Location: Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research Unit
Project Number: 2072-22000-045-043-S
Project Type: Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Sep 1, 2024
End Date: Oct 31, 2026
Objective:
1. Monitor phenotypic and genetic diversity of emerging P. ramorum invasions and spread in the United States.
2. Develop novel disease management strategies such as chemical or biological control.
3. Maintain and sample a network of infested and non-infested sudden oak death plots.
4. Use genomic approaches to characterize pathogen adaptation.
5. Characterize host resistance and develop genomic resources for improving hosts.
6. Sequence and analyze genomes of major Phytophthora pathogens of horticultural, forest, and landscape plants.
Approach:
In order to meet the objectives described above a range of molecular, evolutionary, genomic, epidemiological, horticultural, and plant pathological approaches will be used to characterize the epidemic of the Sudden Oak Death pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum, and other Phytophthora pathogens in the U.S. and understand their impacts and spillover from forests to agriculture.
