The 2012 ASHS Annual Conference

The 2012 ASHS Annual Conference

Monday, July 30, 2012

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7:00 AM-6:00 PM

Nursery Crop Production and Water Utilization and Management in Florida

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

General Contractor Set up - Monday

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

By Invitation Only: Participatory Workshop for Rosaceae Crop Breeders/Marker Assisted Breeding in Action

NE-1036 Technical Committee Meeting

8:30 AM-5:30 PM

Invasive Species–Weed & Pest Mgmt. WG Tour of Miami Intl. Airport’s HSA–USDA Inspection Facilities and Everglades NP Invasive–Restoration Aspects

12:00 PM-5:00 PM

Exhibits Set-up - Monday

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Poster Set-up - Monday

4:00 PM-5:30 PM

Registration Open - Monday

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

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7:00 AM-6:00 PM

Registration Open - Tuesday

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Working Group Chairs and Chairs-Elect Business Meeting

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

Crucifer Crop Germplasm Committee

Extension Breakfast

Leafy Vegetable Crop Germplasm Committee Meeting

Open Meeting of U.S. Rosaceae Genomics, Genetics and Breeding Executive Committee

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

NE-1036 Technical Committee Meeting - Day 2

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Administrators Working Group Breakfast

8:30 AM-2:30 PM

Exhibits Open - Tuesday

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Moderators Training Session

Propagation (PROP) Working Group Business Meeting

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

ASHS Opening Plenary Session and William A. (Tex) Frazier Lecture

Root and Bulb Vegetable Crop Germplasm Committee (RBV-CGC) Meeting

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Awards Recipient (By Invitation)

Emeriti (EMER) Working Group Business Meeting

Plant Biotechnology (BTCH) Working Group Business Meeting

Weed Control and Pest Management (WCPM) Working Group Business Meeting

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

Pi Alpha Xi Luncheon - Annual Meeting

12:15 PM-1:00 PM

Computer Applications in Horticulture (Poster)

Extension (Poster)

Graduate Student Poster Competition - Session 1

Growth Chambers and Controlled Environments (Poster)

Growth Regulators in Fruit and Nut Production (Poster)

Ornamentals/Landscape and Turf 1 (Poster)

Plant Nutrient Management 1 (Poster)

Postharvest 1 (Poster)

Teaching Methods (Poster)

Temperate Tree Nut Crops (Poster)

Vegetable Breeding (Poster)

Viticulture and Small Fruits 1 (Poster)

Waste Utilization in Horticulture (Poster)

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Undergraduate Poster Competition

1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Citrus Crops (Poster)

Consumer Horticulture and Master Gardeners (Poster)

Environmental Stress Physiology (Poster)

Genetics and Germplasm 1 (Poster)

Graduate Student Poster Competition - Session 2

Organic Horticulture 1 (Poster)

Pomology (Poster)

Tropical Horticultural Crops (Poster)

Vegetable Crops Management 1 (Poster)

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Awards Committee Meeting

Growth Chambers and Controlled Environments (CE) Working Group Business Meeting

Marketing and Economics (MKEC) Working Group Business Meeting

Seed and Stand Establishment (SSEST) Working Group Business Meeting

1:30 PM-2:00 PM

Undergraduate Oral Competition

1:45 PM-3:45 PM

Recent Advances in Palm Horticulture
Ornamentals Landscape and Turf

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Association of Collegiate Branches (ACB) Annual Business Meeting

Crop Physiology (CRPP) Working Group Business Meeting

Journal of ASHS Editorial Board Meeting

Postharvest (PH) Working Group Business Meeting

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

Extension Division Advisory Council Meeting

Teaching Methods 1

2:00 PM-6:00 PM

Advances in Breeding Vegetables and Fruits for Enhanced Nutritional Content

The Intersection of Plant Breeding, Human Health, and Nutritional Security: Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Citrus Crops (CITR) Working Group Business Meeting

Consumer Horticulture and Master Gardeners (CHMG) Working Group Business Meeting

Horttechnology Editorial Board Meeting

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

ASHS Primer
Collegiate Activities Committee

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Fruit Breeding (FRBR) Working Group Business Meeting

Industry Division Advisory Council Meeting

Ornamentals/Landscape and Turf (O/LT) Working Group Business Meeting

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Master Gardener Volunteer Program Management and Project Ideas That Work
Consumer Horticulture/Master Gardener Working Group

Public Funding of Horticultural Science Depends On Us
National Issues Task Force

4:15 PM-6:00 PM

Pomology 1

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Floriculture (FLOR) Working Group Business Meeting

Genetics and Germplasm (GG) Working Group Business Meeting

Horticultural Landmark Selection Committee Meeting

Scholarship Awards Committee Meeting

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

Welcome Reception

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

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7:00 AM-9:00 AM

Horticultural Commodity Judging Contest and Plant Identification Contest Set-up

7:30 AM-5:00 PM

Registration Open - Wednesday

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Fellows Screening Committee Meeting

International Horticultural Consultants (ICON) Working Group Business Meeting

Teaching Methods (TCHG) Working Group Business Meeting

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Industry Division Breakfast

Plasticulture

8:00 AM-9:45 AM

Plant Nutrient Management 1

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

RosBREED: Discoveries and Breeding Databases for the Fruit Research Community
Fruit Breeding Working Group

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Regulating Water Quality: Current Legislation, Future Impacts

8:15 AM-9:30 AM

Viticulture and Small Fruits 1

8:30 AM-2:30 PM

Exhibits Open - Wednesday

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Horticulture Hall of Fame Selection Committee

Produce Quality, Safety, and Health Properties (QUAL) Working Group Business Meeting

Tropical Horticultural Crops (TROP) Working Group Business Meeting

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

The Horticultural Commodity Judging Contest and Plant Identification Contest

The Horticultural Commodity Judging Plant Identification Written Examination

9:45 AM-10:15 AM

Break - Wednesday

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

Government Employees - Proposed New Working Group Meeting

Membership Committee Meeting

Plasticulture (PLAST) Working Group Business Meeting

Viticulture and Small Fruits (VSF) Working Group Business Meeting

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

A Survey on the Contribution of Indigenous Peoples of North America to Horticulture
History of Horticultural Science

Updates and Revisions in Intellectual Property: Patents and Other IPR Policy Changes in the United States
Intellectual Property Rights

10:15 AM-12:00 PM

Vegetable Crops Management 1

10:15 AM-12:15 PM

Fruit Breeding 1

Produce Quality, Safety, and Health Properties

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Graduate Activities Committee Meeting

Local Food Systems (LOCSY) Working Group Business Meeting

Production and Harvest Mechanization (MECH) Working Group Business Meeting

Temperate Tree Nut Crops (NUTS) Working Group Business Meeting

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Growth Regulators in Fruit and Nut Production (PGR) Working Group Business Meeting

History of Horticultural Science (HIST) Working Group Business Meeting

12:15 PM-1:00 PM

Crop Physiology (Poster)

Fruit Breeding 1 (Poster)

Graduate Student Poster Competition - Session 3

Plant Nutrient Management 2 (Poster)

Postharvest 2 (Poster)

Viticulture and Small Fruit 2 (Poster)

Weed Control and Pest Management (Poster)

1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Bioenergy (Poster)

Floriculture (Poster)

Genetics and Germplasm 2 (Poster)

Graduate Student Poster Competition - Session 4

Organic Horticulture 2 (Poster)

Ornamentals/Landscape and Turf 2 (Poster)

Postharvest 3 (Poster)

Vegetable Crops Management 2 (Poster)

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Endowment Fund Committee Meeting

Pomology (POM) Working Group Business Meeting

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Art Deco District Tour

1:45 PM-3:30 PM

Organic Horticulture

1:45 PM-3:45 PM

Learning Outcomes—What Every Student Should Know
Teaching Methods

Tropical Fruits and Vegetables: Impact on the U.S. Economy, Quality, Health, and Food Safety
TROP

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Certified Professional Horticulturist (CPH) Board Meeting

Consulting Editors Meeting

Water Utilization and Management (WUM) Working Group Business Meeting

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Temperate Tree Nut Production/Growth Regulators in Fruit and Nut Production

2:00 PM-3:45 PM

Vegetable Crops Management 2

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

Southern Coordinating Committee 83: Quantifying the Linkages Between Soil Health and Organic Farming and Food

2:00 PM-6:00 PM

Breeding in a Genomics Era: State of the Art and New Opportunities

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

HortScience Editorial Board Meeting

Nursery Crops (NUR) Working Group Business Meeting

Plant Nutrient Management (PNM) Working Group Business Meeting

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Collegiate Activities Committee (CAC) Meeting

Vegetable Crops Management (VCM) Working Group Business Meeting

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

ASHS Finance Committee Meeting

Grant Writing and Beyond: How to Write a Grant and What to Do Once You Get It
Graduate Student Working Group

Issues in Local Food Systems
Local Foods Working Group

Plant Nutrient Management 2

USDA SCRI Eastern Broccoli Project Working Group Meeting

4:15 PM-5:45 PM

Postharvest 1

4:15 PM-6:00 PM

Pomology 2

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

Student Reception

6:00 PM-10:00 PM

American Pomological Society (APS) Executive and Advisory Board Meeting

Thursday, August 2, 2012

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7:30 AM-8:30 AM

International Issues Breakfast

7:30 AM-5:00 PM

Registration Open - Thursday

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Bioenergy (BioE) Working Group Business Meeting

Research Division Advisory Council Meeting

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Pomology 3

Postharvest 2

8:00 AM-9:45 AM

Ornamentals/Landscape and Turf 1

Vegetable Crops Management 3

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

Extension

From Gene to Phenotype: Molecular Control of Flavors
Plant Biotechnology and Postharvest Working Groups

Mechanized Harvest of Blueberries for the Fresh Market
Viticulture and small fruits

8:30 AM-12:30 PM

International Engagement: Linking to Horticulture CRSP and USAID
IHI, ICON

8:30 AM-1:15 PM

Horticulture Research Station - National Germplasm Repository

8:30 AM-2:30 PM

Exhibits Open - Thursday

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Environmental Stress Physiology (STRS) Working Group Business Meeting

Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants (HSMP) Working Group Business Meeting

Root Growth and Rhizosphere Dynamics (RHIZ) Working Group Business Meeting

9:30 AM-5:00 PM

ASHS Board of Directors Meeting

9:45 AM-10:15 AM

Break - Thursday

9:45 AM-11:45 AM

Invasive Plants: Breeding, Production, Ecology, and Management
Ornamental Plant Breeding/Invasive Plant Research

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

Computer Applications in Horticulture (COMP) Working Group Business Meeting

Extension (EEXT) Working Group Business Meeting

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

Floriculture 1

10:15 AM-12:00 PM

Viticulture and Small Fruits 2

10:15 AM-12:15 PM

Crop Physiology

Rootstocks: Challenges and Progress
Pomology

Significance of Tropical/Subtropical Tree Fruit Germplasm in Florida and Puerto Rico
Genetics and Germplasm

10:30 AM-11:45 AM

Vegetable Breeding

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Graduate Student (GRAD) Working Group Business Meeting

Organic Horticulture (ORGH) Working Group Business Meeting

12:15 PM-1:00 PM

Genetics and Germplasm 3 (Poster)

Graduate Student Poster Competition - Session 5

Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants (Poster)

Ornamental Plant Breeding (Poster)

Produce Quality, Safety, and Health Properties (Poster)

Production and Harvest Mechanization (Poster)

Propagation (Poster)

Public Horticulture (Poster)

Viticulture and Small Fruit 3 (Poster)

Water Utilization and Management (Poster)

12:45 PM-3:45 PM

SCRI Project Director Workshop
SCRI

1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Fruit Breeding 2 (Poster)

Graduate Student Poster Competition - Session 6

Nursery Crops (Poster)

Ornamental/Landscape and Turf 3 (Poster)

Plant Biotechnology (Poster)

Plasticulture (Poster)

Postharvest 4 (Poster)

Root Growth and Rhizosphere Dynamics (Poster)

Vegetable Crops Management 3 (Poster)

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Vegetable Breeding (VGBR) Business Meeting

Waste Utilization in Horticulture (WUH) Working Group Business Meeting

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Miami City Tour

1:45 PM-3:45 PM

Changing the Pace - Adopting a PechaKucha Approach to Presentations
Teaching Methods

Environmental Stress Physiology

Identifying, Quantifying, and Minimizing Variation in Controlled Environments
Growth Chamber and Controlled Environments (CE) Working Group

Organic Agriculture in the Tropics
Organic

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Working Group Business Meeting

International Horticulture and Issues (IHI) Working Group Business Meeting

Public Horticulture (PUBHORT) Working Group Business Meeting

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

International Division Advisory Council Meeting

2:00 PM-3:45 PM

Ornamental Plant Breeding

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants

Protected Cultivation for Fruit Crops
American Pomological Society

2:30 PM-7:00 PM

Exhibits Move Out - Thursday

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Association of Horticulturists of Indian Origin (AHIO) Business Meeting

Ornamental Plant Breeding (OPB) Working Group Business Meeting

Working Group of Asian Horticulture (WGAH) Business Meeting

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Education Division Advisory Council Meeting

4:00 PM-4:30 PM

APS Tropical Fruit Tasting

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Commercial Horticulture (CHEX) Working Group Business Meeting

Invasive Plants Research (INPR) Working Group Business

4:00 PM-5:15 PM

Genetics and Germplasm 1

4:00 PM-5:45 PM

Nursery Crops

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Advances in Plasticulture Technology and Education Delivery
PLAST

Environmental Effects on Whole Plant Long-distance Transport
Crop Physiology

I Have An App for That: Introduction to Mobile Applications and Development in Horticulture
Computer Applications in Horticulture (COMP)

Water Utilization and Management

4:15 PM-5:45 PM

Floriculture 2

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

American Pomological Society (APS) Annual Business Meeting

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Human Issues in Horticulture (HIH) Working Group Business Meeting

William A. Tex Frazier Lecture Selection Committee

Friday, August 3, 2012

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7:30 AM-3:00 PM

Registration Open - Friday

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Presidential Address and ASHS Annual Business Meeting

8:00 AM-12:30 PM

Tour of the Port-of-Miami U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection � Agriculture Facility

8:00 AM-2:40 PM

The Subtropical Horticulture of South Florida

8:30 AM-12:30 PM

Florida Everglades Airboat Adventure

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

Annual Conference Technical Program Committee Meeting

9:30 AM-11:00 AM

Genetics and Germplasm 2

9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Foliar Nutrition to Enhance Horticultural Crop Production and Quality
Plant Nutrient Management

How Can We Best Support Public Sector Development of New Cultivars?– Given Scarce Resources and the Need to Support Rural Prosperity and Sustainable, Secure Food Systems
Peet, Mary M.

Modified Atmosphere Packaging: Physiological and Modeling Limits Based on Critical Input Variables
QUAL

What Does Horticulture Scholarship Look Like in the Digital Age?
eXtension

9:30 AM-12:00 PM

HLB/ACP: Approaches to Management of Disease, Pathogen, and Vector
Citrus Working Group

9:30 AM-5:00 PM

Full-Day Symposium—A Decade of Progress in Organic Agriculture Science, Teaching, and Extension
Organic Horticulture Working Group

Symposium: The Use, Application and Analysis of Experimental and Field Sensor Data for Horticultural Applications
Must Register in Advance for Participation—Limited to 30 Participants
WUM

9:45 AM-11:00 AM

Teaching Methods 2

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

2012 B.Y. Morrison Lecture - Dr. Raymond Wheeler, Lead, NASA Advanced Life Support Biomass Production Element, Kennedy Space Center - Horticulture for Space: A Classic Exercise in Controlled Environment Research

10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Certified Horticulturist (CH) Board Meeting

11:00 AM-11:45 AM

B.Y. Morrison Reception and ARS Get-Together

11:15 AM-12:30 PM

International Horticulture and Issues

Viticulture and Small Fruits 3

11:15 AM-1:00 PM

Propagation

11:45 AM-12:30 PM

USDA–ARS All Employee Meeting

11:45 AM-1:00 PM

Marketing and Economics

11:45 AM-1:45 PM

Vegetable Grafting for Open Field Conditions: Opportunities and Challenges
Plant Propagation Working Group

12:30 PM-2:30 PM

Consumer Horticulture and Master Gardeners

12:30 PM-3:00 PM

Good Genes from Asia—Contributions and Opportunities of Asiatic Origin Crops to U.S. Horticulture
Working Group of Asian Horticulture & The Association of Horticulturists of Indian Origin

12:45 PM-2:45 PM

Joint Apple, Prunus, and Pyrus Crop Germplasm Committee (CGC) Meeting

Ornamentals/Landscape and Turf 2

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Nominations and Elections Committee Meeting

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Growth Chambers and Controlled Environments

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Certified Horticulturist Certification Examination

1:15 PM-3:00 PM

Postharvest 3

1:30 PM-3:15 PM

Citrus Crops

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Plant Biotechnology

2:00 PM-3:45 PM

Floriculture 3

2:45 PM-4:30 PM

Fruit Breeding 2

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Vegetable Crops Management 4

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Globalized World—Opportunities and Challenges from Asia for International Horticultural Enterprises
Association of Horticulturists of Indian Origin/Working Group of Asian Horticulture

Saturday, August 4, 2012

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9:00 AM-6:30 PM

Miami Area Public Gardens Tour

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Hortlandmark Award Presentation to Montgomery Botanical Center