Specific Objectives of the Project:
- Quantify the costs of collecting and maintaining the UC strawberry germplasm collection.
- Estimate the economic benefit of the collection as a function of its genetic diversity, and develop a summary of the determinants of the marginal value of a cultivar.
- Develop an approach that can be applied to other commodity breeding programs that utilize asexual propagation.

Project Report/Summary of Results:

Work under this project addressed disease management in organic and conventional strawberry production systems in California.

Michuda, Aleksandr, Rachael Goodhue, Karen Klonsky, Graeme Baird, Lucinda Toyama, Margherita Zavatta, Joji Muramoto and Carol Shennan. 2018. “The Economic Viability of Suppressive Crop Rotations for the Control of Verticillium Wilt in Organic Strawberry Production.” Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2018.1552228.

Michuda, Aleksandr, Rachael Goodhue, Krishna Subbaro and Daniel Chellemi. “Evaluating a Systems Approach to Suppressive Crop Rotations in Strawberry Production.” Presented at the 2019 AAEA meetings by Ph.D. candidate Michuda.

Michuda, Aleksandr, Rachael Goodhue, Joji Muramoto and Carol Shennan. “The Economic Viability of Suppressive Crop Rotations for the Control of Verticillium Wilt in Organic Strawberry Production in California.” Presented at the 2017 AAEA meetings by Ph.D. student Michuda.

Michuda, Aleksandr, Rachael Goodhue, Krishna Subbaro and Daniel Chellemi. “Evaluating a Systems Approach to Suppressive Crop Rotations in Strawberry Production.” Working paper.