Progress 09/01/18 to 08/31/20
Outputs
Target Audience:Target audience are stone fruitgrowers, especially peach, almond and cherry, in southeast U.S., MI and CA, commodity groups and allied scientist. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
A national, interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers (33) and commodity representatives (11) met in Clemson, SC in September 2018, and during a three-day workshop identified the gaps in current Armillaria root rot (ARR) knowledge. The team visited an ARR affected orchard in SC and discussed the short-term and long-term solutions to the problem with growers during a half day workshop at the Edgefield, SC extension county office. We have also organized two round table discussions during the Southern Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Savannah GA in January 2019 and 2020 with peach growers attending the conference. Drs. Iezzoni (tart cherry breeder form MI) and Schnabel (pathologist from SC) attended the Michigan cherry grower's conference in February 2019 and 2020 and presented above ground root collar excavation as the short-term horticultural strategy to extend the orchard life on ARR affected sites. In response to the feedback from and in collaboration with stakeholders, the assembled team designed the strategy to address short- and long-term solutions to ARR replant problem and developed a Specialty Crop Research Initiative Standard Research and Extension Proposal that was invited for a full proposal submission to the USDA-NIFA in spring 2019. After not being selected for funding we met again with stakeholders during the regional growers' meetings to discuss reviewers' comments, addressed the negative issues identified by the scientific review panel and the re-submitted proposal was recommended for funding in 2020.
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Progress 09/01/18 to 08/03/20
Outputs
Target Audience:Target audience are stone fruitgrowers, especially peach, almond and cherry, in southeast U.S., MI and CA, commodity groups and allied scientist. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
A national, interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers (33) and commodity representatives (11) met in Clemson, SC in September 2018, and during a three-day workshop identified the gaps in current Armillaria root rot (ARR) knowledge. The team visited an ARR affected orchard in SC and discussed the short-term and long-term solutions to the problem with growers during a half day workshop at the Edgefield, SC extension county office. We have also organized two round table discussions during the Southern Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Savannah GA in January 2019 and 2020 with peach growers attending the conference. Drs. Iezzoni (tart cherry breeder form MI) and Schnabel (pathologist from SC) attended the Michigan cherry grower's conference in February 2019 and 2020 and presented above ground root collar excavation as the short-term horticultural strategy to extend the orchard life on ARR affected sites. In response to the feedback from and in collaboration with stakeholders, the assembled team designed the strategy to address short- and long-term solutions to ARR replant problem and developed a Specialty Crop Research Initiative Standard Research and Extension Proposal that was invited for a full proposal submission to the USDA-NIFA in spring 2019. After not being selected for funding we met again with stakeholders during the regional growers' meetings to discuss reviewers' comments, addressed the negative issues identified by the scientific review panel and the re-submitted proposal was recommended for funding in 2020.
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Progress 09/01/18 to 08/31/19
Outputs
Target Audience:Target audiences reached by our efforts wereallied scientists from academia and the USDA, stone fruit growers and industry representative organizations(CA Almond Board, MI Cherry Commission, National Peach Council, SC and GA Peach Councils), as well as nurseries (Sierra Gold Nurseries, Fowler Nurseries and Cumberland Valley Nursery). Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Round table discussions, regional and national growers and scientific meetings were used to disseminate the summary of the workshop organized in Clemson. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The proposalsubmitted to the NIFA-SCRI funding opportunity was ranked medium priority despite the urgency for the stakeholders that this is the problem in which they need asolution. We plan on revising the proposal and addressing scientific review comments with the helpof the stakeholders and professional project development service. We will use round table discussionsand personal visits to the affected regions to ensure that the voice/opinion andparticipation of all affected parties is secured. We will re-submit a stakeholder relevancy statement to USDA-NIFA-SCRI with the hope that it will be invited for full proposal submission.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
We have succesfully brought to the table stone fruitindustry (growers and nurseries) and researchers across the U.S. from regions affected by Armillaria root rot to discuss the present stateof the research and what needs to be done. The three-day workshop in Clemson and round table discussion in Savannah GA were organzied to gather information on what are the major obstacles to providing solutions for this replant problem. Engagement of both research community and stakeholders resulted in the development of objectives for a research proposal to advance the knowledge on Armillaria root rot and to test/provide short and medium term solutions to the industry. The need for accurate socio-economic assessment of the impact of Armillaria root rot to the industry was evident. Summary of the state of the Armillaria research and short and long term needs of the stone fruit industry were developed and shared with commodity boards and wider audiences as presentations at the conferences and or local growers meetings. We have assembled a national, interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers to:identify gaps in current Armillaria root rot (ARR) research and potential collaborations to fill such gaps;involved stakeholders on the project team, to ensure rootstock acceptance; identifiedand aligned common goals to develop ARR resistance; and integrated pathogen and plant collections, and provided knowledge from preliminary and other unpublished research into an SREP proposal that was submitted to the NIFA-SCRI funding opportunity.
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