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TOTAL PALNT MANAGEMENT (Continued)
On March 1, we will have highly
experienced speakers coming from
Canada, the mid-west United States,
and southern states to present
on ways to be successful with use
of biological control in nurseries,
greenhouses, and landscapes.
This upcoming conference will be
co-sponsored with MNLGA.
We will also be holding a 2-day
drone mapping school this winter at
the new CMREC facility, with flying
of drones in our field plots near the
CMREC building. We will advertise the
schedules and sign up through our
IPM Alert list.
Field Trials at CMREC
CMREC - new Entomology and Pathology lab under construction
Hybrid hazelnut plots Oct 2023 David Clement, Andrew Ristvey, and
I are working closely with MNLGA in
investigating new plant cultivars for
Maryland production. Toward this
end we set up field plots in a 3-acre
field in front of our new building.
We planted 5 hybrid cultivars of
hazelnuts in the summer of 2023. The
board of MNLGA generously supplied
the capital to purchase these new
cultivars.
Tom Molnar of Rutger’s University
Plant Biology Department released
several new hybrid hazelnut cultivars
that are resistant to Filbert Blight ,
Anisogramma anomala. Filbert Blight
is a native fungus. Anisogramma
anomala is an extremely damaging
pathogen on European hazelnut
We will also have a conference room horticulture industry. The first day will (Corylus avellana), also known as
that can hold up to 99 participants include hands-on lab sessions (in our filbert, causing perennial cankers that
for educational seminars. new lab) with beneficial organisms girdle branches and eventually result
and how to evaluate bio-fungicides in tree death if not managed.
One of the first big educational events
on plants, which were started and
we will hold in the building will be on A. Anomala is an indigenous and non-
treated at the University of MD
February 29 and March 1, 2024. We consequential pathogen on American
greenhouses.
are organizing a Biological Control hazelnut (Corylus americana), which
conference for the commercial is an understory tree in northeastern
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