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INTERNATIONAL
NEWSLETTER ON PLANT PATHOLOGY
ISPP
Newsletter 31 (1) February 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:
ISPP contribution to ICPP 2003 in
Christchurch, New Zealand
The Executive Committee of ISPP has received the budget for
the next International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP 2003) from Ron
Close and as a consequence has advised Ian Harvey and the Organising
Committee in New Zealand that ISPP would make some commitments, as follows:
1) to the Bursary Fund for ICPP 2003, tied to support for
delegates attending from developing countries.
2) to ICPP 2003 without ties.
ISPP attaches considerable importance to the building of a
strong Bursary Fund, and encourages the congress organisers to go for a
higher target than currently envisaged, expecting that lower registration
and local costs will be off-set by higher international travel costs.
International Sclerotinia Workshop
The ISPP Executive Committee has received an application for
funding from Jim Steadman of the University of Nebraska as Convenor of the
Sclerotinia Subject Matter Committee. The application provided a budget for
the XI International Sclerotinia Workshop to be held from 8-12 July 2001 in
York, UK.
ISPP has agreed to contribute to the cost of running the
workshop, which will include a presentation by a visiting speaker, Dr Linda
Kohn of the University of Toronto.
Taxonomy of Bacterial Plant Pathogens
The ISPP Committee on the Taxonomy of Bacterial Plant
Pathogens has created a website at: <http://www.isppweb.org/about_tbbp.asp>.
At present the following items are posted:
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The names and addresses of the ISPP Committee on
the Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria
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An up to date list of names of plant pathogenic
bacteria
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The International Standards for Naming Pathovars
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A discussion news group
For further information or discussion, contact: John Young,
Convener, Taxonomy Committee, at <YoungJ@landcare.cri.nz>.
Bacterial Wilt Information Exchange
Philippe Prior is pleased to inform that an association has
been born. It is "Diffusion des Connaissances sur les Maladies
Bactériennes causées par Ralstonia solanacearum (Ralstonia
solanacearum and Bacterial Wilt Information Exchange)". It is
now a legal entity that can accept contributions towards its expenses.
For further information, please contact Philippe Prior INRA,
Unite de Pathologie Végétale, Domaine St Maurice BP 94 84143, Montfavet
Cedex, France; Fax: +33-04 32 72 28 42; e-mail: <philippe.prior@avignon.inra.fr>
or see the web-site <http://ardeath.biosci.uq.edu.au/ibwc>.
News from the American Phytopathological
Society (APS)
1) The American Phytopathological Society (APS) Office of
International Programs (OIP) biannual newsletter is now available on APSnet.
For the latest on OIP activities and opportunities, scroll the site to Recent
News and Activities at <http://www.apsnet.org/members/oip/top.asp>.
2) Official APS designations of common names for the
diseases of pea and wheat have been revised and listed at <http://www.scisoc.org/resource/common/commentc.htm>.
Challenges by APS members should be made to the Chair of the Committee for
the Standardization of Common Names for Plant Diseases, Melodie Putnam at
<putnamm@bcc.orst.edu>.
ISPP members should contact David Teakle at <teakle@biosci.uq.edu.au>.
3) The National Plant Pathology Board recently requested APS’s
endorsement of a petition to support food and agricultural research in
Italy. The petition was endorsed by APS with a letter from President Steve
Slack. See <http://www.apsnet.org/members/nppb/italy.asp>
for the President’s reply and the original petition. Personal endorsement
by APS members could be done by e-mail to Anna Meldolesi at <a.meldolesi@tin.it>
giving support.
International Society for Horticultural
Science
Chronica Horticulturae, the magazine of the
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), in its 4th number
for the year 2000, carried a report from the President of ISHS on the
Council, Executive Committee and Board meetings held from 27 October to 1
November 2000 in Egypt.
Mention was made of bids being made for the Society’s
International Congress in the year 2010. Two groups were bidding to hold
this Congress. One is Australia/New Zealand, as mentioned in the ISPP
Newsletter of December 2000, and the other is Spain/Portugal.
The ISHS web-site is <http://www.ishs.org>.
Towards an ASEAN-AVRDC Network
A network was proposed by Singapore in 1998 for the
promotion of sustainable and improved production of vegetables for domestic
consumption and trade. The network is now envisaged as enhancing vegetable
research and development co-operation and helping to develop indigenous
vegetable-related industries within the ten countries of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN in turn wishes to capitalize on the
Asian Vegetable Research and Development Centre’s (AVRDC’s) considerable
experience in networking towards this type of end.
At a recent meeting in Singapore in September 2000, an
important step forward was taken with the drafting and acceptance of eight
regional project proposals within the ASEAN-AVRDC Regional Network for
Vegetable Research and Development (AARNET). These proposals are being
submitted to a meeting under the ASEAN Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry
for endorsement.
Further information may be obtained from AVRDC-OPC; Fax:
+886-6-583-0009; e-mail: <avrdcbox@netra.avrdc.org.tw>.
Coming Events
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>.
On-line Instructional Technology Symposium on Plant
Pathology hosted by Terry Stewart at <http://www.ispp-itsymposium.org.nz/>,
Massey University, New Zealand.
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>.
The 2001 Canadian Phytopathological Society’s Annual
Meeting, Plant Protection and the Environment, in London, Ontario,
Canada.
10 to 13 June 2001.
See the Society’s website: <www.cps-scp.ca>.
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.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.
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>.
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>.
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>.
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.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>.
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 St Paul, USA.
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 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.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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