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INTERNATIONAL
NEWSLETTER ON PLANT PATHOLOGY
ISPP Newsletter
29 (1) Febuary 1999
In this issue:
New Honorary Memberships of ISPP
Two honorary memberships of the International
Society for Plant Pathology (ISPP) were awarded at the Closing Ceremony of
the 7th International Congress of Plant Pathology in Edinburgh, UK, on 14
August 1998, to Chiu Wei-Fan for his leadership within China, and
his excellent service to the international community of plant pathologists
in Asia and world-wide, including through the ISPP, and Johannes Dekker
for his research contributions, leadership and service to
international plant pathology, including through the ISPP.
Professor Chiu Wei Fan
was born in Jiangsu Province, China, on 15 May 1912. He received his BSc
degree from the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nanjing, in
1935. He then worked for five years at the University of Nanjing on blast
and helminthosporiosis of rice before moving to the National Tsinghua
University where he researched the systematic mycology and physiology of
basidiomycetes. In 1945, he went to the University of Wisconsin where he
obtained his PhD degree in 1948 under the late Dr J C Walker. While at the
University of Wisconsin, he became interested in plant virology under the
advice of Dr James Johnson, and, when he returned to China in 1948, he
began his work on virus diseases of tomato and Chinese cabbage at Beijing
Agricultural University, now know as China Agricultural University.
Professor Chiu has become one of the leading authorities on virus diseases
of plants in China, and authored a textbook on Plant Virology, which was
published in China in 1962 and revised in 1982. Professor Chiu has also
published extensively on fruit diseases in North China and on Chinese
mushrooms and their culture.
From 1956 to 1966, Professor Chiu served as
Vice-Director of Plant Virology at the Institute of Microbiology, Academia
Sinica (Chinese Academy of Sciences), and in 1980 he was elected as a
member (academician) of Biology Division of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences. He also served from 1986-1991 as Vice President of the China
Association for Science and Technology or CAST.
In 1953, Professor Chiu worked to revive the
Chinese Society for Plant Pathology, which was established in 1929 under
the encouragement of L R Jones but ceased to be active because of the
Second World War. Today, with more than 3000 members, the Chinese Society
for Plant Pathology with headquarters in Beijing is one of the largest
societies of plant pathology in the world. Professor Chiu was also
successful in reviving the journal Acta Phytopathologica,
and served for many years as the Editor in Chief for this journal.
In 1976, Professor Chiu contacted Dr Arthur Kelman,
who was then President of the International Society for Plant Pathology,
to petition for approval for the Chinese Society for Plant Pathology to
become an associated society of ISPP. The was approved by the ISPP
Council, and Professor Chiu then served as the Councilor to ISPP from the
Chinese Society for Plant Pathology in Beijing from 1978 to 1988 and
participated in both the 4th Congress of Plant Pathology in Melbourne and
the 5th Congress of Plant Pathology in Kyoto.
Professor Johannes Dekker
was born on the island of Zuid Beveland in the southwest of the
Netherlands on 26 November 1925. He entered the Agricultural University at
Wageningen in 1945 where he studied tropical agronomy as his major and
plant pathology as his minor. His studies were interrupted from 1947 to
1950 to do military service for four years. He then returned to the
Agricultural University at Wageningen, where he obtained a masters degree
in tropical agronomy in 1953 and the PhD in plant pathology in 1957 while
also working for a short time in 1955 at INRA in Versailles, France. After
completing his PhD in 1957, Professor Dekker took his family to the United
States where he worked from 1957 to 1959, first at the University of
California, Berkeley and then at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant
Research in Yonkers, New York. He returned in 1959 to an appointment with
the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO,
stationed in the Department of Plant Pathology at Wageningen Agricultural
University. He joined the faculty of the Agricultural University as an
Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology in 1964. Five
years later, in 1969, he was both nominated to the Chair of Phytopathology
and appointed as Head of the Department of Plant Pathology at the
Wageningen Agricultural University. He also served as Director of the
Plant Protection Centre at the Agricultural University from 1982-85. He
retired in 1989.
Professor Dekker has worked in many areas of
Phytopathology but is best known scientifically for his personal research
and world leadership on fungicide resistance management. For his research
and especially his leadership and ability to communicate and motivate
people, he received the award of Fellow from the American
Phytopathological Society and the Gold Medal of the International Congress
of Plant Protection, both in 1983. In 1988, he received the Van den Brande
award for outstanding contributions to the professions of Phytopharmacy
and Phytiatry at the 40th International Symposium of Phytopharmacy and
Phytiatry, Ghent Belgium. In 1989, he received a Dutch royal award for
public merit.
Professor Dekker has had an interest in
international agriculture and service since the beginning of his career.
His served as a member of the Chemical Control Committee of the
International Society for Plant Pathology for about 10 years, starting in
1973, during which period he took his message on fungicide resistance
management world-wide in the form of international symposia and courses
organized by him. This resulted in the book, Fungicide Resistance
in Crop Protection, published in 1982 and edited by
Professor Dekker and S G Georgopoulos. This international effort was
continued by way of international courses organized by Professor Dekker in
Malaysia in 1984, Costa Rica and Chile in 1986, Kenya, 1988, and Ivory
Coast, 1989, all under the auspices of the Chemical Control Committee of
ISPP.
Professor Dekker was elected President of the
International Society for Plant Pathology in Melbourne in 1983 and
presided over the 5th International Congress of Plant Pathology in Kyoto
in 1988. He then continued to serve on the ISPP Executive Committee as
Immediate Past President until the 6th International Congress of Plant
Pathology held in Montreal in 1993.
Organising
Committee Report - 7th International Congress of Plant Pathology, 1998
Two thousand, two hundred and thirty delegates and
272 accompanying persons from 96 countries attended the 7th International
Congress of Plant Pathology, or ICPP98 as it was styled. The top 10
countries represented were: UK - 536, USA - 470, Japan - 169, Australia -
122, Germany - 122, The Netherlands - 107, France - 75, India - 67, South
Africa - 66 and Sweden - 52. The Congress proved as successful as the
numbers indicated and was reputedly the largest single gathering of plant
pathologists ever. It cost the organisers just over £750k to stage and
was considered to benefit the local economy by over £2m. Sponsorship and
donations totalling £214k were obtained.
There were 311 invited speakers and 1517 posters
spread around six prestigious sites - the splendid new and purpose built
Edinburgh International Conference Centre, a large marquee in the adjacent
car park, the Usher Hall, and the Sheraton, Caledonian and Grosvenor
Hotels. There were up to six concurrent sessions during the day and in the
evenings a total of 35 meetings of special interest groups were held,
including an open forum on Global Food Security. As the Congress was in
effect the AGM of the ISPP several business meetings were also
accommodated. There were 32 exhibitors in the Exhibition Hall.
A Royal visitor (HRH The Princess Royal, our
patron, who performed the official opening), a UK Science Minister from
the House of Lords (Lord Sainsbury of Turville, an Honorary President of
the Congress) and a Nobel Peace Laureate (Norman Borlaug) all contributed
to the sparkle of the occasion. The excitement was also enhanced with
Congress coinciding with the start of the Festival Fringe, the Tattoo, and
Film Festival.
Three attractive volumes of proceedings containing
over 1700 abstracts were produced, plus a CD-ROM of abstracts which was
considered by many to be original and valuable. All abstracts were also
available via the Congress Web-site.
Seventy percent of delegates were housed in
university accommodation. Forty two per cent of delegates registered
on-line and 48% of abstracts were submitted on-line.
The scientific excursions attracted the following
number of delegates: Scottish Crop Research Institute - 133, Scottish
Agricultural Science Agency/Scottish Agricultural College - 53, Royal
Botanic Garden - 96 and Forest Research-Glentress Forest - 47.
Two Post-Congress tours were undertaken, one on
cereals and potatoes with a total of 44 delegates and seven accompanied
persons and a forest research tour involving 32 delegates and eight
accompanied persons. The Scottish institutes considered both the
excursions and tours to be a very worthwhile exercise.
The Congress ended with a banquet, in the
splendidly transformed EICC exhibition hall, a ceilidh and "Beating
the Retreat" by a pipe and drum band.
All who made an input to the Congress in any way
should justifiably congratulate themselves on contributing to its
undoubted success.
Dr Nigel Hardwick, Crop Disease Research, Central
Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK; Phone:
+44-1904-462207; Fax: +44-1904-462111; e-mail: nigel.hardwick@csl.gov.uk
Pathogens
introduced from the USA
Together with others, I am working on a report for
the National Research Council of the United States of America on
introduced organisms and trade restrictions. I am collecting examples of
plant pathogens (examples of animal pathogens welcome as well) that were
introduced FROM the United States INTO other countries. There are many
good examples the other way, but documented US export examples are scarce.
I would appreciate any examples you have - whether there is documentation
of economic impacts or not.
Thank you for your help, Gregory S. Gilbert,
Assistant Professor, University of California, Department of Environmental
Science, Policy, and Management, 151 Hilgard Hall #3110, Berkeley, CA
94720, USA; Fax: +1-510-643-5098; e-mail: <ggilbert@nature.berkeley.edu>.
Emerging
Technologies
The American Phytopathological Society is
co-sponsoring an International Conference on Emerging Technologies in
Integrated Pest Management, entitled Concepts, Research and
Implementation. It is from 8-10 March 1999 in Raleigh, North Carolina,
USA.
During the last decade, numerous scientific and
technological advances have provided powerful new tools for pest
management. These advances have the potential to enhance the science and
application of IPM. Realizing this potential will require development,
synthesis, formulation of new concepts and increased interdisciplinary
collaboration. This Conference is designed to facilitate the development
and adoption of key emerging pest management technologies in order to
optimize their benefits for ecologically based IPM.
Professional societies are invited also to
participate in a National Research Council workshop to encourage
development of leadership and a common vision for ecologically based pest
management. The workshop will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, on
10-11 March 1999 following the "Conference on Emerging Technologies
for IPM". The workshop is intended to bring together these societies,
producer groups, private industries, non-government organizations and
government agencies to discuss issues related to research and
implementation of ecological pest management in cropping, livestock, and
forest ecosystems.
For more information on the Conference and the
Workshop, see APSnet at <http://www.scisoc.org/ipm99/>.
Canada
Volume 42 (4) of CPS-SCP News
was issued by the Canadian Phytopathological Society in December 1998. It
carries two features of interest to all ISPP participants. One is the
message from the President, George Lazarovits, who focusses on the theme
of ‘a time to examine the future of Plant Pathology as a profession’.
This is surely of concern to many people world-wide and should be known
about by society in general because of the implications for the supply of
food and fibre in the future. There is an obvious threat of a run-down to,
and then a lack of, expertise in plant pathology and crop protection. Will
the remaining persons in extension, research, public and private service
and the Universities be able to cope with normal situations? Perhaps more
concerning is their ability to cope with newly emerging disease and pest
problems. Much money and effort has gone into engineering molecular
"defensive" features into some crops, but will these few
features protect against the large number of constantly evolving and
changing pathogens and insects?
Another item of general interest is the Gordon J
Green Award in 1998 to Dr James Menzies, who is currently specialising, at
the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg, on cereal smut diseases.
The web-site is <http://res.agr.ca/lond/pmrc/cps/cpshome.html>.
9th
International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (see Coming Events) 25-30 July1999.
This congress is organized under the auspices of
the International Society of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. The
local organization committee consists of Pierre de Wit (Chairman), Ton
Bisseling (secretary) and Willem Stiekema (treasurer).
Most of the leading scientists, active in
molecular plant-microbe interaction research have agreed to come and
present their most recent data. The session titles and a list of
scientists who have accepted to come to Amsterdam is given below.
Presentations will be plenary, and at four afternoons there will be two
blocks of parallel sessions. In addition to oral presentations ample time
for posters is scheduled. Twenty promising young scientists will be
selected as speakers from the submitted abstracts.
The congress will take place in the RAI
International Exhibition and Congress Centre, which is located within the
city of Amsterdam and has efficient public transport to the city centre,
good parking facilities, direct motorway access and a direct rail
connection to Amsterdam International Airport (Schiphol).
A second announcements with more information about
registration and abstract submission can be obtained from the Congress
Secretariat at Eurocongres, Jan van Goyenkade 11, 1075 HP Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; Phone: +31 (0)20 679 3411; Fax: +31 (0)20 673 7306; e-mail: <IS-MPMI@eurocongres.com>;
Website: <http://mpmi-amsterdam.mb.wau.nl>.
Session Titles:
1. Plant disease resistance genes; structure and
function
2. Signal transduction in plant development and
plant defence
3. Developmental biology of plant-microbe
interactions
4. Perception of microbial signals
5. Signal perception and transduction in plant
defence
6. Cell biology of plant-microbe interactions
7. Local and systemic resistance
8. Virulence and avirulence of bacteria and fungi
9. Secretion and transport of virulence and
avirulence factors
10. Programmed cell death
11. Functional genomics
12. Plant-virus interactions
13. Plant-Agrobacterium interactions
14. Genetics of plant-Rhizobium interactions
15. Plant-bacterium interactions
16. Plant-pathogenic fungus interactions
17. Mycorrhizae
18. Plant-nematode interactions
19. Plant-insect interactions
20. Biological control
21. Plant-microbe interactions and plant
biotechnology
22. Upcoming model systems in plant-microbe
interactions
Invited speakers who have accepted to come are:
Barbara Baker, Jaap Bakker, David
Barker, David Baulcombe, Roger Beachy, Thomas Boller, Ulla Bonas,
Christian Boucher, Steven Briggs, Willem Broekaert, Jim Carrington, Steven
Clark, Alan Collmer, Doug Cook, Jeff Dangl, Michael Djordjovic, Xinnian
Dong, Alan Downie, Peter Dodds, Joe Ecker, Henk Franssen, Stanton Gelvin,
Godelieve Gheysen, David Gilchrist, Koen Goethals, Jo Handelsman, Maria
Harrison, Michele Heath, Paul Hooykaas, Roger Innes, Juri Johal, Jonathan
Jones, Matthieu Joosten, Regine Kahman, Noel Keen, Dan Klessig, Eva
Kondorosi, Chris Lamb, James Ligon, Sharon Long, Ben Lugtenberg, John
Mansfield, Francis Martin, Greg Martin, Esperanza Martinez-Romero, Richard
Michelmore, Donald Nuss, Anne Osbourn, Pamela Ronald, John Ryals, Dierk
Scheel, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Naoto Shibuya, Shauna Sommerville, Herman
Spaink, Gary Stacey, Brian Staskawicz, Willem Stiekema, Julie Stone,
Maarten Stuiver, Jens Stougaard, Janet Taylor, Linda Tomashow, Jim
Tumlinson, Barbara Valent, Jonathan Walton, Valerie Williamson, John
Yoder.
Southern
Africa
The 18th Annual General Meeting of the Southern
African Society for Plant Pathology (SASPP) was held in Drakensberg, South
Africa, on 27 January 1998 with the President, Professor Lise Korsten, in
the chair except while she was delivering her presidential address, which
was to be published in South African Plant Pathologist.
Sixty seven members were in attendance.
European
Foundation
The minutes of the 5th Meeting of the Board of the
European Foundation for Plant Pathology (EFPP) held in August 1998 in
Edinburgh are on the EFPP web-site <www.ipo.dlo.nl/ipowww/efpp/index.htm>.
The General Secretary of EFPP, Dr J F J M van den
Heuvel, asks for help in keeping the web-site up-to-date and for
suggestions to improve the presentation of the Foundation. He may be
contacted on Fax: +31-317-410113 or e-mail: <efpp@ipo.dlo.nl>.
Electronic
Publishing
The International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
Press held a workshop in Oxford, UK, in March 1998. It followed-up a
recommendation from a Joint ICSU Press/UNESCO Conference of Experts,
namely to conduct a technical study on the economics, real costs and
benefits of electronic publishing in science.
The proceedings, main conclusions and
recommendations of the Workshop on the Economics, Real Costs
and Benefits of Electronic Publishing in
Science - A Technical Study are on the ICSU
Press web-site at <http://bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu>.
APS
new area code
The headquarters of the American Phytopathological
Society (APS) have a new telephone area code, 651, which is
mandatory from 10 January 1999. The full numbers are therefore; Phone:
+1-651-454-7250; Fax: +1-651-454-0766.
Coming
Events
The Global Initiative on Late Blight (GILB)
Conference in Quito, Ecuador.
16-19 March 1999.
Contact: Mari Kearl, c/o International Potato Center (CIP), GILB, Apartado
1558, Lima 12, Peru; e-mail: m.kearl@cgnet.com
6th International Conference on Pseudomonas
syringae pathovars in Stellenbosch,
South Africa.
24-27 March 1999.
Contact: Dr E Lucienne Mansvelt, Infruitec, Private Bag X5013,
Stellenbosch 7599, South Africa; e-mail: lucienne@infruit2.agric.za
Gene Flow and Agriculture - Relevance for
Transgenic Crops in Keele, UK.
11-14 April 1999.
Contact: Dr P J W Lutman, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2JQ, UK;
e-mail: Peter.Lutman@bbsrc.ac.uk
VII International Symposium of Plant Virus
Epidemiology in Aguadulce, Almeria, Spain.
11-16 April, 1999.
Contact: Dr Alberto Fereres, CCMA-CSIC, C/Serrano 115 dpdo., 28006 Madrid,
Spain; Phone: +34-1-5627620; Fax: +34-1-5640800; e-mail:
<ebvaf22@fresno.csic.es>;
web site <http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~afereres/epicong.html>.
Agro Annual Meeting China 99
in Beijing, China.
13-16 April 1999.
Contact: Mr Bao Shuzheng, China Association of Agricultural Science
Societies, 11 Nongzhanguan Nanli, Beijing 100026, P R China; Fax:
+86-10-64194484; e-mail: <bao@cav.net.cn>.
Australian Plant Breeding Conference
in Adelaide, Australia.
19-23 April 1999.
Contact: Conference Secretariat, Festival City Conventions, P
O Box 949, Kent Town, SA 5071, Australia; Fax: +61-8-8368-1604; e-mail: <fcceaton@ozemail.com.au>.
51st International Symposium on Crop Protection
in Gent, Belgium.
4 May 1999.
Contact: P De Clerq, Department of Crop Protection, Faculty of
Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, University of Gent, Coupure
Links 635, B-9000 Gent, Belgium; Fax: +32-9-264-62-39; e-mail: <Patrick.DeClerq@rug.ac.be>.
13th John Innes Symposium, Attack & Defence in
Plant Disease in Norwich, UK.
20-23 July 1999.
Contact: Mrs Jeni Fox, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK; Fax:
+44-1603-456844; e-mail: jennifer.fox@bbsrc.ac.uk
XIVth International Plant Protection Congress in
Jerusalem, Israel.
25-30 July 1999.
Contact: The Congress Secretariat, P.O. 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel;
Phone: +972-3-514-0000; Fax: +972-3-514-0077 or +972-3-517-5674; e-mail:
<ippc@kenes.com>; Web site: <http://www.kenes.co.il/IPPC>.
9th International Congress of Molecular
Plant-Microbe Interactions in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
25-30 July 1999.
Contact: Eurocongres, J van Goyenkade 11, 1075 HP Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; Fax: +31-20-673-73-06; e-mail: Eurocongres@RAI.NL
XVI International Botanical Congress
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
1-7 August 1999.
Contact: The Secretary General, XVI IBC, c/o Missouri Botanical Garden, P
O Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA; Fax: +1-314-577-9589; e-mail: <ibc16@mobot.org>.
XVI IBC Web site at: <http://www.ibc99.org>.
Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological
Society (Joint with the Canadian
Phytopathological Society) in Montreal, Canada.
7-11 August 1999.
Contact: Faye Labatt, APS, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St Paul MN 55121, USA;
e-mail: flabatt@scisoc.org
The XIth International Congress of Virology
in Sydney, Australia.
9-13 August 1999.
Contact IUMS, 9-20 August 1999, Congress Secretariat, GPO Box 128, Sydney,
NSW 2001, Australia,or visit the website at <http://biology.anu.edu.au/IUMS/>.
The IXth International Congress of Bacteriology
and Applied Microbiology in Sydney,
Australia.
16-20 August 1999.
Contact IUMS, 9-20 August 1999, Congress Secretariat, GPO Box 128, Sydney,
NSW 2001, Australia.
The IXth International Congress of Mycology
in Sydney, Australia.
16-20 August 1999.
Contact IUMS, 9-20 August 1999, Congress Secretariat, GPO Box 128, Sydney,
NSW 2001, Australia.
Methods and Markers for Quality Assurance in
Micropropagation in Cork, Ireland.
24-27 August 1999.
Contact: Prof A C Cassells, Plant Science Department, University College,
Cork, Ireland; Fax: +353-903294; e-mail: <a.cassells@ucc.ie>
or <ishs@ucc.ie>. Web-site: <http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/biotech/ishs>.
Pseudomonas ’99: Biotechnology and Pathogenesis in
Maui, Hawaii.
1-5 September 1999.
See <http://www.asmusa.org/mtgsrc/>.
5th International Workshop on Septoria/Stagonospora
Diseases of Cereals in El Batan, Mexico.
21-24 September1999.
Contact: Dr Ravi Singh, Wheat Program, CIMMYT, Lisboa 27, Apartado 6-641,
Mexico D.F, Mexico; Fax: +52-525-726-7558; e-mail <rsingh@cimmyt.mx>;
Web: <http://www.cimmyt.mx/>.
XIII Congress of European Mycologists in
Madrid, Spain.
21-25 September 1999.
Contact: Dr R Galan, Dpto de Biologia Vegetal, Facutdad de Ciencias,
Universidad de Alcala, 28871 Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain; Fax:
+341-885-5066; e-mail: BVMHF@JARIFA.ALCALA.ES
9th Australian Wheat Breeding Assembly
in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
26 September-1 October 1999.
Contact: Joy Pugh, Meetings and Events, PO Box 282, Darling Heights,
Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia; Phone:
+61-7-4631-2840; Fax: +61-7-4635-5550; e-mail: <marksuth@usq.edu.au>;
website: <http://pig.ag.uq.edu.au/wbsa/wbsadefault.htm>
The Xth Latinamerican Phytopathological Congress
(X Congreso Latinoamerican de Fitopatologia) in
Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico.
27 September-1 October1999.
Contact: Sociedad Mexicana de Fitopatologia, c/o Unidad de Biotecnologia -
CINVESTAV, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato - Gto, 36500 Mexico. See web
site: <http://www.cimmyt.mx>.
12th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society
Conference in Canberra, ACT, Australia.
27 September-1 October 1999.
Contact: Greg Johnson (Convenor), Postharvest Technology - ACIAR, GPO Box
1571, Canberra, ACT 2601; Fax: +61-2-6217-0501; e-mail: johnson@aciar.gov.au
or Ms Philippa Rowland (Secretary), Bureau of
Resource Sciences, P O Box E11, Kingston, ACT 2604, Australia; Fax:
+61-2-6272-4896; e-mail: pcr@mailpc.brs.gov.au.
For updates, please follow the APPS Website at <www.ozemail.com.au/~williap>.
International Working Group on Plant Viruses with
Fungal Vectors in Monterey, California.
5-8 October 1999.
Contact: John L Sherwood; Fax: +1-706-542-1262; e-mail: <sherwood@arches.uga.edu>
or see the web-site <www.res.bbsrc.ac.uk/plantpath/Iwgpvfv/Monterey.html>.
British Society for Plant Pathology Presidential
Meeting: Vector-pathogen-plant interactions in
UK.
December 1999.
Contact: Dr Mark J Hocart, Crop Science & Technology, SAC Edinburgh,
West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH12 8NJ, UK; Fax: +44-131-667-2601; e-mail: m.hocart@ed.sac.ac.uk
APS Annual Meeting in
New Orleans, USA.
12-16 August 2000.
See <http://www.scisoc.org>.
Symposium on Chemical and Non-Chemical Soil
Disinfestation in Turin, Italy.
September 11- 15, 2000.
Contact: M Lodovica Gullino, Di Va P R A -
Patologia vegetale, Via L da Vinci 44, 10095 Grugliasco (Torino), Italy;
Fax: +39-011-6708541; e-mail :gullino@agraria.unito.it
5th EFPP Congress, Biodiversity in Plant Pathology
in Taormina and Giardini-Naxos, Italy.
18-22 September 2000.
Contact: EFPP 2000 Congress Secretariat, Institute
of Plant Pathology, Universita di Catania, Via Valdisavoia, 5- 9123
Catania, Italy; Fax: +39-95-234416; e-mail: EFPP2000@mbox.fagr.unict.it
The XIth Latinamerican Phytopathological Congress
in Piracicaba, State of Sao Paolo, Brazil.
August 2001.
Contact: Brazilian Phytopathological Society (SBF).
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>.
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>.
ICPP2003 Website: <http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/icpp2003/>.
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