Scottish Mycology and Plant Pathology Club

Diagnostics and Disease Control 30/05/01

A One-day Offered Papers Meeting was held on Wednesday 30 May 2001  in conjunction with The British Society for Plant Pathology at at the Swann Lecture Theatre Michael Swann Building, The University of Edinburgh Campus, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh.

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Session one: Chairman Dr Mark Hocart
Keynote Invited Speaker: Dr Emily Taylor Dr Emily Taylor, National Institute for Agricultural Botany
Plant Disease Diagnostics - The NIAB perspective
 Dr Neil Boonham, Central Science Laboratory
Appropriate diagnostic technology – horses for courses
Alastair McCartney, IACR Rothamsted
Detection of airborne plant pathogen inoculum – the potential of novel methods
Gareth Hughes, University of Edinburgh
Diagnostics into action: Bayesian approaches to predicting plant disease

Session two:  Chairman Dr James Gilmour
Neil Havis, SAC
Use of triazole diagnostics for targeted disease control
Marian McEwan, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency
Development of a rapid seed health test for Tilletia tritici
Shautak Hussain, Scottish Crop Research Institute
The development of Phytophthora infestans specific primers and their use in epidemiological studies
Tina James, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency
EU ringtest project for a viroid potato pathogen

Posters

Alastair McCartney, Jackie Freeman, Carmen Calderon, Simon Foster and Elaine Ward, IACR Rothamsted
Detecting airborne inoculum of fungal pathogens of oilseed brassicas by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays

Jackie Freeman, Elaine Ward and Alastair McCartney, IACR Rothamsted
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based assays for the detection of inoculum of Sclerotinia species

Jon West, Alastair McCartney and Cerdric Bravo, IACR Rothamsted
Diagnostics and disease control: the OPTIDIS project

Samual Robert Swift, University of Edinburgh
Interactions between axoxystrobin and Puccinia recondita, Erysiphe graminis and Botrytis cinerea on the microscale

Christoph Schmidt, F Agostini, CM Mullins and C Leifert, University of Aberdeen
Influence of initial antagonist dose on sugarbeet root colonization and biocontrol of Pythium damping off 

Christoph Schmidt, F Agostini, J Whyte, AM Simon, CM Mullins, C Leifert, University of Aberdeen
Influence of soil pH, soil temperature and soil type on biocontrol of Pythium damping off disease by antagonistic bacteria

Rob Harling et al., SAC & Bogor Agricultural University,Indonesia
Bacterial head rot of broccoli: from pathogenesis to control

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