Last updated on March 15, 2011

Date: Friday, June 24, 2011
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Organized by:
Deborah Golino, Foundation Plant Services, University of California, Davis

Program:

8:00 am – 9:00 am Coffee with Posters & Authors
9:00 am – Noon Morning Moderator:
Neil McRoberts, University of California, Davis
9:00 am – 9:50 am Grapevine Leafroll and Vitivirus Diseases – Our State of Knowledge
Keynote Speaker:
Giovanni Martelli, Università di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
9:50 am – 10:30 am Leafroll Transmission and Field Spread
Rodrigo Almeida, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break
10:45 am – 11:20 am An Enologist’s View of the Effects of Leafroll on Wine
Jim Harbertson, Washington State University, Prosser
11:20 am – Noon The Economics of Leafroll Disease: Case Studies from the Finger Lakes
Shadi Atallah, Cornell University, New York
Noon – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Afternoon Moderator:
Sara Spayd, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm The Role of Mealybug Vectors in Leafroll Spread
Kent Daane, University of California, Berkeley
1:45 pm – 2:15 pm Detecting Grapevine Leafroll and Vitiviruses
Vicki Klaassen, University of California, Davis
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm Coffee Break
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Molecular Strategies for the Control of Leafroll Disease
Marc Fuchs, Cornell University, New York
3:00 pm – 3:40 pm The National Clean Plant Network
Deborah Golino, University of California, Davis
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm Questions & Close

Call for Posters – Deadline: May 5, 2011
Click here to download the Leafroll Seminar Call for Posters (for reference only).