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California
Tomato Research Institute
18650
E. Lone Tree Road
Escalon, CA 95320-9759 |
Mission
Statement
Founded in 1968, The California Tomato Research Institute, Inc. is a
non-profit organization of processing tomato growers. As the industry's
research leader, the Institute's purpose is to identify, fund and direct
research to maintain and enhance the economic viability of California's
processing tomato industry with emphasis on production, product quality
and the environment.
The CTRI program is comprised of short and long term projects
Crop Production Project
Objectives
- Focus on Limiting Factor Management
- Improve Monitoring, Diagnosis & Decision System
Improvement on:
- Diseases, Insects, Weed Management, Crop Nutrition,
Irrigation
- Represent industry on crop regulatory issues
- Facilitate commercial product development
by providing researcher coordination, field trials and market
analysis,
- Variety Improvement Projects
- Focus on improving consistent Yield & Quality
- Statewide Field Trials
- Molecular Marker Development of Disease and
Insect Resistance
- Soluble Solids Enhancement
- Heat Set Ability and Salinity/Drought Tolerance
Cooperative Projects
- Alliance with the California League of Food
Processoron crop quality improvement projects
- Formation of funding partnerships beneficial
to growers,with other agencies
2007
Processing Tomato Research Sponsored by the
California
Tomato Research Institute, Inc.
Evaluation of soil and foliar
treatments to ID factors leading to vine decline during fruit ripening
period - Gene Miyao funding carryover
from 2006
Evaluation of agronomic and
environmental benefits of low biomass cover crops for processing tomato
rotations - Tim Hartz $4,300
Cost Benefit of Eliminating
Fall-Timed Subsoil Tillage in Processing Tomatoes - Gene Miyao $8,500
Statewide Variety Trials - Scott
Stoddard $7,000
Tomato Genetics Resource Center - Roger Chetelat $15,000
Corky Root Resistance Breeding - Lilliana Stamova $10,350
Screening Advanced Lines for
Resistance to Nematode Overcoming Current Mi-1 Resistance - Lilliana Stamova $10,600
Screening Advanced Tomato
Lines for Resistance to Bacterial Speck, caused by Race 1 of P.
syringae pv. tomato - Lilliana Stamova $15,900
Aphid-resistant breeding lines
from wild tomato: Evaluating use in commercial F1 hybrid breeding with
markers - Dina St. Clair $43,954
Evaluation of Plant and Soil
Treatments to Control Tomato Corky Root - Michelle Le Strange $5,500
Development of novel sources
of resistance to Beet curly top virus in tomato through small
interfering RNAs - William Wintermantel $28,680
Implementation and Validation
of a Forecasting Model for Tomato Powdery Mildew - Brenna
Aegerter $1,500
Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
(TSWV) Analysis and Management -
Bob Gilbertson $50,000
Corky Root: of Tomato; Plant
Pathology Support for a Breeding Program - Lynn Epstein $13,436
Development of a Macroarray
Diagnostic Tool - Mike Davis $15,000
Identification of resistance
-breaking nematodes -
Valerie Williamson $17,681
Improving Control of Bacterial
Speck with Copper -
Michael Coffey $15,000
Precision Weed Control System
for Processing Tomatoes -
David Slaughter $26,744
Automatic weed control system
for transplanted processing tomatoes using
X-ray stem sensing - David
Slaughter $13,308
Evaluation of new herbicides
for tomato tolerance and weed control -
Tom Lanini $7,000
Grant for Food Science Student
Projects at Cal Poly SLO -
Joseph Montecalvo $2,500 |