Project Number: 6615-22000-022-09
Project Type: Reimbursable

Start Date: May 01, 2007
End Date: Mar 31, 2010

Objective:
We will integrate kaolin particle film coatings and plant essential oils into a more environmentally benign and sustainable management program for thrips and tomato spotted wilt in tomatoes.

Approach:
ARS and university cooperators will work with growers in a research and demonstration project to provide the fresh vegetable industry with new, environmentally benign pest management technologies for the control of thrips and tomato spotted wilt. Laboratory tests will be used to determine how treatments affect thrips transmission of tomato spotted wilt virus. Field tests and demonstration trials will be used to determine the efficacy of treatments as an IPM tactic.