11th International Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference

 

John Innes Centre, Norwich, England

22nd to 27th August 2004

 

Programme

 

Sunday 22nd August

 

6.30–9.00 pm    REGISTRATION, WITH RECEPTION AND BUFFET SUPPER

                        Lecture Theatre Foyer, John Innes Centre

 

 

Lectures in the main programme on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday will be in the John Innes Centre Lecture Theatre.

 

Monday 23rd August

 

9.00 am            James Brown (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

                        Welcome

 

                        Chairman: Amos Dinoor (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel)

 

                        The Roy Johnson Memorial Lecture

 

9.15 am            Michele Heath (Universities of Toronto and Victoria, Canada)

                        In search of durable resistance (abstract A1.1)

 

10.00 am          Tree planting in memory of Dr Roy Johnson

 

10.40 am          COFFEE / TEA

 

                        Chairman: Lesley Boyd (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

 

                        Susceptibility and Non-Host Resistance

 

11.10 am          Ralph Hückelhoven (University of Giessen, Germany)

                        The ancient cell death suppressor BAX Inhibitor-1 induces susceptibility of barley to appropriate and inappropriate powdery mildew fungi (A1.2)

 

11.30 am          Wubei Dong (IPK, Gatersleben, Germany)

                        Comparison of gene expression profiles in barley epidermis in response to Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei and Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici (A1.3)

 

11.50 am          Hossein Jafary (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

                        Mapping of quantitative genes in barley determining the resistance to the heterologous wheat leaf rust fungus (Puccinia triticina) (A1.4)

 

12.10 pm          Balázs Barna (Plant Protection Institute, Budapest, Hungary)

                        Suppression of various forms of rust and powdery mildew resistance of wheat and barley (A1.5)

 

12.30 pm          Holger Schultheiss (University of Giessen, Germany)

                        Analysis of the mechanism of RAC/ROP GTPase activity in susceptibility of barley to the powdery mildew fungus (A1.6)

 

12.50 pm          LUNCH

                        Chairman: Rients Niks (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

 

                        Host-Parasite Interactions

 

1.50 pm            Tim Carver (Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, Wales)

                        Keynote lecture: Powdery mildew, cereal cells and sustainable crop production (A1.7)

 

2.30 pm            Ralph Panstruga (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany)

                        The role of the actin cytoskeleton in pathogen defence in barley (A1.8)

 

2.50 pm            Elena Prats (Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, Wales)

                        Involvement of nitric oxide in papilla-based resistance and the hypersensitive response of barley attacked by Blumeria graminis (A1.9)

 

3.10 pm            Stéphane Bieri (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

                        Barley MLA protein abundance is controlled by RAR1 and is rate-limiting for efficient resistance to powdery mildew (A1.10)

 

3.40 pm            TEA / COFFEE

 

4.10 pm            CONFERENCE PHOTO

 

4.30 pm            Karen Olesen (Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

                        Barley leaf rust affects the susceptibility of barley to powdery mildew (A1.11)

 

4.50 pm            Julio Huerta-Espino (INIFAP-CEVAMEX, Texcoco, Mexico)

                        Resistance to leaf rust in wheat conferred by slow rusting gene Lr46 (A1.12)

 

5.10 pm            Lesley Boyd (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

                        Modifiers of disease resistance (A1.13)

 

5.30 pm            END OF SESSION

 

7.00 pm            DINNER

                        John Jarrold Suite and Town Close Room, Sports Park, University of East Anglia (dinner will be served at 7.30 pm)

 

Tuesday 24th August

 

                        Chairman: Ken Shirasu (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, England)

 

                        Molecular Genetics of Resistance

 

9.00 am            Roger Wise (USDA/ARS and Iowa State University, Ames, USA)

                        Keynote lecture: Flor revisited: Systems biology in barley-powdery mildew interactions (A1.14)

 

9.40 am            Michael Lyngkjær (Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

                        Gene transcript profiling of individual Blumeria graminis attacked barley epidermal cells (A1.15)

 

10.00 am          Nabila Yahiaoui (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

                        Positional cloning of powdery mildew resistance genes at the Pm3 locus of hexaploid wheat and characterization of a Pm3 haplotype (A1.16)

 

10.20 am          Beat Keller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

                        Isolation and characterization of the leaf rust resistance gene Lr10 from hexaploid wheat (A1.17)

 

10.40 am          Ralph Panstruga (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany)

                        The structure and possible origin of the barley mlo-11 mildew resistance allele (A1.18)

 

11.00 am          COFFEE / TEA and POSTERS (odd numbers to be presented)

12.30 pm          LUNCH

 

                        Chairman: Jonathan Yuen (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)

 

                        Population Biology of Pathogens

 

1.30 pm            Mogens Hovmøller (Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Slagelse, Denmark)

                        Keynote lecture: Diversity, dispersal and evolution of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici (A1.19)

 

2.10 pm            Jérôme Enjalbert (INRA, Grignon, France)

                        Clonality of wheat yellow rust population in France and high diversity in China (A1.20)

 

2.30 pm            Kumarse Nazari (University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute, Camden, Australia)

                        Analysis of molecular and pathogenic variability of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici pathotype 104E137A- in Australia (A1.21)

 

2.50 pm            Antonin Dreiseitl (Agricultural Research Institute, Kroměříž, Czech Republic)

                        Has the European barley powdery mildew population reached Beijing? Not yet! (A1.22)

 

3.10 pm            TEA / COFFEE

 

                        Epidemiology

 

3.30 pm            Karsten Bjerre (Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark)

                        Parameters of epidemic development of yellow rust in a growing wheat crop (A1.23)

 

3.50 pm            Samuel Soubeyrand (INRA, Grignon, France)

                        Modelling various manifestations of disease spread at different scales (A1.24)

 

                        Genetics of Rust Resistance

 

4.10 pm            Arnis Druka (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, Scotland)

                        Molecular genetics of the barley stem rust disease: the barley perspective (A1.25)

 

4.30 pm            Wolfgang Spielmeyer (CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia)

                        Fine mapping of durable, broad-spectrum rust resistance genes in wheat (Triticum aestivum) (A1.26)

 

4.50 pm            Colin Hiebert (Agriculture Canada and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)

                        A novel approach for assigning leaf rust resistance genes to chromosomes in wheat (A1.27)

 

5.10 pm            END OF SESSION

 

6.00 pm            BOAT TRIP ON THE NORFOLK BROADS (with dinner)

                        Buses leave UEA at 6 pm promptly; boats leave Wroxham at 7 pm, returning at 10 pm

Wednesday 25th August

 

9.00 am            WORKSHOP SESSIONS

                        Details follow the main programme

 

                        Molecular technology for biotrophs: mildews, rusts and surrogates

                        Organiser: Sarah Gurr (University of Oxford, England)

                        Biffen Building seminar room 1.55

 

                        Epidemiology, including comparisons between pathogens

                        Organiser: Hanne Østergård (Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

                        Lecture Theatre Building seminar rooms G.34/35

 

                        Molecular strategies for studying plant disease resistance

                        Organiser: Ken Shirasu (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, England)

                        Genome Centre Building seminar rooms GC.10/11/12

 

                        The cost to agriculture of recent changes in cereal rusts

                        Organiser: Ravi Singh (CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico)

                        Lecture Theatre Building seminar rooms G.36/37

 

12.00 pm          LUNCH

 

1.00 pm            TOUR OF NORWICH

 

6.30 pm            Invited lecture (in the Lecture Theatre)

                        Chairman: Chris Ridout (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

 

                        James Craven-Smith (Brewing Sales Director, Crisp Malting, Great Ryburgh, England)

                        FROM BARLEY TO BEER

 

7.30 pm            BARBEQUE

                        Recreation Centre, John Innes Centre

Thursday 26th August

 

9.00 am            POSTERS (even numbers to be presented) and COFFEE / TEA

 

                        Chairman: David Marshall (USDA/ARS & North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA)

 

                        Breeding for Resistance

 

10.30 am          Robert Park (University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute, Camden, Australia)

                        Keynote lecture: Breeding cereals for rust resistance in Australia (A1.28)

 

11.10 am          Zacharias Pretorius (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)

                        The impact and management of wheat stripe rust in South Africa (A1.29, 1.30, 1.31)

 

11.40 am          Sybil Herrera-Foessel (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)

                        Identification of slow rusting resistance to leaf rust in durum wheat (A1.32)

 

12.00 pm          Thierry Marcel (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

                        Race-specific aspects of QTLs for partial resistance to barley leaf rust (A1.33)

 

12.20 pm          Morten Lillemo (CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico)

                        Identification of partial resistance to powdery mildew in spring wheat from CIMMYT (A1.34)

 

12.40 pm          LUNCH

 

                        Chairman: Alexei Morgounov (CIMMYT, Almaty, Kazakhstan)

 

                        Genetics of Sources of Resistance

 

1.30 pm            Clare Lewis (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

                        Genetic analysis of yellow rust resistance in the UK (A1.35)

 

1.50 pm            Garry Rosewarne (CIMMYT, Texcoco, Mexico)

                        Identification of phenotypic and molecular markers associated with the slow rusting resistance gene Lr46 (A1.36)

 

2.10 pm            James Chong (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, Canada)

                        Discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms linked to the crown rust resistance gene Pc68 in cultivated oat (A1.37)

 

2.30 pm            Xiaoquan Qi (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, England)

                        Fine mapping of a QTL for leaf rust resistance in barley by haplotype analysis (A1.38)

 

2.50 pm            Colin Wellings (University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute, Camden, Australia)

                        The development and application of near isogenic lines for the wheat stripe (yellow) rust pathosystem (A1.39)

 

3.10 pm            TEA / COFFEE

 

                        Chairman: Philippe Reignault (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Calais, France)

 

                        Disease Control

 

3.35 pm            Anmin Wan (CAAS Institute of Plant Protection, Beijing, China)

                        Keynote lecture: Wheat yellow rust control in China (A1.40)

 

4.15 pm            Rebecca Wyand (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

                        Evolution of resistance to strobilurin fungicides in fungi pathogenic to cereals (A1.41)

 

4.45 pm            Lise Jørgensen (Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Slagelse, Denmark)

                        Yield effects and control of powdery mildew in winter wheat in the presence of Septoria (A1.42)

 

5.05 pm            Keith Cottrell (University of Nottingham, England)

                        The effect of fungicides on the quality of malting barley (A1.43)

 

5.25 pm            Claude de Vallavieille-Pope (INRA, Grignon, France)

                        Foliar disease severity and stability of grain yield and quality of wheat cultivar mixtures in on-farm trials (A1.44)

 

5.45 pm            END OF SESSION

 

7.00 pm            CONFERENCE DINNER

                        Lenwade Country House Hotel

                        Buses leave UEA at 7.00 pm promptly and will arrive at Lenwade at 7.30 pm

                        Dinner will be served at 8.00 pm

Friday 27th August

 

                        Chairman: Adrian Newton (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, Scotland)

 

                        Pathogen Molecular Genetics

 

9.00 am            Chris Ridout (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

                        Keynote lecture: How powdery mildew becomes virulent (A1.45)

 

9.40 am            Brent McCallum (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, Canada)

                        Inheritance of avirulence in the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina (A1.46)

 

10.00 am          Guus Bakkeren (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, Canada)

                        Generation of a wheat leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) EST database and microarray from stage-specific cDNA libraries (A1.47)

 

10.20 am          Matt Dickinson (University of Nottingham, England)

                        Isolation of genes expressed during compatible interactions between leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) and wheat using cDNA-AFLP and haustorial isolation (A1.48)

 

10.40 am          COFFEE / TEA

 

                        Host-Parasite Specificity

 

11.10 am          James Kolmer (Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, USA)

                        Virulence specificities of Puccinia triticina (leaf rust) from durum wheat from world-wide collections (A1.49)

 

11.30 am          Colin Wellings (University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute, Camden, Australia)

                        The biology of Puccinia striiformis on Hordeum spp. in Australia: the case for a new forma specialis (A1.50)

 

11.50 am          Les Szabo (Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, USA)

                        In search of the correct name for leaf rust of cultivated wheat (A1.51)

 

12.10 pm          BUSINESS MEETING

                        Chairman: Amos Dinoor (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel)

 

12.40 pm          LUNCH

 

2.00 pm            END OF CONFERENCE

 

Programmes for Workshop Sessions on Wednesday 25th August 2004

 

Molecular technology for biotrophs: mildews, rusts and surrogates

 

Organiser: Sarah Gurr (University of Oxford, England)

Biffen Building seminar room 1.55

 

Mildews

 

Sarah Gurr (University of Oxford, England)

Introduction and Tools, techniques and surrogates to study mildew

 

James Brown (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

Maps, microscopy and mildew chromosomes (A2.7)

 

Maike Both (Imperial College, London, England)

A glimpse into the metabolism of Blumeria graminis during development as inferred by transcript profiles (A2.5)

 

Carsten Pedersen (Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

Studying the powdery mildew fungus at the genome, transcriptome and proteome level (A2.58)

 

Rusts and Surrogates

 

Matt Dickinson (University of Nottingham, England)

Studying rust fungi: gene expression during compatibility (A1.48)

 

Gus Bakkeren (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, Canada)

Wheat leaf rust ESTs: a technical analysis and quest for function (A1.47)

 

Genomes

 

Les Szabo (Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, USA)

The Puccinia graminis genome and Pgt avirulence gene screening

 

Chris Ridout (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England) and Carsten Pedersen (Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

The mildew genome

 

Epidemiology, including comparisons between pathogens

 

Organiser: Hanne Østergård (Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

Lecture Theatre Building seminar rooms G.34/35

 

This workshop will discuss how the extent to which pathogens interact and what the potential consequences of interaction are for disease management

 

Hanne Østergård (Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

Introduction

 

Followed by three short presentations to inspire further discussion:

 

Jeanette Vollmer (Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

Studies of interaction between pathogens (A2.73)

 

Ivan Sache (INRA, Grignon, France)

The distribution of brown and yellow rust of wheat on different scales is related to the monocyclic processes of infection and dispersal (A2.61)

 

Adrian Newton (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, Scotland)

Bacterial inoculum from a previous crop affects fungal disease development on a subsequent non-host crop (A2.54)

 

Followed by 1 hour discussion in smaller groups and 30 minutes conclusions in plenum

 

Molecular strategies for studying plant disease resistance

 

Organiser: Ken Shirasu (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, England)

Genome Centre Building seminar rooms GC.10/11/12

 

Proteomics

 

Scott Peck (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, England)

Phosphoproteome analysis

 

Uses of microarrays

 

James Hadfield (John Innes Genome Laboratory, Norwich, England)

Transcript-based cloning

 

Andy Bailey (University of Bristol, England)

Use of the Affymetrix microassays to investigate the interactions between barley and powdery mildew (A2.2)

 

R-gene cloning, including the use of model species

 

Xianming Chen (USDA/ARS, Pullman, USA)

Towards cloning wheat genes for resistance to stripe rust and functional genomics of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici (A2.10)

 

Claire Barker (CSIRO Plant Industry, Glen Osmond, Australia)

Map based cloning of the Run1 powdery mildew resistance gene from grapevine (A2.4)

 

Ralph Panstruga (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany)

An Arabidopsis Mlo knock-out mutant phenocopies the barley mlo broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistance phenotype (A2.56)

 

 

The cost to agriculture of recent changes in cereal rusts

 

Organiser: Ravi Singh (CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico)

Lecture Theatre Building seminar rooms G.36/37

 

Xianming Chen (USDA/ARS, Pullman, USA)

Impact of wheat stripe rust and races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in the United States (A2.11)

 

Zacharias Pretorius (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)

The impact of wheat stripe rust in South Africa (A1.29)

 

Colin Wellings (University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute, Camden, Australia)

Pathogen dynamics associated with historic stripe (yellow) rust epidemics in Australia in 2002 and 2003 (A2.74)

 

Tagir Ibragimov (All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology, Vyazemy, Russia)

The modern epidemiological situation of cereal rusts in European Russia (A2.25)

 

Alexei Morgounov (CIMMYT, Almaty, Kazakhstan)

The virulence of leaf rust population and resistance of spring wheat varieties and breeding lines in Northern Kazakhstan and Siberia (A2.51)

 

Ricardo Madariaga (National Institute of Agricultural Research, Chillan, Chile)

Significance of wheat yellow rust (Yr) genes in Chile (A2.38)

 

Silvia Germán (INIA, Colonia, Uruguay)

Breakdown of resistance of wheat cultivars and estimated losses caused by recent changes in the leaf rust population in South America (A2.21)

 

James Kolmer (Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, USA)

The spread of the introduced leaf rust race MBDS in the U.S.A. (A2.31)

 

Ravi Singh (CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico)

Threat to stable wheat production in Eastern Africa and Asia from a new race of Puccinia graminis tritici (A2.64)

 

Posters and workshop presentations

 

The following are titles of presentations to be made as either posters or short talks in discussion sessions or both.  They are listed in alphabetical order of the presenting author.  The numbers refer both to the poster boards and to the page number in the second section of the abstracts (i.e. Dr Akkaya’s abstract is on page A2.1).

 

Odd-numbered posters will be presented in the session on Tuesday 24th August and even-numbered abstracts on Thursday 26th August.

 

 

1    Isolation of RGAs and disease related gene fragments from wheat stripe rust resistant differential lines

      Mahinur Akkaya (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

 

2    Use of the Affymetrix microarrays to investigate the interactions between barley and powdery mildew

      Andy Bailey (University of Bristol, England)

 

3    Search for durable resistance to wheat leaf rust in Brazil

      Amarilis Barcellos (OR Melhoramento de Sementes Ltda., Passo