31: Natural products - Biopesticides

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Seacliff AB (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)
Chair:
Denise C. Manker
8:00 AM
Discovery and development of natural products for controlling weeds and pests
Pamela Marrone, Ratnakar Asolkar, Huazhang Huang and Marja Koivunen, Marrone Bio Innovations, Davis, CA
8:30 AM
Mechanisms underlying the beneficial interactions between the endophyte Enterobacter sp. 638 and poplar
Safiyh Taghavi, Sébastien Monchy, Adam Hoffman, Yian-Biao Zhang, Lee Newman and Daniel van der Lelie, Biology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
9:30 AM
Break
10:00 AM
Bacillus subtilis strain QST713: A microbe with two tales
Magalie Guilhabert-Goya, Jorge Jimenez, Daniel Joo, Sarah Lego, Dorte Lindhard and David Sesin, Research and Development, AgraQuest, Davis, CA
10:30 AM
Beneficial rhizobacteria drive photosynthetic efficiency increases in Arabidopsis
Paul W. Paré, Mina Aziz, Xin Shen, Mi-Seong Kim and Huiming Zhang, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
11:00 AM
Fermentation scale-up, field testing, and commercialization of Pasteuria spp. for biological control of phytopathogenic nematodes
Kelly S. Smith, Thomas Hewlett, Susan Griswold, John Waters, Gene Drago, Wei Liu and Brent Wood, Pasteuria Bioscience, Inc., Alachua, FL
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