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1. Spinach field days for downy mildew disease: Dr. Correll organized the multiple stakeholder Spinach Field Days with over 150 attendees for each meeting. The Spinach Field Days were hold on October 9th, 2019 at Salinas, CA; hold on February 20, 2019, February 26, 2020, and March 15, 2021 at Yuma, AZ; and at University of Massachusetts Amherst, UMass Extension on Jan 28, 2021 https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=31421 https://desertagsolutions.org/events/377-spinach-field-day https://desertagsolutions.org/events/427-2020-spinach-field-day ; https://extension.arizona.edu/2021-downy-mildew-field-day https://ag.umass.edu/vegetable/events/field-day-winter-greens-diseases-variety-trials. 2. Spinach field day in Texas: Two field days were organized by Larry Stein in the winter seasons on February 22. 2023, Feb. 22, 2022, Feb. 25, 2021, and Feb. 19, 2020 at Tiro Tres Farms, Crystal City, TX with the presence of more than 50 producers and spinach industry representatives (https://uvalde.tamu.edu/extension-programs/horticulture/). Field days include fungicide trials against white rust and anthrachnose. In addition, commercial cultivars were demonstrated to attendees. Avila and Stein gave talks about spinach white rust evaluation and fungicide tests to local producers and spinach industry representatives in the field days. Avila talked about white rust evaluations, research objectives and potential benefits expected resistant varieties receiving a positive feedback and interest from producers (Avila 2020b). In addition, results were presented including white rust disease evaluation trials on commercial and USDA accessions, Stemphylium evaluation, and commercial cultivar trials. A booklet having evaluation results were given to attendees and sent by email to producers and stakeholders that were not able to attend to the field days. 3. Extension and outreach for Fusarium wilt: Several talks by Lindsey du Toit and her lab members were presented at the Western Washington Seed Workshop held at the Washington State University (WSU) Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center (NWREC) on Jan. 11, 2019 and Jan. 10, 2020; and in the WSU Mount Vernon NWREC Field Day on July 11, 2019, March 2, 2020, 2021. The information was shared with representatives of all the seed companies that contract with growers in western WA to produce seed crops of these vegetables, as well as seed growers, students, researchers, extension specialists, and public. 4. Extension and outreach for white rust: Carlos Avila and Larry Stein have built two new white rust screening plots (nursery) at the Rio Grande Valley and in Wintergarden area of TX and spinach was planted during 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021 winter seasons. The new white evaluation nursey allowed to screen more spinach lines at multiple locations. Outreach included spinach grower/industry meetings to discuss the various spinach white rust and other disease challenges being faced in the Rio Grande Valley and Wintergarden region of TX including Stemphylium leaf spot and Anthracnose in spinach production. 5. Spinach extension and outreach activities in Larry Stein’s lab: Dr. Stein traveled to California and Washington State on July 7 to 11, 2019 to examine growing practices and seed production fields; worked with Peterson Brother’s Nursery in San Antonio to prepare a leafy greens display for the HEB produce convention for their produce buyers; extension was instrumental in making this happen during an odd time of the year to try to grow leafy greens; and plants delivered 31 July 2019; held a series of 7 am breakfast meetings with producers to map out strategies for the upcoming growing season on July 22, August 6, and September 2, 16, and 25 in 2019; and hosted several spinach field days in cooperation with Tiro Tres Farms and the Wintergarden Spinach Producers Board and conducted white rust screening for the various companies in the winter seasons since 2016. 6. Spinach breeding and California Leafy Greens Research Program: Beiquan Mou attended and presented spinach breeding and production ten-times from 2017 to 2022 (Mou, 2020, 2019a, b, c, d, 2018a, b, 2017a, b, c). 7. Economic estimation: Robert Hogan has been working on review trends and seasonality associated with fresh market spinach in 2018 and spinach varieties to be planted in years 2019 and 2020. 8. International Spinach Conference: Jim Correll has hosted several meeting of International Spinach Conferences and Field Day (https://spinach.uark.edu/meetings-2/). The 2018 international spinach meeting was hold on Murcia, Spain and several members at PIs’ labs gave presentations in the meeting (https://spinach.uark.edu/spain-presentations/). The 2023 conference was hold at Melbourne in Australis on May 1-2, 2023 2023 Spinach International Conference |
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