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Scottish Mycology and Plant
Pathology Club, 26 November 2002, SCRI, Invergowrie, Dundee.
Local Organiser Dr Alison Lees
Programme
10.00 Coffee
Morning Session chaired by Dr Stuart Wale
10.30 Nick Read, University of Edinburgh
Organisation and dynamics of organelles in fungal hyphae
10.55 Nawsheen Taleb
Identification of potato genes involved in resistance to Phytophthora
infestans
11.20 Jim Duncan, SCRI
Caution should be used when describing races in Phytophthora
11.45 Alexandra Schlenzig, SASA
Phytophthora ramorum – the sudden oak death pathogen
12.05 John Jones, SCRI
Cloning and functional characterisation of a secreted chorismate
mutase from the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida – the
role of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of pathogenesis in
nematodes
12.30 LUNCH
Afternoon Session chaired by TBA
1.30 Stuart Wale, SAC
Update on current blackleg work
1.55 Neil McRoberts, SAC
No empty niches - thoughts on integrated control of diseases and
pests
2.20 David Walsh, SAC
Gene identification in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora
rosea by Expressed Sequence Tag analysis
2.45 Christopher Schmidt, University of Aberdeen
Influence of soil temperature and soil matric potential on the
biocontrol of Pythium damping off disease in sugar beet by
antagonistic bacteria
3.10 Xiaohui Cui, SAC
Quorum Sensing Controls Biosurfactant Production in Pseudomonas
fluorescens 5064
3.35 COFFEE |