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Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria News:
ISPP Committee on the Taxonomy of Plant
Pathogenic Bacteria – new Members
Following the recent retirement of esteemed
colleague Solke de Boer and the up-coming retirements of two additional
committee members, the ISPP – CTPPB has selected two new members. They are
Professor T A Coutinho and Dr Sean Li as set out below. Please join the
ISPP and the Committee in welcoming them.
Professor T A Coutinho
Teresa Coutinho is a Professor in the Department
of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and the Forestry and Agricultural
Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, South Africa. She
was awarded her PhD in plant pathology from the University of Natal in
1991. Her research interests include forest pathology, specifically
bacterial tree pathogens.
She has been involved in the training of 15 PhD
and 29 MSc students of which 13 PhD and 24 MSc students have completed
their degrees. During this period she authored or co-authored 103
publications in peer-reviewed, ISI-rated journals. She led the group that
recently published several proposals for new species. These publications
included genera that are unusual for bacterial plant pathogens (Tatumella,
Gibbsiella) as well as more well
known plant pathogenic bacterial genera (Pantoea,
Pectobacterium). She has written
a number of chapters in books including “Bacterial diseases of plants in
South Africa” published in 2009. She was also the senior editor in
this case.
She sequenced the genome of the first plant
pathogen in Africa and is an authority on
Pantoea taxonomy and
pathogenicity. She is involved in several professional bodies, notably as
an editorial board member of the Southern Forests, chairperson of the
organizing committee of the 2nd International “Erwinia” workshop held in
Reunion in 2010, and past convener of the NRF Assessment panel for
Microbiology and Plant Pathology. She is currently president of the
Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (2011-2014).
Her contact details are: Teresa A
Coutinho, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and
Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of
Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa, at
email.
Dr Sean Li
(Sean) Xiang Li is a research scientist at the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, working on classification and diagnoses
of plant pathogenic bacteria. His current research focuses on developing
novel diagnostic platforms for potato brown rot, blackleg, zebrachip and
phytoplasma diseases based on genomic and barcoding techniques.
He earned his PhD in 1993 under A C Hayward in Australia with earlier
contributions to the phylogenetic classification of
Ralstonia and Bulkholderia.
He was postdoctoral research in Dr. Solke De Boer’s lab in Vancouver from
1993-1995, where he developed molecular detection and classification
techniques on Clavibacter spp..
Subsequently, his research led him to the Department of Microbiology and
Immunology of UBC and then to a pharmaceutical company where his research
concentrated on soil microbial diversity and
Streptomyces genetics. He has
also been a professor for Chinese Academy of Sciences researching
metagenomics of oceanic microbes. He authored or co-authored more than 60
scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and 5 chapter books, and
filed 5 patent applications with authorization. He has served as the
Chairperson of a Technical Advisory Group on
Ralstonia for the NAPPO Potato Panel, and is an editorial board
member of ACTA Microbiological Sinica since 2007.
His contact details are: (Sean) Xiang Li, Canadian Food Inspection Agency,
Charlottetown Laboratory, 93 Mount Edward Road, Charlottetown, PE C1A 5T1,
Canada, at
email.
PUBLICATIONS:
Hot off the Presses!
The ISPP-CTPPB has
just published the 2012 version of the List
of New Names of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria
Bull, C. T., S.H. De Boer, T.P. Denny, G. Firrao, M. Fischer-Le Saux, G.S.
Saddler, M. Scortichini, D.E. Stead, Y. Takikawa. 2012. List of New Names
of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria (2008-2010). Journal of Plant Pathology
94 (1), 21-27. doi:
10.4454/jpp.fa.2011.003.
http://sipav.org/main/jpp/index.php/jpp/article/view/2437
Please
contact the convener (Carolee.Bull@ars.usda.gov)
for any questions or comments about this list or previous lists.
Previous Publications include:
Bull, C. T., S.H. De Boer, T.P.
Denny, G. Firrao, M. Fischer-Le Saux, G.S. Saddler, M. Scortichini, D.E.
Stead, Y. Takikawa, 2010. COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NAMES OF PLANT
PATHOGENIC BACTERIA, 1980-2007. Journal of Plant Pathology
92:551-592.
Download PDF <http://www.isppweb.org/SMC_Files/Bull%20et%20al.%202010%20JPP%20List.pdf>
Bull, C. T., S.H. De Boer, T.P. Denny, G. Firrao, M. Fischer-Le
Saux, G.S. Saddler, M. Scortichini, D.E. Stead, Y. Takikawa,. 2008.
Demystifying Nomenclature of Bacterial Plant Pathogens Journal of Plant
Pathology 90:403-417.
Download PDF <http://www.isppweb.org/SMC_Files/Bull%20et%20al%202008%20InvitedReview_403.pdf>
Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic
Bacteria - Committee members:
C.T. Bull
(Convener), US Department of Agriculture, 1636 E Alisal Street, Salinas,
CA 93905, USA
e-mail:
T.A. Coutinho, Department
of Microbiology and Plant Pathology Forestry and Agricultural
Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria
0002, South Africa
email
T.P. Denny, University of Georgia, Plant Pathology
Department, Plant Science Building, Athens, GA 30602-7274, USA
e-mail:
G. Firrao, Dipartimento di Biologia Applicata alla
Difesa delle Piante, Universita, via Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy
e-mail:
M. Fischer-Le Saux,
UMR de Pathologie Vegetale, INRA, BP 60057, 49071 Beaucouze Cedex,
France
e-mail:
X. Li, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Charlottetown
Laboratory, 93 Mount Edward Road, Charlottetown, PE C1A 5T1, Canada
email
G.S. Saddler, Scottish
Agricultural Science Agency, 1 Roddinglaw Road, Edinburgh, EH12 9FJ,
Scotland, United Kingdom
e-mail:
M. Scortichini,
C.R.A.
- Istituto Sperimentale per la Frutticoltura, Via di Fioranello, 52,
00134 Roma, Italy
e-mail:
D.E. Stead,
Central Science Laboratory, Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs, Sand Hutton, York, YO41 1LZ, United Kingdom
e-mail:
Y. Takikawa, Faculty of
Agriculture, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
e-mail:
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