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INTERNATIONAL
NEWSLETTER ON PLANT PATHOLOGY
ISPP
Newsletter 31 (3) June 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:
Call for Nominations - ISPP Executive
Committee (2003-2008)
As required by the Statutes and Rules of ISPP, Richard I
Hamilton, Past-President, ISPP, is issuing a Call for Nominations for the
Executive Committee of ISPP that will serve for the period 2003-2008. Four
positions require nominees: President, Vice-President, Secretary-General,
and Treasurer.
Any member of an ISPP-Associated Society can suggest
nominees. Names of nominees should be sent to the members of the Nomination
Committee (see below) directly or by a Councilor of an Associated Society.
It is essential that each nominee provide evidence of his or her
willingness to serve.
Nominations must be in the hands of the Nomination
Committee by 31 December 2001. The Nomination Committee will consider the
nominees for each office, and being cognizant for the need of geographical
diversity, will select two names for each office and send those names for
ratification by the current ISPP Executive Committee.
The Nomination Committee will complete its work by 31 May
2002. The list of nominees will be in the hands of the Secretary-General by
12 June 2002 and a ballot containing the names of two nominees for each
office will be prepared for transmittal to ISPP members.
To facilitate the work of the Nomination Committee, please
send names of all nominees to members of the entire membership of the
Committee whose names and e-mail addresses are given below:
Ariena van Bruggen: <Ariena.vanBruggen@biob.DPW.WAU.NL>
Elaine Davison: <edavison@agric.wa.gov.au>
Edward R. French: <e.french@cgnet.com>
Ichiro Uyeda: <uyeda@res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp>
Wally Marasas: <wally.marasas@mrc.ac.za>
Dick Hamilton: <rihamilto@home.com>
Richard I Hamilton, Past-President, ISPP, 4771 Foxglove Crescent, Richmond,
BC, Canada V7C 2K4; Phone: +1-604-277-3774; e-mail: <rihamilto@home.com>.
Common Names of Plant Diseases
David Teakle at <teakle@biosci.uq.edu.au>,
Microbiology & Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Queensland 4072, Australia, advises that the ISPP Committee for Common Names
(ISPP-CCN) has increased the number of Principles (guidelines) for naming
new diseases from three to seven. This follows discussions with Paul
Holliday (author of the "Dictionary of Plant Pathology" 1998) and
the American Phytopathological Society’s Committee for Common Names of
Plant Diseases.
The ISPP-CCN also has eight Working Rules designed to help
in achieving its aims of having internationally standardized names of plant
diseases.
The changes and the names and addresses of the members of
the Committee can be viewed on the ISPP-CCN Website at <http://www.isppweb.org/ccn.htm>.
Readers are encouraged to assist the ISPP-CCN by commenting on any problems
they see with either the Principles or the Working Rules.
Revised Common Names for Diseases of
Rapeseed and Caneberries
Official designations by the American Phytopathological
Society (APS) of common names for the diseases of rapeseed and caneberries
have been revised and are listed at <http://www.scisoc.org/resource/common/commentc.htm>.
Challenges by APS members should be made to the chair of the APS 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>.
Asian Agriculture Congress
Professor Tang Wenhua, of the China Agricultural University
accepted an invitation to represent ISPP at the Asian Agriculture Congress
entitled "Food Security and Environmental Protection in the New
Millennium". He was requested by the ISPP President, Peter Scott, to
make a presentation with two themes; China’s priorities in food security
and environmental protection; The initiatives of ISPP in these areas.
The Congress was held from 24-27 April 2001, in Manila,
Philippines, and was organized by committees of the: 9th Congress of the
Society for the Advancement of Breeding Researches in Asia and Oceania (SABRAO)
and the 4th Conference of the Asian Crop Science Association (ACSA). Some
details can be found at: <http://www.cgiar.org/irri/asian/main.htm>.
Professor Tang Wenhua may be contacted at Plant Protection
BuiIding 313, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China; Phone:
+86-10-6289-2364; Fax: +86-10-6289-1025; e-mail: <tangwh@public.east.cn.net>.
Bacterial Wilt
Philippe Prior advises that the web-site about the
activities of the bacterial wilt group has moved to <http://ibws.nexenservices.com/>.
Information can be obtained there about the forthcoming 3rd International
Bacterial Wilt Symposium (IBWS) at White River, South Africa, by clicking on
3rd IBWS.
The Local Organizing Committee of the IBWS to be held in
South Africa from 4-8 February 2002 has revised the deadline set for receipt
of abstracts from 15 May 2001 to 31 July 2001. The Organising Secretary of
IBWS is Jody Terblanche at <Jody@nitk1.agric.za>
assisted by Elise Eulitz at <Elise_s@nitk1.agric.za>.
Philippe Prior may be contacted at Fax: +33-4-32-72-28-42;
e-mail: <philippe.prior@avignon.inra.fr>.
News from Japan
The Annual Meeting of the Phytopathological Society of Japan
was held in Sendai-city, Japan, from 2-4 April 2001, and attended by 860
scientists. It was organized by Professor Teruyoshi Hashiba of Tohoku
University.
At the meeting, a new council was elected as: Dr Tadaaki
Hibi from University of Tokyo as President, Dr Hitoshi Kunoh from Mie
University as Vise-President, Dr Shigetou Namba from University of Tokyo as
Secretary-General and Dr Shigeyuki Mayama from Kobe University as
Editor-in-Chief.
Councillors for ISPP are Dr Tadaaki Hibi, University of
Tokyo, Dr Mitsuro Kameya of Yamaguchi University, Dr Shigeyuki Mayama of
Kobe University, Dr Shinji Tsuyumu of Shizuoka University and Dr Ichiro
Uyeda of Hokkaido Unversity. The current membership of the Society is 1715.
For further information, contact Professor Shigeyuki Mayama,
ISPP Correspondent, Kobe University, Rokkodai-cho, Kobe 657-8501, Japan;
Fax:+81-78-803-586 5; e-mail: <mayama@kobe-u.ac.jp>.
News from the American Phytopathological
Society
1) Information on work by plant pathologists and
meteorologists at North Carolina State University using the tools of weather
forecasting to predict the occurrence of tobacco blue mold and downy mildew
epidemics can be found at <http://www.apsnet.org>.
2) Basic tenets of the new APS journal Plant Health
Progress (PHP) are that it should be interdisciplinary,
interorganizational, and international. The journal should have the active
participation of all major plant health related organizations. Partners in
PHP provide the content, readership, and financial resources necessary for
the journal to be comprehensive for plant health practitioners. The journal’s
inaugural partners are credited at <http://www.planthealthprogress.org>.
By clicking on "Become a Partner", information will be found about
benefits for academics, extension workers, scientific and professional
societies, and industry. Sending an e-mail to PHP <partners@planthealthprogress.org>
helps with enrolling or arranging a more greater explanation of the
collaborative program.
3) The APS Public Policy Board (formerly the National Plant
Pathology Board) seeks nominations to join the Board. The activities of the
Board focus on providing scientific input to policy-making processes. The
recent activities of the Board can be found at <http://www.apsnet.org/members/ppb/top.asp>.
Persons in APS interested in this type of activity should contact the Board
Director, O W Barnett, at <ow_barnett@ncsu.edu>.
4) The Office of International Programs (OIP) group
membership plan allows access to APS for persons from appropriately
designated countries. It attracts plant pathologists in Universities or
institutions based in developing countries around the world. One membership
fee can be used to register up to five plant pathologists in a developing
country. See <http://www.apsnet.org/members/oip/group.asp>
for more information.
New web-site for the EFPP
Dr Hans van den Heuvel, General Secretary of the European
Foundation for Plant Pathology (EFPP), announces that the homepage of EFPP
has now moved to <www.efpp.net>.
Dr van den Heuvel also has a new address at <hans.vandenheuvel@deruiterseeds.com>.
Phytophthora in Forests and Natural
Ecosystems
This is a reminder about the Conference (IUFRO on
Phytophthora in Forests and Natural Ecosystems, see "Coming
Events") being held in Western Australia from 30 September-5 October
2001. Registrations and abstracts are still being accepted. See the web-site
at:
<http://wwwscience.murdoch.edu.au/conf/phytophthora/index.html>.
Western Australia is an ideal place to see the impact Phytophthora
can have on forests and natural ecosystems in the south-west of the state.
Approximately 2000 of 8000 plant species are susceptible to Phytophthora
cinnamomi. In addition to a wide range of discussions on the biology,
ecology, taxonomy, genetics and control of Phytophthora species in
natural ecosystems, there will be visits to some high impact sites and
inspections of control measures used.
Dr Giles Hardy, School of Biology and Biotechnology, Murdoch
University, Perth, Western Australia, 6150; Fax: +61-8-9360-6303; e-mail:
<g-hardy@central.murdoch.edu.au>.
Coming Events
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>.
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, Portugal.
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; e-mail: <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>.
See: <http://www.australasianplantpathologysociety.org.au/Cairns2001/Cairns.htm>.
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>.
See <http://www.hortresearch.co.nz/confer.htm>.
International Conference on Plant Disease Forecasting:
Information Technology in Plant Pathology in Kyongju, Republic of Korea.
25-30 October 2001.
See: <http://plantpath.snu.ac.kr/ic2001>.
4th International Symposium on the Role of Soy in Preventing
and Treating Chronic Disease in San Diego, USA.
4-7 November 2001.
See: <http://www.aocs.org/soy01.htm>.
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/>.
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>.
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>.
International Rice Congress 2002 (IRC2002) in Beijing,
China.
16-20 September 2002.
See the web-site: <http:\\www.cgiar.org/irri/irc2002/index.htm>.
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 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 (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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