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: 06/01/2004 to 05/01/2005
Date of Report: 09/08/2005
Annual Meeting Dates: 06/08/2005 to 06/10/2005

The 2005 meeting of the SERA-IEG 27 was held June 8-10, 2005 in Quincy, Florida. Official representatives present were: John Ruter (UGA), Ken Tilt (AU), Jon Lindstrom (UA), Gary Knox (UF), Winston Dunwell (UK), Ed Bush (LSU), Allen Owings (LSU), Patricia Knight (MSU), William Klingeman (UT), Mike Arnold (TAMU), Greg Eaton (VT), Anthony LeBude (NCSU), Dewayne Ingram (Administrative Advisor, UK), and James Green (CSREES). Guests: Cecil Pounders (USDA-ARS), Wayne McLaurin (MSU), Alex Bolques (FAMU). States not represented: Oklahoma, South Carolina, US National Arboretum. Minutes attached and posted on the website... http://www.ag.auburn.edu/hort/landscape/SERAhomepage.html

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Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Members reviewed the status of the SERA-IEG 27 program, plants in review, and the web page http://www.ag.auburn.edu/hf/landscape/SERAhomepage.html. Project leaders need to review the website and indicate who received plants and make changes if necessary. Good pictures and descriptions are needed. Evaluators need to indicate if they have plants and are continuing evaluation. Current findings will be published in the proceedings of the Southern Nursery Associate Research Conference and the Southern Region of the International Plant Propagators Society. Objectives for the new project must be decided. A draft will be available at the next meeting. New plants adopted for evaluation included: Ceanothus x delilianus >Gloire de Versailles, Pinus ayacahuite, and Viburnum luzonicum. Officers elected for 2005-2006 were Patricia Knight-Chair, Mike Scheiber-Secretary, and Greg Eaton-Executive Committee. Ken Tilt is still serving as Chair of the Plant Evaluation Committee. Mississippi is scheduled to host the 2006 meeting in Poplarville. The 2007 meeting will be in Kentucky, and the 2008 meeting is tentatively scheduled for Virginia. Complete minutes are available at the SERA-27 website: http://www.ag.auburn.edu/landscape/SERAhomepage.html

Accomplishments

SERA-27 website (http://www.ag.auburn.edu/landscape/SERAhomepage.html) contains the lastest information on the plants which have been evaluated and are currently under evaluation. 2004 results have been published in the Proceedings of the 2004 Southern Nursery Association Research Conference 49:566-568.

Impacts

The number of taxa entered into this regional plant evaluation system exceeds 50. The evaluation of several of the taxa will be completed in two years. In 2004, a Southern Nursery Association Research Conference Proceedings (Vol 49:566-568) article summarized the results and disseminated the information to the nursery/landscape industry. A report will be published annually in the proceedings of that conference, available on-line at http://sna.org/research/.

Publications

Lindstrom, et al. 2004. SERA-IEG-27 Regional Plant Evaluation. Proceeding of the Southern Nursery Association Research Conference 49:566-568.

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