluate non-chemical alternatives for management of annual weeds between polyethylene mulch and application timing of flame cultivation and/or fertilizer salts.

OBJECTIVES - Extension:

1) Publish the Northeast Pepper IPM Manual complete with first and second level recommendations and color pictures of all major and secondary pests.

2) Conduct pepper IPM training seminars, on-site demonstrations and provide research results through a variety of educational materials and methods for crop consultants, IPM personnel, farmers, legislators, crop specialists, the general public and others in the agricultural community.

3) Implement research results as they become available through pepper IPM programs in NJ, NY, MA and CT, thus reducing pesticide use on commercial farms through first and/or second level IPM, while increase crop quality and farm profitability

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1997 NE IPM Funded Grant 97-NE10

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This page is sponsored by the Cooperative Extension and Land Grant University IPM programs of the Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia) and by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Developed and managed by James R. VanKirk, Facilitator for Northeast IPM Activities.

Technical management: Cheryl TenEyck, NY IPM Program
Design assistance: Karen English-Loeb, NY IPM Program