Scottish Mycology and Plant Pathology Club


Potato Pathology One Day Offered Papers Conference
Wednesday 24 September 1997
King's Buildings Campus, Edinburgh

Chairmen: Dr Nigel Hardwick BSPP President, Dr Jim Duncan
Local Organiser: Dr Fiona Burnett
Programme Secretary: Dr Mark Hocart

Programme

Opening remarks: Dr Jim Duncan (Chairman)

Disease transmission and seed health
Keynote Speaker
: Stuart Carnegie, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, Edinburgh

Population displacement of Phytophthora infestans in England and Wales
Jenny P. Day
, R. C. Shattock & D. S. Shaw, University of Wales, Bangor

Cultivar resistance to foliar and stem blight and the exploitation of this resistance in fungicide control programmes
J. W. Lammers, Ruairidh A. Bain, G. Ligertwood & E. L. Raynor, SAC, Auchincruive

Are Smith Periods still relevant?
Moray C. Taylor
, N. V. Hardwick & N. J. Bradshaw, CSL, York; ADAS Cardiff

Chairman: Dr Nigel Hardwick (BSPP President)

Survey of late blight in Scotland
Rachel Toth
, F. Gourlay, J. Duncan & S. Carnegie, SCRI, Dundee; SASA, Edinburgh

Condensation in stored potato crops: effects on disease development
Rob Clayton
, SAC, Aberdeen

Detection of Spongospora subterranea f.sp. subterranea using a PCR-based technique
Qu Xinshun
, D. Egan & J. A. Kavanagh, University College, Dublin

Studies on the systemic nature of the blackleg pathogen and potential endophytic antagonists
Paul Matthews
, University of Edinburgh

Sensitive detection of Ralstonia (Pseudomonas) solanacearum (E.F. Smith) from soil and potato tubers: comparison of different detection techniques
Prakash M. Pradhanang
, J.G. Elphinstone & R.T.V. Fox, Lumle Agricultural Research Centre, Nepal; CSL, York; University of Reading

Offered Posters

Metabolic pathways of the diseased potato
Gary D. Lyon
Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee

Genetic diversity in Burkholderia solanacearum Race 3 and the development of a biological control agent
Julian Smith, Lisa Offord, Andre Trigalet & Gerry Saddler

Diagnosing potato cyst nematode: not just a question of presence or absence
Andy Evans & Rob Harling

The prevention of spread of P. infestans during bulk washing of potatoes
Ruairdh Bain et al.


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