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BSPP1998: Detection, Isolation and Manipulation of Soil and Rhizosphere Micro-organisms
15th December 1998 - 17th December 1998
President: David Ingram
The 1998 BSPP Presidential conference was held at at the University of Warwick, from 15 – 17 December in association with the Society for applied Microbiology. The BSPP president was Prof. David Ingram.
Session I – Pathogenic microbes
Chairman: Prof. David Ingram [BSPP President 1998]
Microbes, the rhizosphere and the soil environment – an overview
Prof Richard Burns
University of Kent at Canterbury
Methods for the study of molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis
Prof Mike Daniels
Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.
Take-all and the cereal rhizosphere
Dr Anne Osbourn
Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.
Evaluating alternative technologies for detection and identification of microbes
Dr Ian Barker
CSL, Sand Hutton, York.
Session II – Pathogenic microbes (continued)
Chairman: Prof Geoff Dixon
Modelling soil-borne organisms
Dr Chris Gilligan
University of Cambridge
Detection, quantification and visualisation of fungi in soil using monoclonal antibodies
Dr Chris Thornton
University of Exeter
Session III – P. H. Gregory Prize – Offered Papers Competition
Chairman: Dr Mark Hocart
Session VII – Beneficial Microbes: Symbionts
Chairman: Prof Jim Lynch
Mycorrhizal fungi – detection, isolation and manipulation
Prof David Read
University of Sheffield
PCR monitoring of rhizobial inoculants
Dr Penny Hirsch
IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden
Beneficial pseudomonads enhancing plant growth
Dr Mark Bailey
NERC Institute of Virology & Environmental Microbiology, Oxford
The ecophysiological index and its use in rhizosphere analysis
Dr Frans De Leij & Prof Jim Lynch
University of Surrey
Session VIII – Beneficial Microbes: Biological Control
Chairman: Prof Mike Jeger
Biological control of fungal pathogens in soils
Dr John Whipps
HRI, Wellesbourne
Lux-marked bacteria and biological control in the rhizosphere
Prof Ken Killham
University of Aberdeen
Future prospects and developments in the rhizosphere – Open Discussion
Prof Mike Jeger
Wageningen Agricultural University
