2012
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Below are links to the PowerPoint presentations (in PDF format) from the 34th NSA Research Forum. Click on the title of the presentation to access the file. Please note that some of the files are very large in size and may take a few minutes to download.

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2011 National Sunflower Association Survey Results file size: 7989 kb
Hans Kandel, NDSU, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Fargo, ND

A Summary of a Three Year Disease Survey of Nebraska Sunflower Production Fields, Including the Appearance of an Unknown Virus Disease file size: 13060 kb
Robert Harveson, University of Nebraska, Panhandle REC, Scottsbluff, NE

Advances in Breeding and Genetics at USDA file size: 826 kb
Brent Hulke, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND

Association Mapping of Sclerotinia Stalk Rot Resistance in Domesticated Sunflower Plant Introductions file size: 621 kb
Zahirul Talukder, NDSU, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Fargo, ND; Brent Hulke, Lili Qi & Tom Gulya, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND

Control of Sclerotinia Head Rot in Sunflower file size: 2207 kb
Khalid Rashid, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, MB, Canada

Crop Coefficients to Estimate Crop ET for Full- and Deficit-Irrigated Oil Type Sunflower file size: 6349 kb
Walter Bausch, Thomas Trout, & Gerald Buchleiter, USDA-ARS, Water Management Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO

Determining Salt Tolerance Among Sunflower Genotypes file size: 1842 kb
Laura Masor & Steve Hague, Texas A&M University, Dept. of Soil and Crop Sciences, College Station, TX; Calvin Trostle, Texas AgriLife Extension-Texas A&M System, Lubbock, TX

Evaluation of Public Sunflower Germplasm and Commercial Hybrids for Resistance to Phomopsis Stem Canker at Multiple Field Sites file size: 4502 kb
Tom Gulya, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND; Sue Thompson, Agri-Science Queensland, DEEDI, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Fertility Management of Irrigated Sunflowers file size: 1544 kb
Joel Schneekloth and Erik Wardle, Colorado State University, Akron, CO

Field Evaluation of Anthraquione Bird Repellent for Managing Blackbird Damage to Ripening Sunflower file size: 3404 kb
George Linz & Jeff Homan, USDA, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Bismarck, ND; Scott Werner, USDA-WS, NWRC, Fort Collins, CO

Genetic Characterization and Estimation of Linkage Disequilibrium of Sunflower Oil and Confection Types using Genome-Wide Distributed SNP Markers file size: 4050 kb
Venkatramana Pegadaraju & Quentin Schultz, BioDiagnostics, Inc., River Falls, WI; Lili Qi & Brent Hulke, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND

Genetic Diversity and VCG's of Verticillium dahliae on Sunflower file size: 8472 kb
Sam Markell, NDSU, Dept of Plant Pathology, Fargo ND; Kholoud Alananbeh, Taibah University, Almadinah Almunawwarah, Saudi Arabia; Febina Mathew, Solji Choi, James Jordhal, Julie Pasche & Viviana Rivera, NDSU, Dept of Plant Pathology, Fargo ND; Amelia Bertero de Romano, Nidera S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina; Pablo Paoloni, Patagon Seeds SRL, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Gladys Clemente, EEA INTA Balcarce-FCA, UNMdP, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Tom Gulya, USDA, ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND; Neil Gudmestad, NDSU, Dept of Plant Pathology, Fargo ND

Investigation of Sunflower Dust Properties that Contribute to Combine Fires file size: 841 kb
Joe Polin & Zhengrong Gu, SDSU, Brookings, SD

Molecular Mapping of the Rust Resistance Genes in Sunflower: Results and Prospects  file size: 454 kb
Lili Qi, Tom Gulya, Brent Hulke, Brady Vick & Gerald Seiler, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND; Li Gong & Sam Markell, NDSU, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Fargo, ND

Progress in Selection for Resistance to Head-Infesting Sunflower Insects file size: 825 kb
Jarrad Prasifka & Brent Hulke, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND; Rob Aiken, Kansas State University, Colby, KS; Kathy Grady; SDSU, Dept of Plant Science, Brookings, SD

Progress on Rust Resistance Breeding of Confection Sunflowers and Progress on Sunflower SNP Genetic Mapping file size: 564 kb
Li Gong & Sam Markell, NDSU, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Fargo, ND; Brent Hulke, Tom Gulya & Lili Qi ,USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND

Progress on the Sunflower Doubled Haploid Project file size: 4487 kb
Xuelin Fu & Richard Horsley, NDSU, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Fargo, ND; Lili Qi, Brent Hulke, & Chao-Chein Jan, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND

Progress on the Transferring of Sclerotinia Resistance Genes from Wild Perennial Helianthus Species into Cultivated Sunflower file size: 1490 kb
Zhao Liu, Xiwen Cai & Fang Wei, NDSU, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Fargo, ND; Chao-Chien Jan, Gerald Seiler & Tom Gulya, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND; Khalid Rashid, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden, MB, Canada

Prospects for Managing Sclerotinia Head Rot with Fungicides file size: 5915 kb
Michael Wunsch & Blaine Schatz, NDSU, Carrington Research Center, Carrington, ND; Scott Halley, Langdon Research Center, Langdon, ND; Robert Harveson, University of Nebraska, Panhandle REC, Scottsbluff, NE; Leonard Besseman, Carrington Research Center, Oakes, ND; Sam Markell, NDSU, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Fargo ND

Reevaluation of Diaporthe/Phomopsis Species Affecting Sunflowers in the United States file size: 853 kb
Febina Mathew, Erik Heitkamp & Sam Markell, NDSU, Dept of Plant Pathology, Fargo ND; Kholoud Alananbeh, Taibah University, Almadinah Almunawwarah, Saudi Arabia; Lisa Castlebury, USDA-ARS, Systematic Mycology & Microbiology Lab., Beltsville, MD; Tom Gulya,USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND

Rust Research: Race Assessment in ND and Updates on Fungicides, Hybrid Evaluation, and Future Work file size: 825 kb
Andrew Friskop, Sam Markell, Maricelis Acevedo & Ryan Humann, NDSU, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Fargo ND; Tom Gulya, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND

Screening Sunflower Hybrids for Reaction to Infestation by Sunflower Midge and Insecticide Update for Seed-infesting Insects file size: 3937 kb
Janet Knodel & Patrick Beauzay, NDSU, Dept. of Entomology, Fargo, ND; Jarrad Prasifka & Theresa Gross, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND

Study of Sunflower Hulls as a Potential Feedstock for Biofuel and Chemical Production file size: 2017 kb
Srinivas Reddy Kamireddy, Christopher Schaefer, & Yun Ji, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; Matt Defrese, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

Sunflower Tolerance and Residual Weed Control from Pyroxasulfone Applied Early-Postemergence file size: 3177 kb
Rich Zollinger, NDSU, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Fargo, ND

The Texas AgriLife Crop Testing Program for Hybrid Sunflower file size: 1243 kb
Dennis Pietsch, Texas AgriLife Research, Soil & Crop Sciences, College Station, TX; Calvin Trostle, Texas AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M System, Lubbock, TX

The USDA-ARS Sunflower Collection as a Source of Genetic Diversity for Cultivated Sunflower file size: 2882 kb
Gerald Seiler, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND; Laura Marek, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Update on Incidence of New, Virulent Races of Downy Mildew file size: 814 kb
Tom Gulya, USDA-ARS, NCSL, Fargo, ND

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