BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Horticulture - ECPv6.1.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Department of Horticulture X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Department of Horticulture REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231207T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231207T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T171834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T215357Z UID:10937-1701960900-1701965100@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Tropical fruit research- Gustavo Teixiera DESCRIPTION:This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-12-07/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Jacob%20Blauer":MAILTO:jblauer@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231130T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231130T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T171719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T194812Z UID:10934-1701356100-1701360300@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Title: TBD - Connor Buckley\, MS Student Horticulture\, WSU DESCRIPTION:This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-11-30/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:HORT 510 Student Presentation,Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Matthew%20Whiting":MAILTO:mdwhiting@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T171607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T215302Z UID:10930-1700146500-1700150700@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Working in Industry and professional development- Daniel Zommick DESCRIPTION:This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-11-16/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Matthew%20Whiting":MAILTO:mdwhiting@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T171447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T215148Z UID:10927-1699541700-1699545900@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Potato Breeding- Cari Schmitz-Carley DESCRIPTION:This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-11-09/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Matthew%20Whiting":MAILTO:mdwhiting@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231102T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231102T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T171205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231024T154827Z UID:10914-1698936900-1698941100@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Impact of hive placement on blueberry pollination and honey bee exposure to pesticide drift - Kayla Brouwer\, MS Student\, Horticulture\, WSU DESCRIPTION:Northern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum; hereafter “blueberry”) is an economically important crop with Michigan\, Oregon\, and Washington collectively producing 64% of all blueberries grown in the United States. Blueberry production relies on insect-mediated pollination in order to obtain profitable yields and growers primarily use rented honey bee (Apis mellifera) hives for pollination services. Blueberry flower morphology is not conducive to efficient pollination by honey bees and poor weather can further reduce honey bee activity and pollination success. Additionally\, commercial blueberry production depends on pesticide inputs during the pollination period to protect flowers and limit the spread of diseases and viruses. This can put rented honey bees at risk of pesticide exposure while hives are stationed in blueberry. Honey bees are in high demand as the cultivation of entomophilous crops increases and beekeepers are sometimes hesitant to place their hives in blueberry as colony health tends to decrease during and after hives are stationed in blueberry. Strategic hive placement may be utilized by growers and beekeepers to improve pollination in blueberry and limit honey bee hive exposure to pesticides\, but research informing these practices is limited. In this study\, commercial fields in Michigan\, Oregon\, and Washington received either clumped or dispersed hive placement treatments to determine how these placement strategies impact honey bee activity\, crop pollination\, and the amount of pesticide drift landing on hive boxes. Clumping was characterized by several pallets of hives concentrated in a single or few drop locations around a blueberry field\, while the dispersed treatment was characterized by single pallets of hives spread along the field edge. Furthermore\, hives in the dispersed treatment were closer to the field edge\, while hives in the clumped treatment were further from the field edge. Clumping hives increased honey bee activity but did not impact overall crop pollination. The overall amount of pesticides detected on hives was not different by hive placement treatment\, but the lack of differences may be due to high variability across sites\, differences in grower management\, and broader landscape effects. Further analysis of case study data in Washington\, where management was held more consistent\, shows clumping can reduce pesticide exposure and increasing the distance between hives and the field edge can reduce pesticide drift. Overall\, growers and beekeepers can consider clumping as a strategy to reduce potential exposure to pesticides from drift\, but they should also factor in broader landscape effects such as pesticide exposure from neighboring sites. This placement strategy should also be more efficient for beekeepers and not reduce pollination outcomes. \nThis talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/november-2-2023-speaker-tbd-title-tbd/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:HORT 510 Student Presentation,Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Matthew%20Whiting":MAILTO:mdwhiting@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T171102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231024T194041Z UID:10911-1698332100-1698336300@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Research Updates from Departmental Post-doctoral Associates DESCRIPTION:Huiting Zhang:  Enhancing fruit quality with functional genomics via bottom-up and top-down approaches \n  \nRene Mogollon:  Predicting Postharvest Fruit Outcomes Based on Hyperspectral images \n  \nTyler Biggs:  Smoke Exposed Vineyards: Untargeted Metabolomic Assay Analysis \n  \nThis talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-10-26/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Matthew%20Whiting":MAILTO:mdwhiting@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T170941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T164001Z UID:10906-1697727300-1697731500@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:UTILIZING A NON-DESTRUCTIVE APPROACH TO IMPROVE UNIFORMITY OF PHASE 2 FRUIT SAMPLES IN THE WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY APPLE BREEDING PROGRAM - India Cain\, MS Student in Horticulture\, WSU DESCRIPTION:The Washington State University Apple Breeding Program is composed of three phases of selection. Phase 2 accessions consist of five replicate trees that are evaluated for several years at three geographically diverse sites in Washington. Each accession is harvested over three picks using subjective maturity assessments that include change in the background color and starch degradation. Lack of information regarding optimal harvest date\, limited fruit and variable maturity throughout the canopy can lead to large within-sample variations of maturity in some accessions\, as subjective methods do not ensure collection of uniform samples. The Delta Absorbance meter estimates maturity non-destructively by measuring the index of absorbance difference (IAD) of fruit\, where the absorbance at 720 nm (background of spectrum) is subtracted from the absorbance at 670 nm (near the chlorophyll-α absorption peak). Typically\, IAD is used to model variety-specific harvest windows for commercial apple cultivars\, however\, rapid turnover and limited fruit availability in Phase 2 accessions led us to explore if IAD could be used to guide harvest without developing models. With an IAD corresponding to a specific starch index rating\, accessions were harvested using IAD-guided sampling. Coefficient of variation (CoV) was used to calculate within-sample variability. In 15 out of 26 samples\, within-sample variability of IAD was reduced using IAD-guided sampling. Sample variability was also determined using starch\, soluble solids content\, titratable acidity\, and firmness. In at least three of these destructive trait measures\, CoV of IAD-guided samples was reduced compared to non-IAD-guided samples in five\, seven\, and seven samples in picks 1\, 2\, and 3\, respectively. Reductions of within-sample variability were accession\, site\, pick\, and trait specific\, with a strong effect of accession and site in all traits. IAD-guided sampling is being used in combination with subjective maturity assessments to harvest all Phase 2 accessions in 2023. \nThis talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-10-19/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:HORT 510 Student Presentation,Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Matthew%20Whiting":MAILTO:mdwhiting@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T170526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231006T161301Z UID:10899-1697122500-1697126700@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Private and Contract Research - Life Away from the University - Jeff Miller\, Miller Research DESCRIPTION:Jeff Miller was raised on a research farm in southern Idaho.  He earned a B.S. degree in Botany—Biotechnology from BYU in 1994 and M.S. (1996) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees in Plant Pathology at Washington State University working on potato late blight. Jeff worked for two years at the University of Minnesota and six years at the University of Idaho in Aberdeen as a potato pathologist conducting research on pink rot\, powdery scab\, early blight\, late blight\, silver scurf\, black dot\, Rhizoctonia\, and Verticillium wilt. Jeff now operates his own business in southern Idaho\, Miller Research\, where he conducts research on crop production and pest management. \nThis talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-10-12/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Matthew%20Whiting":MAILTO:mdwhiting@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231005T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231005T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T170435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T194550Z UID:10896-1696517700-1696521900@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Postharvest Genomics - Loren Honaas\, USDA-ARS DESCRIPTION:This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-10-05/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Jacob%20Blauer":MAILTO:jblauer@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230928T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230928T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T170310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T203754Z UID:10893-1695912900-1695917100@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:It’s About the Apples! Supporting Hard Cider Production through Pomological Research and Outreach- Greg Peck DESCRIPTION:With a US$1.7B total economic impact in New York State alone\, hard (fermented) cider has become an important value-added product in the alcohol beverage sector. My research program has conducted cost of production studies\, characterized over 375 potential cider apple cultivars\, and developed orchard management practices that leads to greater fruit and thus cider quality. For high-density orchard systems\, we found that many cider apple cultivars can be cropped twice as much as culinary cultivars to achieve the greatest long-term yields\, juice quality\, and profitability. Future work is focusing on developing cider apple orchards that are best suited to mechanical harvesting. In this presentation\, I will review current management practices for growing cider apples in the Northeastern United States and propose a conceptual orchard design and management system for the next generation of cider apple orchards. \nThis talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-07-28/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Jacob%20Blauer":MAILTO:jblauer@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230921T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230921T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230801T170237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T151658Z UID:10890-1695308100-1695312300@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:AI in Agriculture - Ananth Kalyanaraman\, EECS\, WSU DESCRIPTION:This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-09-21/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Matthew%20Whiting":MAILTO:mdwhiting@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230914T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230914T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230601T075047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T194524Z UID:10645-1694703300-1694707500@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Automation in Agriculture - Walt Duflock\, Western Growers DESCRIPTION:This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-07-14/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Jacob%20Blauer":MAILTO:jblauer@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230907T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230907T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230701T075534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230901T150452Z UID:10629-1694098500-1694102700@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:AgWeatherNet: An introduction to the network\, data\, and decision support tools - Sean Hill\, WSU DESCRIPTION:From observed values and forecast weather to long-term climatology and weather-driven models\, AWN provides a wide range of resources for the people of Washington State.  We’ll discuss data acquisition and quality assurance; highlight recent tools that have been released; and future goals of the program.” URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-09-07/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Jacob%20Blauer":MAILTO:jblauer@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230831T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230831T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230803T003352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T025949Z UID:10968-1693493700-1693497900@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Modernizing Potato Germplasm Enhancement Breeding in the Pacific Northwest - Max Feldman\, USDA-ARS DESCRIPTION:Potato breeding in the Pacific Northwest has traditionally relied almost exclusively on brute force phenotypic selection to narrow the pool of candidates from tens of thousands of progeny to a handful of tetraploid clone releases over a 10 – 15 year period. Although this strategy has yielded fantastic new cultivars that exhibit superior yield\, improved storage quality\, and novel disease resistance packages; the overall rate of genetic gain over time will remain low unless the genomic selection schema used in many other cropping systems can be applied in potato. Our USDA-ARS germplasm enhancement program in Prosser\, WA aims to accelerate the discovery and introgression of disease resistance and added value traits using a combination of marker assisted selection and quantitative genetics approaches. Our team’s recent efforts focused on trait discovery\, genetic mapping\, and germplasm improvement leveraging high-throughput phenotyping will be discussed. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-08-31/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Jacob%20Blauer":MAILTO:jblauer@wsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230824T145500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230824T160500 DTSTAMP:20260518T144248 CREATED:20230728T095535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T194919Z UID:10623-1692888900-1692893100@horticulture.wsu.edu SUMMARY:Welcome\, Seminar 509/510 Introduction DESCRIPTION:This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department’s weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely. URL:https://horticulture.wsu.edu/event/seminar-2023-08-24/ LOCATION:Statewide Seminar (various locations) CATEGORIES:Seminar,Seminar Fall 2023 ORGANIZER;CN="Matthew%20Whiting":MAILTO:mdwhiting@wsu.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR