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Publisher
The University of Maine
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Publication Date
1-2013
Publisher location
Orono, ME
Abstract/ Summary
The 2012 edition of the Wild Blueberry Project Reports was prepared for the Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine and the Wild Blueberry Advisory Committee by researchers at the University of Maine, Orono. Projects in this report include:
1. Do wild blueberries alleviate risk factors related to the Metabolic Syndrome?
2. Development of effective intervention measures to maintain and improve food safety for wild blueberries
3. Control tactics for blueberry pest insects, 2012
4. Development and implementation of a wild blueberry thrips IPM program, 2012
5. IPM
6. Biology of blueberry and pest insects, 2012
7. Biology of beneficial insects and blueberry pollination, 2012
8. Pesticide residues on lowbush blueberry, 2012
9. Maine wild blueberry –mummy berry research and extension
10. Efficacy of Apogee growth regulator for stimulating rhizome growth into bare spots in wild blueberry fields
11. Velpar by Matrix pre and post-emergence applications - demonstration plots
12. Wild blueberry Extension Education Program in 2012
INPUT SYSTEMS STUDY:
13. Systems approach to improving the sustainability of wild blueberry production, Year Three of a four-year study – experimental design
14. Food safety- Prevalence study of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella spp. on lowbush blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium)
15. Abundance of insect pest species and natural enemies in lowbush blueberry fields maintained under different management practices
16. Input Systems Study: Systems approach to improving the sustainability of wild blueberry production, Year 3 of a four-year study, disease management results
17. Plant productivity, Year Three of a four-year study
18. Systems approach to improving the sustainability of wild blueberry production, Year Three of a four-year study, weed management results
19. Effects of organic and conventional management systems on the phosphorus solubility of lowbush blueberry barren soils
20. Systems approach to improving sustainability of wild blueberry production – soil health and chemistry measures
21. Evaluation of fungicides for control of mummy berry disease (ancillary study)
22. Systems approach to improving the sustainability of wild blueberry production – Ancillary land-leveling study, Year Two of a four-year study (ancillary study)
23. Pre-emergent combinations of herbicides for weed control in wild blueberry fields – 2012 results from the 2011 trial (ancillary study)
24. Pre-emergent combinations of herbicides for weed control in wild blueberry fields – 2012 trial (ancillary study)
25. Evaluation of herbicides for control of fineleaf sheep fescue for grass control in wild blueberries (ancillary study)
26. Pre-emergence application timing and rate of Alion and Sandea in combination with Velpar or Sinbar on weed control and injury to wild blueberry (ancillary study)
27. Compost and mulch effects on soil health and nutrient dynamics in wild blueberry (ancillary study)
Repository Citation
Klimis-Zacas, Dorothy J.; Wu, Vivian CH; Drummond, Frank A.; Collins, Judith A.; Beers, Lee; Asare, Eric; Bacjz, Alex; Bickerman, Kalyn; Bushmann, Sara; Chapin, Shannon; Loftin, Cyndy; Dibble, Alison; Stack, Lois Berg; Venturini, Eric; Hanes, Samuel; Hoshide, Aaron; Jones, Matthew S.; Looze, Brianne; Annis, Seanna L.; Slemmons, Caleb; Yarborough, David E.; D'Appollonio, Jennifer L.; Ohno, Tsutomu; Mallory, Ellen; Griffin, Hannah; and McPhee, Katie, "2012 Wild Blueberry Project Reports" (2013). Wild Blueberry Research Reports. 16.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/blueberry_resreports/16
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