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INTERNATIONAL
NEWSLETTER ON PLANT PATHOLOGY
ISPP
Newsletter 30 (6) December 2000
(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:
ISPP Secretary-General - new address
Dr Charlie Delp, ISPP Secretary-General, has a new address
from 1 December 2000. This follows his completion of a 2-year period with
the US Peace Corps in Samoa.
The new address is 12905 N 52nd Street, Tampa, FL 33617,
USA: Phone: +1-813-984-1432; e-mail: <charliedelp@hotmail.com>.
Canadian Phytopathological Society
The 2001 Canadian Phytopathological Society's Annual Meeting
will take place in London, Ontario, Canada from 10 to 13 June 2001. This
year's theme is "Plant Protection and the Environment". The
abstract submission deadline is 15 March 2001 and the registration deadline
is 2 April 2001. Look at the Society's website: <www.cps-scp.ca>
for detailed information.
The annual meeting will provide a forum for participants
from industry, government and academic institutions to interact, educate and
communicate on the nature, cause and control of plant diseases. Included in
the Program are two symposia titled "The Impact of Present Day
Agriculture on the Environment" and "Genomics and Plant Pathology:
Where are we and where are we going?" and two workshops "Novel
Disease Control Strategies I" and "Novel Disease Control
Strategies II".
3rd International Bacterial Wilt Symposium
Philippe Prior <philippe.prior@avignon.inra.fr>
advises that the bacterial wilt web-site <http://ardeath.biosci.uq.edu.au/ibwc/>
contains details of the 3rd International Bacterial Wilt Symposium (IBWS),
including an on line pre-registration form.
On the site, Jody Terblanche on behalf of the local
organizing committee invites attendance at the 3rd IBWS in South Africa from
4-8 February 2002. The symposium will be held at White River, a small town
situated in the scenic South African lowveld. White River is also close to
the world-renowned Kruger National Park (game reserve).
More information on travelling arrangements, accommodation,
and registration fees will be available on the web page in the near future.
For personal convenience, and that of the local organizers, there is a
preliminary registration form for completion and electronic return if
possible.
Information can be obtained from Jody Terblanche, Private
Bag X 82075, Rustenburg, 0300 South Africa; Fax: +27-14-5363113; e-mail:
<jody@nitk1.agric.za>.
3rd International Geminivirus Symposium
Claude Fauquet <iltab@danforthcenter.org>
advises about a meeting from 24-28 July 2001 on plant single-stranded DNA
viruses and their insect vectors. See the web-site <http://iltab.danforthcenter.org/symposium.html>.
The meeting will be organised jointly by the Association of
Applied Biologists and the Virus Research Department at the John Innes
Centre and will take place at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.
The sessions will cover recent research on all genera of the
Geminiviridae as well as nanoviruses, and will include the study of
plant-virus and vector-virus interactions. Sessions will have invited
keynote speakers and offered papers and poster sessions will also be held.
The John Innes Centre is a leading research establishment in
plant and microbial sciences and is part of the Norwich Research Park that
includes the University of East Anglia and the Institute of Food Research.
Participants at the meeting will have the opportunity to tour the site and
meet staff and students. Sessions will be held in the new John Innes Centre
Lecture Theatre complex that includes seminar rooms, meeting areas and a
300-seater theatre with state of the art audio and visual equipment.
Recreation facilities, including a bar and a heated outdoor swimming pool
are adjacent to the complex.
A range of accommodation is available from student
residences at the University of East Anglia, just 5 minutes pleasant walk
away, to three star hotels situated in easy reach of the Centre and the
city. Transport to and from designated hotels and University accommodation
will be provided.
Norwich is a pleasant medieval city with a good rail
connection to London and the major international airport at Schipol
(Amsterdam) is only a 40 minute flight away. The city offers diverse cafes
and restaurants as well as traditional English "pubs". In and
around Norwich and Norfolk there are numerous stately homes, castles, nature
reserves and the East Anglian coastline.
We invite you to pre-register your interest in the
Symposium. In order to receive further information, please provide personal
details and indicate your areas of scientific interest among Replication,
Movement, Gene expression, Epidemiology/transmission, Emerging/novel
viruses, Nanoviruses, Control/resistance, Diagnostics/detection, Other
(please specify). Contact either <carol.aab@hri.ac.uk>
or <gemini-2001.enquiries@bbsrc.ac.uk>.
Phytoparasitica
Vivian R Priel advises that Phytoparasitica, the
Israel Journal of Plant Protection Sciences can be accessed on-line at <http://www.phytoparasitica.org>.
The Table of Contents and Abstracts of articles, as well as the Search
function, are freely accessible to all visitors at the site. The complete
pdf files of articles in volumes 28 and 29 are accessible only to
subscribers of Phytoparasitica.
Volume 29, issue number 1, contains a guest editorial
entitled "Facing the future without methyl bromide - are alternatives
available to this versatile fumigant?" by Robert Taylor.
For more information, contact Vivian R Priel at P O Box
2385, Rehovot 76123, ISRAEL; Fax: +972-8-9365858; e-mail: <apriel@netvision.net.il>.
Forest Pathology and Exotic Pests
The Forest Pathology Committee of the American
Phytopathological Society (APS) is leading the organization of an
international online workshop in April 2001. This is to discuss the risks of
exotic forest pests and their impact on trade. Towards this end, interested
parties may wish to review or comment on the USDA draft, "Pest Risk
Assessment on the Importation of Solid Wood Packing Materials into the
United States" at <www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/pra/swpm>.
Contact for questions about the workshop can be via e-mail: <aps@scisoc.org>.
APS Revisions of Common Names of Diseases
of Citrus and Onion
Official APS common names for the diseases of citrus and
onion have been revised and are listed at <http://www.scisoc.org/resource/common/commentc.htm>.
Any challenges by APS members are being made to Melodie
Putnam at <putnamm@bcc.orst.edu>,
Chair of the APS Committee for the Standardization of Common Names for Plant
Diseases.
Any consequent discussions within the ISPP should be
directed to David Teakle, Chair of the ISPP Committee for Common Names of
Plant Diseases, on Fax: +61-7-3365-4620; e-mail: <teakle@biosci.uq.edu.au>.
Chilies - co-operation with AVRDC
Centerpoint, the quarterly newsletter of the Asian Vegetable
Reserach and Development Center, carries in its June 2000 issue news of the
development of an outstanding chili line. One new line is performing well in
15 locations around the world in yield and resistance to bacterial wilt and
potato virus Y, and tolerance to anthracnose fruit rot. AVRDC is attempting
to offer growers improved open-pollinated lines.
The results with this line are very promising but it needs
testing more widely. Persons interested in taking part in AVRDC’s
international trial of chili or sweet peppers are asked to contact Peter
Hanson at AVRDC - OPC, P O Box 42, Shanhua, Taiwan 741, ROC; Fax:
+886-6-583-0009; e-mail: <avrdcbox@netra.avrdc.org.tw>.
Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology
A two-volume set entitled Encyclopedia of Plant
Pathology was announced by the publisher Wiley in October 2000. It
comprises approximately 2,200 pages with contributions from 300 persons on
over 850 topics covering all major divisions in plant pathology. The
editors-in-chief are Otis C Maloy and Timothy D Murray of Washington State
University, Pullman, Washington, USA.
More information is available at <www.wiley.com/reference>.
Bidding for the 2010 International
Horticultural Congress
The International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
is in the process of determining the location of its International Congress
for the year 2010. Dr John Possingham wrote from Adelaide, Australia, in the
recent issue of Chronica Horticulturae that a bid has been put
in for Queensland, Australia. A proposal has arisen from the activities of a
group of horticulturists in tropical parts in Queensland acting with
horticulturists in temperate zones of Australia and with colleagues in New
Zealand. The primary venue in the proposal is Brisbane. The idea of
Queensland would provide a research interface between a number of south-east
Asian countries and Australia and New Zealand, and also would be a new
location for many ISHS members.
The Editorial Office of Chronica Horticulturae is c/o ISHS
Secretariat, K Mercierlaan 92, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; Fax: +32-16-22-94-50;
e-mail: <info@ishs.org>. The ISHS
web-site is at <http://www.ishs.org>.
8th International Symposium on Nitrogen
Fixation with Non-Legumes
The 8th International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with
Non-Legumes being held from 3-7 December 2000 at The University of Sydney,
Australia, has a unique focus. Just as biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is
well known to involve a kind of mutually beneficial cooperative activity
between organisms often called symbiosis, this conference also seeks to
actively promote benefits to agriculture and the environment from
cooperative activity.
The first day of the Symposium has been specially designated
Farmers Day to emphasise that the science involved can have practical
value if applied effectively and to encourage this development as soon as
possible. Farmers should be able to specify their requirements for new
technology. The involvement of the farming industry and commercial producers
of inoculants in the discussions should allow scientists to make better
choices about what research is required.
It is now widely recognized that BNF should not be
considered in isolation from the general nutrition of plants. This reflects
the cooperative nature of nitrogen nutrition with other forms of nutrition
such as carbon, phosphorus, sulphur and others. Thus, the benefits from BNF
are interactive and it is almost impossible to define the maximum production
possible because of this factor. For that reason, this meeting will consider
the plant-growth promoting rhizobacterial (PGPR) effects as part of the same
complex.
From a theoretical viewpoint, the organizer (Professor I R
Kennedy) of this Symposium is also conscious that plant nutrition and the
consequent morphological development of crops and grain can be called an action
process. Action is driven by the impulses from energy organized as
quanta so that inoculant biofertiliser organisms can be thought of
energizing plant nutrients and mobilizing them in such a way that plant
nutrition is enhanced. Provided this occurs at a rate for all nutrients
commensurate with needs for growth, the greatest efficiency in the
utilization of our natural resources should be achieved.
Developing strategies to reduce the reliance on nitrogenous
and other fertilisers, to world-wide economic and environmental
sustainability, has been advertised as the main theme of the Symposium. With
this theme, the role of inoculant biofertilisers and endophytic microbes in
raising the yield of field crops by all relevant mechanisms (BNF, PGPR
effects, N and P mobilisation, etc.) will be a major topic of interest at
the Symposium.
Other major activities will include means of enhancing the
role of actinorhizal and cyanobacterial symbioses. Strategies allowing all
of these areas to reliably contribute to increased yields for farm and
forest production (e.g. quality assurance of inoculants, selection and
genetic improvement of microbes and plant cultivars, etc.) will be explored
at the Symposium and an action plan reported afterwards to the world
community in a book to be called Biofertilisers in Action.
Contact Professor Ivan R Kennedy, SUNFix Centre for
Nitrogen Fixation, Department of Agricultural Chemistry & Soil Science,
University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; Fax: +61-2-9351-5108; e-mail:
<int.symp@acss.usyd.edu.au>.
Visit the website at <http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/agric/SUNFix/Sunfix.htm>.
Coming Events
7th International Symposium on dsRNA Viruses in Aruba
(the Caribbean).
2-7 December 2000.
Contact: Terry Dermody, Vanderbilt University; see <www.mc.vanderbilt/microbio/dsrna.html>.
8th International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with
Non-Legumes in Sydney, Australia.
3-7 December 2000.
Contact: Professor Ivan R Kennedy, SUNFix Centre for Nitrogen Fixation,
Department of Agricultural Chemistry & Soil Science, University of
Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; Fax: +61-2-9351-5108; e-mail: <int.symp@acss.usyd.edu.au>.
Visit the website at <http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/agric/SUNFix/Sunfix.htm>.
Plant-Microbe Interactions and Resistance to Disease and
Nematodes, a PACIFICHEM 2000 Symposium in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
14-19 December 2000.
Contact one of: Dr Robert Stipanovic, Fax: +1-409-260-9470; e-mail: <rds846a@acs.tamu.edu>;
Dr Rong Tsao, Fax: +1-905-562-4335; e-mail: <caor@em.agr.ca>;
Dr Gregory S Basarad, Fax: +1-302-366-5738; e-mail: <barsarab@esvax.dnet.dupont.com>;
Dr Robert Hill, Fax: +64-7-858-4702; e-mail:<rhill@hort.cri.nz>.
Plant-pathogen interactions: understanding mechanisms of
resistance and pathogenicity for disease control, BSPP Presidential
Meeting 2000, in Wye College, UK.
18-20 December 2000.
Contact: Dr Mark Hocart, BSPP Programme Secretary, SAC Edinburgh, West Mains
Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK; Fax: +44-131-667-2601; e-mail: <m.hocart@ed.sac.ac.uk>.
Whitefly Symposium in Sicily, Italy.
February 2001.
Further information is at <whitefly@bemisia.freeserve.co.uk>
or contact David Oliver, the Research Facilitator, at <network.ewsn@bbsrc.ac.uk>
2nd Australasian Soilborne Diseases Symposium in Lorne,
Victoria, Australia.
5-8 March 2001.
Contact: Marg Scarlett, The Conference Organisers Pty Ltd, Box 1127,
Sandringham, Victoria 3191, Australia; Fax: +61-3-9521-8889; e-mail: <conforg@ozemail.com.au>.
See the web-site: <www.nrevic.gov.au/agvic/ihd/asds.htm>.
The 2001 Canadian Phytopathological Society's Annual
Meeting in London, Ontario, Canada.
10 to 13 June 2001.
See the Society's website: <www.cps-scp.ca>.
On-line Instructional Technology Symposium on Plant
Pathology hosted by Terry Stewart at <http://www.ispp-itsymposium.org.nz/>,
Massey University, New Zealand. Papers due by 15 December 2000.
15 May-30 June 2001.
Contact: Gail L. Schumann, Chair, ISPP Teaching Committee, University of
Massachusetts, 209 Fernald Hall, Amherst MA 01003-2420, USA; Fax:
+1-413-545-2532; e-mail: <Schumann@pltpath.umass.edu>
Sixth International Symposium on Positive Strand RNA
Viruses in Paris, France.
28 May-2 June 2001.
Contact: e-mail: <vdeubel@mailhost.pasteur.fr>.
26th Congress of the International Seed Testing Association
in Angers, France.
14-22 June 2001.
Contact: ISTA Secretariat, P O Box 412/Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046
Zurich, Switzerland; Fax: +41-1-377-60-01; e-mail: <istach@iprolink.ch>.
International Union of Forestry Research Organisation
Working Party on Foliage, Shoot and Stem Diseases in Helsinki, Finland.
16-24 June 2001.
Contact: Antti Uotila at <antti.uotila@helsinki.fi>.
World Congress of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 2001 in
Budapest, Hungary.
8-10 July 2001.
Contact: Dr Oszkar Kock, National Institute for Agricultural Quality
Control, P O Box 30, 93., H-1525 Budapest, Hungary; Fax: +36-1-2122-673;
e-mail: <map.congr@ommi.hu>.
XIth Meeting of the International Sclerotinia Workshop
in York, UK.
8-12 July 2001.
Contact: Dr Nigel Hardwick, Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York,
YO41 1LZ, UK; Fax: +44-1904-462111; e-mail: <nigel.hardwick@csl.gov.uk>.
The provisional programme will appear on the BSPP web pages at <http://www.bspp.org.uk/>.
10th Congress of the International Society for Molecular
Plant-Microbe Interactions in Madison, USA.
10-14 July 2001.
Contact: 10th IS-MPMI Congress, UW-Extension Conference Centers, The Pyle
Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA. See web-site: <http://www.plantpath.wisc.edu/mpmi/>.
20th Annual American Society for Virology Meeting in
Madison, USA.
21-25 July 2001.
Contact: via <www.mcw.edu/asv/meetings.html>.
3rd International Geminivirus Symposium in Norwich, UK.
24-28 July 2001.
Contact: <carol.aab@hri.ac.uk>
or <gemini-2001.enquiries@bbsrc.ac.uk>.
See the web-site <http://iltab.danforthcenter.org/symposium.html>.
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.scisoc.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>.
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>.
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>.
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>.
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://ardeath.biosci.uq.edu.au/ibwc/>.
The 8th General Symposium of the Plant Virus Epidemiology
Group of ISPP in Aschersleben, Germany.
May 2002.
Contact: RogerJones, Chairman, ISPP Plant Virus Epidemiology Committee;
e-mail: <rjones@agric.wa.gov.au>.
American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
27-31 July 2002.
See <http://www.scisoc.org>.
XXVIth International Horticultural Congress & Exhibition
in Toronto, Canada.
11-17 August 2002.
Contact: IHC2002 c/o Congress Canada, 49 Bathurst Street, Suite 100,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada MSV 2P2; e-mail: <IHCreg@congressscan.com>.
See: <www.ihc2002.org>.
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/>.
The XIIth Latin American Phytopathological Congress (XI
Congreso Latinoamericano de Fitopatología) in Mc Allen, Texas, USA.
Around May 2003.
To be held jointly with the Caribbean and Southern Divisions of the American
Phytopathological Society.
American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting in
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
9-13 August 2003.
See <http://www.scisoc.org>.
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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