2023 Assessment Newsletter

2022-2023 APPROVED RESEARCH PROJECTS:

22-02 2022 MPRU Sweetpotato Research Activities: Implementation of an IPM Program in the Production of Clean Stock. Christie Almeyda ($18,763)

22-03 Consumer Risk Analyses and Perceptions of Sweetpotato Products and Processes. Jon Allen ($12,500)

22-05 Development of Weed Management Strategies in Sweetpotato. Katie Jennings ($66,686)

22-06 Sweetpotato Planter Sleeve Adapter and Horizontal Planter Evaluation for Potential Yield Improvement. Jonathan Schultheis ($10,753)

Additionally, the committee approved the following projects for renewed funding: 21-03 Optimizing Foliar Insecticide Applications with Corn Wireworm Pheromones. Anders Huseth ($8,247)

21-06 Sweetpotato Variety Evaluations – Production, Quality and Storage. Jonathan Schultheis. ($16,129)

Projects submitted for consideration by the review committee that are not listed above were not selected for funding

2022-2023 APPROVED GRKN PROJECTS:

22-01 Renovation of Method Road Nematology Laboratory and Greenhouse Range facilities for work with the Guava Root-Knot Nematode (Meloidogyne enterolobii) A.M. Gorny, E.L. Davis and G.C. Yencho ($250,000)

22-03 Research Towards a Rapid, Species-specific, Field Deployable Test for GRKN and Advancement of Molecular Diagnostics for Soil and Sweetpotato Samples A.M. Gorny ($196,103)

22-04 Evaluating Integrated Use of Fumigants, Nematicides, and Rotational Crops for Management of GRKN in Sweetpotato in the Field, Storage, and Pack House A.M. Gorny and L.M. Quesada Ocampo ($240,000)

22-06 On-Farm Crop Rotation and Cover Crop Evaluations, and Sweetpotato Clone Evaluations to Manage Guava Root-Knot Nematode J.R. Schultheis, A.M. Gorny and G.C. Yencho (485,605)

22-07 Breeding Resistance to GRKN and SRKN into a New Generation of High Quality, Marketable Sweetpotato Cultivars for NC Growers G.C. Yencho, K.V. Pecota, J.R. Schultheis, M. Mollinari, Z-B. Zeng, A.M. Gorny, and M.W. KudenovN ($2,489,005) 22-08 Guava Root-Knot Nematode: A County Operations Action Plan A.R. Bonanno, A.C. Thornton, and E. Eure ($244,755) 19