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)
In this issue:
Registrants and abstracts for
ICPP2008
By 24 April 2008, 1250 persons from 75 countries
have registered to attend the International Congress of Plant Pathology
(ICPP2008) in Turin, Italy < www.icpp2008.org
>. The highest number,
120, are from the USA, with 107 from the host country. Other countries
contributing large numbers of registrants are Australia 91, UK 85, Japan
76, China 69 and Spain 66. Click
here for full details
By the same date, a total of 1842 abstracts have
been received, and of these 1607 are offered and 235 are invited. They are
being included in "The ICPP 2008 Proceedings", which is in press
and will appear as a special issue of the "Journal of Plant
Pathology". Click
here for full details
Lodovica Gullino.
Invitation to ICPP2013 in
Beijing
Professor Han Chenggui, Secretary-General of the
Chinese Society for Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture and
Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China sent
the following invitational letter from the President of the Chinese
Society for Plant Pathology. < hanchenggui@cau.edu.cn. Click
here for original letter of invitation
Dear Colleague,
It is my pleasure to invite you to attend the 10th
International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP) in Beijing, China, in
August 2013. The theme of the Congress is "Bio-security, Food Safety
and Plant Pathology: The Role of Plant Pathology in a Globalized
Economy". We will also incorporate the Annual Meeting of the Chinese
Society for Plant Pathology.
Beijing, as the capital of China, and a city of
international reputation, has more than 200 first-class hotels and
international convention centers. Nowadays, many international scientific
and cultural exhibitions and meetings are held in Beijing. Room rates for
these hotels will range from US$50-200.
CSPP will recruit many sponsors for financial
support to lower the registration fees as much as possible. The registration fee will include attendance at all Scientific
Meetings, abstracts of Congress papers (proceeding and CD-ROM), five
lunches, coffee breaks, exhibition access, souvenir and the welcome
reception. Student registration covers all but the proceeding of Congress
papers. A Bursary Fund will also be available to assist attendance of
students and delegates from developing countries.
Participants can also enjoy the world famous
attractions in and around Beijing, such as the Great Wall, Forbidden City,
the Summer Palace etc. Delegates will find very enthusiastic hosts and
peace-loving friendly people in China. Now Beijing has attracted
increasing international attention recently because it will host the
Olympic Games in 2008.
We will guarantee a historically significant and
successful Congress with an unforgettable experience for the world
community of plant pathologists.
We look forward to welcoming you to Beijing in
2013.
Sincerely, Youliang PENG, President, Chinese
Society for Plant Pathology.
American Phytopathological
Society 100th Anniversary
The Centennial Meeting of The American
Phytopathological Society (APS) will take place from 26-30 July 2008 at
the Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
It will show the many advances in plant health
management over the last 100 years and highlight the contributions plant
pathology continues to make in keeping food supplies, gardens, and forests
healthy.
Plenary topics and speakers include:
Biodiversity and Agriculture - Dr Peter Raven,
Director, Missouri Botanical Garden and the Engelmann Professor of Botany,
Washington University in St. Louis
Impact of Global Climate Change on Agriculture -
Dr Chris Field, Director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie
Institution for Science and Professor of Biology, Stanford University
The Global Water Conflict Between Agriculture and
Public Health: Can We Have Both - Shiney Varghese, Senior Policy Analyst,
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Revitalizing Support for, and Impact of, Plant and
Agriculture Sciences - Dr Rob Horsch, Senior Program Officer, Science and
Technology, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Feeding Africa through Crop Biofortification - Dr
Florence M Wambugu, Chief Executive Officer, A Harvest Biotech Foundation
International, Nairobi, Kenya
Biopharming and Plant-Derived Pharmaceuticals - Dr
Charles Arntzen, Regent's Professor and F E Nelson Presidential Chair,
Arizona State University
Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture - Dr Roger
Beachy, President and Director, The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center,
St. Louis
The Interface of Science and Policy: The Crucial
Roles of Food and Health in Economic Development - Dr Gilbert Omenn,
Director, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology and Professor of
Internal Medicine, Genetics and Public Health, University of Michigan
In addition, Dr Lowell Catlett, Regent's Professor
of Economics, Agriculture and Genetic Engineering at New Mexico State
University will present a closing luncheon lecture on 30 July entitled
"Tomorrow's Agriculture - Six Trends You Can't Afford to Miss".
See: < http://meeting.apsnet.org
>.
British Society for Plant
Pathology
In addition to the BSPP Presidential Meeting
"Cereal Pathosystems", which will take place at Queen Mary
College, University of London, UK, on 16-17 December 2008, there are two
one-day workshops. Details are available at < http://www.bsppmeetings.org.uk
>.
The first workshop at PGRO, Peterborough, UK, on
24 June 2008 is about break crops, providing an overview of current and
future threats from diseases to the production of oilseed rape, field peas
and faba beans.
The second workshop at SASA, Edinburgh, UK, on 2
July 2008 will focus on potatoes to give an overview of current disease
constraints on potato production and to provide post-graduates and recent
post-docs with an opportunity to present either brief oral or poster
presentations.
Both workshops are FREE to BSPP members, with
compulsory registration online. Although registration will not open for
the BSPP Presidential Meeting 2008 until 1 July, details on this meeting
are available on the web-site.
Dr Gerry Saddler, BSPP Programme Secretary, SASA,
Roddinglaw Road, Edinburgh EH12 9FJ, UK. Email: < meetings@bspp.org.uk
>. Tel: +44-131 244 8925; Fax: +44-131 244 8988
Nematology in Australia and New
Zealand
A special issue of "Australasian Plant
Pathology" (Volume 37, issue 3, 2008) has been brought out to
coincide with the Fifth International Congress of Nematology in Brisbane,
Australia, in July 2008 (see "Coming Events").
This will be the first time that the Congress has
been held in the southern hemisphere so nematologists from Australia and
New Zealand have taken the opportunity to highlight the work being done in
the two countries. There are 10 papers in the special issue, which has
been edited by G R Stirling, K Harrower and L E Webb. The papers cover the
history of the discipline in the region, but also discuss strongly current
research priorities and openings for the future.
It is published for the Australasian Plant
Pathology Society by CSIRO PUBLISHING < www.publish.csiro.au/journals/app
>.
ISPP Task Force on Global Food
Security
There wil be a meeting of the Task Force on 26
August 2008 from 14:00 to 17:00 in the Lingotto Conference Centre,
Bruxelles Room, ICPP2008, Turin, Italy,
There will also be a Public Discussion Forum at
ICPP 2008, on "Plant Pathology and Global Food Security",
organized by the Task Force. It is on 25 August at 19:30 to 22:00 in the
Auditorium of the Lingotto Conference Centre. It includes the Glenn
Anderson Lecture on World Food Security. See: < http://www.icpp2008.org/pdf/Final_Scientific_programme.pdf
>, and search for "Task Force".
Peter Scott < p.scott@cabi.org
>.
Ken Pegg
Ken Pegg retired in 2001 from his position as
Senior Principal Scientist in the Department for Primary Industries in
Queensland, Australia. He remains extremely active on the biology of
diseases of woody horticultural plants, and in furthering novel control
procedures against diseases in avocadoes and passion fruit, perhaps most
famously against root-infecting Phytophthora spp..
Ken has recently received an important Australian
civil honour, and now has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree, DSc
(Honoris Causa), by the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Ken
travelled to South Africa to accept the award on 21 April 2008. Various
functions for Ken are being hosted by Professor Mike Wingfield < Mike.Wingfield@up.ac.za
> and to celebrate an anniversary of the Forestry and Agricultural
Research Institute (FABI) at the University of Pretoria.
Cassava Diseases -
down-loadable booklet
The "Guide to Identification and Control of
Cassava Diseases" by Dr Emmanuel Moses and colleagues at the CSIR-Crops
Research Institute, P O Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana, Africa, is a new booklet
arising from the ISPP Congress Challenge 2003.
The down-loadable booklet is now available from
the ISPP home page at < http://www.isppweb.org/
> under "Current Issues". Dr Moses is at < e.moses@cropsresearch.org
> or < mosese98@yahoo.com
>.
Large Grant to Cornell
University against Wheat Stem Rust
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded
Cornell University $US26.8 million for a global partnership to combat stem
rust, a wheat disease threatening food security. The new pathotype UG99
was first detected in Uganda in 1999 and has recently been found in Yemen
and Iran. There is a high possibility of it spreading to Afghanistan,
India, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. More than 90 percent of the
world's wheat varieties may be susceptible to Ug99.
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement
Center (CIMMYT), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Area (ICARDA)
and others will work for the Cornell-based Durable Rust Resistance in
Wheat project. The program will enlist the Ethiopian Institute for
Agricultural Research and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute as key
research sites to develop UG99-resistant wheats. The FAO will also be
involved.
See: < http://www.wheatrust.cornell.edu/
>.
CropBiotech Update
Weekly news from The International Service for the
Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) comes out as the "CropBiotech
Update".
Interested perons should send an e-mail message to
< knowledge.center@isaaa.org
> leaving the subject blank and entering the one-line text message as
follows: SUBSCRIBE Crop Biotech Network
Journal of Plant Interactions
Jason Millar advises about this journal, which
provides an international forum for cross-disciplinary work on plant
interactions, including both plant-microbe and plant-insect interaction.
Full aims and scope of the journal are at: < http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/14f0TBAD9jPKTjwKP
>. The Editor-in-Chief, Professor Massimo Maffei of Turin, Italy,
welcomes submissions from authors. There is online submission through
Manuscript Central, fast tracking through peer review and rapid online
publication through iFirst.
Jason Millar, Taylor & Francis Group, 4 Park
Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK, < jason.millar@tandf.co.uk
>, phone: +44-20-7017-6185.
Gene Superfamily Responsible
for Devastating Plant Diseases
Research teams from the Virginia Bioinformatics
Institute, USA, and Wageningen University, Netherlands, have identified a
superfamily of pathogen genes involved in infection. More than 370
effector genes, mostly accounted for by the Avh (avirulence homolog) gene
superfamily, were identified from Phytophthora sojae and P. ramorum. The
proteins produced by these genes work so as to facilitate infection.
P. sojae causes a mean annual loss of $1-2 million
in soybean yield in the USA alone, and P. ramorum causes sudden oak death
syndrome which is devastating oak trees in California and Oregon, USA.
The Avh superfamily is one of the most rapidly
evolving parts of the genome of Phytophthora. It might be the key to the
pathogen's ready ability to overcome plant defence.
See the abstract in the "Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science" at: < http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0709303105v1
>.
New Bioscience Book
"BioScience Entrepreneurship in Asia:
Creating Value with Biology" by Dr Paul Teng, National Institute of
Education, Singapore, provides information on value creation using
bioscience, and informs on government investments on bioscience industries
in Asia. The book is published by the Imperial College Press. It may be
ordered from < http://www.worldscibooks.com/business/6234.html
>.
Coming Events
2008 International Conference on BioMedical
Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2008) in Sanya, Hainan, China. 28-30 May
2008. See < http://www.hainu.edu.cn/BMEI2008
>.
Partnership, Innovation, Agriculture International
Meeting in Paris, France. 3 June 2008. See: < http://www.international.inra.fr/all_the_news/events_and_symposia/april_june_2008/partnerships_innovation_agriculture
>.
First International Conference of the Bangladesh
Association for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (BABGE) at the
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), Dhaka. 7-8 June 2008.
Deadline for abstract submission and registration is 31 May 2008. See:
< http://www.bdbic.org >.
12th International Consortium on Agricultural
Biotechnology Research (ICABR) Conference "The future of agricultural
biotechnology: Creative destruction, adoption or irrelevance?" in
Ravello, Italy. 12-14 June 2008. See: < http://www.economia.uniroma2.it/icabr/sarea.php?p=2&sa=7
> or e-mail: < anna.santaniello@tiscali.it
>.
13th International Congress on Infectious Diseases
(ICID) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 19-22 June 2008. See: < http://www.isid.org/13th_icid
>.
The BSPP Break Crops Workshop at the Processors
and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) Research Station near
Peterborough, UK. 24 June 2008. See: < http://www.bsppmeetings.org.uk
>.
The 1st Global Conference on GMO Analysis
(organized by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) in
Villa Erba, Como, Italy. 24-27 June 2008. See: <http://gmoglobalconference.jrc.it>.
The BSPP Potato Workshop at the Scottish
Agricultural Science Agency (SASA) in Edinburgh, UK. 2 July 2008. See:
< http://www.bsppmeetings.org.uk
>.
Plant-Microbial Interactions in Kraków, Poland.
2-6 July 2008. Contact: Professor Katarzyna Turnau, Institute of
Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, PL-30-387
Kraków, Poland. Tel: +48.12.664 51 55; Fax: +48.12.664 69 12. E-mail:
< pmi2008@eko.uj.edu.pl
>. See: < www.eko.uj.edu.pl/mycorrhiza/pmi
>.
5th International Congress of Nematology in
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 13-18 July 2008. See < www.5icn.org/
>.
FAO Technical Workshop for the Alleviation of
Poverty in the Tropics, in Rome, Italy. 22-24 July 2008. Contact: Theodor
Friedrich <
Theodor.Friedrich@fao.org> in FAO, Rome; Amir Kassam < kassamamir@aol.com
>; and Francis Shaxson < fshaxson@gotadsl.co.uk
>.
APS Centennial Meeting, Minneapolis in Minnesota,
USA. 26-30 July 2008. Contact: < aps@scisoc.org
>. See < http://meeting.apsnet.org/centennial/default.cfm
>.
International Symposium on Induced Mutations in
Plants (ISIM) in Vienna, Austria. 12-15 August 2008 See < http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/Announcements.asp?ConfID=167
>.
The 16th Congress of the Federation of European
Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB) in Tampere, Finland. 17-22 August 2008.
See < http://www.fespb2008.org
>. Also satellite symposium on Peroxidases. 20-23 August 2008. See <
http://www.peroxidase2008.org
>.
4th International Symposium on Rhizoctonia in
Berlin, Germany. 20-23 August 2008. See < http://www.rhizoctonia.org
>.
3rd International Phytophthora/Pythium Workshop in
association with the 9th ICPP-2008 in Torino, Italy. 23-24 August 2008.
See < www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/identification/phytophthora
>.
9th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP
2008) in Torino, Italy. 24-29 August 2008. Contact: Congress Secretariat,
Valentina Communication, Via Cibrario 27, 10143 Torino, Italy. Phone:
+39-0114374250; Fax: +39-0114374318; e-mail: < info@icpp2008.org
>. See < www.icpp2008.org
>.
Conference on Adaptation of Forests and Forest
Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health: A Review of
Science, Policies, and Practices in Umea, Sweden. 25-28 August 2008. See:
<http://www.forestadaptation2008.net>.
The X International Fusarium Workshop and the
Fusarium Genomics Workshop at the Hotel Carlos V in Alghero, Sardinia,
Italy. 30 August-2 September 2008. See < http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=9850
>.
First International Symposium on Biotechnology of
Fruit Species in Dresden, Germany. 1-5 September 2008. See < http://www.biotechfruit2008.bafz.de
>.
The International Symposium "Harlan II -
Biodiversity In Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution and
Sustainability" at the University of California, Davis, USA. 14-18
September 2008. See < http://harlanii.ucdavis.edu/index.htm
>.
The European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology
2008 in Brussels, Belgium. 15-17 September 2008. See: < http://www.europabio.org/articles/PR-EFIB.pdf
>.
All Africa Congress on Biotechnology
"Harnessing the Potential of Agricultural Biotechnology for Food
Security and Socio-Economic Development in Africa" in Nairobi, Kenya.
22-26 September 2008. See: < http://abneta.org/congress/
>.
APS Caribbean Division Meeting, part of the 6th
International Scientific Seminar on Plant Health, in Havana, Cuba. 22-26
September 2008. Contact: < aps@scisoc.org
>. See < www.apsnet.org >.
16th Ornamental Workshop on Diseases and Pests in
Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. 22-26 September 2008. See < www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/activities/societies/ornamental
>.
ENDURE International Conference "Diversifying
Crop Protection" in the Congress Palace of La Grande Motte, near
Montpellier, France. 13-15 October 2008. See < http://www.endure-network.eu
>.
10th Asian Regional Maize Workshop in Makassar,
South Sulawesi, Indonesia. 20-23 October 2008. Contact: Dr Kevin Pixley at
< k.pixley@cgiar.org > or
see: < http://www.cimmyt.org/english/wps/events/2008/10armw.htm
>.
3rd European Whitefly Symposium in Aguadulce,
Almeria, Spain. 20-24 October 2008. See: < http://www.ews3.org
>.
IV International Silicon in Agriculture Conference
at Wild Coast Sun, Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 26-31 October
2008. See < www.siliconconference.org.za
>.
British Crop Protection Council (BCPC) Congress
2008 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. 3-5 November 2008. See: < http://www.bcpc.org/Congress2008/index.asp
>.
2nd InternationaL Symposium on Biological Control
of Bacterial Plant Diseases in Orlando, Florida, USA. 4-7 November 2008.
Contact: < JBJones@ufl.edu >.
10th International Symposium on the Biosafety of
Genetically Modified Organisms in Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand. 16-21
November 2008. See: < http://www.isbgmo.info
>. E-mail: Michelle Kane at < mk@tcc.co.nz
>.
Applied Aspects of Aerobiology at Rothamsted
Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK. 19 November 2008. See: < www.aab.org.uk
>.
8th Australasian Plant Virology Workshop in
Rotorua, New Zealand. 19-22 November 2008. Contact: Dr Robin MacDiarmid
<rmacdiarmid@hortresearch.co.nz>. See: <http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/apvw2008>.
International Conference on Legume Genomics and
Genetics in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. 7-12 December 2008. See < http://www.ccg.unam.mx/iclgg4/index.html
>.
BSPP Presidential Meeting "Cereal
Pathosystems" at Queen Mary College, London, UK. 16-17 December 2008.
See: < www.bsppmeetings.org.uk
>.
XV Latinamerican Congress of Plant Pathology and
XVIII Congress of the Chilean Society of Plant Pathology at Pontificia
Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, Chile. 12-16 January 2009.
Papers in English, Portuguese and Spanish are welcome. Contact Gloria Caro
at < gcaro@uc.cl > or < fitopatologia@uc.cl
>. See: < http://www.puc.cl/agronomia/congresoalf
>.
International Forest Biosecurity Conference,
incorporating the 6th International Forest Vegetation Management
Conference, in Rotorua, New Zealand. 16-20 March 2009. See < www.ensisjv.com/forestbiosecurity
>. Contact: Dr Brian Richardson, General Manager, Ensis Forest
Biosecurity and Protection, Private Bag 3020, Rotorua, New Zealand. Phone:
+64-7-343-5516; Fax: +64-7-343-5333; Mobile: 021-913-221.
The Second European Ramularia Workshop, Edinburgh
2009 - a new disease and challenge in Barley Production in Edinburgh, UK.
7-8 April 2009. See: < www.aab.org.uk
>.
XXIth International Symposium on Virus and
Virus-Like Diseases of Temperate Fruit Crops and XIIth International
Symposium on Small Fruit Virus Diseases in Germany. 5-10 July 2009. See
< http://www.phytomedizin.org/index.php?id=193
>. Source: Professor Dr Wilhelm Jelkmann <Wilhelm.Jelkmann@jki.bund.de>
Julius Kühn-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen,
Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Obst- und Weinbau, Schwabenheimer Str.
101, 69221 Dossenheim, Germany.
APS Annual Meeting 2009 at the Portland Convention
Center, Portland, Oregon, USA. 1-5 August 2009. See: < http://www.apsnet.org
>.
APPS 2009 "Plant Health Management-An
Integrated Approach" at the Civic Precinct, Newcastle, Australia. 30
September-2 October 2009. Contact: Conference Secretariat, PO Box 6150,
Kingston, ACT 2604, Australia. Phone: +61 2 6281 6624, Fax: +61 2 6285
1336. Email: < conference@conlog.com.au
>.
The 13th World Forestry Congress (Forests in
development - a vital balance) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 18-25 October
2009. See <http://www.wfc2009.org/index_1024.html>. E-mail: < info@wfc2009.org
>.
5th International Conference on Plant Pathology,
with the theme "Plant pathology in the globalized era", at the
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. 10-13 November
2009. Contact: < ipsdis@indiatimes.com
> or < ipsdis@yahoo.com >.
APS Annual Meeting 2010 at Opryland, Nashville,
Tennessee, USA. 7-11 August 2010. See: < http://www.apsnet.org
>.
4th Asian Conference of Plant Pathology and
APPC2011 in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. April 2011.
10th International Congress of Plant Pathology
2013 (ICPP2013) "Bio-security, Food Safety and Plant Pathology: The
Role of Plant Pathology in a Globalized Economy" in Beijing, China.
25-31 August 2013.
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