2001 FLORIDA TOMATO INSTITUTE
Wednesday, September 5, 2001
Ritz Carlton, Naples

8:45 am "Welcome & Introductory Remarks" - Dr. Charlie Vavrina, UF, Acting District Extension Director, Immokalee, FL.

8:55 am "State of the Industry Address" - Mr. Reggie Brown, Manager, Florida Tomato Committee, Orlando, FL.

9:10 am "Feasibility of Robotic Harvesting for Tomatoes" - Dr. Hagen Schempf, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

9:30 am "Unlocking the Molecular Genetics of Tomato Flavor", Dr. Harry Klee, Dickman Chair, UF, Horticultural Sciences Department. Gainesville, FL.

9:50 am "Policy and Trade Issues Critical to Florida Tomato Growers", Dr. John VanSickle, UF, Food & Resource Economics Department, Gainesville, FL.

10:10 am "Monitoring Susceptibility of the Silverleaf Whitefly to Imidacloprid", Dr. Dave Schuster, UF, GCREC, Bradenton, FL.

10:30 am "Engineered Resistance in Tomato to Geminiviruses" , Dr. Jane Polston, UF, GCREC, Bradenton, FL.

10:50 am "The Potential of Recovered Tailwater as a Source of Phytophthora capsici and Other Vegetable Pathogens", Dr. Bob McGovern, UF, GCREC, Bradenton, FL.

11:10 am "Packinghouse Sanitation: How Much is Enough?", Dr. Steve Sargent, UF, Horticultural Sciences Department, Gainesville, FL

11:30 am Lunch

1:00 pm "New Product Updates", Industry Representatives

1:50 pm "Methyl Bromide Alternatives: Long Term Trials, Application Techniques and Herbicides", Dr. Jim Gilreath, UF, GCREC, Bradenton, FL.

2:10 pm "Methyl Bromide Rates, Reductions, Formulations and IPM Alternatives for Nematode Control", Dr. Joe Noling, UF, CREC, Lake Alfred, FL.

2:30 pm "Better Bed Wetting Through Science", Dr. Joe Eger, Dow Agrosciences, Tampa, FL.

2:50 pm "Results from Field Scale Demonstration/Validation Studies of Telone Products on the East Coast.", Dr. Dan Chellemi, USDA/ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL.

3:10 pm "Water Management for Tomatoes", Dr. Eric Simonne, UF, Horticultural Sciences Department, Gainesville, FL.

3:30 pm Adjourn