Student Investigator: Chen Zhang, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [email protected] Major Professor: Dr. Russell L. Groves, Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [email protected] Collaborating producers: Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification, Dr. Amy O. Charkowski, Department of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison WI. Project period: 2012-2014 Report submitted: Aug 2014 View/Download Full Report in PDF…

Ceres Trust 2014 Final Report Tessa Peters, University of Wisconsin View/Download Full Report in PDF Format Statement of the Problem The overall goal of this project was to make significant agronomic improvements to an open-pollinated sweet corn population in order to make it available to organic producers. The research started with a population created through…

Graduate Student Final Report – Ceres Trust Research Grant Graduate Student: Sarah Masterson Major Professor: Dr. Gary Rivard View/Download Full Report in PDF Format Summary: Although it is a burgeoning area of research in the United States, vegetable grafting has been shown to be an effective organic technique to combat soil-borne diseases, such as verticillium wilt, bacterial wilt,…