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2025
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Corinne Butler Amber Moore Nicole AndersonAbstract
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Jing Zhou Qianyi Duan Nicole AndersonAbstract
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Sissel Torre Martin Knoop Knut Asbjørn Solhaug Emil Joakim Wolff Anthony Henk Maessen Shailaja Thapa Michel VerheulAbstract
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presentation Sludge network meeting, 2025
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Payel Bhattacharjee YeonKyeong Lee Marcos Viejo Gareth Benjamin Gillard Simen Rød Sandve Torgeir Rhoden Hvidsten Brit Salbu Dag Anders Brede Jorunn Elisabeth OlsenAbstract
Conifers are among the most radiosensitive plant species. Elevated, sublethal levels of ionising radiation result in reduced apical dominance in conifers, indicating a negative effect on shoot apical meristems (SAMs). The SAMs, harbouring the pluripotent stem cells, generate all the cells of the shoot, enabling growth and reproduction. However, knowledge on the effects of ionising radiation on such stem cells is scarce, but important for risk assessment and radioprotection of plants in contaminated ecosystems. Here, we assessed the sensitivity of in vitro-grown stem cells of Norway spruce to 144 h of gamma irradiation at 1–100 mGy h −1 , using such cells as a model for molecular toxicity of gamma radiation in conifers. Although there were no visible effects of the gamma irradiation on cell proliferation and subsequent embryo formation, dose rate-dependent DNA damage was observed at ≥ 10 mGy h −1 , and comprehensive organelle damage at all dose rates. Massive dose rate-dependent transcriptome changes occurred, with downregulation of a range of genes related to cell division, DNA repair and protein folding but upregulation of stress-related hormonal pathways and several antioxidant-related genes. The upregulation of such genes, survival and continued proliferation of at least a subset of cells and the post-irradiation normalisation of expression of DNA repair and protein-folding genes together with somatic embryo formation suggest that stem cells are able to recover from gamma-irradiation-induced stress. Collectively, regardless of cellular abnormalities after gamma irradiation, and huge transcriptomic shifts towards stress management pathways, the pluripotent stem cell cultures were able to retain their stemness.
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Hannah Rivedal Todd Temple Robert Starchvick Joseph Gallagher Dustin Herb Jason Crisp Nicole Anderson Tatiana Benedetti Amy PeetzAbstract
Oregon’s grass seed industry specialises in producing forage grasses including annual ryegrass (ARG, Lolium multiflorum), a host for the seed gall nematode (SGN, Anguina funesta). SGN causes yield- limiting seed galls and are strictly regulated in international trade. From 2019 to 2020, over 500 metric tons of Oregon ARG seed were rejected from international ports due to SGN detection. A 2022 field survey of 22 ARG fields in the Willamette Valley of Oregon resulted in SGN detection in 50% of the fields throughout the growing season. Several approaches managing SGN are under evaluation. Previous reports indicate that there may be genetic resistance to SGN in other Lolium species. Therefore, a breeding population of 240 public accessions of L. multiflorum have been seeded with two seed galls and planted in the field. Seed were harvested to evaluate for galls in July 2025 and to identify potential resistant families for future study. To date, no nematicides are labelled for the control of SGN. Varied fluopyram timings and rates, as well as an untreated control, are being evaluated in the field with and without growth regulation for SGN control. Seed yield and galled seed data was collected showing limited differences between treatments. Cultural control methods are also being considered, including seed cleaning and utilizing high energy pulses on seed galls. Preliminary data suggests that these could be viable treatments to reduce SGN inoculum. Successful control options for the SGN in ARG seed production are important to reduce the spread of this nematode globally and maintain healthy forage production.
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Seth Dorman Darrin Walenta Navneet Kaur Hannah Rivedal Nicole AndersonAbstract
Successful mitigation of agricultural insect pests depends on integrated pest management practices incorporating multiple techniques for effective population management below economically damaging levels. Pest surveillance remains the cornerstone of IPM programs, enabling appropriately timed management action. Phenological models using weather data are commonly used as decision support tools to predict the timing of ‘when’ economically important life stages are expected to occur. Furthermore, geostatistical models that consider landscape-level variation in environmental drivers of pest densities may inform ‘where’ outbreaks are expected to occur along spatial gradients of abiotic and biotic risk factors. Thus, predictors of pest populations can be leveraged to generate spatiotemporal risk assessments. Migratory and overwintering moth species in the family Noctuidae (order Lepidoptera) comprise a complex of serious pests that threaten the profitability of grasses grown for seed in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA, as well as seed production globally. Noctuid pests, including black cutworm, true armyworm, and winter cutworm, inflict crop damage by direct feeding on plant crowns and roots in the larval developmental stage. Management action with foliar insecticides is most effective when larvae are immature (early instar stage) due to insecticide susceptibility and pest behaviour. For noctuid pests (and other priority pests) in grass seed systems, real-time phenological models can provide field practitioners with information to better allocate pest monitoring and management resources to reduce input costs.