What does YARL stand for?

Intensive collaborative research by university, industry, and government scientists, including teams from three ARS laboratories--the Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory (YARL) in Wapato, Washington; the Vegetable and Forage Crops Research Laboratory (VFCRL) in Prosser, Washington; and the Beneficial Insects Research Unit (BIRU) in Weslaco, Texas--narrowed the list of likely suspects to a fastidious (nonculturable) bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum, and the potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli, as its insect accomplice or "vector.

United States Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hilo, Hawaii 2 research units * 72 employees Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California 8 research units * 243 employees Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, Wapato, Washington 1 research unit * 58 employees Vegetable and Forage Crops Research Unit, Prosser, Washington 1 research unit * 39 employees Range and Meadow Forage Management Research Unit, Burns, Oregon 1 research unit * 44 employees Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, Aberdeen, Idaho 1 research unit * 66 employees U.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Corvallis, Oregon 3 research units * 152 employees Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, Wapato, Washington 1 research unit * 56 employees The Vegetable and Forage Crop Research Unit, Prosser, Washington 1 research unit * 34 employees Davis, California 5 research units * 111 employees U.

Knight, with ARS's Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, at Wapato, Washington.

There are several reasons, says Hansen, an entomologist with ARS' Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory.

ARS researchers at the Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory in Wapato, Washington, are devising new, integrated strategies to protect potato crops.

Landolt, USDA-ARS Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, Wapato, Washington; phone (509) 454-6551, e-mail landolt@yarl.

Calkins works at the agency's Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory near Wapato, Washington.