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California Tomato Research Institute
18650 E. Lone Tree Road
Escalon, CA 95320-9759 |
Mission Statement
Founded in 1968, The California Tomato Research Institute, Inc. is a non-profit organization of processing tomato growers. As the industry's research leader, the Institute's purpose is to identify, fund and direct research to maintain and enhance the economic viability of California's processing tomato industry with emphasis on production, product quality and the environment.
The CTRI program is comprised of short and long term projects Crop Production Project Objectives
- Focus on Limiting Factor Management
- Improve Monitoring, Diagnosis & Decision System Improvement on:
- Diseases, Insects, Weed Management, Crop Nutrition, Irrigation
- Represent industry on crop regulatory issues
- Facilitate commercial product development by providing researcher coordination, field trials and market analysis,
- Variety Improvement Projects
- Focus on improving consistent Yield & Quality
- Statewide Field Trials
- Molecular Marker Development of Disease and Insect Resistance
- Soluble Solids Enhancement
- Heat Set Ability and Salinity/Drought Tolerance Cooperative Projects
- Alliance with the California League of Food Processoron crop quality improvement projects
- Formation of funding partnerships beneficial to growers,with other agencies
2007 Processing Tomato Research Sponsored by the
California Tomato Research Institute, Inc. Evaluation of soil and foliar treatments to ID factors leading to vine decline during fruit ripening period - Gene Miyao funding carryover from 2006 Evaluation of agronomic and environmental benefits of low biomass cover crops for processing tomato rotations - Tim Hartz $4,300 Cost Benefit of Eliminating Fall-Timed Subsoil Tillage in Processing Tomatoes - Gene Miyao $8,500 Statewide Variety Trials - Scott Stoddard $7,000 Tomato Genetics Resource Center - Roger Chetelat $15,000 Corky Root Resistance Breeding - Lilliana Stamova $10,350 Screening Advanced Lines for Resistance to Nematode Overcoming Current Mi-1 Resistance - Lilliana Stamova $10,600 Screening Advanced Tomato Lines for Resistance to Bacterial Speck, caused by Race 1 of P. syringae pv. tomato - Lilliana Stamova $15,900 Aphid-resistant breeding lines from wild tomato: Evaluating use in commercial F1 hybrid breeding with markers - Dina St. Clair $43,954 Evaluation of Plant and Soil Treatments to Control Tomato Corky Root - Michelle Le Strange $5,500 Development of novel sources of resistance to Beet curly top virus in tomato through small interfering RNAs - William Wintermantel $28,680 Implementation and Validation of a Forecasting Model for Tomato Powdery Mildew - Brenna Aegerter $1,500 Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) Analysis and Management -
Bob Gilbertson $50,000 Corky Root: of Tomato; Plant Pathology Support for a Breeding Program - Lynn Epstein $13,436 Development of a Macroarray Diagnostic Tool - Mike Davis $15,000 Identification of resistance -breaking nematodes -
Valerie Williamson $17,681 Improving Control of Bacterial Speck with Copper -
Michael Coffey $15,000 Precision Weed Control System for Processing Tomatoes -
David Slaughter $26,744 Automatic weed control system for transplanted processing tomatoes using
X-ray stem sensing - David Slaughter $13,308 Evaluation of new herbicides for tomato tolerance and weed control -
Tom Lanini $7,000 Grant for Food Science Student Projects at Cal Poly SLO -
Joseph Montecalvo $2,500 |
