FRAME NETWORKS
Updated 22 days ago
In the U.S. grape industries, quality and economically-viable yields are the drivers of regionally-relevant and nationally-successful farming enterprises. A key factor to this quality and quantity is successful disease management... Many factors influence this success, but nothing can upset the system like fungicide resistance. This upset has been growing in the US grape industry, as the nationally-relevant diseases of powdery mildew, downy mildew, and Botrytis bunch rot have seen field-level control failures due to pathogen resistance to several key fungicide groups... Through the research and extension efforts of the FRAME team, we are: DEVELOPING better pathogen sampling approaches and rapid early detection tools; ADAPTING models from the vineyard to satellite-scale to improve predictions of disease risk and optimize sampling and scouting practices; and EMPOWERING stakeholders along the production continuum - from field scouts, producers and managers, to consultants and Extension..