
WERA1056: Hemp pest management and production in the western USA
(Multistate Research Coordinating Committee and Information Exchange Group)
Status: Active
SAES-422 Reports
09/15/2025
Publications
The group will publish a collaborative paper led by Punya Nachappa, which has been accepted with major revisions in the journal of Phytopathology-
Jinlong Han1, Jacob MacWilliams1, Max Schmidtbauer1, Raiyaa Huntress1, Maria Paula Mejia Alonzo1, Laine Hackenberg2, Jordan Withycombe3, Tyler J. Lovato1, Camille Wagstaff4, David W. Crowder4, Rebecca Creamer5, Houston Wilson6, Kadie Britt1, Govinda Shrestha7, Kenneth Frost8, Hannah Rivedal9, Cynthia Ocamb10 and Punya Nachappa1. Beet curly top virus genetic diversity, impact on cannabinoids, seed transmission, and vector biology in hemp, Cannabis sativa. Phytopathology (Major revisions)
Rheay, H.T., Creamer, R., VanLeeuwen, D., Brewer, C.E. 2025. Field observations: photoperiod response and yield of hemp at various latitudes throughout New Mexico. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/agg2.70225.
Foutz, J.J., Wagstaff, C., Cooper, W.R., Swisher Grimm, K.D., Angelella, G., Wohleb, C.H., Waters, T.D., Oeller, L., Crowder, D. 2025. Weeding them out: identifying noncrop hosts and sources of infectious beet leafhopper, Neoaliturus tenellus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in the Columbia River basin. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. saaf022, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saaf022
Hackenberg, L., Han, J., MacWilliams, J. Kapuscinski, M.L., Stenglein, M., Fletcher, R. Nachappa, P. 2024. Exploring the hemp virome and assessing hemp germplasm for resistance to an emerging pathogen. Phytobiomes https://doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-06-24-0068-R