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Research Project: Improved Quarantine Procedures for Insect and Mite Pest in Temperate Fruits and Vegetables

Location: Fruit and Vegetable Insect Research

Project Number: 5352-43000-009-00
Project Type: Appropriated

Start Date: Feb 25, 2003
End Date: Aug 31, 2005

Objective:
Develop innovative methods and refine existing technologies which provide quarantine security for important arthropod pests and are compatible with the tree fruit industry.

Approach:
Develop alternatives to methyl bromide fumigation against codling moth and other arthropod pests of deciduous tree fruits. Investigate innovative procedures for eliminating internal and external pests. Evaluate commercial practices for eliminating potential pests from fresh fruits as components of system approaches for quarantine security. FY03 Program Increase $201,184.

 
Project Team
Landolt, Peter
Neven, Lisa
Hansen, James

Project Annual Reports
  FY 2003

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  Methyl Bromide Alternatives (308)

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