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Norman Lalancette Norman Lalancette
Associate Extension Specialist
 Plant Biology and Pathology
Foran
Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center
59 Dudley Ave
New Brunswick, NJ 08302
Phone: 732-932-4000 x4124
Fax: 856-455-3133
Email: lalancette@aesop.rutgers.edu
Website: aesop.rutgers.edu/~plantbiopath/faculty/lalancette/lalancette.html

Expertise Summary
  Research and teaching emphasis is on the quantitative, comparative, and descriptive epidemiology of plant diseases. Studies are conducted on both polycyclic and monocyclic aspects of epidemics, with special focus on stone fruit pathosystems. The influence of abiotic environmental factors on disease development, and the creation of computer models from these quantitative relationships, is a major thrust of the basic research program. Research is also being conducted on the integration of biological and biorational control agents into standard disease managements programs. Applied disease management experiments, utilizing the results of the epidemiological research, seek to reduce pesticide use, maximize disease control, and augment profit for commercial growers. Outreach efforts are coordinated with agricultural extension agents to achieve timely and efficient delivery of results.

Research Projects
  • Improving Sustainability, Efficiency, and Efficacy of Peach Disease Management Strategies: Biofungicides, Conventional Fungicides, and Abiotic Environmental Factors
  • Optimizing Peach Fruit Quality by Improving Harvest and Postharvest Handling
  • Postharvest Biology of Fruit

    • Selected Publications
    Peach rusty spot epidemics: management with fungicide, effect on fruit growth, and the incidence-lesion density relationship
      Journal: Plant Dis.
     Authors: Furman, L.A., Lalancette, N., and White, J.F., Jr.
    Volume: 87    Pages: 1477-1486
    Date Published: 2003
    Peach rusty spot epidemics: Temporal analysis and relationship to fruit growth
      Journal: Plant Dis
     Authors: Furman, L.A., Lalancette, N., and White, J.F., Jr
    Volume: 87    Pages: 366-374
    Date Published: 2003
    Quantitative models for describing temperature and moisture effects on sporulation of Phomopsis amygdali on peach
      Journal: Phytopathology
     Authors: Lalancette, N., Foster, K.A., and Robison, D.M.
    Volume: 93    Pages: 1165-1172
    Date Published: 2003

     

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