Mary Hausbeck from Michigan State University will present Downy Mildew Management in Pickling Cucumbers on Tuesday at 09:00 AM.

Presentations to the Pickling Cucumber Research Reporting Session:

• Julian Bello and Mary Hausbeck, Dept. Plant, Soil, Microbial Sciences, Michigan State Univ.,  Using molecular markers to ID downy mildew from spore traps.
• Grace Kenny and Mary Hausbeck, Dept. Plant, Soil, Microbial Sciences, Michigan State Univ., Testing forecasters to time fungicide sprays for downy mildew.
• Rebecca Grumet and Ying-Chen Lin, Dept. Horticulture, Michigan State Univ, Resistance to Phytophthora fruit rot in cucumber.
• Yiqun Weng, USDA-ARS and Dept. Horticulture, Univ. Wisconsin, Marker-assisted pyramiding of downy mildew resistance genes into US processing cucumber – a update