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INTERNATIONAL
NEWSLETTER ON PLANT PATHOLOGY
ISPP
Newsletter 31 (4) August 2001
(UK
Registered Charity No 1065521)
Material
for the Newsletter is invited from individual members of ISPP, Associated
Societies, Council members, Chairs of all Committees and representatives
of Affiliated Societies and Supporting Organisations.
Editor, Brian J. Deverall,
e-mail: bdeveral@mail.usyd.edu.au
In this issue:
A First for ISPP’s Teaching Committee
ISPP’s Subject Matter Committee on Teaching has
achieved a remarkable first by hosting an On-line Symposium covering
Instructional Technology in Plant Pathology.
Between 15 May and 30 June 2001, lively on-line
discussion between plant pathologists all over the world took place on a
variety of topics. They are listed below. More important, the complete
archive and opportunity for feedback are available for you to examine and
respond to at: <http://www.ispp-itsymposium.org.nz/>.
Dr Terry Stewart of Massey University, New Zealand, was
the webmaster for the event and was a member of the planning committee along
with Drs Cleora D’Arcy, Darin Eastburn, David Guest, Thorsten Kraska,
James Partridge, and Gail Schumann.
How the Symposium worked
Every eight days, a theme was presented and an associated
forum opened.
Themes consisted of presented papers, together with a
discussion board for each one. Authors were available for that period, to
answer questions and clarify points regarding their paper.
Forums were discussion areas dealing with issues pertinent
to the named topic. These forums were moderated and each one ran for one
period with the exception of the General Discussion forum which was open for
the duration of the symposium.
Authors from seven countries submitted 26 papers. There
were 321 registrants from 48 countries.
Forums on:
Instructional technology in resource-poor countries.
Moderated by David Guest.
Copyright issues. Moderated by Darin Eastburn and Cleo D’Arcy.
The Internet as a teaching tool. Moderated by Darin Eastburn and Cleo D’Arcy.
Support for new teaching projects. Moderated by James Partridge.
Academic recognition of instructional technology. Moderated by Gail
Schumann.
General discussion. Moderated by Thorsten Kraska.
Feedback and Suggestions. Moderated by Terry Stewart.
Papers on:
15-22 May
Advice and Philosophy (Moderator: James Partridge)
Key issues in developing and maintaining multi-media
training and decision support products for crop protection by Geoff
Norton and Merv Cooper.
Pioneer or guinea pig? Top ten take-home lessons on
starting an on-line course by Chuck Curtis.
Promises and pitfalls of web access course materials by
Wesley Chun.
23-30 May
Electronic Instructional Resources (Moderators: Darin
Eastburn and Cleo D’Arcy)
A decade of Diagnosis by Terry Stewart.
A multilingual, illustrated introduction to plant
pathogens and diseases by Gail Schumann.
Introducing the new APSnet Education Center and The
Plant Health Instructor by Gail Schumann.
The virtual nematode by Peter Sforza and Jon Eisenback.
31 May - 7 June
Electronic Instructional Resources (cont...)
(Moderators: Darin Eastburn and Cleo D’Arcy)
Plants, pathogens and people. A website to improve
student awareness of agricultural science by Darin Eastburn et al.
"Tom Volk’s Fungi", a website for learning
about mycology by Tom Volk.
Transgenic crops education via the World-Wide-Web by
Patrick Byrne et al.
Tree disease illustrations - An on-line slide show by
Robert Stack.
8-15 June
On-line Courses (Moderator: David Guest)
Electronic extramuralisation of plant protection - A case
study by Terry Stewart.
Distance education plant pathology courses at the
University of Georgia by Elizabeth Little.
Teaching plant health care on-line by Paul Bell.
Teaching plant pathology. It’s not the what, it’s the
why by Carlye Baker.
Web study pages for introductory plant pathology by James
Partridge.
16-23 June
Databases and Image Collections with Instructional
Applications (Moderator: Gail Schumann)
Crop Protection Compendium. Applying IT to
instruction worldwide by H L Crowson et al.
Descriptions of plant viruses by M Adams and J Antoniw.
Digital databases for teaching, research and
extension by J D Eisenback and Ulrich Zunke.
Illustrated encyclopedia of forage crop diseases by Takao
Tsukiboshi.
Smokin’ Doc Thurston’s greatest hits by David
Thurston.
Tree fruit disease information at West Virginia
University: Web site activity, 1997-2000 by Alan Biggs.
24-30 June
Diagnostic and Management Tools with Instructional
Applications (Moderator: Thorsten Kraska)
A web-based tool for risk assessment of tomato spotted wilt virus
infections in peanut by A Culbreath et al.
An expert system for integrating several manuals on
determining plant diseases into one united database by Audrius
Meskauskas and Vilnius Gediminas.
Forecasting light leaf spot of winter oilseed rape on
the Internet by Neal Evans et al.
Gone with the wind. Forecasting plant disease
epidemics in the 21st century by C Main and Z Keever.
Closing statement by Gail Schumann
ISPP-ITSymposium 2001 Archive
Please feel free to explore the presentations and
discussions. Leave any feedback on the feedback forum.
Post-symposium links
This archive will remain on the web at least until 30
June, 2002. The feedback forum will remain open. The organisers will check
this from time to time so please post your comments.
A mailing list has been created as a follow-up to this
event. If you are interested in further discussion on the themes covered
here, send an e-mail to <majordomo@massey.ac.nz>. Ensure the words
"subscribe ispp-itsymposium" are in the body of the message.
A number of useful URL’s were cited during the
symposium. These will be collected together sometime soon and presented here
as a reference list. Watch this space!
If anyone has suggestions for future teaching-related
online symposia or activities for the 2003 International Congress of Plant
Pathology in New Zealand, please contact: Gail Schumann, ISPP Teaching Committee Chair; phone: +1–413-545-3414;
e-mail: <schumann@pltpath.umass.edu>.
The symposium was sponsored by ISPP.
A Call for Bids to Host the 9th ISPP Congress in 2008
The Secretary-General of the International Society for
Plant Pathology (ISPP), Charlie Delp, has issued a call for bids to host the
9th ICPP and set a deadline for their receipt as 1 March 2002.
The criteria for selecting an ISPP Congress site:
1) Invitations (bids) must come from a national society or combination of
societies and not from a city or national convention bureau. On the
other hand, the society or societies making a bid should consider working
with a local convention bureau to help identify and advertise the unique
features of their country that will interest the delegates.
2) The financial obligations of hosting an International Congress of Plant
Pathology are the responsibility of the host national society (or
societies). ISPP does not underwrite the financing of the Congress.
3) The national society (or societies) hosting the Congress is responsible
for organizing the program, and therefore must be sufficiently large and be
able to provide leadership in each of the traditional sections such as
virology, mycology, biotechnology, seed pathology, epidemiology,
phytobacteriology, etc. The program of any past congress may be
consulted for a complete list of the sessions. Some help can be
expected from ISPP committees and Working Groups.
4. The site (city and hotels/campus) must be able to accommodate more than
2000 delegates and provide meeting rooms for up to 10 concurrent sessions,
as well as numerous small meeting rooms. The site should offer a
variety of eating places representing a range of costs. Ideally, a
university campus should be near to provide low-cost accommodations for
those unable to afford more expensive hotels and meals.
5. The host city must be easily accessible by international airlines and
offer a variety of cultural and tourist attractions. One day of the
Congress is normally scheduled for tours of local unique attractions.
National Societies wishing to make a bid to host the 9th International
Congress of Plant Pathology are welcome to contact the ISPP President, Peter
Scott, at <p.scott@cabi.org> and/or the ISPP Secretary-General at <charliedelp@hotmail.com>
for further details. See also the ISPP web site at <http://www.isppweb.org>.
By March 2002, the bid must be sent to all ISPP Councilors who will be asked
to vote on competing bids. This can be facilitated by use of ISPP List,
which is an e-mail link to most Councilors, and the use of a web site.
International Council of Grapevine Trunk Diseases (ICGTD)
The International Council of Grapevine Trunk Diseases has
been welcomed as a Subject Matter Committee of ISPP.
In recent years trunk disease problems have emerged that
are of paramount importance to the grape industry. They include the
resurgence of esca (black measles) and Eutypa dieback in mature vineyards,
and of decline diseases of young vines in newly planted vineyards. These
diseases were attracting attention from scientists in California, France,
Italy, South Africa and Australia, but the research was often conducted in
isolation and there was little exchange of the rather fragmentary
information.
The realization that both esca in mature vines and
decline in young vines were associated with the same fungus, and the naming
of that fungus as Phaeoacremonium chlamydosporum (later renamed Phaeomoniella
chlamydospora) focussed the attention of researchers on possible
inter-relationships of these diseases. The need for closer coordination
between scientists working on these diseases was realized, and the idea of
an International Council on Grapevine Trunk Diseases was conceived.
The first Council meeting took place in California in
July 1998, and agreed on objectives and a structure for the Council. The
Council serves as a forum for researchers from grape growing countries.
The Council executive consists of a chairman - Luigi
Chiarappa, and four regional coordinators: Laura Mugnai, Pedro Crous, Lucie
Morton, Ian Pascoe. The Secretariat would be shared with the International
Ampelography Society.
The 1st International Workshop on Grapevine Trunk
Diseases – Esca and Grapevine Declines" was jointly organized with
the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union and held in Siena, Italy in 1999.
There were 95 scientists as registered participants representing 21
countries. A 2nd meeting is organized for September 2001 in Lisbon, Portugal
(see "Coming Events") A third meeting is planned for the
International Congress of Plant Pathology in Christchurch in February 2003.
Regional coordinator (Australasia, southern hemisphere):
Dr Ian Pascoe, Institute for Horticultural Development, Agriculture
Victoria, Knoxfield, Private Bag 15, South Eastern Mail Centre, Victoria
3176, Australia; Phone: +61-3-92109283; Fax: +61-3-98003521; e-mail: <ian.pascoe@nre.vic.gov.au>.
Regional coordinator (Europe, northern hemisphere): Dr
Laura Mugnai, Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Agrarie, sez Patologia Vegetale,
Università, P le delle Cascine, 28 – 50144 Firenze, Italy; Phone:
+39-055-3288279; Fax. +39-055-354786; e-mail: <laura.mugnai@unifi.it>.
The Southern African Society for Plant Pathology
Professor Teresa Coutinho welcomes ISPP members to the
40th Congress of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (SASPP),
which will be hosted by the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology
Institute (FABI) and the University of Pretoria from 20 to 23 January 2002
(see "Coming Events"). The venue is Dikhololo, near Brits, Gauteng,
and is about one hour from Pretoria and a little longer from Johannesburg.
Abstracts will be published in the South African Journal
of Science.
Two workshops will also be held, one on fungal phylogeny
and genetics and another on fungal systematics. They will be at FABI,
University of Pretoria, on 20 January 2002.
Professor Coutinho is the Chair of the Conference
Organising Committee and may be contacted at FABI, University of Pretoria,
Pretoria 0002, South Africa; Fax: +27-12-420-3960; e-mail: <Teresa.Coutinho@fabi.up.ac.za>.
Latin American Phytopathological Congresses
The XI Latin American Phytopathological Congress (XI
Congreso Latinoamericano de Fitopatologia) is taking place from 5-10 August
2001 in Sao Pedro, SP, Brasil. During this event Vice-president Dr Jose M
Amador will assume the Presidency and the responsibility to organize the XII
Latin American Phytopathological Congress that will take place from 6–11
April 2003 at the Radison Hotel, Isla del Padre, Valle del Rio Grande,
Texas-USA. This event will be joint with the Annual Meetings of the
Caribbean Division of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) and the
Southern Division of APS. Further details will be posted in early 2002 in
the Webpage of the organizer of these congresses, the Asociacion
Latinoamericana de Fitopatologia: <http://sites.uol.com.br/alfito/>.
Sclerotinia 2001
The XIth International Sclerotinia Workshop took place at
CSL from 9-11 July 2001. This was the first time the Workshop had been held
outside North America and the first meeting of the Sclerotinia Committee of
the ISPP. It says something for the original group that of the 84 delegates
39 came from North America. Sixteen were from continental Europe, five from
New Zealand, one from Australia, one from India and four from South America.
Only 19 were from the UK and this included one Frenchman and a research
student from China! Accommodation was provided at the University of York and
a coach service was organised to bring the delegates to CSL. This
arrangement worked surprisingly well.
There was a scientific programme of 28 platform
presentations and some 46 posters. The keynote paper was presented by
Professor Linda Kohn of the University of Toronto on the population dynamics
of Sclerotinia and the implications for disease management. Other
papers fell into three groups, the biology of the pathogen, disease control
- both biological and chemical, and its epidemiology.
The social side was not forgotten and an afternoon trip
was made to Whitby followed by a Mediaeval Banquet held in St Williams’s
College in York, established in 1461.
Financial support from ISPP, BSPP, Syngenta and Blackwell
Science is gratefully acknowledged.
The papers will be available on the BSPP web-site at <www.bspp.org.uk>.
Nigel Hardwick, Crop Disease Research, Central Science
Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK; Fax: +44-1-904-462111; e-mail:
<nigel.hardwick@csl.gov.uk>.
Plant Pathology and Global Food Security
This is the Presidential Meeting of the British Society
for Plant Pathology (BSPP) to be held from 8 to 10 July 2002 at Imperial
College, London, UK. The BSPP President for 2002 is Dr Roger Plumb.
The meeting will address the following themes within the
programme:
1) Potential impacts of disease resistance biotechnology
in developing countries.
2) Global disease concerns and trade.
3) Sustainable disease management in agricultural systems
under threat.
4) Extension alternatives in the 21st Century.
The meeting will include the annual P H Gregory Paper
Reading Competition and a Poster Competition for younger scientists as well
as an open offered poster session.
Further information on the programme and booking
information will be produced later in the year. The BSPP website <http://www.bspp.org.uk/>
will contain updated information and contact details.
Contact: Mark J Hocart, BSPP Programme Secretary, Crop
Science Department, SAC, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK; Fax:
+44-131-667-2601; e-mail: <m.hocart@ed.sac.ac.uk>.
Plant Disease In "Science"
A series of articles on different aspects of Plant
Pathology were presented in the issue of Science for the week of 22
June 2001. The issue is Science 292 (5525) pages 2269-2289 or
see <http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol292/issue5525/index.shtml#specialintro>.
The topics were:
The Endless Race Between Plant and Pathogen;
Finding New Ways to Fight Plant Diseases;
The Push to Pit Genomics Against Fungal Pathogens;
Florida Fights to Stop Citrus Canker;
Portrait of a Pathogen;
RNA Silencing in Plants—Defense and Counterdefense;
Evolutionary Dynamics of Plant R-Genes;
Common and Contrasting Themes of Plant and Animal
Diseases.
3rd International Bacterial Wilt Symposium
The Symposium will take place at White River, South
Africa, from 4-8 February 2002 (see "Coming Events") as previously
advised, but there are some updates and revisions.
The deadline for abstract submission has been advanced to
31 September 2001. The proceedings will be published as an edited book
partially sponsored by ACIAR and INRA. There is a new web-site with
information about the symposium at <http://ibws.nexenservices.com>.
Jody Terblanche, <jody@nitk1.agric.za>.
Molecular Plant Pathology
This is the title of a new journal produced by the
British Society for Plant Pathology to cover the molecular biology of plant
disease.
The full table of contents for Volume 2, 2001, and
how to submit an article can be viewed at the journal Web-site <www.blackwell-science.com/mpp>.
Dr Gary Foster, Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Plant
Pathology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8
1UG, UK; Fax: +44-117-925-7374; e-mail: <Gary.Foster@bristol.ac.uk>.
APS Revision of Common Names for Diseases of Peach and
Nectarine
Designations of the common names for diseases of peach
and nectarine have been revised for the American Phytopathological Society
and are listed at <http://www.scisoc.org/resource/common/commentc.htm>.
Challenges by APS members should be made to the chair of the APS Committee
for the Standardization of Common Names for Plant Diseases, Melodie Putnam,
at <putnamm@bcc.orst.edu>.
Any comments by ISPP members should be sent to David
Teakle at <teakle@biosci.uq.edu.au>.
International Rhizoctonia Committee
The international Rhizoctonia website is now at
<http://plymouth.ces.state.nc.us/irc/index.html>.
Marc A Cubeta, 207 Research Station Road, Plymouth, NC
27962, USA; Fax: +1-252-793-5142; e-mail: <marc_cubeta@ncsu.edu>.
Coming Events
The XIth Latin American Phytopathological Congress (XI
Congreso Latinoamericano de Fitopatologia) in Sao Pedro (near Piracicaba),
State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. To be held jointly with the XXXIV Brazilian
Phytopathological Congress (Congresso Brasileiro de Fitopatologia).
5-10 August 2001.
Contact: Professor Sergio F Pascholati, Setor de Fitopatologia, ESALQ /
Universidad de Sao Paulo, C P 09, 13418-900 Piracicaba, SP - Brasil; e-mail:
<fito2001@carpa.ciagri.usp.br>.
See also the website: <www.sbfito.com.br>.
American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting in
Salt Lake City, USA.
25-29 August 2001.
See <http://www.apsnet.org>.
International Symposium on Asian Pears in Kurayoshi,
Tottori, Japan.
25-29 August 2001.
Contact: S Iwahori, Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, University of
Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Japan; Fax: +81-298-53-6617; e-mail: <iwahori@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp>.
9th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology -
Interactions in the Microbial World in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
26-31 August 2001.
Contact: for scientific program - Jan Woldendorp, CTO-NIOO, P O Box 40, 6666
ZG Heteren, The Netherlands; Fax: +31-26-4723227; e-mail: <woldendorp@cto.nioo.knaw.nl>,
or for organisation - Dr Wietse de Boer at e-mail: <wdeboer@cto.nioo.knaw.nl>.
2nd MPU/ICGTD Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases - Esca
and Grapevine Declines in Lisbon, Portugal.
14-15 September 2001.
For information and electronic pre-registration see <http://icgtd.isa.utl.pt>
or contact Professor Helena Oliveira; Fax: +351-213-610196; <heloliveira@isa.utl.pt>.
Molecular Biology of Fungal Pathogens in UK
(sponsored by the British Society for Plant Pathology).
14-16 September 2001 and 17-19 July 2002.
Contact: Dr Jim Benyon <jim.benyon@hri.ac.uk>
or Dr Surapereddy Sreenivasaprasad <ss.prasad@hri.ac.uk>
or Dr Mark Hocart <m.hocart@ed.sac.ac.uk>.
XI Mediterranen Phytopathological Union (MPU) Congress
jointly with the 3rd Sociedade Portuguesa de Fitopatologia (SPF) Congress
in Évora, Portugal.
17 to 20 September 2001.
For more information and electronic pre-registration, visit <www.eventos.uevora.pt/mpu_congress>
or contact Professor Maria Ivone E Clara; Fax: +351-266-760824; <spf_mpu@uevora.pt>.
13th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Plant
Pathology Society in Cairns, Australia.
24-27 September 2001.
Contact: Suzanne Denyer, Centre for Tropical Agriculture, P O Box 1054,
Mareeba, Queensland 4880, Australia; Fax: +61-7-4092-3593; e-mail: <DenyerS@dpi.qld.gov.au>.
See <http://www.australasianplantpathologysociety.org.au/Cairns2001/Cairns.htm>.
Second International IUFRO Meeting on Phytophthora
Diseases in Forests and Natural Ecosystems in Perth and Albany,
Australia.
30 September-5 October 2001.
Contact for meeting information: Dr Giles Hardy, School of Biological
Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Perth 6150, Western
Australia; Fax: +61-8-9360-6303; e-mail: <g-hardy@central.murdoch.edu.au>.
See: <http://wwwscience.murdoch.edu.au/conf/phytophthora/index.html>.
IX International Workshop on Fire Blight in Napier,
New Zealand.
8-12 October 2001.
Contact: Dr Christopher Hale, Hort Research, Private Bag 92169, Auckland,
New Zealand; Fax: +64-9815-4201; e-mail: <chale@hort.cri.nz>.
See <http://www.hortresearch.co.nz/confer.htm>.
International Conference on Plant Disease Forecasting:
Information Technology in Plant Pathology in Kyongju, Republic of Korea.
25-30 October 2001.
See: <http://plantpath.snu.ac.kr/ic2001>.
4th International Symposium on the Role of Soy in
Preventing and Treating Chronic Disease in San Diego, USA.
4-7 November 2001.
See: <http://www.aocs.org/soy01.htm>.
6th Symposium of the International Society of Root
Research in Nagoya, Japan.
11-15 November 2001.
Contact: Dr S Morita, c/o Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Science,
University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan; Fax: +81-5641-5070;
e-mail: <anatomy@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>;
web-site <http://wwwsoc.nacsis.ac.jp/jsrr/isrr>.
40th Congress of the South African Society for Plant
Pathology in Dikhololo, near Pretoria, South Africa.
20-23 January 2002.
Contact: Professor Teresa Coutinho, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology
Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa; Fax:
+27-12-420-3960; e-mail: <Teresa.Coutinho@fabi.up.ac.za>.
The 3rd International Bacterial Wilt Symposium in
White River, Republic of South Africa.
4-8 February 2002.
Contact: Jody Terblanche, Tobacco and Cotton Reserach Institute, Private Bag
x 82075, Rustenberg, 0300, Republic of South Africa; Fax: +27-14-536-3113;
e-mail: <jody@nitk1.agric.za>.
See the web-site: <http://ibws.nexenservices.com/>.
International Workshops on Dry Bean Rust and Common
Bacterial Blight near Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
4-8 March 2002.
Contact: James R. Steadman, USDA, ARS, Department of Plant Pathology,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA; e-mail: <jsteadman1@unl.edu>.
Fourth Plant Breeding Symposium of the Southern African
Plant Breeder Society near Cape Town, South Africa.
11-14 March 2002.
Contact: Deidre Fourie, ARC Grain Crops Institute, Private Bag X1251,
Potchefstroom, South Africa; Phone: +27-18-299-6311; Fax: +27-18-297-6572;
e-mail: <Deidre@opsl.agric.za>.
Powdery Mildew 2002 sponsored by the British Society
for Plant Pathology in Cambridge, UK.
12 April 2002
Contact: Dr James Brown, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK; e-mail:
<james.brown@bbsrc.ac.uk>.
VIIIth International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium in
Aschersleben, Germany.
12-17 May 2002.
See the web-site: <http://virus-2002.bafz.de>.
Contact: Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants (BAZ), P
O Box 1505, 06435 Aschersleben, Germany; Phone: +49-3473-879165; Fax:
+49-3473-879200; e-mail: <T.Kuehne@bafz.de>.
Plant Pathology and Global Food Security, Presidential
Meeting of the British Society for Plant Pathology in London, UK.
8-10 July 2002.
Contact: Dr Mark Hocart, Crop Science Department, SAC, West Mains Road,
Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK; Fax: +44-131-667-2601; e-mail: <m.hocart@ed.sac.ac.uk>.
American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
27-31 July 2002.
See <http://www.apsnet.org>.
XXVIth International Horticultural Congress &
Exhibition in Toronto, Canada.
11-17 August 2002.
See: <www.ihc2002.org>. Contact:
IHC2002 c/o Congress Canada, 49 Bathurst Street, Suite 100, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada MSV 2P2; e-mail: <IHCreg@congressscan.com>.
EFPP 2002: Disease Resistance in Plant Pathology, Sixth
Conference of European Foundation for Plant Pathology in Prague, Czech
Republic.
9-14 September 2002.
Contact: J Polak; Fax: +420-2333-11592; e-mail: <EFPP2002@vurv.cz>.
International Rice Congress 2002 (IRC2002) in
Beijing, China.
16-20 September 2002.
See the web-site: <http://www.cgiar.org/irri/irc2002/index.htm>.
3rd Asia-Pacific International Mycological Conference on
Biodiversity and Biotechnology (AMC 2002) in Kunming, China.
4-8 November 2002.
Contact: <amc2002@china.com>.
8th International Congress of Plant Pathology in
Christchurch, New Zealand.
2-8 February 2003.
Contact: Congress Chairman, Dr Ian Harvey, PLANTwise, P O Box 8915,
Christchurch, NZ; Fax: +64-3-325-2946; e-mail: <harveyi@plantwise.co.nz>
or Helen Shrewsbury, ICPP Secretariat, P O Box 84, Lincoln University,
Canterbury, NZ; Fax: +64-3-325-3840; e-mail: <shrewsbh@lincoln.ac.nz>.
Website: <http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/icpp2003/>.
6th International Symposium on Chemical and non-Chemical
Soil and Substrate Disinfection in Jerusalem, Israel.
2003.
Contact: Professor J Katan, Department of Plant Pathology, University of
Minnesota, USA; Fax: +1-972-8946-6794; e-mail: <gamliel@agri.huji.ac.il>.
The XIIth Latin American Phytopathological Congress (XI
Congreso Latinoamericano de Fitopatología) in Valle del Rio Grande,
Texas, USA.
6–11 April 2003.
To be held jointly with the Caribbean and Southern Divisions of the American
Phytopathological Society at the Radison Hotel, Isla del Padre, Valle del
Rio Grande, Texas, USA. See: <http://sites.uol.com.br/alfito/>.
American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting in
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
9-13 August 2003.
See <http://www.apsnet.org>.
5th International Postharvest Research Symposium in
Verona, Italy.
2004.
Contact: Professor Pietro Tonutti, University of Padova, Italy; Fax:
+39-04982-72850; e-mail: <ptonutti@agripolis.unipd.it>.
The XIIIth Latin American Phytopathological Congress
(XIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Fitopatología) in the city of
Cordoba, Cordoba Province, Argentina.
Mid-2005.
To be held jointly with the Asociación Argentina de Fitopatología.
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