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INTERNATIONAL
NEWSLETTER ON PLANT PATHOLOGY
ISPP Newsletter
28 (3) June 1998
In this issue:
Bids for the 8th International Congress of Plant
Pathology in 2003
The bids for hosting the 8th ICPP in the year 2003
should have reached all ISPP Councillors in the past few months and the
Councillors will be registering their ballots about their choice with the
ISPP Secretary-General Anupam Varma.
Bids have been received from:
1) The Chinese Society for Plant Pathology in
Beijing. The proposal is to hold the Congress in Beijing using the Beijing
International Convention Center near to the China Agricultural University.
2) The Australasian Plant Pathology Society on
behalf of its members in the South Island of New Zealand. The proposal is
to hold the Congress in Christchurch, New Zealand, on the suggested dates
of 2-8 February 2003.
The ISPP Newsletter to be on
the Internet only
I have recommended to the ISPP Executive that the ISPP
Newsletter should be published only on the ISPP web site from the
end of 1998 and that mailing of the paper version should cease at that
time. At present about 850 copies of each issue are mailed out to
individual members of ISPP, Councillors, Secretaries of Associated
Societies, Committee Chairs and representatives of Affiliated Societies
and Supporting Organisations.
The intention is that all plant pathologists and
other interested persons should access the ISPP Newsletter
on the ISPP web site at (http://www.bspp.org.uk/ispp). I ask those who
believe that they will be inconvenienced by this change and would prefer
to continue to receive the ISPP Newsletter in paper form to
let either me or an ISPP Executive member know as soon as possible while
the recommendation is being considered. Brian Deverall, Editor, ISPP
Newsletter
ISPP Extension Committee
The Extension Committee has gone through a
quiescent phase since the last International Congress in Montreal. This
was due partly to other unforeseen commitments by its new Chairman but
also the lack of response from delegates present in Montreal and a call
for representation from affiliated Societies. With the approach of ICPP98
in August this lack of activity, hopefully, is about to change.
At the Congress in Edinburgh there will be a
business meeting during one of the evening sessions where extension plant
pathologists will be able to air their views on the appropriate functions
of the ISPP Extension Committee. I plan to open a discussion forum on the
ISPP web-site. I hope that this will provide a number of benefits. The
ability to get information rapidly to and from colleagues around the World
and eventually to provide a repository of information valuable to
extension workers. The message is to watch the ISPP web site (http://www.bspp.org.uk/ispp)
for developments.
Nigel Hardwick
Chairman ISPP Extension Committee, Central Science
Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK; e-mail: nigel.hardwick@csl.gov.uk
Rhizoctonia
The ISPP Rhizoctonia Working Group intends to
change its steering committee and will hold an election in the months
preceding the 7th International Congress of Plant Pathology. The handover
to the new Working Group Committee for the next 5 years will then be made
in Edinburgh in August. Currently the committee is comprised of a
Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, Newsletter Editor and three ordinary
members.
The Current chairman will remain on the committee
as immediate past Chairman. Three of the previous committee (Suha Jabaji-Hare,
Gerda Dijst and Stephen Neate) will remain on the committee to ensure
continuity and the new chairman will be elected from these previous
committee members. Three committee member positions will be replaced.
Expressions of interest are sought from individuals who might like to
undertake one of the three vacant positions.
The aims of the working group are:
- to
promote exchange of information on research relating to pathogenic and
non-pathogenic Rhizoctonia species.
- to promote international collaboration and encourage collaborative research
projects among colleagues working on the various aspects of Rhizoctonia
research.
- to have an organised body that will deal with issues of interest for
Rhizoctonia researchers and interact with related professional
societies.
- to hold periodic meetings and workshops that are focused on various aspects
of Rhizoctonia research.
- to distribute among people interested in Rhizoctonia, relevant
information and news from different countries related to Rhizoctonia
research and important events.
Ideally committee members should be from different
geographic areas of the world. The original committee had members from
Australia, United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan and Israel.
Interested parties should by 12 June nominate themselves to Prof Baruch
Sneh, e-mail: Snehba@post.tau.ac.il
or fax: +972-3-640-9380.
From: Stephen Neate, e-mail: stephen.Neate@adl.soils.csiro.au
Potato Late Blight
There are two initiatives in relation to late
blight disease of potato.
As one, the American Phytopathological Society (APS)
advertises its interactive and educational website <http://www.scisoc.org>,
which covers the historical impacts of late blight, highlights key
research articles, presents an online curriculum and provides links to
other relevant information. The need to warn growers and consultants about
the greatly increased risks posed by new strains of the pathogen are
emphasised. Major issues for growers are reduced yields, increased losses
due to blight during storage and transport and heightened fear of the new
aggressive strains. Greatly increased fungicide costs in trying to keep
the disease under control can cause economic hardship.
As the second, a conference is being organized
from 16-19 March 1999 in Quito, Ecuador, (see Coming
Events) by the International Potato Center (CIP) on behalf of the
members of the Global Initiative on Late Blight (GILB). For further
information on the conference, contact Mari Kearl, c/o International
Potato Center (CIP), GILB, Apartado 1558, Lima 12, Peru; e-mail: m.kearl@cgnet.com
Mycotoxicology
The first issue of Mycotoxicology Newsletter
(that of April 1998) under the new editorship of Dr Angelo Visconti has
come out. Among many items is an announcement of the 8th International
Fusarium Workshop to be held at the International Mycological Institute (IMI),
UK, from 17-21 August 1998. It is under the auspices of the ISPP Fusarium
Committee (chair, Dr Brett Summerell) and is being facilitated by Dr David
Brayford of IMI; Fax: +44-78-447-0909; e-mail: d.brayford@cabi.org
For further information on the Newsletter, contact
Dr A Visconti, Director, Institute of Toxins and Mycotoxins, CNR, Viale
Einaudi 51, 70125 Bari, Italy; Fax: +39-80-548-6063; e-mail: visconti@area.ba.cnr.it
Legume Viruses
The 31st Newsletter of the International Working
Group on Legume Viruses (IWGLV) for 1997 has been issued and for the first
time from Dr Sue Tolin as IWGLV Executive Secretary. The Newsletter
contains a list of the 1997 IWGLV Catalog of Viruses and Antisera and of
publications in the area of the working group. The members of the
Executive Committee also include Dr Khaled Makkouk of Syria (K.Makkouk@CGNET.COM)
and Dr Ichiro Uyeda of Japan (uyeda@nougaku2.sys.hokudai.ac.jp).
Further information can be obtained from Dr S A
Tolin, Plant Pathology, Virginia Poytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0330, USA; Fax: +1-540-231-5755; e-mail: stolin@vt.edu
Pakistan
A new Executive of the Pakistan Phytopathological
Society has been elected for the year 1998-1999.
President:
Professor Dr Sultan Mahmood Khan, Department of Plant Pathology,
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-38040, Pakistan.
Vice-President: Dr
Muhammad Bashir.
General Secretary:
Dr S Sarwar Alam.
Treasurer: Mr
Muhammad Ansar.
Joint Secretary:
Abdul Rauf Bhutta.
Councillors:
Muhammad Inam-ul-Haq, Shahbaz Talib Sahi, Iftikhar A Khan, Dr Ahmad Saleem
Akhtar, Imtiaz Ahmad.
There were 77 members of the Society at the end of
1997 and their names have been sent to Charlie Delp for inclusion in the
World Directory.
Dr Jaffar Hussain Mirza has retired as Chairman,
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, and
as Editor of the Pakistan Journal of Phytopathology. The editorship has
been transferred to Dr S Sarwar Alam.
Further information about the Society and the
journal may be obtained from Dr S Sarwar Alam, Nuclear Institute for
Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), P O Box 128, Faisalabad, Pakistan; e-mail:
niab@paknet1.ptc.pk
Latin America
The Executive Committee of Asociacion
Latinoamericana de Fitopatologia (ALF) for the period 1997-1999 is as
follows:
President: Dr Juan
Pablo Martinez-Soriano of Mexico.
Vice-President: to
be named by the organizers (Sociedad Brasilera de Fitopatologia) of the
2001 Congress in Brazil.
Past-President: Dr
Marta Francis of Uruguay.
Editor: Dr Teresa
Ames de Icochea of Peru.
Executive Secretary:
Dr Edward R French of Peru.
ALF has published two issues per year of the
Journal Fitopatologia in the first 28 volumes, three issues in the
volumes 29-32, and this year Volume 33 will have four issues.
Dr Edward French at <E.FRENCH@CGNET.COM>
is one of the ISPP Councillors and the other is Dr Juan Pablo Martinez-Soriano,
Unidad de Biotecnologia - CINVESTAV, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato - Gto.,
36500 Mexico, at <jpms@irapuato.ira.cinvestav.mx>.
The Xth Latinamerican Phytopathological Congress
(X Congreso Latinoamerican de Fitopatologia) will be held in Guadalajara,
State of Jalisco, Mexico from 27 September-1 October1999. It will be
organized by the Sociedad Mexicana de Fitopatologia. The XIth
Latinamerican Phytopathological Congress will take place in Piracicaba,
State of Sao Paolo - Brazil, during August 2001. It will be organized by
the Brazilian Phytopathological Society (SBF).
From Phytopathology News
The March 1998 issue of Phytopathology News
from APS carried a notice of public health concerns about the registration
and use in the USA of the bacterium Burkholderia (formerly Pseudomonas)
cepacia as a microbial pesticide. The concerns arise from recent
studies suggestive of a causal role of some strains identified as B.
cepacia in serious human disease.
Problems arise from uncertainty in the taxonomic
classification of numerous strains identified as B. cepacia. It
is unclear whether the strains used as biocontrol agents co-identify to
the strains associated with human disease, or even whether all the strains
comprise the same species. Until these problems are resolved, new
registrations or additional uses of currently registered biocontrol
strains by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) will be
difficult. Further research is needed on genetic and phenotypic markers,
other taxonomic characters and pathogenicity tests in order to distinguish
strains of B. cepacia used as microbial pesticides and any
that are pathogenic to humans.
Concerned individuals in the USA or those with
helpful information were recommended to contact Denise Greenway of EPA
Office of Pesticide Programs (7511W), 401 M Street, Washington, DC 20460,
USA, or by e-mail: greenway.denise@epamail.epa.gov
A symposium addressing biological and medical
issues about B. cepacia is scheduled for a joint APS/EPA
meeting in 1998, and more information about this symposium can be obtained
from Jennifer Parker on e-mail: jlp@plantpath.wisc.edu
Past-President of ISPP
Dr R James Cook ceased 33 years as an employee of
the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA in March 1998. On 1 April
1998, he began a new position in an endowed chair at Washington State
University (WSU) created with a gift from the Washington Wheat Commission.
His mission is to lead a research and education effort on direct seed
cropping systems research. Later in the year, he will teach a 3-credit
course on Advanced Cropping Systems at WSU.
Congratulations go from ISPP to Jim in his new
roles.
ISPP Vice-President Mike
Wingfield
From the end of March 1998, Mike has moved as
Mondi Professor of Forest Pathology to become Director of the Forestry and
Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) in the Faculty of Biological
and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South
Africa. The Tree Pathology Co-operative Programme is now also at this
address. Contact details are Fax: +27-12-420-3960; e-mail: wingfimj@scientia.up.ac.za
Canada
The President of the Canadian Phytopathological
Society (CPS), Ron Howard, in his message in the March 1998 issue of CPS
News, pays tribute to the work of his colleagues at the London
Research Centre. Rick Reeleder and Bruce Bowman are looking after the CPS
website at <http://res.agr.ca/lond/pmrc/cps/cpshome.html>
by keeping it current with new information added in December 1997 and
February 1998.
Australasia
There is a new web page for the Australasian Plant
Pathology Society (APPS) at <http://www.ozemail.com.au/~williap>.
The Business Manager of APPS would appreciate any feedback at <williap@ozemail.com.au>
on the page and how it could best serve plant pathology in the
Australasian region in particular.
Royal Netherlands Society
The new secretary of the Royal Netherlands Society
of Plant Pathology is Dr A J Termorshuizen, who succeeds Dr J F J M van
den Heuvel who has retired from the board after six years of service. The
address remains Postbus 31, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands; Fax:
+31-317-410113; e-mail: KNPV@IPO.DLO.NL
Dr van den Heuvel remains General Secretary of the
European Foundation for Plant Pathology, and his address is DLO Research
Institute for Plant Protection, P O Box 9060, 6700 GW Wageningen, The
Netherlands; Fax: +31-317-410113; e-mail: efpp@ipo.dlo.nl
Coming Events
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Phytopathological
Society will be held jointly with the
Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists in Fredericton, New Brunswick,
Canada.
20-24 June 1998.
Contact: Dr Rudra Singh; e-mail: SinghR@EM.AGR.CA
III International Symposium on the Taxonomy and
Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants in
Edinburgh, UK.
20-26 July 1998.
Contact: Dr C Alexander, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK; Fax: +44-1315-527-171; e-mail: c.alexander@rbge.org.uk
International Conference on Integrated Fruit
Production in Ku-Leuven, Belgium.
27 July - 1 August 1998.
Contact: Royal Research Station of Gorsem, Brede
Akker 3, B-3800 Sint-Truiden, Belgium; Fax: +32-11-67-43-18; e-mail: gorsem@tornado.be
9th IUPAC International Congress of Pesticide
Chemistry, The Food-Environment Challenge, in
London, UK.
2-7 August 1998.
Contact: Dr John F Gibson, Pesticide Chemistry,
The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, London W1V 0BN, UK;
Phone: +44-171-437-8656; Fax: +44-171-734-1227;
e-mail: iupac98@rsc.org
XXV International Horticultural Conference
in Brussels, Belgium.
2-7 August 1998.
Contact: H Willocx, Secretary 25th IHC, c/o
Ministry of SME and Agriculture, Bolwerklaan 21, 15th Floor, B-1210
Brussels, Belgium; Fax: +32-2-206-7209; e-mail: 25ihc98@tornado.be
2nd International Rice Blast Conference (IRBC)
in Montpellier, France.
4-8 August 1998.
Contact: Secretariat IRBC 98, CIRAD-CA, UR PHYMA,
Bat. 2, BP 5035, 34032 Montpellier, France; Fax: +33-4-67-61-56-03;
e-mail: IRBC98@cirad.fr
8th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
9-14 August 1998.
Contact: Meeting Planners, Ardenne International
Inc., Suite 444, World Trade & Conference Centre, 1800 Argyle Street,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 3N8; Fax: +1-902-423-2143; e-mail: ardenne@fox.nstn.ca
The VIIth International Congress of Plant
Pathology in Edinburgh, UK.
9-16 August 1998.
Contact: Dr D J Royle, Chairman, 7ICPP, Long
Ashton Research Station, AFRC Institute of Arable Crop Protection, Long
Ashton, Bristol BS18 9AF, UK; Fax: +44-1275-394-007; e-mail: david.royle@bbsrc.ac.uk
Downy Mildew Workshop at
the VIIth ICPP in Edinburgh, UK.
During 9-16 August 1998.
Contact: Dr Peter T N Spencer-Phillips, Department
of Biological Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour
Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK; Fax: +44-117-976-3871; e-mail: IN:p5-spenc@uwe.ac.uk
Symposium on Advances in Phytophthora Molecular
Genetics in conjunction with the
International Congress of Plant Pathology in Edinburgh, UK.
15 August 1998.
Contact: David Cooke or Paul Birch, Fungal and
Bacterial Plant Pathology, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie,
Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK; e-mail: dcooke@scri.sari.ac.uk
9th Conference of the ISHS Vegetable Virus Working
Group in Turin, Italy.
22-27 August 1998.
Contact: Dr P Caciagli, Istituto di Fitovirologia
Applicata, 9th Conference ISHS - VVWG, Strada delle Cacce 73, I-10135
Torino, Italy; Fax: +39-11-343809. See home page at <http://ifa.to.cnr.it/vvwg>.
6th International Mycological Congress
in Jerusalem, Israel.
23-28 August 1998.
Contact: Secretariat, Sixth International
Mycological Congress, P O Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel.
International Conference on Peri-Urban Vegetable
Production in the Asia-Pacific Region for the 21st Century in
Bangkok, Thailand.
29 September-1 October 1998.
Contact: Dr Napavarn Noparatnaraporn, Kasetsart
University, Bangkhen, Bangkok 10900, Thailand; Fax: +66-2-561-4641;
e-mail: <rdi@nontri.ku.ac.th>;
web page: <http://www.rdi.ku.ac.th>
or Dr Lowell L Black, P O Box 42, Shanhua, Tainan 741, Taiwan, ROC; Fax:
+886-6-583-0009; e-mail: <llblack@netra.avrdc.org.tw>
ICSU World Conference on Higher Education at
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris.
5-9 October 1998.
Contact: ICSU Secretariat, 51 Boulevarde de
Montmorency, Paris 75016, France; Fax: +33-1-4288-9431; e-mail: <icsu@Imcp.jussieu.fr>
or see the web site at <http://www.Imcp.jussieu.fr/icsu/>.
8th International Workshop on Fire Blight in
Kusadasi, Turkey.
12-15 October 1998.
Contact: Prof H Saygili, Ege University, Faculty
of Agriculture, Plant Protection Department, 35100 Bornova - Izmir,
Turkey; Fax: +90-232-388-1864; e-mail: saygili@ziraat.ege.edu.tr,
website: http://www.intrepid.net/afrs/fb7.htm
or Dr Timur Momol, Plant Pathology Department,
Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA; Fax:+1-315-787-2389; e-mail: tmml5@cornell.edu
The 1998 Brighton Conference - Pests &
Diseases in Brighton, UK.
16-19 November 1998.
Contact: for the program, Dr D V Alford, BCPC,
Orchard House, 14 Oakington Road, Dry Dayton, Cambridgeshire CB3 8DD, UK;
Fax: +44-1954-789059 or for general matters, The Brighton Conference
Secretariat, 8 Cotswold Mews, Battersea Square, London SW1 3RA, UK; Fax:
+44-171-924-1790; e-mail: eventorg@event-org.com
Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological
Society jointly with the Entomological
Society of America in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
8-12 November 1998.
Contact: Faye Labatt, CMP Meeting Manager,
American Phytopathological Society, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St Paul MN
55121, USA. e-mail: flabatt@scisoc.org
Joint Meeting, British Society for Plant Pathology
and Society for Applied Microbiology - rhizosphere micro-
organisms in
Warwick, UK.
15-17 December 1998.
Contact: Dr Mark Hocart, Plant Science Division,
SAC, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK; Fax: +44-131-667-2601;
e-mail: m.hocart@ed.sac.ac.uk
First Australasian Soil-Borne Disease Symposium
in Brisbane, Australia.
February 1999.
Contact: Dr Rob Magarey, Bureau of Sugar
Experiment Stations, P O Box 566, Tully, Queensland 4854, Australia; Fax:
+61-70-681-907; e-mail: bses.edp@b023.aone.net.au
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
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
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,
web site at: <http://www.ibc99.org>.
Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological
Society (Joint with the Canadian
Phytopathological Society) in Montreal, Canada.
6-12 August 1999.
Contact: Faye Labatt, CMP Meeting Manager,
American Phytopathological Society, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St Paul MN
55121, USA; e-mail: flabatt@scisoc.org
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
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
5th EFPP Conference on Biodiversity in Plant
Pathology in Taormina, Sicily, Italy.
September 2000.
Contact: Professor Antonino Catara, Universita di
Catania, Italy.
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