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FHB Management (MGMT)

MGMT Research Area Committee Updated: 6/24/08

Co-Chair, Christina Cowger, USDA-ARS, NC

Co-Chair,Stephen Neate, North Dakota State University, ND

Gary Bergstrom, Cornell University, NY

Marty Draper, USDA-CSREES, Washington, DC

Char Hollingsworth, University of Minnesota, MN

Jeff Stein, South Dakota State University, SD

FY09 Program Description

The FHB Management (MGMT) research area supports research to develop effective and economical disease management practices that reduce FHB severity and DON in harvested grain to meet the immediate and long-term needs of the wheat and barley industries.

This research area involves:

tillage practices, crop sequences, and other cultural practices targeting Fusarium-infested residues;
fungicides, biological control agents, and application technologies for chemical and biological agents;
the refinement and deployment of disease prediction and forecasting models and disease management decision tools; and
studies of pathogen survival, inoculum production, dispersal, infection, colonization, mycotoxin production, and factors accounting for high levels of mycotoxin in asymptomatic grain.

NOTE: Priority will be given to multi-PI, collaborative, integrated pre-proposals that address the research priorities listed below. Pre-proposals pertaining to uniform integrated management (IM) trials and uniform fungicide/biocontrol (F/BC) trials will be developed as multi-PI, collaborative, integrated proposals. Coordinators for those integrated proposals are listed below.

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MGMT Coordinated Project Leaders
Uniform Fungicide/Biocontrol (F/BC) Trials	Integrated Management (IM) Studies
Carl Bradley University of Illinois Dept. of Crop Sciences 1102 S. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 E-mail: carlbrad@uiuc.edu	Pierce Paul 1680 Madison Ave. Dept. of Plant Pathology Ohio State University Wooster, OH 44691 E-mail: paul.661@osu.edu

FY09 Research Priorities Derived from Action Plan Goals:

Validate integrated management strategies for FHB and DON.
Develop the next generation of management tools for FHB/DON control.
Develop a full understanding of specific environmental and biological factors influencing infection and toxin accumulation.
Enhance communication and end user education/outreach.

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Summary of Funding
	FY07 (2007-08)*	FY08 (2008-09)**
Number of Projects	39	39
Number of PIs	33	26
Total Award Amount	$871,027	$747,633
% Total Rec. Funding	17.68%	15.28%
Research Projects	CBCC EEDF	MGMT

*Based on old research areas - Chemical, Biological & Cultural Control (CBCC) and Etiology, Epidemiology & Disease Forecasting (EEDF) which are now part of MGMT.
**Summary does not include MGMT-related projects that are part of the Barley Coordinated Project for FY08-FY09.