The 2021 Spring PPI meeting has been cancelled and the next meeting will occur in 2023. CucCAP scientists Lina Quesada and Daniel Tregeagle were scheduled to make presentations at this meeting in Raleigh NC.

• Pickles in a Pickle: Trying to Outsmart Pseudoperonospora cubensis, the Cucurbit Downy Mildew Pathogen
  Dr. Lina Quesada-Ocampo, Dept. of Entomology & Plant Pathology, NCSU
• CucCAP2 Economics 2021-24: Towards Measuring the Industry’s Valuation of Improved Cucurbit Varieties
  Dr. Daniel Tregeagle, Agricultural and Resource Economics, NCSU
  The USDA has just funded CucCAP2, a $7 million grant to continue improving disease resistance in cucurbits. Daniel is leading
  the economic analysis of this research and will describe his proposed research methods for measuring the industry’s valuation
  of these improvements. A series of industry surveys are planned.

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