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Adriana Espinosa

B.S. Escuela Agricola Panamericana El Zamorano 2003
D.P.M. Doctor of Plant Medicine 2008
- The DPM is a multidisciplinary program that consists of courses and practical training in all relevant departments (Agronomy, Entomology/Nematology, Horticultural Sciences, Plant Pathology, Soil and Water Sciences, etc). The goal is to train students in the science, practice and business of agriculture and to prepare them as Plant Doctors that will be able to solve all types of plant problems http://www.dpm.ifas.ufl.edu/.

Adriana just accepted (March 2009) a position to work for Seminis/Monsanto as a Technology Development Representative for leafy crops in Salinas, California.

2008-2009 she worked at the Southern Plant Diagnosis Network, Entomology and Nematology Department at University of Florida where she developed and uploaded wiki pages to Bugwood Wiki, she also developed a new learning module of Pink Hibiscus Mealybug and collected and summarized information of over 40 scale palm pest species for the elaboration of UF-EDIS-IFAS publications and a palm pest lucid key.

2008 she also worked at University of Florida Plant Disease Clinic as Turfgrass Pathology Technician for the Rapid Turf Diagnosis Service. There she diagnosed mainly golf course turf diseases.

2007 she did an internship at University of Florida's Extension Soil Testing Laboratory where she compiled and organized the lab's database of nutrients recommendations for more than 70 crops based on current UF-EDIS-IFAS publications. She also updated the database of all soil and tissue recommendations with Best Management Practices (BMP) developed in Florida for water resource protection.

2005-2007 she worked on a research project at University of Florida's Plant Pathology Department. Her research consisted on evaluating the effect of calcium silicate on bermudagrass and rough bluegrass; she also evaluated the effect of calcium silicate on disease development on both grasses. The diseases that was evaluated was dollar spot (Sclerotinia homeocarpa) one of the most common and serious turfgrass disease.

2004 she did an internship at Texas A&M Plant Pathology Department where she evaluated resistance of new begonia varieties to Ralstonia solanacearum.

2003 she did an internship at Sakata Seeds where she evaluated the development and growth of new varieties of Portulaca oleraceae and helped establish and organize the Pack Trails, an important trade show of ornamentals.

2000-2003 she did her undergraduate studies at Escuela Agricola Panamericana "El Zamorano" in Honduras http://www.zamorano.edu/.