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Crop Protection and Quarantine
(National Program 304) in CA
Crop Improvement and Protection Research
Commodity Protection and Quality Research
- Improving Effectiveness and Sustainability of Gill’s Mealybug Management Program in Pistachio
- Preserving Sulfuryl Fluoride for Dried Fruit Exports to the European Union
- Optimizing Phosphine for the Future
- Development and Evaluation of Attractants for Anastrepha Fruit Flies
- Improved Systems-based Approaches that Maintain Commodity Quality and Control of Arthropod Pests Important to U.S. Agricultural Production, Trade and Quarantine
- Producing Sterile Navel Orangeworm on Demand for Improvement of Pest Management
- Prediction of Navel Orangeworm (NOW) Damage Independent of Mating Disruption
- Postharvest Treatments to Eliminate Invasive Pests of Concern to the California Table Grape Industry
- Postharvest Treatments for Insect Control in California Pomegranates
- Developing the Use of X-ray and eBeam as Safe Alternatives for Sterile Insect Technique to Control Key Lepidoptera Pests in Orchards
- Postharvest Treatment of Brown Marmorated Stinkbug
- Influence of Pistachio Hull Degradation and Shell Split on NOW Egg Deposition and Infestation
- Modifications in Rearing and Transport of Novel Orangeworm for Improved Effectiveness of SIT
- Integrating Artificial Intelligence & Computer Learning into the SolaRid Monitoring Device to Create a Comprehensive Decision-Making Support System
- Producing Sterile Navel Orangeworm on Demand for Improvement of Pest Management (Dr. Raman Bansal)
- Evaluation of ethyl formate fumigation for decay and insect control
- Improved Monitoring of Walnut Husk Fly through a New Pheromone Lure
- Sterile Navel Orangeworm Technology and Development of an Area-wide IPM Program
- The Detection and Quantification of Residual Sulfuryl Fluoride and Fluoride Ion Resulting From Sulfuryl Fluoride Fumigation
- Novel Postharvest Treatments Using Propylene Oxide
- Postharvest Treatment Development for California Walnuts
- Preserving Sulfuryl Fluoride for Dried Fruit Exports to the European Union
- Maui Lime Market Access to the Continental United States
- Evaluation of Ethyl Formate Fumigation for Decay and Insect Control
- Improving integrated pest management practices of major hemipteran pests in almond orchards
- Improved Control of Navel Orangeworm: Focus on Adjuvants and Application
- Phosphine - Cold Combination Treatments for Tephritid Control
- Control Strategies for Rhagoletis Mendax
- Ethyl Formate as a Methyl Bromide Alternative for the California Walnut Industry
Invasive Species and Pollinator Health
- Areawide Management of Spotted-Wing Drosophila
- Develop Methods to Mass Rear, Store and Release the Rosette Weevil, a New Biological Control Agent of Yellow Starthistle
- Reducing the Impact of Invasive Weeds in Pacific West Estuaries through Plant Community Restoration
- Proactive Classical Biological Control of Tuta absoluta in California
- Proactive Classical Biological Control of Tuta absoluta in California
- Integrated Weed Management and Restoration Strategies to Protect Water Resources and Aquatic and Wetland Ecosystems of the Far Western U.S.
- Proactive Classical Biological Control of Tuta absoluta in California
- Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Western USA
- Biological Control of Invasive Pests in Agroecosystems and Wetland, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems in the Far Western U.S.
- Prioritizing Weed Targets for Biological Control: Testing a South African Model for Western USA
- Quantifying Factors that Contribute to the Enemy Release in Weed of Urban Versus Natural Ecosystems
- Development of Cheatgrass Biological Control with Microbes and Integrated Cape-ivy Control to Reduce Populations of Non-native, Invasive Weeds
- Invasive Plant Management Strategies for Endangered Plant Recovery and Tidal Wetland Restoration under Changing Environmental Conditions
- Establishment and Evaluation of Ganaspis brasiliensis to Suppress Spotted Wing Drosophila
- Advancing Biological Control of Cheatgrass
- Synergies in Aquatic Plant Biological Control: Translating Research Between the Southern and Western USA
- Plant-Soil Feedbacks Driving Cheatgrass Invasion
- Discovery, Identification, Collection and Shipment of Biological Control Agents of Slenderleaf Ice Plant in South Africa
- Discovery and Pre-Release Evaluation of Weed Biocontrol Agents
- Discovery and Pre-Release Evaluation of Weed Biocontrol Agents
- Genetics, Ecology, and Biological Control of Invasive Annual Grasses - Albany
- Areawide Management of Spotted Wing Drosophila in California
- Foreign Explorations for Natural Enemies of Invasive Weeds
- Collection, Evaluation and Importation of Candidate Biological Control Agents for Ice Plants Invasive on San Nicolas Island and San Clemente Island
- Proactive Classical Biological Control of South American Tomato Pinworm in California
- Biological Control of Invasive Weeds Degrading Public Lands
- Areawide Management of Spotted Wing Drosophila in California
- Collection, Study and Shipment of Candidate Biological Control Agents of Ice Plants in South Africa
- Collection, Field Study and Shipment of a Candidate Biological Control Agent of Slenderleaf Ice Plant from the Western Mediterranean Basin
- Proactive Classical Biological Control of South American Tomato Pinworm in California
- Areawide Control of Spotted Wing Drosophila Using Parasitoids
