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BSPP2005: Plant Pathology with a Purpose
19th December 2005 - 21st December 2005
President: Professor Phil Russell
As part of my introduction to the theme of the 2005 presidential meeting ‘Plant Pathology with a Purpose’ I stated that ‘in my opinion, plant pathology exists with an aim to secure food and other resources for the benefit of us all’. While this statement has obvious commercial overtones, and while I realize that there are some people engaged in research studies that can be regarded as plant pathological but which do not obviously satisfy my criterion, I stand by my claim.
No doubt my views have been strongly influenced by my career in the crop protection industry; a time during which I experienced first‐hand all the elements of fungicide research, development, marketing and market support. My work was always directed at disease control, either by discovery and development of new fungicides or by management of resistance of plant pathogens to fungicides. In later years, these two elements merged, as resistance management became an integral part of the registration process for new molecules in Europe.
Excerpt from: The development of commercial disease control in our Journal: Plant Pathology. Read more here.
Programme Secretary: Matt Dickinson
| MONDAY 19th DECEMBER | |
| 10.00 11.30 | REGISTRATION |
| 11.30 12.30 | Garrett Memorial Lecture Professor John Whipps, Warwick-HRI, Wellesbourne, UK Biological control of soil-borne pathogens |
| 12.30 13.30 | LUNCH |
PH Gregory Competition | |
| 13.30 – 13.45 | A Coriander conundrum what is the cause of oedema? Nathalie King, University of Birmingham |
| 13.45 – 14.00 | Strobilurin resistance in Septoria tritici Faron Jordan, University of Nottingham |
| 14.00 14.15 | Control of Maize Grey Leaf Spot Disease in Africa Biswanath Das, Imperial College, London |
| 14.15 14.30 | Plant-nematode interactions; Implications for the Plant Metabolome Tim Miller, Scottish Crop Research Institute |
| 14.30 14.45 | Preliminary investigations into the concept of seed transmission of Coconut Lethal Yellowing Disease phytoplasma J. Owusu Nipah, University of Nottingham |
| 14.45 15.00 | Complementation of a bipartite begomovirus movement functions by a DNA β satellite Muhammad Saeed, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia |
| 15.00 15.15 | The role of salicylic acid and octadecanoids for pathogen defense in potato V. A. Halim, Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle/Saale |
| 15.15 15.30 | A comparison of the mitochondrial and the nuclear genetic structure of field populations of the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum Rubik J. Sommerhalder, Institute of Integrative Biology, Zrich |
| 15.30 16.00 | TEA / COFFEE |
SESSION 1 – Fungi, Oomycetes, Population Genetics and Systematics | |
| 16.00 16.15 | Chemical warfare at the Host/Pathogen interface: A fungal perspective David P. Overy, Technical University of Denmark |
| 16.15 16.30 | Tracking infection incidence of Phytophthora kernoviae and P. ramorum in woodlands and gardens in south-western England Sandra Denman, Forest Research Agency, Surrey |
| 16.30 16.45 | Molecular approaches to understand sclerotial mycoparasitism by Coniothyrium minitans S. Sreenivasaprasad, Warwick HRI |
| 16.45 17.00 | Selection for increased cyproconazole tolerance in Mycosphaerella graminicola through local adaptation and in response to host resistance Jiasui Zhan, Scottish Crop Research Institute |
| 17.00 17.15 | Epidemiology of Verticillium albo-atrum on tomato nurseries Vinodh Krishnamurthy, University of Nottingham |
| 17.15 17.30 | Hopeful Monsters Emily Clewes, Warwick-HRI |
| 17.30 18.00 | DISCUSSION |
| TUESDAY 20th DECEMBER | |
| 09.00 10.00 | Presidential Address Phil E Russell A Commercial Miscellany |
| 10.00 10.30 | TEA / COFFEE |
SESSION 2 – Viruses, Phytoplasmas, Bacteria and Nematodes | |
| 10.30 10.45 | Synthesis of genomic and subgenomic RNAs by a membrane-bound RNA-dependent RNA polymerase isolated from oat plants infected with Cereal yellow dwarf virus R. H. A. Coutts, Imperial College London |
| 10.45 11.00 | Cloning, Sequencing and Analysis of Coat Protein Gene of Papaya Ringspot Virus in South India Abdulmunaf Byadgi, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India |
| 11.00 11.15 | Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) project in Eastern Africa C. M. Herron, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Tanzania |
| 11.15 11.30 | Zero Grazing + Zero Fodder = Zero Dairy Phil Jones, Global Plant Clinic, Rothamsted Research |
| 11.30 11.45 | Application of PCR-based detection to aphid borne viruses of strawberries G.J. Down, East Malling Research |
| 11.45 12.00 | Dawn Arnold, University of West of England |
| 12.00 12.30 | DISCUSSION |
| 12.30 13.30 | LUNCH |
SESSION 3 – Diagnostics, Forecasting, Decision Support and Epidemiology | |
| 13.30 13.45 | The diagnosis of plant viruses: its an art and a science Rick Mumford, Central Science Laboratory, York |
| 13.45 14.00 | Generic system for detection of statutory potato pathogens Jade Stinson, The University of Manchester |
| 14.00 14.15 | Forecasting Sclerotinia disease in field grown lettuce J.P. Clarkson, Warwick HRI |
| 14.15 14.30 | Prediction of head blight & mycotoxin contamination P Jennings, Central Science Laboratory, York |
| 14.30 14.45 | Factors associated with the race compositions of Rhynchosporium secalis in United Kingdom: meta-analyses from historic surveys Jiasui Zhan, Scottish Crop Research Institute |
| 14.45 15.00 | Blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea populations on finger millet and rice in Africa reveal contrasting patterns S. Sreenivasaprasad, Warwick HRI |
| 15.00 15.30 | DISCUSSION |
| 15.30 16.00 | TEA / COFFEE |
SESSION 4 Disease Control (Resistance Breeding, Chemical, Biological and Integrated), and Technology Transfer | |
| 16.00 16.15 | Breeding for resistance to lettuce downy mildew an alternative approach D A C Pink, Warwick HRI |
| 16.15 16.30 | The use of neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) extracts singly and in combination with Brevibacillus brevis for biological control of cucumber powdery mildew E.J. Allan, University of Aberdeen |
| 16.30 16.45 | Integration of soil pasteurisation and the application of Coniothyrium minitans to control Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Amanda J. Bennett, Warwick HRI |
| 16.45 17.00 | The extent of natural biocontrol of powdery mildews by hyperparasites E Topalidou, The University of Reading |
| 17.00 17.15 | How Trichoderma affect soil microbial diversity Dr Jose Pascual, Campus Espinardo Murcia Spain |
| 17.15 17.30 | Slow sand filter bacterial populations associated with removal of oomycete plant pathogens from irrigation water Paul Hunter, Warwick- HRI |
| 17.30 17.45 | Informing Crop Health Decisions a flexible & responsive approach JA Turner, Central Science Laboratory, York |
| 17.45 18.00 | DISCUSSION |
| 19.00 | RECEPTION AND PRESIDENTIAL DINNER |
| WEDNESDAY 21st DECEMBER | |
| 9.00 – 10.00 | POSTERS |
| 10.00 10.45 | Plenary Lecture 1 Professor Graham Jellis, Home Grown Cereals Authority, UK Plant pathology with a purpose |
| 10.45 11.15 | TEA / COFFEE |
| 11.15 12.00 | Plenary Lecture 2 Dr Wendy Matthews, Food Standards Agency, UK Title to be confirmed |
| 12.00 12.30 | BSPP Annual General Meeting |
| 12.3014.00 | LUNCH AND DEPARTURE |
