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Newsletter October 2005

 INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER ON PLANT PATHOLOGY

ISPP Newsletter 36 (3) June 2006

(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, Joseph-Alexander Verreet, e-mail: javerreet@phytomed.uni-kiel.de

In this issue:

 ISPP Task Force on Global Food Security: Project in Ghana:

The background to the Programme can he found on ISPPWeb at: http://www.isppweb.org/foodsecurity_congresschallangeghana.asp
 
In addition, there is:
A Report on Development of Appropriate Strategies to Control Cassava Diseases in Ghana:
http://www.isppweb.org/foodsecurity_congresschallangekumasi.asp
 An illustrated Disease Guide to Root Rot Diseases of Ghana:
http://www.isppweb.org/foodsecurity_cassavaghana.asp
 
Dr Emmanuel Moses, CSIR – Crops Research Institute, P. O. Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana. E-mail: e.moses@cropsresearch.org

Vision - World Nutrition

Readers may be interested in "Vision - World Nutirition", taken from a presentation at EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany, prepared by the Editor of ISPPNews, Prof.Dr.Joseph-Alexander Verreet, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Institute of Phytopathology, Hermann-Rodewald-Str.9, D-24118 Kiel. Click here to download .pdf file (1.5 MB).  Comments are welcomed by the Editor. E-mail: javerreet@phytomed.uni-kiel.de

Coming Events

XVth Biennial Workshop on the Smut Fungi  Prague, Czech Republic. 

June 11-14, 2006.
Veronika Dumalasova at
blazkova@vurv.cz
http://www.lolo.usd.cas.cz/workshop/ 

12th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union, Rhodes Island, Greece
11 – 15 June 2006
http://www.mpunion.com ; phymed@unifi.it

12th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union, Rhodes Island, Greece
11 – 15 June 2006
http://www.mpunion.com ; phymed@unifi.it

5th International Workshop on Grapevine Downy and Powdery Mildew, Trentino, Italy
18-23 June 2006

www.safecrop.org/english/events/pdmildew2006/index.html

1st International Ascochyta Workshop on Grain Legumes, Le Tronchet, Brittany, France
3-6 July 2006
http://www.grainlegumes.com ;aep@prolea.com

18th World Congress of Soil Science, Philadelphia, PA, USA
9-15 July 2006
www.18wcss.org

11th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Edinburgh, UK
10-14 July 2006
www.australasianplantpathologysociety.org.au ; www.csl.gov.uk/contact/icppb.cfm ; ICPPB2006@csl.gov.uk

4th International Bacterial Wilt Symposium York, UK
17-20 July 2006
http://www.ibws2006.org.uk/IBWS06_home.htm

3rd International Workshop on Barley Leaf Blights, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

23-27 July, 2006 

orrdd@agr.gc.ca,   www.barleyblights.net

 

5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza, Grenada, Spain

23-27 July 2006

www.eez.csic.es/icom5/Index.htm

APS Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
29 July-2 August 2006
www.apsnet.org

11th IUPAC International Congress of Pesticide Chemistry, Kobe, Japan
6-11 August 2006
IUPAC2006sec@jtbcom.co.jp

8th Conference of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology and British Society of Plant Pathology, Copenhagen, Denmark
13-17 August 2006
www.efpp06.kvl.dk/welcome.html

XXVII International Horticultural Congress, Seoul, Korea
13-19 August 2006
www.ihc2006.org

27th International Horticultural Congress & Exhibition, IHC 2006, Global Horticulture: Diversity and Harmony, Seoul, Korea
13-19 August 2006
www.ihc2006.org

International Powdery Mildew Conference. Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, CA.

Aug 28- 5 September 2006
www.plpnem.ucdavis.edu/., Doug Gubler, wdgubler@ucdavis.edu

 

IXth meeting of the Phytopathogens working group, IOBC/WPRS Working group biological control of fungal and bacterial plant pathogens, Spa, Belgium
13.-17 September 2006
Monica.Hofte@ugent.be ; www.agri.gov.il/Depts/IOBCPP/IOBCPP.html

Novel biotechnologies for biocontrol agent enhancement and management, Gualdo Tadino, Perugia, Italy
8-19 September 2006
maurizio.vurro@ispa.cnr.it www.ispa.cnr.it/NATO-ASI 

1st International Symposium: Contribution of African Botanica to Humanity, N'Zérékoré, Guinea

3-7 October 2006
udecom@viola.fr or malo@ccophymed.com

 

8th International Mycological Congress, Cairus, Australia

20-25 August 2006-05-30
http://www.australasianplantpathologysociety.org.au.

 

16th International Plant Protection Congress, Glasgow, United Kingdom

23 - 25 October 2006
http://www.bcpc.org

II International Symposium on Saffron Biology and Technology, Mashhad, Iran
28-30 October 2006
www.saffron-ir.um.ac.ir

9th Arab Congress of Plant Protection, Damascus, Syria
19-23 November  2006
announce2@9acpp-sy.org, jamalagr@mail.sy,
www.9acpp-sy.org

12th International Rapeseed Congress, Wuhan, China
26-30 March 2007
www.12irc.hzau.edu.cn, 12irc@mail.hzau.edu.cn

15th International Reinhardsbrunn Symposium, Reinhardsbrunn, Germany
Modern fungicides and antifungal compounds
6-10 May 2007
www.pk.uni-bonn.de/reinhardsbrunn

APS Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA
28 July-1 August 2007
www.apsnet.org

16th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference, Adelaide, Australia
24-27 September 2007
www.australasianplantpathologysociety.org.au/

 

Mycoglobe International Conference, Bari, Italy
26-30 September 2006

www.ispa.cnr.it/mycoglobe/conference/index.php?id_conf=13

 

XII International IUPAC Symposium on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins, Istanbul, Turkey
21-25 May 2007
http://iupac2007-mycotoxin.atal.tubitak.gov.tr/

XVIth International Plant Protection Congress (IPPC),  Glasgow, United Kingdom
15-18 October 2007
www.bcpc.org/iapps2007/

14th International Botrytis Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa
21-26 October 2007
www.conferencesetal.co.za, conf@conferencesetal.co.za

APS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
26-30 July 2008
www.apsnet.org

ICPP 2008, Torino, Italy,
24-29 August, 2008
Contact: Prof. M.L. Gullino, University of Torino:
 marialodovica.gullino@unito.it
www.icpp2008.org/