CucCAP plant pathologists will make presentations at this meeting.
Smart Lab @ Cornell University
Christine Smart is a Plant Pathologist and leader of the Smart Lab at Cornell University. the lab contributes to the CucCAP Squash Team and CucCAP Extension team
Integrated Disease Management Team | 2024 Progress Report
View the Crop and Disease Management Team update in pages 65 – 98 of the pdf version of this report.
Labs Working on the CucCAP Project:
Lina Quesada-Ocampo (NC State)
Mary Hausbeck (MSU)
Chris Smart (Cornell)
Anthony Keinath (Clemson)
Shaker Kousik (USDA-ARS)
Jonathan Schultheis (NC State)
Daniel Tregeagle (NC State)
Squash Team | 2024 Progress Report
View the 2024 Squash Report including all tables and figures in pages 53 – 64 of the pdf version of this report.
Squash Team members
Florida: Geoffrey Meru, Yuqing Fu, Prerna Sabharwal, Swati Shrestha and Shailesh Acharya
Michigan: Mary Hausbeck, Carmen Medina-Mora, David Perla, Matthew Uebbing
New York: Michael Mazourek, Chris Smart, Colin Day, Libby Indermaur, Gregor Inzinna, Taylere Herrmann
Puerto Rico: Angela Linares
Bio Fungicide Review on Winter Squash
The Smart Lab at Cornell University compared various organic controls for powdery mildew in winter squash including copper treatments.
Integrated Crop and Disease Management Team | 2023 Progress Report
The CucCAP Integrated Disease Management team reported on project progress and ongoing research in April 2023.
Integrated Crop and Disease Management | Research Publications
CucCAP Squash Team | Research Publications
The CucCAP squash team published 6 journal articles in 2022 & 2023, 7 journal articles in 2021, and 5 journal articles in 2020.
Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Libby Indermaur
Libby is identifying which of Michael Mazourek’s Cucurbita moschata and C. maxima breeding lines are: 1) resistant to powdery mildew and 2) candidate replacements for the susceptible cultivars used in the processing industry.