2002 Projects Supported by
The Ontario
Tomato Research Institute
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| Research Project |
Researcher |
Funding |
| Nitrogen
and Row Spacing Management for Processing Tomatoes |
J. Warner |
$
7,500.00 |
| Weed
Control and Crop Tolerance Evaluations in Processing Tomatoes |
D.E.
Robinson A.S. Hamill |
$
18,000.00 |
| Effectiveness
of the current seed treatments and the evaluation of a novel seed treatment
protocol to control seed borne bacterial diseases in field tomatoes |
R.E. Pitblado |
$
6,000.00 |
| Effectiveness of Actigard plus Paclobutrazol in
inducing disease resistance against tomato bacterial spot and speck |
R.E. Pitblado |
$
5,000.00 |
| The establishment of a diagnostic laboratory
using PCR technology at Ridgetown College |
R.E.
Pitblado |
$
10,000.00 |
| Pest Management strategies in processing
tomatoes |
R.E.
Pitblado |
$
7,000.00 |
| The Development of a rapid
PCR-based method for
quantifying bacterial disease on tomato and pepper seed and plug seedlings |
D.
Cuppels |
$
8,500.00 |
| Farm-scale processing tomato production using
Surface and Subsurface Drip Irrigation and Fertigation |
C.
Tan |
$
16,000.00 |
| Role of tomatoes and dietary lycopene in the
prevention of osteoporosis |
A.V.
Rao
L.G. Rao |
$
6,000.00 |
| TOTAL |
$
84,000.00 |
Note that the long-term breeding program entitled "Germplasm Enhancement and Cultivar Evaluation" is now entering the fourth
year of a five-year agreement. This project, involving Ridgetown College and the Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research
Centre in Harrow, is jointly funded by the Ontario Tomato Research Institute and the Agricultural Adaptation Council which
matches dollar for dollar the Ontario Tomato Research Institute funding with monies made available for research through the
federal CanAdapt program.
The Ontario Tomato Research Institute looks forward to the results of these projects and the implications on the processing tomato
industry.