BIOTECH VEGETABLES FOR INSECT AND INSECT-VECTORED DISEASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

• Sponsoring Institution: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: OTHER GRANTS
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 0198195
• Grant No.: 2003-38836-02117
• Proposal No.: 2003-05267
• Project Start Date: Sep 15, 2003
• Project End Date: Sep 14, 2004
• Grant Year: 2003
• Program Code: [MN.2]- (N/A)

Recipient Organization
N Y AGRICULTURAL EXPT STATION
(N/A)
GENEVA,NY 14456

Performing Department
ENTOMOLOGY

Non Technical Summary
In contrast to field crops, however, development, commercialization, and deployment of biotech vegetable crops has taken dramatically different trajectories, including sharp declines in acreage, differential trajectories for fresh- and processing markets, and successful deployment of cultivars aimed at insect-transmitted pathogens. This symposium will bring together a multidisciplinary list of speakers to examine the potential and some of the most important environmental, food safety and social issues affecting present and future IPM in vegetable crops relevant to cultivars that are bioengineered for management of insects and insect-vectored pathogens.

Animal Health Component

75%

Research Effort Categories

Basic

25%

Applied

75%

Developmental

(N/A)

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
211	1499	1130	100%

Knowledge Area
211 - Insects, Mites, and Other Arthropods Affecting Plants;

Subject Of Investigation
1499 - Vegetables, general/other;

Field Of Science
1130 - Entomology and acarology;

Keywords

biotechnology

insects

vegetables

insect vectors

workshops

plant disease transmission

epidemiology

plant disease resistance

corn

cotton

genetically modified organisms

bacillus thuringiensis

oils

sweeteners

processed food

pesticide usage

papayas

potatoes

transgenic plants

food safety

squash

integrated pest management

social change

environmental impact

bioengineering

food

consumer acceptance

Goals / Objectives
Significant advances both in the US and internationally suggest that biotechnology could dramatically affect pest management in a variety of vegetable crops in the near future. Although Bt corn and cotton are used for processed foods, mainly as oils or sweeteners, fresh and processed biotech vegetables will present a broader range of foods for consumers and the food system. Biotech vegetables will present new challenges and opportunities for those involved in crop protection, marketing and consumption of insect- and insect-vectored pathogen protected plants. Much has already been learned about food safety, environmental and regulatory issues, and influence of adoption on pesticide use patterns from work with Bt corn, cotton, and potato, and from biotech papaya and squash. This may help pave the way for the development and deployment of biotech insect- or insect-vector pathogen - protected vegetables.

Project Methods
This symposium will bring together a multidisciplinary list of speakers to examine the potential and some of the most important environmental, food safety and social issues affecting present and future IPM in vegetable crops relevant to cultivars that are bioengineered for management of insects and insect-vectored pathogens. This symposium was selected to be one of five program symposia at the Entomology Society of America's Annual Meeting. The symposium will be a half-day session on October 28. It has 15 speakers and is divided into four sections: Crops and traits; Biotech vegetables in the food system: economics and buyer preferences; Regulatory and public policy issues; Discsussion.

Progress 09/15/03 to 09/14/04

Outputs
Significant advances both in the US and internationally suggests that biotechnology could dramatically affect pest management in a variety of vegetable crops in the near future. Although Bt corn and cotton are used for processed foods, mainly as oils or sweeteners, fresh and processed biotech vegetables will present a broader range of foods for consumers and the food system. Biotech vegetables will present new challenges and opportunities for those involved in crop protection, marketing and consumption of insect- and insect-vectored pathogen protected plants. Much has already been learned about food safety, environmental and regulatory issues, and influence of adoption on pesticide use patterns from work with Bt corn, cotton, and potato, and from biotech papaya and squash. This may help pave the way for the development and deployment of biotech insect- or insect-vector pathogen - protected vegetables.

Impacts
This symposium was held at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America in 2003. It brought together a multidisciplinary group of speakers who examined the potential and some of the most important environmental, food safety and social issues affecting present and future IPM in vegetable crops relevant to cultivars that are bioengineered for management of insects and insect-vectored pathogens.

Publications

• No publications reported this period

Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03

Outputs
Significant advances both in the US and internationally suggests that biotechnology could dramatically affect pest management in a variety of vegetable crops in the near future. Although Bt corn and cotton are used for processed foods, mainly as oils or sweeteners, fresh and processed biotech vegetables will present a broader range of foods for consumers and the food system. Biotech vegetables will present new challenges and opportunities for those involved in crop protection, marketing and consumption of insect- and insect-vectored pathogen protected plants. Much has already been learned about food safety, environmental and regulatory issues, and influence of adoption on pesticide use patterns from work with Bt corn, cotton, and potato, and from biotech papaya and squash. This may help pave the way for the development and deployment of biotech insect- or insect-vector pathogen - protected vegetables.

Impacts
This symposium was held at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. It brought together a multidisciplinary group of speakers who examined the potential and some of the most important environmental, food safety and social issues affecting present and future IPM in vegetable crops relevant to cultivars that are bioengineered for management of insects and insect-vectored pathogens.

Publications

• No publications reported this period