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INTERNATIONAL
NEWSLETTER ON PLANT PATHOLOGY
ISPP
Newsletter 33 (6) December 2003
(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.
Editors, Joseph-Alexander Verreet, e-mail: javerreet@phytomed.uni-kiel.de
and Elaine Davison, e-mail: edavison@agric.wa.gov.au
In this issue:
The 8th Arab Congress of Plant
Protection- A Successful Meeting
Under the patronage of El-Gaddafi International
Foundation for Charitable Societies, The 8th Arab Congress of Plant
Protection, organized by the Arab Society of Plant Protection and the
Faculty of Agriculture, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, was held in El-Beida,
Libya during the period from 12 to 16 October 2003.
Around 250 researchers from eleven Arab countries
(Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Saudi-Arabia, Sudan,
Syria, Tunisia and Yemen) attended the congress and delivered oral and/or
poster presentations. The abstracts (in Arabic and English) will appear
soon on the http://www.arabscientist.org
website soon.
As a pre-congress activity (10-11 October), a workshop
on Arabization of Plant Protection terms was organized and attended by 50
Arab specialists. Around 10,000 terms were discussed and agreed upon.
These terms will be published and distributed soon by the society.
During the Congress, four scientific symposia were
organized and dealt with "Knowledge Transfer to Farmers in Plant
Protection", "Safe Management of Pesticides", "Desert
Locust Control" and "Pest resistance to Pesticides".
Invited speakers from FAO, CIART, University of Western England-Bristol,
University of Ain Shams (Egypt) and University of Al-Manar
(Tripoli-Lebanon) participated in the symposia.
The following graduate students won the 6 awards
presented by the Society, Society members and Private Companies for best
oral, poster presentation as well as for the best article published in the
Arab Journal of Plant Protection (2000-2003): Miss Hana Mohamad Farhat
(Poster-Libya), Mr. Housam Abaido (Oral-Syria), Mr. Abdel Nasser Terrisi
(Poster-Syria), Miss. Nadhra Bou Madian (Poster-Algeria), Miss. Rafiaa Ali
Rabab (Poster-Libya) and Mr. Rafiq Abboud (Best Article-Syria).
A new executive committee for the society was elected
as follow:
Dr. Akel Mansour, President
Dr. Wafaa Khoury, Vice President
Dr. Linda Kfouri, Secretary Treasurer
Dr. Ibrahim Ghariani, member, Head of the Arabization Committee
Dr. Ibrahim Shahwan, member, Head of the membership Committee
Dr. Mohamad Nayef Al-Salti, member, Head of Award Committee
Dr. Safaa Kumar, member, Head of Publishing Committee
Dr. Khaled Makkouk, member, Editor-in-Chief of the AJPP
Dr. B. Bayaa will be the Editor-in Chief for ANNEPNEL.
The Congress was very well organized and a great
success. The Congress' activities were well covered by TV, radio and
newspapers.
The American Phytopathological
Society awards for 2003
These awards were presented at the APS Annual Meeting, August 2003, in
Charlotte, N.C.
APS grants its highest honor, the Fellow designation, to current
members in recognition of distinguished contributions to plant pathology
or to the Society. The eight members named Fellows in the Society were:
Jeremy J. Burdon, CSIRO, Australia; Clive M. Brasier, Forest Research
Station, UK; Martin Dickman, University of Nebraska; Byung Kook Hwang,
Korea University; Hei Leung, IRRI, Philippines; Jerald Pataky, University
of Illinois; Christopher Schardl, University of Kentucky; and Carol
Windels, University of Minnesota.
Edward A. Brown, University of Georgia, was presented the Excellence in
Extension Award. This award recognizes excellence in extension plant
pathology.
Chester Sutula, Agdia, Inc., received the Excellence in Industry Award.
This award recognizes outstanding contributions to plant pathology by APS
members whose primary employment involves work outside the university and
federal realms either for profit or non-profit.
The International Service Award was presented to Kitty Cardwell, USDA-CSREES.
This award honors outstanding contributions to plant pathology by APS
members for a country other than his or her own.
The Lee M. Hutchins Award was presented to Harald Scherm, University of
Georgia. This award honors the best contribution presented in one or more
full-length papers reporting basic or applied research of diseases of
perennial fruit plants published in a recent, official APS publication.
The Ruth Allen Award for Innovative Research was presented to Laurence
Madden, Ohio State University. This award honors individuals who have made
an innovative research contribution that has changed, or has the potential
to change, the direction of work in any field of plant pathology.
The Noel T. Keen Award for Research in Molecular Plant Pathology went
to Alan Collmer, Cornell University. This award recognizes individuals who
have made outstanding contributions in host-pathogen interactions, plant
pathogens or plant-associated microbes, molecular biology of disease
development, or defense mechanisms.
The Syngenta Award went to Sophien Kamoun, Ohio State University.
Syngenta gives this award to an APS member for an outstanding recent
contribution to teaching, research, or extension in plant pathology.
Full descriptions of each of the awardees are available at www.apsnet.org/members/awards/2003Awardees.asp
NAPPO Annual Report 2002-03
The NAPPO Annual Report 2002-2003 is available on our website: www.nappo.org,
also be advised that this year the report is available ONLINE ONLY. The
powerpoint presentations are also in the website.
Alba Campos
(NAPPO Executive Assistant)
‘Plant Pathogen Genomics - From Sequence To
Application'
British Society for Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting, 15-18th
December 2003
Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, UK.
There will be sessions on why use genomics, the current state of the
art, functional genomics, bioinformatics, emerging insights into pathogens
and their interactions with plant hosts, and the applications to plant
pathology. The Garrett Memorial Lecture is to be delivered by Professor
Richard Michelmore, UC Davis and the Presidential Address by Prof. John
Lucas.
Full details of the programme are now available at http://www.bspp.org.uk
BSPPWeb.
The meeting will also feature the PH Gregory offered paper competition
and also an offered poster competition.
To register for the meeting please go to http://www.bspp.org.uk
BSPPWeb and download the booking form. The deadline for receipt of booking
forms, abstracts of offered paper and posters is 7th December 2003.
56th Annual meeting of the Indian
Phytopathological Society
The IPS will host National Symposium on "Crop Surveillance :
Disease Forcasting and Management" at 56th Annual Meeting at the
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-12, India, From Feb.
19-21, 2004. The topics for the Symposium will be: Survey Procedures,
Disease rating and Scales, Assessment of Losses, Disease Prediction
Models, Pest Risk Analysis, Molecular Diagnostic Kits, Molecular
Epidemiology, Molecular Breading and Biopesticides.
For more details visit website: www.ipsdis.com
R K Jain (Indian Phytopathological Society)
Pakistan Journals: call for papers
Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences is ready to receive papers
from any area of Biology. Area of special interest include: Biochemistry,
cell and developmental biology, genetics, immunology, medicine,
microbiology, molecular biology, molecular medicine, parasitology,
pharmacology and toxicology, plant biology.
Submit your article ONLINE
Pakistan Journal of Plant Pathology is ready to receive papers
related with all disciplines of Plant Pathology. Area of special interest
include: mycology, bacteriology, virology, physiological plant pathology,
plant parasite interactions post harvest diseases, non infectious
diseases, and plant protection.
Submit your article ONLINE
Asian Journal of Plant Sciences is ready to receive papers related
with all fields of plant sciences. Area of special interest include:
agronomy, plant pathology, biochemistry, plant breeding and genetics,
horticulture, entomology.
Submit your article ONLINE
Pakistan Journal of Agronomy is ready to receive papers related
with all fields of crop and soil sciences. Area of special interest
include: soil-plant relationship, crop science, soil science, biometry,
crop, soil, pasture and range management, agroclimatology, agronomic
modeling, statistics, production agriculture and turfgrass.
Submit your article ONLINE
Journal of Medical Sciences is ready to receive papers on aspects
of medical sciences. The journal is seeks to publish original, important,
well-documented, peer-reviewed clinical and laboratory articles on a
diverse range of medical topics.
Submit your article ONLINE
Biotechnology is ready to receive research/review articles for
rapid publications in this journal. The core areas in which we are
actively seeking research papers include agricultural biotechnology;
environmental biotechnology; applied immunology; genomics; molecular
engineering; gene therapy; and tissue engineering.
Submit your article ONLINE
Journal of Biological Sciences is ready to receive research/review
articles for publication in the forth coming issue. Journal of Biological
Sciences is an international journal that publishes biological research
articles of exceptional interest. Area of special interest include:
environmental sciences, pharmacology and toxicology, animals and
veterinary sciences, molecular sciences, immunology, medicine.
Submit your article ONLINE
Pakistan Journal of Applied Sciences invites high quality research
articles for publication in its forth coming issue. Area of special
interest include: Electrical engineering, business and technology,
environmental sciences, mathematical sciences, statistics, software
engineering, physics, chemistry, mechanics, social and political sciences,
economics, sociology.
Submit your article ONLINE
Pakistan Journal of Information and Technology ready to receive
research/review articles, articles for public awareness. Through its
publications the journal seeks to make a significant contribution to the
development of theory and practice. The journal, therefore, accepts
academically robust papers that make a distinctive contribution to the
study of aspects of the relationships between information systems and
technologies, organizations, management and society.
Submit your article ONLINE
Journal of Entomology Advancement and dissemination of
entomological knowledge is the main objective of this journal. Therefore,
the journal seeks original, peer-reviewed research articles, critical
reviews, short articles, notes and comments on previously published
articles in the broad area of entomology. Journal of Entomology is now
ready to receive research/review articles for publication in its forth
coming issue.
Submit your article ONLINE
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New publications of interest to plant pathologists:
BIOLOGICAL POLLUTION: AN EMERGING GLOBAL MENACE
Edited by Clay S. Griffith, Turner B. Sutton, and Paul D. Peterson
Biological Pollution: An Emerging Global Menace seeks to raise public
awareness of the mounting problem of biological pollution by presenting a
broad spectrum of concerns, in non-technical language, to
conservation-minded people. The first three chapters provide general
background on biological pollution, including insight into the enormity of
the problem and the direct and indirect costs to date. Then specific
examples of exotic weeds, diseases, nematodes, and insects and the damage
they cause are given. And the last chapters examine current defenses for
resisting biotic invasion and how these can be improved.
Contents
Preface; What Is the Problem?: Controlling Biological Pollution; An
Ecological Explosion in Slow Motion; Exotic Pests: past, present and
future; Weeds, Diseases, and Other Pests: Exotic Weeds: Expensive and Out
of Control; Plant Disease On The Move!; Plant-Parasitic Nematodes Which
Are Exotic Pests in Agriculture and Forestry; What Is to be Done?: Meeting
the Threat: Risk Assessment and Quarantine; Assessing Exotic Threats to
Forest Resources; Political and Economic Barriers to Scientifically-Based
Decisions; Fighting Back
Ordering Information:
The American Phytopathological Society/ APS PRESS
3340 Pilot Knob Road
Saint Paul, MN 55121-2097
United States of American
Toll-Free: +1.800.328.7560
Telephone: +1.651.454.7250
Fax: +1.651.454.0766
E-mail: aps@scisoc.org
Web site: http://www.shopapspress.org/
Coming Events
Special Interest Symposium on ‘Plant Pathogen Actinomycetes’ and
‘Common Scab Diseases of Potato’, (part of the 13th
International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes), Melbourne,
Australia
1-5 December 2003
http://www.conferencestrategy.com.au/isba/index.html
25th Annual Nematode Identification Short Course,
Clemson, South Carolina, USA
5-13 December 2003
http://pppweb.clemson.edu/nematode.htm
6th International Septoria/Stagonospora Symposium in Tunis,
Tunisia.
8-12 December 2003.
Contact: Dr GHJ Kema at G.H.J.Kema@plant.wag-ur.nl.
3rd Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight (CWFHB), Winnipeg,
Canada
9-12 December 2003
www.grainscanada.gc.ca/cdngrain/fusarium/workshop03-e.htm
British Society for Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting -
Plant-Pathogen Genomics - from Sequence to Application in Nottingham,
UK.
15-18 December 2003.
Contact: Dr M Dickinson, School of Biological Science, University of
Nottingham, Loughborough LE12 5RD, UK; Fax: +44-115-951-3251; e-mail: <meetings@bspp.org.uk>.
Hawaii International Conference on Sciences, Honolulu, HI, USA
15-18 January 2004
www.hicsciences.org
2004 Association of Applied IPM Ecologists, Annual Meeting, Napa,
CA, USA
1-3 February 2004
www.aaie.net
IX International Symposium on Pear Growing, Stellenbosch, South
Africa
1-6 February 2004
www.pearsymposium.co.za
3rd Australasian Soilborne Diseases Symposium, Rowland Flat,
South Australia, Australia
8-11 February 2004
www.plevin.com.au/ASDS2004
I International Root and Tuber Crops symposium: "Food down
Under", Palmerston North, New Zealand
9-12 February 2004
http://www.crop.cri.nz/conferences/roottuber2004/
GEMINI2004: A comparative ssDNA Virus Conference, Capetown,
South Africa.
16-20 February 2004
www.uct.ac.za/microbiology/Gemini2004.htm
Crop Surveillance : Disease Forcasting and Management, 56th Annual
Meeting of the Indian Phytopathological Society, Indian Agricultural
Research Institute, New Delhi-12, India.
19-21 February 2004.
www.ipsdis.com
34th Biological Systems Simulation Group, Gainsville
FL, USA
8-10 March 2004
http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/bssg
XI International Symposium on Virus Diseases of Ornamental Plants,
Taichung, Taiwan
9-13 March 2004
http://www.tari.gov.tw/isvdop-11/index.html
Golden Jubilee, Soil Fungus Conference: ‘Charting the Future of
the Biology and Management of Soilborne Fungal Pathogens of Plants,
Reno-Sparks, NV, USA
23-25 March 2004
Martin Stoner <mfstoner@csupomona.edu>
International Symposium on Protected Cultivation in Mild Winter
Climates, Orlando, Florida, USA
23-27 March 2004
http://www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/ishs/
International Symposium on Protea, Melbourne, Australia
3-7 April, 2004
innobiz@vicnet.net.au
IX International Symposium on Flowerbulbs, Niigata, Japan
19-22 April 2004
http://jshs.ac.affrc.go.jp/symposium/bulb2004/index.html
IV International symposium on Edible Alliaceae, Beijing, China
21-26 April 2004
www.ivfcaas.net.cn
VIII International Symposium on Vaccinium Culture, Nova Oeriras and
Alala del Rio Sevilla, Portugal and Spain
3-8 May 2004
llf@mail.telepac.pt
International Joint Workshop on PR-Proteins and Induced Resistance,
Denmark
5-9 May 2004
Http://pr-ir2004.risoe.dk/index.htm
Participatory IPM Extension Course, Wageningen, Netherlands
10-21 May 2004
http://www.iac.wur.nl/services/index.htm
XVth International Plant Protection Congress, Beijing, China
11-16 May 2004
www.ipmchina.net/ippc
V International Postharvest Symposium, Verona, Italy
6-11 June 2004
<ptonutti@agripolis.unipd.it>.
International symposium on Nutrition and Fertilization – Towards
ecologically sound fertilisation strategies in field vegetable production,
Perugia Italy
7-10 June 2004
www.unipg.it/ishs2004
Management of plant diseases and arthropod pests by BCAs and their
integration in agricultural systems, Istituto Agrario di S. Michele
all’Adige (IASMA), Italy
9-13 June 2004
http://www.ismaa.it/uodifesa/iobc.html
75th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Phytopathological Society, Ottawa ON Canada.
13-16 June 2004
Contact: André Léesque <Levesque@agr.gc.ca>
VIII International symposium on Integrating Canopy, Rootstock and
environmental Physiology in Orchard Systems, Budapest, Hungary
13-18 June 2004
hrotko@omega.kee.hu
VI International Congress on Hazelnut, Reus-Tarragona, Spain
14-18 June 2004
www.hazelnut2004.com
VII International Symposium on Modelling in Fruit Research and Orchard
Management, Copenhagen, Denmark
20-24 June 2004
pbr@kvl.dk
ISHS First International Symposium on Tomato Diseases, Orlando
Florida, USA
21-24 June 2004
http://plantdoctor.ifas.ufl.edu/istd.html
XIVth Biennial Workshop on Smut Fungi, Idaho Falls, ID, USA
23-25 June 2004
<bgoates@uidaho.edu>
III International Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Breeding Research and II Latin americal Symposium on the Production of
Medicinal Aromatic and Condiment Plants, Campinas-Sao Paulo, Brazil
5-8 July 2004
linming@fca.unesp.br
X International Workshop on Fire Blight, Bologna, Italy
5-9 July 2004
http://www.agri/sci.unibo.it/fireblight
First International Workshop for the Morphological and Molecular
Identification of the Straminopiles: Phytophthora and Pythium,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
23-27 July 2004
Contact: Gloria Abad <gloria_abad@ncsu.edu>
ISHS International Symposium on Horticultural Education and
Training. Perth, Western Australia
18-21 August 2004
www.ishs.org/cal/et_symp.pdf,
or www.muresk.curtin.edu.au/ishs/
11th International Cereal Rust and Powdery Mildew Conference in
Norwich, UK.
23-27 August 2004.
Contact: Dr James Brown, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK; Fax:
+44-1603-450045; e-mail: <james.brown@bbsrc.ac.uk>.
International Symposium on Horticultural Economics and Management.
Creating Value in a Changing Society, Berlin, Germany
29 August – 3 September 2004
www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/wisola/ishs
VIII International symposium on Plum and Prune Genetics, Breeding and
Technology Lofthus, Norway
6-9 September 2004
http://www.planteforsk.no/
V International Strawberry Symposium, Brisbane, Australia
5-10 September 2004
greern@dpi.qld.gov.au
International Symposium GREENSYS 2004 – Sustainable Greenhouse
Systems: Co-operation of engineering and Crop Science, Leuven, Belgium
12-16 September 2004
www.greensys2004.nl
V International Symposium on In Vitro Culture and Horticultural
Breeding, Decrecen, Hungary
12-17 September 2004
www.ivchb2004.org
4th International Crop Science Congress, Brisbane,
Australia
26 September – 4 October 2004
4icsc04@im.com.au
V International Symposium on Olive Growing, Turkey
27 September – 2 October 2004
www.agri.ankara.edu.tr
VI International Symposium on Chemical and Non-Chemical Soil and
Substrate Disinfestation, Corfu, Greece
4-8 October 2004
ect@aua.gr
III International Symposium on Persimmon, Jinju, Korea
5-9 October 2004
smk@nongae.gsnu.ac.kr
IV ISHS Symposium on Brassica and XIV Crucifer Genetics Workshop,
Daejon, Korea
24-28 October 2004
yplim@cnu.ac.kr
XIII International Botrytis Symposium in Antalya, Turkey.
25 -31 October 2004.
contact: Dr. Figen Yildiz <fyildiz@ziraat.ege.edu.tr>.
5th International Walnut Symposium, Sorrento, Naples, Italy
7-14 November 2004
Contact: Emilia Malvolti <mimi@ias.tr.cnr.it
13th Meeting of the Latin American Association of Plant Pathology.
Córdoba. Argentina
April 2005 (tentative).
slenard@infovia.com.ar
International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium, Lima, Peru.
4-8 April 2005
Contact: Pamela Anderson p.anderson@cgiar.org
International Working Groups on Legume and Vegetable Viruses, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
11-15 April, 2005
Contact: Gail Wisler gcwisler@mail.ifas.ufl.edu
XII International Sclerotinia Workshop, Monterey, CA, USA
9-15 June 2005
http://entoplp.okstate.edu/iswg/inex.html
XVII International Botanical Congress (XVII IBC 2005), Vienna,
Austria.
18-23 July 2005
website: http://www.ibc2005.ac.at
The XIIIth Latin American Phytopathological Congress (XIII Congreso
Latinoamericano de Fitopatología) in the city of 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; <slenard@infovia.com.ar>.
18th World Congress of Soil Science, Philadelphia, PA,
USA
9-15 July 2006
www.18wcss.org
ICPP 2008, Torino, Italy.
24-29 August, 2008
Contact: Prof. M.L. Gullino, University of Torino: marialodovica.gullino@unito.it
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