A HORMONE AND PROTEOME APPROACH TO PICTURING THE INITIAL METABOLIC EVENTS DURING CLUBROOT DISEASE ON ARABIDOPSIS (2)
Sylvie Devos* and Els Prinsen

USING ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI TO IMPROVE INPUT USE EFFICIENCY (3)
C. Hamel*

PROMOTION OF PLANT GROWTH BY SOIL BACTERIA THAT REGULATE PLANT ETHYLENE
LEVELS (4)
B.R. Glick*

BIOSYNTHESIS OF PLANT HORMONES BY MICROORGANISMS (5)
W. Rademacher*

GROWTH STIMULATION OF GREENHOUSE TOMATO PLANTS BY PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA AND TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE (6)
V. Gravel*, H. Antoun and R. Tweddell

ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF MULCH, COMPOST TEA, AND CHEMICAL FERTILIZER ON SOIL MICROORGANISMS AND EARLY GROWTH, BIOMASS PARTITIONING, AND NUTRITION OF FIELD-GROWN ROOTED CUTTINGS OF CANADA YEW (TAXUS CANADENSIS) (7)
R.F. Smith*, S.I. Cameron, J. Letourneau , T. Livingstone and K. Livingstone

AUXIN CONJUGATE HYDROLYSIS DURING PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTION AND EVOLUTION (8)
J. Ludwig-Müller*, A. Schuller, A.F. Olajide, V. Bakllamaja, and J.J. Campanella

SYMPOSIUM II: (Porte St-Louis)
ADVANCES IN PGR MODE-OF-ACTION RESEARCH

INTERACTIONS OF PIN AND PGP EFFLUX MECHANISMS IN POLAR AUXIN TRANSPORT (9)
Angus Murphy*

ROLE OF GIBBERELLIN AND PICKLE IN DETERMINATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL IDENTITY (10)
H.-C. Li, J. Henderson, S. D. Rider, H. Zhang, K. Chuang, Y. Bai, M. Fountain, B. Muir, and J. Ogas*

HOW AUXIN TURNS GENES ON - REGULATED PROTEIN DESTRUCTION AT THE HEART OF AUXIN SIGNALLING (11)
Stefan Kepinski*

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CHEMICAL GENETIC APPROACHES TO PLANT GROWTH REGULATION (12)
P. McCourt*,Y. Tsuchiya and J. Patel

REGULATION OF INFLORESCENCE MERISTEM FATE IN PEA (13)
S.L. Maki*, H. Mullen, and S.R. Singer

AUXIN TRANSPORT: A MODEL BASED ON VISUAL ESTIMATION OF A CROP PLANT’S PGR ACTIVITY (14)
Albert Liptay* , Jerry H. Stoller and Ron A. Salzman

ACC INDUCTION OF XYLOGENESIS IN HORSERADISH ROOTS (15)
R. A. Savidge*

CHARACTERIZATION OF PEA (PISUM SATIVUM L.) PLANTS TRANSFORMED WITH A GIBBERELLIN 3β-HYDROXULASE GENE (16)
A. Wickramarathna*, J. Ozga and D. Reinecke

DEVELOPMENTAL REGULATION OF GA BIOSYNTHESIS DURING GERMINATION AND EARLY SEEDLING GROWTH OF PEA (17)
B. Ayele, J. Ozga*, L. Kurepin, R. Pharis and D. Reinecke

MEFLUIDIDE OR ETHEPHON AND TRINEXAPAC-ETHYL FOR THE SUPRESSION OF POA ANNUA L. SEEDHEAD PRODUCTION USING GROWING DEGREE DAYS (18)
R.N. Calhoun* and A.D. Hathaway

GENETIC TRANSFORMATION OF CREEPING BENTGRASS WITH IPT GENE CONTROLLING CYTOKININ SYNTHESIS (19)
Bingru Huang*, J. Xing, Y. Xu, and Thomas Gianfagna

IMPACT OF SEAWEED EXTRACT-BASED CYTOKININS AND ZEATIN RIBOSIDE ON CREEPING BENTGRASS HEAT TOLERANCE (20)
E.H. Ervin*, X. Zhang, and G. Seaver

CURRENT AND POTENTIAL USES OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS IN FLORICULTURE AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS (21)
W. A. Mackay* and N. Sankhla

SESSION III: Contributed Papers

DELAYING FLORET ABSCISSION IN RED CESTRUM ( Cestrum elegans Schlecht) CUT FLOWERS BY 2,4-D AND NAA DEPENDS ON THEIR TRANSPORT, METABOLISM AND Aux/IAA GENE ACTIVATION (22)
Bekele Abebie, Amnon Lers, Sonia Philosoph-Hadas, Raphael Goren*, Moshe Huberman, Joseph Riov and Shimon Meir

THE IMPACT OF GROWTH PROMOTANTS AND RETARDANTS ON SECOND CROP PRODUCTION IN DRILL-SEEDED RICE (23)
R.T. Dunand*

MANIPULATING TRANSPLANT MORPHOLOGY TO ADVANCE POST-TRANSPLANT GROWTH AND YIELD IN STRAWBERRY (24)
Julia Y. Reekie*

LUNCH (À VOTRE GOÛT)

SYMPOSIUM IV: (Porte St-Louis)
PGR APPLICATIONS IN FRUIT AND VINE CROPS

ETHEPHON AND 1-MCP TO LOOSEN SWEET CHERRIES FOR MECHANICAL HARVEST WHILE PRESERVING FRUIT QUALITY (25)
D. C. Elfving* and D. B. Visser

APPLICATION OF BLOSSOM THINNERS FOR CROPLOAD MANAGEMENT IN APPLES AND STONE FRUIT (26)
Esmaeil Fallahi*

ETHYLENE AND PISTILLATE FLOWER ABORTION OF WALNUT (27)
V. Polito*, H. Johnson, J Grant

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ABSCISIC ACID: A POTENTIAL TOOL FOR IMPROVING THE COLOR OF TABLE GRAPES (28)
M.W. Fidelibus* and M.C. Peppi

DEVELOPING AND TESTING OF A MODEL TO RAPIDLY PREDICT APPLE THINNER RESPONSE (29)
D. W. Greene*, A. N. Lakso, and T. L. Robinson

APPLICATION OF 2,4-D (CITRUSFIX) FOR FRUIT SIZE INCREASE OF MANDARINS AND MANDARIN HYBRIDS IN CALIFORNIA (30)
C.T. Chao*

PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS FOR AVOCADO PRODUCTION (31)
C. Lovatt*

EFFECT OF AUXIN TRANSPORT INHIBITORS ON FRUIT GROWTH AND FRUIT SET OF ‘DELICIOUS’ AND ‘GOLDEN DELICIOUS’ APPLES (35)
D. W. Greene*

C 27-BRASSINOSTEROIDS BIOSYNTHESIS IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA (36)
S.-H. Joo, J.-H. Hwang, C.H. Park, H. Namgung and S.-K. Kim*

AN INCLINATION OF ADK FOR CYTOKININ ISOMERS DURING THE CELL CYCLE OF TOBACCO BY-2 CELL LINE (37)
Z. Kwade*, A. Azmi, A. Swiatek , H. Van Onckelen

INFLUENCE OF 5-AMINOLEVULINIC ACID ON THE EFFICIENCY OF DRY-MATTER PRODUCTION IN VEGETABLE POT-SEEDLINGS (38)
R. Yoshida*, M. Sonoda, R. Konishi, K. Iwai, T. Tanaka and H. Okada

THE EFFECT OF ETHEPHON, NAA AND BA, USED SEPARATELY AND JOINTLY, ON THE EFFICIENCY OF THINNING IN APPLE TREES CULTIVARS JONAGOLD, GOLDEN DELICIOUS AND ELSTAR (39)
Basak Alina*

THE EFFICIENCY OF 3,5,6 – TPA USED IN APPLE AND PEAR AGAINST PREHARVEST FRUIT DROP (40)
Basak Alina*, Maria Buczek

EFFECTS OF SEAWEED EXTRACT ON ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES OF TWO DIFFERENTIALLY CHILLING SENSITIVE MAIZE CULTIVARS (41)
D. Mark Hodges*, K.D. Munro, M.L. Elliot, S. Fillmore, and K.B. McRae

EFFECT OF RADIATION SPECTRAL COMPOSITION ON GERMINATION AND GROWTH OF CHESTNUT IN VITRO (42)
S. Y. Park*, H. K. Moon, M. J. Kim, H. M. Jo and Y. Y. Kim

HORMONAL BALANCE AND PHYSIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND FOR DECISION SUPPORT ON FRUIT SET IMPROVEMENT ON PEAR TREES (43)
S. Vanthournout *, T. Deckers and R. Valcke

BOTH PROHEXADIONE-CA AND GA4+7 REDUCE RUSSET AND SCARF SKIN IN APPLE? (44)
S. McArtney*, D. Ferree and JD Obermiller

EFFECTS OF ALTERED GROWTH ON THE LEVELS OF THE PLANT HORMONES AUXIN AND GIBBERELLIN IN Arabidopsis thaliana (45)
Isabel Desgagné-Penix* and Valerie Sponsel

GUAVA CALLUS PRODUCTION UNDER DIFFERENT CULTURE MEDIUM AND PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR CONDITIONS (46)
Guochen Yang* and Zhongge Lu

THE EFFECT OF SALICYLIC ACID ON THE FLOWERING OF Capsicum chinense JACQ (47)
R. Martín-Mex, L. Vega-Merino, A. Nexticapan-Garcés, A. Baak-Polanco and A. Larqué-Saavedra*

ETHYLENE AS AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD IN PEACH FRUIT THINNING (48)
A. Taheri*, J. Cline, J. Subramanian, K.P. Pauls

POST HARVEST PERFORMANCE AND DISPLAY LIFE OF CUT PHLOX FLOWER HEADS: EFFECT OF PROHEXADIONE-Ca (49)
N. Sankhla* and W. A. Mackay

EFFECT OF ALCOHOL AND SUCROSE ON DISPLAY LIFE OF CUT RACEMES OF LUPINUS HAVARDII (50)
W. A. Mackay* and N. Sankhla

POSTHARVEST RIPENING OF ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA FRUITS: EFFECT OF 1-METHYLCYCLOPROPENE (51)
N. Sankhla*, H. S. Gehlot, P. Agarwal, R. Choudhary and S. Joshi

A NEW IMMUNOSENSOR FOR RAPID DETECTION OF GIBBERELLIC ACID (52)
Ruozhong Wang, Jin Li and Langtao Xiao*

VOLATILE ETHANOL AFFECTS GERMINATION AND GROWTH OF LETTUCE, RADISH, SOYBEAN AND WHEAT SEEDS (53)
G.W. Stutte*, I. Eraso, and S. Matthews

MIXED VS. MONOCULTURE HYDROPONIC PRODUCTION OF SALAD CROPS AT THREE CO2 CONCENTRATIONS (54)
Neil C. Yorio, Sharon L. Edney, Jeffrey T. Richards, Matthew D. Sisko, Gary W. Stutte, and Raymond M. Wheeler

IN VITRO SHOOT PROLIFERATION OF Encyclia tampensis (Lindl.) ORCHIDS (55)
Monica L. Haddix, Marihelen Glass* and Charles Raczkowski

EXPERIENCE WITH CONTINUOUS USE OF PROHEXADIONE-CA OVER SEVERAL YEARS IN APPLES AND PEARS (56)
K. van Saarloos, T. Sinnema1 and W. Rademacher*

EFFECTS OF A SOIL-APPLIED FORTIFIED ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM EXTRACT ON THE VISUAL QUALITY OF ZOYSIA TURFGRASS (58)
J. Pablo Morales-Payan*

POTATO TUBER YIELD AND SIZE AS AFFECTED BY A FORTIFIED SOIL-APPLIED ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM EXTRACT (59)
J. Pablo Morales-Payan*

GROWTH OF AROMATIC COLEUS (Coleus amboinicus Lour.) AS AFFECTED BY BIOSTIMULATORS (60)
J. Pablo Morales-Payan*

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID EFFECTS ON THE YIELD OF WEED-FREE AND PIGWEED-INFESTED SALAD AMARANTH (AMARANTHUS TRICOLOR) (61)
J. Pablo Morales-Payan* and William M. Stall

CARIBBEAN CHERRY (MALPIGHIA PUNICIFOLIA) FRUIT GROWTH AS AFFECTED BY A SPRAYED SEAWEED (ASCOPHYLUM NODOSUM) EXTRACT (62)
J. Pablo Morales-Payan*

EXOGENOUS AMINOLEVULINIC ACID EFFECTS ON ORNAMENTAL PEPPER (63)
J. Pablo Morales-Payan*

TRIADIMEFON EFFECTS ON CORN (ZEA MAYS) GERMINATION, GROWTH, AND YIELD (64)
J. Pablo Morales-Payan*

EFFECTS OF BIOSTIMULANTS ON NURSERY GROWTH OF ORANGE BUDDED ON VOLKAMER LEMON (CITRUS VOLKAMERIANA) AND ‘SWINGLE’ CITRUMELO (C. PARADISI x PONCIRUS TRIFOLIATA ) (65)
Luis Miguel Santana, Raldolph Gabriel, J. Pablo Morales-Payan*, Casimiro H. Puello, Jorge Mancebo, and Felix Rondon

PEACH FLOWER BUD THINNING BY DORMANT SEASON APPLICATIONS OF ETHEPHON PLUS VEGETOIL® (66)
G. L. Reighard*, D. R. Ouellette, and K. H. Brock

ENDOGENOUS HORMONE CONCENTRATIONS AND BUD BREAK RESPONSE TO EXOGENOUS BA IN SHOOTS OF APPLE TREES WITH TWO GROWTH HABITS GROWN ON THREE ROOTSTOCKS (67)
T. Tworkoski* and S. Miller

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

ISOLATION OF GENES POTENTIALLY REGULATING Mango FLOWERING (32)
T.L. Davenport*, Taifang Zhang, and Z. Ying

ReTain® FOR WALNUT PISTILLATE FLOWER ABORTION (PFA): AN EXTENSION SUCCESS STORY (33)
Robert H. Beede* and Joe Grant

MOLECULAR CLONING AND ANALYSIS OF ORYZA SATIVA AUXIN-BINGDING PROTEIN 1 GENE (34)
Langtao Xiao*, Ruozhong Wang,Yahui Hong, Hong Jian

Business Luncheon (Panorama Vieux-Port/Citadelle)
Chair: Dr. Sonja Maki

Dinner Cruise on St-Lawrence River (Louis Joliette)
Board Louis Joliette at Chouinard Pier at 1800
Departs at 1900. Return at 2300.