Crop Protection & Monitoring

Projects

Management of Grapevine Diseases, Cold Hardiness & Climate Change, Crop Protection & Monitoring

July 20, 2026

Decision support for BC wine grapes: Cold hardiness modeling and the Canadian Vineyard Atlas

July 16, 2026 – 12:00 – 1:00 – Dr. Jumi Gogoi, UBC – Decision support for BC wine grapes: Cold hardiness modeling and the Canadian Vineyard Atlas This session will…

Management of Grapevine Diseases, Crop Protection & Monitoring

May 24, 2026

Crown Gall & Grapevine Trunk Diseases – CGCN-RCCV Webinar

In this webinar, hosted on May 5th, 2026, we focused on another extremely important and timely topic: Grapevine Trunk Diseases, with an emphasis on Crown Gall. Expert guest speakers Dr.…

Crop Protection & Monitoring

May 24, 2026

Invasive species awareness in BC and critical insights for newly planted Okanagan vineyards

May 21, 2026 – 12:00 – 1:00 – Nick Wong, Invasive Species Council of BC and Lisa Scott, Okanagan and Similkameen Invasive Species Society – Invasive species awareness in BC…

Crop Protection & Monitoring, Management of Grapevine Diseases

September 24, 2025

An Ilarvirus with Five Names and the Need for On-site, High-throughput Virus Diagnostics in Grapes

Dr. Mark Paul Selda Rivarez, UBC – An Ilarvirus with Five Names and the Need for On-site, High-throughput Virus Diagnostics in Grapes Dr. Mark Paul Selda Rivarez, the new Assistant…

Management of Grapevine Diseases, Cold Hardiness & Climate Change, Soil, Water & Crop Quality, Optimizing the Quality of Wines, Crop Protection & Monitoring, Cross Commodity Leadership Support Project

August 27, 2025

CCLSP and the BC Decision Aid System (DAS) for Grapes

August 21, 2025 – 12:00 – 1:00 – CCLSP and the BC Decision Aid System (DAS) for Grapes Join us on August 21 to learn about the Cross Commodity Leadership…

Crop Protection & Monitoring

May 15, 2025

Introduction and update on the grape entomology program at AAFC Summerland

Dr. Asim Renyard is the new Research Scientist – Entomologist for grapes and tree fruits at the AAFC Summerland Research and Development Centre. Dr. Renyard’s work focusses on insect behaviour,…

Crop Protection & Monitoring

March 21, 2024

Scouting vineyards from above: Disease detection and potential applications of UAV imaging

In Progress

Optimizing the Quality of Wines, Crop Protection & Monitoring

April 1, 2023

Prediction, prevention, and mitigation of smoke-taint (and other air-borne aromas) in grapes and wines

To improve our predictive abilities, research will be conducted in improving existing analytical tests, assess the differences in grape varietal sensitivity as well as attempt to correlate simpler atmospheric measurements…

In Progress

Management of Grapevine Diseases, Crop Protection & Monitoring

April 1, 2023

Managing grapevine viruses and their anthropod vectors

The focus of this project includes: i) evaluation of the effectiveness and economics of rogueing, a cultural practice focus on the removal and replacement of virus infected vines; ii) investigation…

Completed

Crop Protection & Monitoring

March 31, 2023

Novel approaches to IPM strategies for climbing cutworms in wine grapes

Objective: To develop an IPM strategy which makes best use of nematodes to manage cutworms in Canadian wine grapes.

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