APPLE HORTICULTURE AND POSTHARVEST RESEARCH REVIEW
Wed 28 Jan 2015
PI
Time Page
8:00
Schmidt
8:05
McFerson
Welcome and introduction
Research update
Final Reports
8:15 Tech Salazar
Effect of early spring temperature on apple & sweet cherry blooms
8:30 1 Salazar
Development of apple bloom phenology and fruit growth models
8:45 13 Combs
Implementation/evaluation of apple pollen tube growth models
Enhancing apple packing HACCP programs while ensuring fruit quality: Extension
9:00 22 Killinger
9:15 30 Wetherington Apple microbial risk factors: Extension
New Proposals
Apple scion breeding program (Final report and new proposal)
9:30 34 Evans
10:00
Break
Consulting to the WTFRC for apple improvement Final Report/New Proposal
10:30 49 Bliss
10:45 57 Kalcsits
Identifying rootstocks that improve nutritional balance in Honeycrisp
10:55 68 Kalcsits
Effectiveness of foliar calcium applications in bitter pit management
11:05 77 Kalcsits
Effects on physiology of apple under photoselective anti-hail nets
11:15 89 Combs
Pollen tube growth model validation & utilization for flower thinning
11:30 100 Salazar
Modeling apple bloom phenology, fruit growth and size distribution
11:45
Lunch/Committee: Research priorities
New Proposals (Continued)
1:00
Musacchi
TASC Grant - China apple decay: How to replace the Manchurian pollinator ?
1:15 106 Zhu
Using direct steam injection to improve microbial safety of water
1:30 116 Zhu
Control foodborne pathogens in fresh apple packing line naturally
1:45 126 Ganjyal
Improving food safety of fresh apples by hot air impingement drying
2:00
Break
Continuing Projects: 2:15 - 4:00
Assessment of overhead cooling practices for apple food safety Extension
1
136 Killinger
1
144 Wetherington Analysis of packinghouse preventive controls for dump tank water
1
148 Hanrahan
Programs to increase packouts of apples
Improving food safety of fresh apples by hot air impingement drying: Extension
1
154 Ganjyal
2
161 Musacchi
WA 38: evaluation of rootstocks and training systems
2
169 Auvil
Apple rootstock and scion evaluation
2
174 Peace
After RosBREED: Developing and deploying new apple DNA tests
2
182 Main
Adding apple map, marker and trait data to GDR
3 Tech Kalcsits
Testing a portable, non-destructive measure of Ca, Mg and K in apple
3
187 Burke
Glyphosate fate in inland pacific northwest apple orchards
3
194 Mattheis
Identification of procedures to extend Honeycrisp storage life
3
201 Rudell
Commercial testing of early scald risk assessment tools
4
207 Kim
Effect of crabapple pruning on Sphaeropsis and speck rot incidence
Mechanical pruning in apple, pear & sweet cherry: technology
4 Tech Lewis
WTFRC technology projects: see tech reports in appendix
4
Schmidt
Crop load and canopy management: internal
4
214 Schmidt
4:00
Break
4:00 - 5:00
Apple Horticulture and Postharvest Committee continuing project (12) discussion
Poster Session/Social Hour 5:30 - 7:00
7:00 - 9:00
Dinner Discussion: Kalcsits and Rudell
2014 funding (excludes Technology)
Apple Funding
2015 Continuing funding requests
2015 New project requests
2015 Total requests
* Funded through technology
Time
8:00
10:00
Thu 29 Jan 2015
Apple Horticulture and Postharvest Committee new project rating (10)
Adjourn
Project information
Yrs
2014 $
2015 $
12-14
12-14
12-14
12-14
12-13
80,000*
101,100
107,688
85,571
425
3
239,563
249,881
1
3
2
2
2
3
7,500
7,500
81,127
69,052
84,102
101,708
84,200
1
2
3
14-16
14-15
internal
14
14-16
internal
14-16
14-15
14-15
13-15
13-15
13-15
13-15
13-15
58,000
58,000
73,951
92,363
47,000
13,800
56,743
98,903
32,600
89,000
26,183
57,496
40,536
68,714
56,275
26,756
47959*
97,887
47,000
0
74,523
89,000
27,071
20,000
68,714
57,675
15,451
internal
1,221,460
497,321
867,521
1,364,842