SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Status: Approved

Basic Information

Project No. and Title: OLD_SERA27 : Nursery Crop and Landscape Systems (IEG-63)
Period Covered: 07/01/1999 to 06/01/2000
Date of Report: 11/21/2000
Annual Meeting Dates: 07/26/2000 to 07/27/2000

Donna Fare (USDA, McMinnville, Tennessee, dfare@blomand.net); Michael Arnold (Texas, ma arnold@tamu.edu); Richard Beeson (Florida, rcb@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu); Edward Bush (Louisiana, ebush@agctr.lsu.edu); Winston Dunwell (Kentucky, wdunwell@ca.uky.edu); Patricia Knight (Mississippi); John Ruter (Georgia, ruter@tifton.cpes.peachnet.edu); Ken Tilt (Alabama, ktilt@acesag.auburn.edu); William Klingeman (Tennessee, wklingema@utk.edu); Gary Knox (Florida, gwk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu); Jon Lindstrom (Arkansas, tranell@comp.uark.edu); Allen Owings (Louisiana, aowings@agctr.lsu.edu); Dewayne Ingram (SERA IEG 27 Administrator).; <p> Others present: <Br>Tom Yeager (Florida, thy@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu) <Br>Graduate students Richard Olsen (Georgia) and Shani File (Mississippi) also participated. <p> Project or Activity Leadership: Officers elected for 2000 2001 were Michael Arnold (Texas A&M University, ma arnold@tamu.edu) Chair, Gary Knox (University of Florida, gwk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu) Secretary, and William Klingeman (University of Tennessee, wklingem@utk.edu) Executive Committee Member.

Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Richard Beeson provided a tour of the new research station in Apopka, Florida, and arranged for a tour of the Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida. Winston Dunwell led the group in a review and discussion of a manuscript currently in submission to HortTechnology on the history of the group and its activities. On line plant data collection materials were discussed for the group homepage http://www.ag.auburn.edu/landscape/SERAhomepage.html. Data collection forms were revised. Sponsors agreed to provide a distributor list with future distributions for inclusion on the website. A uniform coding system for plant trial entries was agreed upon. It was agreed that plant sponsors for testing would be responsible for annual reports on their plants, provision of images for the web page, and writing a summary article for the Proceedings of the Southern Nursery Research Conference at the conclusion of the evaluation period for each taxon. It was agreed to place minutes of the meetings on the website. Aimee Coker, from Flowerwood Nursery in Bushnell, Florida, provided an overview of their Encore Plants program.

Accomplishments

Nineteen taxa have been distributed among the participants of SERA IEG 27 for landscape evaluation. The number of years for which evaluation data will be collected ranges from 3 to 10 years. The first set of plants from which terminal data will be taken is scheduled for ??2002. However, preliminary data are already shaping local decisions related to landscape plant recommendations.

Impacts

Publications

Plant Evaluation Program: SERA/IEG { 27: Nursery Crops and Landscape Systems. 2000
W. C. Dunwell, D. Fare, M. Arnold, K. Tilt, G. Knox, W. Witte, P. Knight, M. Pooler, W. Klingeman, A. Niemiera, J. Ruter, T. Yeager, T. Ranney, R. Beeson, J. Lindstrom, E. Bush, A. Owings, and M. Schnelle. HortTechnology (In press).

Arnold, M.A., R.D. Lineberger, T.D. Davis, S.W. George, W.A. Mackay, G.D. Grant, J.M. Parsons, and L.A. Stein. 2000. Integrating plant trials into teaching and student research programs. HortTechnology (Submitted).

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