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BSPP2004: Discovery, Development and Delivery in Plant Pathology

September 5, 2004 - September 10, 2004

President: Stuart Wale

7th Conference of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology & BSPP Presidential Meeting 2004: Discovery, Development and Delivery in Plant Pathology

The 7th Conference of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology (EFPP) took place in the Old Aberdeen Campus at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland from 5th – 10th September 2004 and also included the 2004 BSPP Presidential Meeting. The president was Stuart Wale.

Main topics:

  • Discovery – New horizons in plant pathology genes and their products, novel discoveries, plant omics and pathogen omics
  • Development understanding the pathogen epidemiology & forecasting, diagnostics, biology of pathogens
  • Development controlling the pathogen breeding, chemical, biological and cultural control
  • Delivery Converting research to practical messages decision support, advice in developing countries, training methods and the involvement of growers, buyers and policy makers in decision-making.

Download all paper and poster abstracts (853 kb)

Final Programme

Sunday 5th September

16.00 – onwards Registration
19.00 Reception

Monday 6th September

9.30-9.45 Conference opening
9.45-10.30 Garrett Memorial Lecture:
Professor Sir Hugh Pennington, Dept of Medical Microbiology, University of Aberdeen, UK
‘Title to be confirmed’
10.30-11.00 Tea / Coffee

SESSION 1 – Discovery – New horizons in plant pathology

11.00-11.30 Professor Jim Beynon, Warwick HRI, Wellesbourne, UK
‘The role of genes and their products in plant pathology’
11.30-12.00 2 offered papers
12.00-12.30 Professor David Collinge, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksburg, Denmark
‘Barley genomics and plant defence responses’
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 2 offered papers
14.30-15.00 Dr Sophien Kamoun, Ohio State University, Wooster, US’
Functional genomics of Phytophthora-plant interactions
15.00-15.30 2 offered papers
15.30-16.00 Tea / Coffee
16.00-17.30 PH Gregory competition
Evening Whisky tasting

Tuesday 7th September

9.00-9.45 Plenary talk 1 – Dr Gerry Saddler, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, Edinburgh, UK
‘How to control potato brown rot in endemic and localised infections’
9.45-10.30 Plenary talk 2 – Dr Simon Oxley, Scottish Agricultural College, UK
‘The twists and turns of the strobilurin fungicides: keeping growers informed’

SESSION 2 – Development – understanding the pathogen

11.00-11.30 Professor Mike Shaw, University of Reading, UK
‘Problems of scale and inference: how good can our epidemiology be?’
11.30-12.00 2 offered papers
12.00-12.30 Professor Nigel Harrison, University of Florida, Ft Lauderdale, US
‘The use of diagnostics’
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 2 offered papers
14.30-15.00 Dr Didier Andrivon, INRA Centre de Rennes, France
‘Plant cultivars, plant pathogens and plant pathologists: Managing the interactions’
15.00-15.30 2 offered papers
15.30-16.00 Tea / Coffee
16.00-17.30 Posters 1
17.30-19.00 Funshops
GMs and Plant Pathology – how will GM technology solve disease problems?
How useful are genomics for pathogen identification?
Communicating plant pathology – getting knowledge into use.
Participatory Diagnosis.

Wednesday 8th September

9.00-9.45 Presidential Address
Dr Stuart Wale, Scottish Agricultural College, Aberdeen
9.45-10.30 Plenary talk 3 – Professor Giovanni P. Martelli, Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Bari, Italy
‘Sequence-specific RNA degradation in resistance to plant viruses’
10.30-11.00 Tea / Coffee

SESSION 3 – Development – controlling the pathogen

11.00-11.30 Professor Robert Park, GRDC Chair of Cereal Rust Research, University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute, Australia
‘Pre-emptive breeding for rust resistance in cereals’
11.30-12.00 2 offered papers
12.00-12.30 Dr Karl-Heinz Kuck, Bayer CropScience, Leverkusen, Germany
‘Title to be confirmed’
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 2 offered papers
14.30-15.00 Professor Claude Alabouvette, INRA Universit de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
‘Biological control practices’
15.00-15.30 2 offered papers
15.30-16.00 Tea / Coffee
16.00-17.30 Posters 2
Evening Conference dinner and ceilidh

Thursday 9th September

9.00-9.45 Plenary talk 4 – Dr Ian Porter, Department of Primary Industries, Melbourne, Australia
‘Integration of classical and molecular approaches to successfully control clubroot of crucifers’
9.45-10.30 Plenary talk 5 – Professor Bob McGovern, Plant Medicine Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, US
‘Title to be confirmed’

SESSION 4 – Delivery – Converting research to practical messages

11.00-11.30 Dr Rebecca Nelson, Cornell, US
‘Converting R&D into practical messages’
11.30-12.00 2 offered papers
12.00-12.30 Dr Eric Boa, CABI Bioscience, UK
‘Providing advice in developing countries’
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 2 offered papers
14.30-15.00 Dr Peter Gladders, ADAS Boxworth, UK
‘What is needed from plant pathologists to make farmers and growers more profitable’
15.00-15.30 Formal close of conference
15.30-16.00 Tea / Coffee
16.00-17.30 BSPP Annual Review Meeting

Friday 10th September

Field trips

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