INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER ON PLANT PATHOLOGY

(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:

• 8th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP2003)
• Nominations Commitee - Reminder notice
• New e-mail addresses for some ISPP Executive Members
• ISPP World Directory Data & Updates
• Eighth Arab Congress of Plant Protection
• ISPP and the World Food Summit: five years later
• Plant Health Progress
• British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP)
• Ninth International Fusarium Workshop

• Late Blight: Managing the Global Threat

• Update - Bacterial Wilt Symposium (3rd IBWS)

• Sixth European Conference on Fungal Genetics (ECFG6)
• Coming Events

"Solving problems in the real world", 2 to 7 February 2003, Christchurch, New Zealand

ICPP2003 will be held under the auspices of the International Society for Plant Pathology and the Australasian Plant Pathology Society.

The five keynote themes for ICPP2003 are:

• Plant pathology in the Asia/Pacific region

• Towards integrated management of soil-borne diseases

• Host/pathogen interactions

• Towards integrated management of airborne diseases

• Knowledge transfer for plant pathology

A special session will consider "Global Food Security".

These topics will be addressed by eminent invited keynote speakers.

Separate Concurrent Sessions will cover a wide range of topics relevant to modern plant pathology and the problems caused by plant diseases. These Sessions will be presented by invited world authorities.

Offered papers will be presented as posters, with selected posters presented orally in Poster Discussion Sessions. A number of pre- and post-Congress workshops and Evening Sessions will be held on specific topics.

The conference website is being kept up-to-date with details as they are confirmed at <http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/icpp2003>.

Registration brochures will be available in December 2001, and distributed to those who have completed Registration of Interest details. If you would like a brochure sent, contact Helen Shrewsbury, Professional Development Group, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand <shrewsbh@lincoln.ac.nz>. On-line registration facilities will also be available through the website.

Nominations Commitee - Reminder notice

All ISPP Councilors have received notification that nominations for the offices of President, Vice-President, Secretary-General and Treasurer of the ISPP for the term 2003-2008 must be in the hands of the Nominations Committee by 31 December 2001.

Any member of an ISPP-Associated Society can suggest nominees. All nominations must be sent to me with copies to all other members of the Nominations Committee. Their e-mail addresses are as follows:

• Ariena van Bruggen <Ariena.vanBruggen@biob.dpw.wau.nl>

• Ichiro Uyeda <uyeda@res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp>

• Elaine Davison <edavison@agric.wa.gov.au>

• Edward R. French <e.french@cgnet.com>

• Wally Marasas <wally.marasas@mrc.ac.za>

• Dick Hamilton <rihamilto@shaw.ca>

R I Hamilton, Past-President, ISPP.

The changes are two:

Immediate Past-President, Dick Hamilton, now at <rihamilto@shaw.ca>;

Vice-President, Anupam Varma, now at <anupamvarma@vsnl.net>.

ISPP World Directory Data & Updates

The ISPP World Directory of Plant Pathologists at <http://www.isppweb.org> includes membership data from 17 participating societies. It is time to include your society’s membership data or to update previously submitted data.

Please contact the Directory Facilitator, Charles Delp, at <charliedelp@hotmail.com> for information.

Eighth Arab Congress of Plant Protection

Khaled Makkouk, <K.MAKKOUK@cgiar.org>, Acting Program Leader, Germplasm Program ICARDA, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, SYRIA, advised about this forthcoming Congress as follows:

The 8th Arab Congress of Plant Protection, organized by the Arab Society for Plant Protection in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture, Omar El-Mokhtar University, El-Beida, Libya, will be held during the period of 12-16 October 2003, in El-Beida, Libya. The congress program will cover most of the general areas in Plant Protection including:

• Economic Entomology and Acarology

• Fungal, bacterial and viral plant diseases

• Nematodes

• Weeds

• Biotechnology for Pest Control

• Integrated Pest Management

The deadline for submitting titles of presentations to the organizing committee is 30 July 30 2002.

For more details, please contact: Dr Ali Bataw, <alibataw@hotmail.com>, Secretary of the Organizing Committee, Faculty of Agriculture, Omar El-Mokhtar University, El-Beida, Libya or Dr Bassam Bayaa, <B.Bayaa@cgiar.org>, President of the Arab Society of Plant Protection ICARDA, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria.

ISPP and the World Food Summit: five years later

FAO will soon host a global meeting to review progress towards ending hunger. The meeting, the World Food Summit: five years later, is intended to track progress achieved since the 1996 World Food Summit and consider ways to accelerate the process.

As stated in the October 2001 issue of the ISPP Newsletter, the Summit was originally scheduled for 5-9 November 2001 but was delayed in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks in the United States. "Unfortunately the present international circumstances and the loss of so many innocent lives and the crisis that followed have led us to seek postponement of such an event," said Jacques Diouf, Director-General of FAO. The FAO Council is expected to decide on a revised date at its next meeting.

Updates may be sought at <http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsummit>.

Searching the internet for specific plant health information typically yields mixed results. A good on-line solution is to use Plant Health Progress at <www.planthealthprogress.com>, an interdisciplinary journal offering a comprehensive assortment of applied and practitioner-oriented material. It is designed for public and private practitioners, growers, diagnosticians, researchers, advisors, field personnel, manufacturers, regulatory officials and public policy makers.

It has a collaborative and searchable database of content. Editor-in-Chief Timothy Murray states that anyone is invited to submit articles to Plant Health Progress, the goal being to become the Internet’s premier source of information on all aspects of plant health maintenance. Both peer-reviewed and fully citable, the journal is a refereed internet only publication and it aims to serve practitioners worldwide.

Plant Health Progress has support and collaboration from affiliated organizations known as partners. Partnership is open to any organization interested in growing healthy plants, including educational and research institutions, extension organizations, scientific and professional societies, government agencies, corporations and small businesses.

For more about the submission process, go to <www.planthealthprogress.org> and select "Submission Guidelines" from the menu on the left of the screen. Information on becoming a partner can be obtained by e-mailing <partners@planthealthprogress.org>. Subscription information is available at <http://www.planthealthprogress.org/about/subscribetop.htm>.

Contact Cindy Ash, Plant Health Progress, Phone: +1-651-454-7250; e-mail: <cash@scisoc.org>.

The next BSPP Presidential meeting is "Plant Pathology and Global Food Security" in London, UK, on 8-10 July 2002. Further details may be found at <president@bspp.org.uk>.

Dr Avice M Hall, Secretary of the British Society for Plant Pathology, Environmental Sciences, C P Snow Building, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Al10 9AB, UK; Fax: +44.-1707-285258; e-mail: <A.M.Hall@herts.ac.uk>.

The Ninth International Fusarium Workshop will be held at the University of Sydney, Australia, from 27-30 January 2003. The meeting is held in conjunction with the International Congress of Plant Pathology at Christchurch, New Zealand, and is on during the week prior to the ICPP meeting.

We hope to have an interesting and diverse program and will include opportunities for microscope displays in which a wide range of cultures of Fusarium species will be available for your perusal. There will be sessions focussing on the following areas:-

• Taxonomy and new species descriptions

• Molecular biology and phylogenetics

• Pathology and disease epidemiology

• Genetics

• Ecology and biogeography

• Mycotoxins and mycotoxicoses

There will be opportunities for oral and poster presentations.

There will be a welcome reception and a conference dinner; the costs for this are included in the registration fee. Please inquire with the conveners for costs for partners for either of these functions.

There are several types of accommodation that are available in close proximity to the venue for the meeting. At the University student college dormitory style accommodation is available and is the closest and cheapest accommodation; it is however un-air conditioned and it can be hot and humid in Sydney at this time of year. There are a number of motels close to the University that can vary in price from moderate to expensive (at least in Australian dollars!).

The cost of the workshop is A$450 (US$225) – this includes a welcome reception, a conference dinner, morning and afternoon tea/coffee and lunch for each day. If you are interested in attending this meeting please register to allow us to plan the workshop effectively. Registration forms can be obtained from Dr Brett Summerell, Royal Botanic Gardens, Mrs Macquaries Rd, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia; Fax: +61-2-9241-1135; e-mail: <Brett.Summerell@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au>.

Brett Summerell and Lester Burgess, Convenors.

The next Global Initiative on Late Blight (GILB) international conference "Late Blight: Managing the Global Threat" is planned for 11-13 July 2002 in Hamburg, Germany, in conjunction with the 15th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR) to be held 14-19 July. The program includes lectures by invited experts, poster sessions and discussion sessions to analyze and propose activities to further research on controlling late blight. The central themes are

• Studies of the late blight pathogen

• Integrated pest management of late blight

• Breeding for host resistance

Registration is now online at <http://www.cipotato.org/gilb>.

Charlotte Lizarraga, Assistant GILB Coordinator, Global Initiative on Late Blight (GILB), International Potato Center-CIP-Centro Internacional de la Papa, Apartado 1558, Lima 12, Peru; Phone: +51-1-349-6017, ext. 2122; Fax: +51-1-317-5326; e-mail: <c.lizarraga@cgiar.org>.

The 3rd International Bacterial Wilt Symposium (3rd IBWS) will take place 4-8 February 2002 in White River, South Africa.

The scientific organizing committee for the 3rd IBWS met recently in Avignon (France) to review abstracts and organize the scientific program. About 100 abstracts have been submitted and125 scientists from 30 countries are pre-registered for the meeting. The abstracts demonstrate the unusual depth, diversity, and importance of this symposium. The tentative scientific program and edited abstracts are published on the web-site <http://ibws.nexenservices.com>.

Philippe Prior, INRA, France; Fax: +33-4-32-72-28-42; <philippe.prior@avignon.inra.fr>.

Professor Lorenzini, secretary of the Italian Phytopathological Society, obtained this item of news from Professor Vannacci. The Sixth European Conference on Fungal Genetics (ECFG6) will be held in Pisa, Italy, from 6-9 April 2002.

Important dates are:

• 15 December 2001: submission of abstract forms.

• 30 January 2002: deadline for early registration.

The web site is: <http://www.agr.unipi.it/ECFG6>.

Professor Giovanni Vannacci, ECFG6, Local Organising Committee, Department of Fruit Science and Plant Protection, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, Pisa, Italy; Phone: +39-050-57-1556 I 56124; Fax +39-050 543564; e-mail: <gvann@agr.unipi.it>.

Coming Events

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>.

Exploring New Frontiers in Integrated Pest Management in Toronto, Canada.
24-26 March 2002.
Contact: Margaret Appleby, Crop Technology Branch, Ministry of Agriculture, 95 rue Dundas, R R #3, Brighton, ON K0K 1H0, Canada; see <www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/ipmconference/>.

Sixth European Conference on Fungal Genetics in Pisa, Italy.
6-9 April 2002.
Contact: <www.agr.unipi.it/ECFG6>, or Professor Giovanni Vannacci, ECFG6, Local Organising Committee, Department of Fruit Science and Plant Protection, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, Pisa, Italy; Fax +39-050 543564; e-mail: <gvann@agr.unipi.it>.

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>.

Fourth International Congress of Nematology in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
8-13 June 2002.
Contact: Maria Arias, CSIC, Centro de Ciencias Medioambiantales, Serrano 115 DPDO, Madrid 28006, Spain; see <www.ifns.org>.

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>; see the BSPP web-site at <http://www.bspp.org.uk>.

Late Blight: Managing the Global Threat in Hamburg, Germany.
11-13 July 2002.
Contact: <http://www.cipotato.org/gilb>, or Charlotte Lizarraga, Assistant GILB Coordinator, Global Initiative on Late Blight (GILB), International Potato Center-CIP-Centro Internacional de la Papa, Apartado 1558, Lima 12, Peru; Fax: +51-1-317-5326; e-mail: <c.lizarraga@cgiar.org>.

Molecular Biology of Fungal Pathogens in UK (sponsored by the British Society for Plant Pathology).
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>.

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>.

6th International Conference on Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars and Related Pathogens in Maratea, Potenza, Italy.
15-19 September 2002.
Contact: Nicola Sante Iacobellis, Dipartimento di Biologia, Difesa e Biotecnologie Agro-Forestali, Universita degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy; e-mail: <pseudomonassyringae@unibas.it>.

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>.

Ninth International Fusarium Workshop in Sydney, Australia.
27-30 January 2003.
Contact: Dr Brett Summerell, Royal Botanic Gardens, Mrs Macquaries Rd, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia; Fax: +61-2-9241-1135; e-mail: <Brett.Summerell@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au>.

8th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP2003) "Solving problems in the real world" in Christchurch, New Zealand.
2-7 February 2003.
Contact: Helen Shrewsbury, Professional Development Group, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand; Fax: +64-3-325-3840; e-mail: <shrewsbh@lincoln.ac.nz>. See <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 (XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Fitopatología) in Valle del Rio Grande, Texas, USA.
6-10 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.
Contact <j-amador@tamu.edu> or <e.french@cgiar.org>.

American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
9-13 August 2003.
See <http://www.apsnet.org>.

Eighth Arab Congress of Plant Protection in El-Beida, Libya.
12-16 October 2003
Contact: Dr Ali Bataw, <alibataw@hotmail.com>, Secretary of the Organizing Committee, Faculty of Agriculture, Omar El-Mokhtar University, El-Beida, Libya or Dr Bassam Bayaa, <B.Bayaa@cgiar.org>, President of the Arab Society of Plant Protection ICARDA, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria.

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 Cordoba, Cordoba Province, Argentina.
Mid-2005.
Organized by the Latin American Phytopathological Association (ALF) jointly with the annual meeting of the Argentine Phytopathological Association (Asociación Argentina de Fitopatología, AAF).
Contact: Dr Sergio L Lenardon, Institute for Phytopathology and Plant Physiology (IFFIVE), INTA, Cordoba, Argentina; e-mail: <slenard@infovia.com.ar>.