International Carrot Conference Program Book (pdf)

2022 Oral Presentations 
Creating connections, igniting inspiration and imagination, and having fun through Participatory Plant Breeding with carrots. Laurie McKenzie and Micaela Colley

Efficient production of transgene-free, gene edited carrot plants via protoplast transformation. C. M. Meyer, I. L. Goldman, E. Grzebelus, and P. J. Krysan

Non-fumigated nematicides for the management of root-knot nematodes in carrots. Jaspreet Sidhu, Jed Dubose, and Jennifer Fernberg

How effective are mycorrhizae inoculants for improving yield and disease resistance in carrots? Umbrin Ilyas, Lindsey du Toit, Manish Raizada and Mary Ruth McDonald

The effect of seedborne Xathomonas hortorum pv. carotae on seed germination and seedborne transmission of bacterial blight in carrot. Jeremiah Dung and Jeness Scott

2022 Poster Presentations
Dreamy flavor across the carrot rainbow: Participatory methods to select carrots for culinary quality, beauty, and productivity on organic farms.
Micaela Colley1, Laurie McKenzie1, Solveig Hanson2, Julie Dawson3, Philipp Simon3,4
1 Organic Seed Alliance, Port Townsend, WA, USA; 2 Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 3 Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; 4 USDA-ARS, Vegetable Crops Research Unit, Madison, WI, USA.
 
Is the soil microbiome related to the risk of cavity spot on carrots?
Umbrin Ilyas1, Manish N. Raizada1, Melanie Kalischuk1, Lindsey du Toit2, and Mary Ruth McDonald1
1 Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada; 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Mount Vernon, WA, USA.
 
Development of automatic irrigation system for effective selection of carrot cavity spot disease tolerance
Tomohiro Imatomi, Daigo Katsura, Miho Yoshida, Sumika Agrotech Co.,Ltd., Kumamoto-Experimental Station, Japan 
 
Carrot cyst nematode population growth in the Holland Marsh, Ontario, Canada
Mary Ruth McDonald1, Kevin Vander Kooi1, Tyler Blauel1 and Dennis Van Dyk2
1 Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; 2 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
 
Monitoring and controlling carrot weevil in the Holland Marsh, Ontario
Mary Ruth McDonald1, Kevin Vander Kooi1, Tyler Blauel1, Rye Telfer1, Alexandra Dacey1 and Cynthia Scott-Dupree2  1 Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada; 2 School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
 
Does resistance to cavity spot in carrot confer resistance to forking?
Mary Ruth McDonald1, Phillip Simon2, Kevin Vander Kooi1, Michael Derie3, and Lindsey du Toit3 1 University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, CANADA; 2 USDA, University of Wisconsin, Madison. WI, U.S.A.; 3 Washington State University, Mount Vernon, WA, USA.
 
Evaluation of bactericides for Bacterial Blight Control in carrots
Jaspreet Sidhu1, Jeremiah Dung2, and Jeness Scott2  1 University of California Agricultural and Natural Resources, Bakersfield, California, USA; 2 Oregon State University, Madras, Oregon, USA.
 
CIOA3 – Carrot Improvement for Organic Agriculture: Leveraging on-farm and below ground networks
Phil Simon1,2, Micaela Colley3, Laurie McKenzie3, Jared Zystro3, Lori Hoagland4, Julie Dawson2, Erin Silva5, Zachary Freedman6, Phil Roberts7, Jaspreet Sidhu8, Timothy Waters9  1 Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Madison, WI, USA; 2 Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; 3 Organic Seed Alliance, Port Townsend, WA, USA; 4 Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 5 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; 6 Department of Soil Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; 7 Department of Nematology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA; 8 University of California Cooperative Extension, Farm and Home, Bakersfield, CA, USA; 9 Commercial Vegetables, Washington State University, Pasco, WA, USA.
 
Public-private partnership investigating European carrot genetic resources in EVA Carrot
Arnaud Thabuis1, Charlotte Allender2, Nicoletta Bertolin3, Juliette Chevalier4, Micha Groenewegen5, Annette Hägnefelt6, Aurélie Ingremeau7, Violeta Lopes8, Cristina Mallor9, Thomas Nothnagel10, Paolo Pagan11, Sylvia Salgon12, Miguel Santillan Martinez13, Emmanuel Geoffriau14 and Sandra Goritschnig15.
1 Rijk Zwaan, France; 2 Warwick University, UK; 3 Bejo Zaden B.V., The Netherlands; 4 Vilmorin, France; 5 Sementes Vivas, Portugal; 6 NordGen, Sweden; 7 OBS, France; 8 BPGV-INIAV, Portugal; 9 CITA-Aragón, Spain; 10 Julius Kuehn Institute, Germany; 11 Carosem, Italy; 12 Takii, France; 13 BASF Vegetable Seeds, The Netherlands; 14 Institut Agro, France; 15 ECPGR and Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, Italy.