Report 2003-2008
1. In October, 14-18, 2007 we celebrated our Xth INTERNATIONAL PLANT VIRUS EPIDEMIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
– CONTROLLING EPIDEMICS OF EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED PLANT VIRUS DISEASES - THE WAY FORWARD, HYDERBAD, INDIA, This international symposium was held at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. The symposium was attended by more than 200 participants from many different countries from five continents. It was the tenth in the series of international symposia held every 2-3 years under the auspices of the Plant Virus Epidemiology (IPVE) Committee of the International Society for Plant Pathology. It was also only the second symposium in this series to be held in a developing country, and the first to occur in Asia. The principal symposium organiser was Lava Kumar (ICRISAT) with help from Farid Waliyah (ICARDA). The main topics covered at the Symposium were: ‘Epidemiology and Evolution’, ‘Emerging Viruses’ and ‘Viruses of Cereal crops and Soil-borne Viruses’, 'Plant Biosecurity & Modelling', 'Virus-Vector evolution & Interactions', 'Advances in Virus Disease Management, 'Characterization and Diagnosis of Viruses & Vectors and 'Molecular Epidemiology and Ecology'.
2. Some of the material presented at the Hyderabad Symposium will be part of complete manuscripts that will be published in a Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal 'Virus Research', which is being edited by Michael J. Thresh, Roger Jones and Alberto Fereres. The special issue will cover papers on virus epidemiology and will be on press by the begining of 2009. This is the third time that the journal 'Virus Research' publishes selected papers offered by the participants of our Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposia.
3. The first web page of our PVE working group was launched in January 2008 (http://www.isppweb.org/ICPVE/). The web site includes a brief history on how the Plant Virus Epidemiology working group started, and a list of the past Symposia including books of abstracts and Symposia reports. It also includes relevant photographs on past Symposia as well as images on plant viruses, symptoms, insect vectors, etc... We intend to post the information on future Symposia such as the next one which is scheduled for 2010 at Cornell University (USA). We also plan to include information on books, news and links to other web pages related to Plant Virus Epidemiology. In the future we plan that this web page expands to host other issues related to Plant Virus Epidemiology.
Alberto Fereres
Chair of the International Committee of Plant Virus Epidemiology
July 2013 Committee Report to the ISPP Executive and Council
Committee on the (Insert name of Committee)
Subject Matter Committee. International
Committee for Plant Virus Epidemiology (ICPVE)
Established:
It
was established in 1978. First Symposium on 28-31 July, 1981
Web
address forSMC.
http://www.isppweb.org/ICPVE/
Name (s) of personnel preparing report.. Alberto Fereres. Current Chairman
Nominated Officers.
Is
the list for your SMCon the ISPP website correct?
No.
The ISPP website only shows the name of the current chaiman. The list of the
other current members of our SMC should be added.
ICPVE Committee Members
(indicate whether you have a larger mailing list of members (e.g. plux
xxx on mailing list)
Yes, we have a longer mailing list of members
Committee Meetings:
We celebrated 2 meetings in the 2008-2013 period.
The meetings were the following:
XIth INTERNATIONAL PLANT VIRUS EPIDEMIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM – Plant Viruses:
Exploiting Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems
- USA, Ithaca (Cornell University), 20 - 24 June 2010
XIIth INTERNATIONAL PLANT VIRUS
EPIDEMIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM – Evolution, Ecology & Control of Plant Viruses
- Tanzania, Arusha (IITA), 28 January – 1 February 2013
Committee Activities:
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We organized and celebrated 2 International meetings focused on
Plant Virus Epidemiology
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We prepared 2 book of abstracts
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We edited and published two special issues on Plant Virus Epidemiology in the
journal “Virus Research” (Elsevier). The issues included papers related with
oral presentations selected at the Xth and XIth IPVE Symposia.
Subject
Matter Committee focus issues:
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See Appendix on the reports of 2 past meetings celebrated by our
SMC
Additional work identified:
Our Committee is preparing and editing a new Special Issue on Plant Virus
Epidemiology to be published in the journal Virus Research (Elsevier) in the
first months of 2014. The new issue will include 25 papers on selected talks
presented at the XIIth Symposium of PVE held in Arusha, Tanzania in January,
2013.
Report Submitted by Alberto Fereres (Current
Chairman of the ICPVE)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientificas-CSIC
C/Serrano 115 dpdo.
28006 Madrid
Spain
Email: a.fereres@csic.es
Website : http://www.ica.csic.es/index.php/en/persona?id=33
APPENDIX
REPORT ON THE XIth
INTERNATIONAL PLANT VIRUS EPIDEMIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM – Plant Viruses: Exploiting
Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems -, held together with the PLANT VIRUS
ECOLOGY NETWORK. CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACHA, NEW YORK, USA. 20-24, 2010
This great International
Symposium was held on June 20-24, 2010 at the Campus of Cornell University, New
York, USA.
This Symposium was the 11th of a series of international
symposia held under the auspices of the Plant Virus Epidemiology (IPVE)
Committee (http://www.isppweb.org/ICPVE/),
which is part of the International Society of Plant Pathology. This time, the
IPVE Symposium was held and organized together with the Plant Virus Ecology
Network (PVEN), an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network (http://bioinfosu.okstate.edu/pve_rcn/PVENhome.html).
This joint effort was very successful as both working groups share common
interests, allowing interactions in the field of plant virus epidemiology and
virus ecology in both agricultural and natural ecosystems. The main symposium
organizer was Stewart Gray, with help from
Keith Perry, Sunny Power, Brian Nault and Marc
Fuchs
(Cornell University, USA).
The Symposium covered the following 4 sessions: (1) Virus Epidemiology
and Etiology, (2) Virus Ecology and Evolution, (3) Vector Biology and Virus
Transmission and (4) Virus Disease Management, Detection and Diagnosis. All
contributions were organized in a series of 45-min KeyNote presentations and 30
min invited talks as well as a number of 15-min oral presentations, poster
exhibitions and 5min-poster advertisements.
The symposium was attended by 150 participants coming from the five
continents and was sponsored by both IPVE and PVEN groups, as well as other
institutions and private companies: USDA, Cornell University, Agdia Inc., Dow
Agrosciences, Nichimo America and Syngenta Crop Protection.
The
programme started on Sunday 20rd
June with registration and a welcoming reception and dinner at the Appel
Commons building in the Cornell North Campus
On
Monday 21st June the
opening session started with introductory talks by Stewart Gray, Carolyn
Malmstrom (PVEN) and Alberto Fereres (Chairman of the IPVE Committee).
Then, the first keynote talk by Mike
Jeger from Imperial College, London presented a very interesting talk on how
plant virus and vector models need to be linked for a full understanding of
plant virus epidemiology. He discussed how vectors respond to different cues
derived from plants, natural enemies and other environmental factors that
directly affect the temporal and spatial scale pattern of plant disease
dynamics. The rest of the day the session covered a presentation on the
epidemics of cassava mosaic begomovirus and cassava brown streak ipomovirus in
East Africa presented by James Legg (IITA, Tanzania). The differences observed
in the temporal and spatial patterns of spread of both viruses were associated
to variations the mode of transmission and in the population density of its
vector, Bemisia tabaci. Additional
invited presentations covered studies on the molecular epidemiology of
potyviruses infecting cucurbits in France to explain why new emerging virus
strains are commonly replaced in south-eastern France (Cecile Desbiez; INRA,
France). This talk was followed by a presentation by Roger Jones (Perth,
Australia) on the epidemiology of Zucchini
yellow mosaic virus and the effectiveness of non-host plant barriers and
other integrated management practices used to reduce disease incidence in
cucurbits in Western Australia. Albert Culbreath (U. of Georgia, USA) presented
the results of field studies on the epidemiology and disease management
strategies for Tomato spotted wilt virus
infecting peanuts grown in southeastern United States. The session was completed
by a very comprehensive presentation by Nilsa Bosque-Perez (U. of Idaho, USA) on
the influence of virus-induced changes in plants on aphid vectors and their
impact on plant virus epidemiology.
On
Tuesday 22nd June the session
theme was ‘Virus Ecology and Evolution’. The Keynote presentation was on the
community ecology of Barley/celeal yellow dwarf viruses in Western US grasslands
(Alison “Sunny” Power, Cornell Univ. USA). Sunny explained how different biotic
and abiotic factors affect virus prevalence on annual and perennial grasses.
Then, William Schneider (USDA, USA) explained how aphids might assist the
evolution of Soybean dwarf luteovirus when allowed to provide constant selection
pressure. The plant-virus-co-evolution of the most prevalent viruses in six wild
populations of Arabidopsis thaliana in
Central Spain was the topic covered by Fernando Garcia-Arenal (U. Politecnica de
Madrid, Spain). Then, Marilyn Roossinck presented her studies on a survey and
phylogeny of wild plant viruses collected in the region of Tallgrass Prairie
Preserve, Oklahoma and the Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Jan
Kreuze (CIP, Peru) presented their results of a new technique based on deep
sequencing to rapidly identify novel viruses in plants. The invited
presentations on virus ecology ended with a presentation by Patrick Cronin (U.
of North Carolina, USA) on how host physiological phenotype can predict some
epidemiological parameters (susceptibility to infection, competence to infect
vectors, and ability to support vector populations). At the end of the day there
were two Business Meetings held independently for IPVE and PVEN. The Chairman of
IPVE presented an offer by Elsevier to prepare a Special Issue of invited
articles to be published in the journal “Virus Research” covering the different
themes included in the Symposium.
There was also an open discussion to select candidates to act as new
representatives of the Committee. The venues and volunteers for organizing the
next IPVE Symposium (France, UK and Tanzania) were also presented.
On
Wednesday 23rd June
the session covered several presentations on Vector Biology and Virus
Transmission. The keynote address was on the interactions between the
non-circulative virus, Cauliflower mosaic
virus, its aphid vector and their shared host plant (Stephane Blanc, INRA,
France). The exact anatomical structure of the common duct within the aphid
maxillary stylets that acts as a receptor to the virus helper proteins was
described. He also described recent findings on how the virus optimizes its
accessibility to the vector within the infected cells. This talk was followed by
the description of an aphid gut binding peptide that interferes with the entry
of Pea enation mosaic virus into the
hemocoel (Bryony Bonning from Iowa State U., USA). In her talk she explained how
the peptide binds to the midgut and hindgut of the pea aphid reducing the uptake
of the virus into the hemocoel. The interactions between grapevine
leafroll-associated viruses and their mealybug vectors was presented by Rodrigo
Almeida (U. of California, Berkeley, USA) followed by studies on the impact of
an elevated concentration of C02 on the infection by
Cereal yellow dwarf virus, the population dynamics of its aphid
vector Rhopalosisphum padi, and its
host plant, wheat (Piotr Trebicki, DPI, Australia). The retention sites of
criniviruses within the foregut of its vector, Bemisa tabaci was the topic
addressed by James Ng (U. of California, Riverside, USA). Drake Stenger closed
the session presenting a talk about the polymorphism of a phytoreovirus
transmitted by the glassy-winged sharpshooter,
Homalodisca vitripennis.
On
Thursday 24th June the session
theme was ‘Virus Disease Management, Detection and Diagnosis’. Keynote
presentation was on the clean seed programs in Kenya, stressing the importance
of producing virus-free seeds in Africa, and the ways that farmers are engaged
with the private sector to build up together clean-seed programs (Ian Barker,
CIP, Nairobi, Africa). Then, a presentation by Jari Valkonen (U. of
Helsinki, Finland) addressed the topic of Cryotherapy of shoot tips as an
efficient means for virus and phytoplasma control and healthy plant production
in several crops. Then, Scott Adkins (USDA, FL, USA) presented a talk on the
ecology and management of whitefly-transmitted vegetable viruses in Florida. The
combination of natural and engineered resistance to control rhizomania in sugar
beets was the theme addressed by Britt-Louise Lennefors (Syngenta Corp.
Sweeden). Renato Resende (U. de
Brasilia, Brazil) presented his work on the development of broad, stable and
durable resistance to begomoviruses in Brazilian tomato lines. Finally, the
session ended on studies about the flights and dispersal biology of the soybean
aphid as a mean to increase the effectiveness of foliar protectants and reduce
the incidence of PVY in potato (Russell Groves, U. of Wisconsin, USA).
This eleventh in the series of International Symposia on Plant Virus
Epidemiology was very well organized, maintaining the high standards set by past
meetings of the IPVE. Stewart Gray and his team are to be congratulated
over a job well done.
Alberto Fereres
23/09/10
REPORT ON THE 12th
INTERNATIONAL PLANT VIRUS EPIDEMIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM – Evolution, Ecology & Control
of Plant Viruses -, held at Arusha, Tanzania. 28 January – 1 February 2013.
The12th International
Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium
marked a special milestone
in our ICPVE’s history - the first one in
Africa -, a unique feat for which we are very proud. This Symposium was the
12th of international symposia held every 3 years under the auspices
of the International Committee on Plant Virus Epidemiology (ICPVE) (http://www.isppweb.org/ICPVE/), which is part of the
International Society of Plant Pathology. The main symposium organizer was Dr.
Lava Kumar from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
The Symposium covered the following 10 sessions: (1) Changing Phase of
Plant Virus Epidemiology, (2) Climate Change and Modeling, (3) Virus Vectors and
Virus-Vector Interactions, (4) IPM (CRSP, special session), (5) ICPVE Business
Meeting, (6)
Diagnostics
and Surveillance, (7)
Epidemiology and
Ecology, (8)
Disease
Control, (9) Virus Evolution, (10) Plant Virology in Sub-Saharan Africa
All contributions were organized in a series of Keynote presentations
and invited talks as
well as a number of 15-20 min oral presentations and poster
exhibitions.
The symposium was attended by 150 participants coming from the five continents and was organized by the ICPVE and IITA in partnership with the Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI, Tanzania), the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO, Uganda), the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD), Biodiversity International and the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC- The World Vegetable Center). It was sponsored by other institutions and private companies: CGIAR's RTB and SP‐IPM programs, CORAF/WECARD, Plant Virus Ecology Network (PVEN), the USAID‐funded IPM‐CRSP and Africa RISING projects, Agdia‐Biofords, BASF, and Inqaba Biotec.
Monday 28thrd
January.
The programme started with registration
and the inauguration ceremony with introductory talks by Victor Manyong (IITA
East Africa), Alberto Fereres (ICPVE), Joseph Ndunguru (Mikocheni Agriculture
Research Institute), Nteranya Sanginga (IITA), Fidelis Myaka (Ministry of
Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives, Tanzania) and Lava Kumar (IITA).
Alberto Fereres
11/03/13