2022 Click for Proceedings Plenary Session 1 Ed Curry Introduction Derek Barchenger Recent Trends in the Global Pepper Industry Jeff Silvertooth Chile Crop Phenology and Nutrient Requirements Plenary Session 2 Brian Schutte Developing Chemical and Cultural Tactics to Reduce Weeds and Hand Hoeing in Chile Pepper Soum Sanogo Hundred Years of Combatting Phytophthora capsici Mohammad Babadoost Phytophthora Blight (Phytophthora capsici) or Peppers: Occurrence and Management Randall Hauptman The Spice of Life - Capsicums!!: Fresh Market and Consumer Opportunities Bhimu S. Patil The Spice of Life: Understanding and Improving the Health-Promoting Properties of Peppers Full Plenary Sessions 1 & 2 *click* Track 3 Steve Hansen The Future (?) of Pest and Pathogen Control Soum Sanogo Characteristics of Three Global Wilt-causing Pathogens of Hot Capsicum Peppers with Historical Connections to the Southwest U.S. Quaid Dobey Treatment of Phytophthora capsici-infested Irrigation Water with Selected Natural Bioproducts Jawwad Qureshi Chemical Control and Screen Barriers for Managing Pepper Weevil Anthonomus eugenii Cano Dennis Lozada ‘Omics’ Approaches for Chile Pepper Breeding and Improvement Kevin Crosby Novel Resistance to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus from Capsicum baccatum, and Response to RB strains in Texas Naresh Ponnam Marker assisted rootstock breeding for combined resistance to major soil borne pathogens in chili (Capsicum annuum L.) Ehtisham Khokhar Genome-wide Association Mapping of Fruit Morphology Traits in New Mexican Chile Pepper (Capsicum spp.) Navdeep Kaur Genetic Dissection of Phytophthora Root Rot Resistance in Capsicum annuum L. Using Genome-wide Association Studies Steve West Evaluating Emerging Technologies in Plant Health so They Can be Used in the Real World Track 4 Paul Funk Pepper Harvest Mechanization Ben Villalón Growing for Mechanical Harvest Stephanie Walker Breeding NM type Green Chile for Mechanical Harvest and the Release of ‘NuMex Odyssey Charles Havlik Plant Spacing Management Impact on Mechanical Harvest of Green Chile (Capsicum annuum L.) Mahdi Haghshenas-Jaryani Agricultural Robotics for Chile Pepper Harvesting and Crops Monitoring Tara Wade Risk Analysis of a Novel Bacterial Disease Management System Dabit Bista Chile Production Risk and Profitability by Variety Ram Acharya Potential of Utilizing Soluble Fiber Extracted from Chile Waste to Enhance Nutritional Value of Salsa Dabit Bista Impact of Free Trade Agreements and Product Branding on Chile Production in New Mexico Willis Fedio valuation of a Bacterial Surrogate for Salmonella Inactivation during Red Chile Drying