Fargo, North Dakota, USA
January 3, 2013

The 43rd annual Sugar Beet Research Reporting Session will be held on Jan. 8 at the Fargo Holiday Inn starting at 7:45 a.m.

Researchers from North Dakota State University, the University of Minnesota, Texas A&M, Montana State University and U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide updates on 2012 research.

Topics are:

• Sugar beet insect surveillance, control and 2013 outlook
• Springtail control
• Relationship between beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV) and rhizoctonia root rot
• Protein expression in Rz-1 and Rz-2 sugar beets infected with traditional versus resistance-breaking BNYVV isolates
• Tillage and other issues
• Risks and rewards of side dressing to correct nitrogen deficiencies
• Timing and placement of nitrogen in sugar beets grown in fine-textured soils
• Sugar beet nitrogen management under tile drainage
• Postharvest respiration rate and sucrose concentration of rhizoctonia-infected sugar beet roots
• Effects of preharvest jasmonic acid treatment and water stress
• Improved sugar beet production and storage utilizing inducible mechanisms
• Micronutrient influence on fungicides for controlling cercospora leaf spot and enhancing production
• Host range of the fusarium that causes yellow decline
• Sensitivity of cercospora beticola to foliar fungicdes in 2012
• Management of resistant weeds in sugar beets and other crops
• Postemergence application method and rate of Quadris for controlling rhizoctonia crown and root rot
• Cyst nematode survey
• Understanding and managing rhizoctonia solani in sugar beets
• Effect of penthiopyrad on rhizoctonia solani
• PCR-based detection of fungicide resistance in cercospora beticola
• Making dollar sense when managing sugar beet diseases

The event is free and open to everyone interested in sugar beet research.

Certified crop advisers will be able to get continuing education credits for participating.

For more information, contact Mohamed Khan, NDSU and U of M sugar beet specialist, at (701) 231-8596 or mohamed.khan@ndsu.edu.
 

Website: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu

Published: January 3, 2013