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 (Risř 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 Lyngkjćr (Risř 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 Hovmřller (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 Řstergĺrd (Risř 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 Jřrgensen (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 (Risř 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 (Risř National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

The mildew genome

 

Epidemiology, including comparisons between pathogens

 

Organiser: Hanne Řstergĺrd (Risř 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 Řstergĺrd (Risř National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

Introduction

 

Followed by three short presentations to inspire further discussion:

 

Jeanette Vollmer (Risř 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 Fundo, Brazil)

 

4    Map based cloning of the Run1 powdery mildew resistance gene from grapevine

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

 

5    A glimpse into the metabolism of Blumeria graminis during development as inferred from transcript profiles

      Maike Both (Imperial College, London, England)

 

6    Identification of non-host resistance genes in wheat to barley yellow rust

      Lesley Boyd (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

 

7    The genome and chromosomes of Blumeria graminis

      James Brown (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

 

8    Epidemiology of barley stripe rust and races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. hordei: the first decade in the United States

      Xianming Chen (USDA-ARS, Pullman, USA)

 

9    Genetics and molecular mapping of resistance genes in wheat and barley against inappropriate formae speciales of Puccinia striiformis

      Xianming Chen (USDA-ARS, Pullman, USA)

 

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

      Xianming Chen (USDA/ARS, Pullman, USA)

 

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

      Xianming Chen (USDA-ARS, Pullman, USA)

 

12   Resistance to European isolates of Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei in selections from barley landraces collected in Pakistan

      Jerzy Czembor (IHAR Radzikow, Poland)

 

13   Sources of powdery mildew resistance in barley landraces from Nepal 

      Jerzy Czembor (IHAR Radzikow, Poland)

 

14   Search for resistance to leaf rust in durum wheat germplasm

      Ana Del Olmo (CIFA, Córdoba, Spain)

 

15   Physiologic specialization of Puccinia triticina in Andalusia (Spain) in 2003

      Ana Del Olmo (CIFA, Córdoba, Spain)

 

80   Pathogenicity target gene is the Achilles’ heel in host-pathogen interaction

      Wubei Dong (Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany)

 

16   Rust resistance genes in winter wheat cultivars registered in the Czech Republic

      Veronika Dumalasová (Research Institute of Crop Production, Praha-Ruzyně, Czech Republic)

 

17   Development of resistance gene analog markers linked to the stripe rust resistance gene YrH52 derived from wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides

      Tzion Fahima (University of Haifa, Israel)

 

18   Novel stem rust resistance in barley lines with introgressions of Hordeum bulbosum chromatin

      Thomas Fetch (Cereal Research Centre, Winnipeg, Canada)

 

19   Evaluation of wild oat germplasm for resistance to oat stem rust race NA67

      Thomas Fetch (Cereal Research Centre, Winnipeg, Canada)

 

20   Virulence and distribution of pathotypes in two biotrophic host-pathogen systems with high (wheat/yellow rust) and low (rye/leaf rust) selection pressure by the host

      Kerstin Flath (Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Kleinmachnow, Germany)

 

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

      Silvia Germán (INIA La Estanzuela, Colonia, Uruguay)

 

22   Germin-like protein genes in the defence response of grapevine to powdery mildew

      Dale Godfrey (CSIRO Plant Industry, Glen Osmond, Australia)

 

23   Adaptation of Puccinia triticina populations to host cultivars for virulence and agressiveness

      Henritte Goyeau` (INRA Pathologie Végétale, Thiverval Grignon, France)

 

24   Antioxidants in Blumeria graminins and Magnaporthe grisea

      Catherine Henderson (University of Oxford, England)

 

25   The modern epidemiological situation of cereal crops rust in European Russia

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

 

26   Do HVNAC-like transcription factors regulate host defence against the powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei) in barley (Hordeum vulgare)?

      Michael Jensen (Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark)

 

27   Differences in the genetic basis of complete resistance to Puccinia triticina

      Zoran Jerkovic (Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro)

 

28   Evolution of virulence in Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici

      Annemarie Justesen (Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Slagelse, Denmark)

 

29   Identification of molecular markers for wheat stripe rust resistance genes using RAPD and RGAP

      Mansureh Keshavarzi, (University Azad, Tehran, Iran)

 

30   Genetics of leaf rust resistance in the Americano wheat landraces from Uruguay

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

31   Introduction, spread, and yield loss caused by new races of Puccinia triticina on wheat in the U.S.

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

 

32   Postulated resistance genes in cultivars and lines with alien genes to wheat leaf rust

      Tamara Kolomiets (All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology, Vyazemy, Russia)

 

33   IGS, SSR and SRAP analysis of Puccinia striiformis isolates

      Hedvig Komjáti (Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary)

 

34   Analysis of the genetic relatedness of German leaf rust isolates (Puccinia hordei Otth) by AFLPs

      Doris Kopahnke (Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants, Aschersleben, Germany)

 

35   Molecular markers with rust and powdery mildew fungi: Calculating similarity of banding profiles

      Evsey Kosman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

 

36   A computational tool for the analysis of plant pathogen populations

      Evsey Kosman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

 

37   The main parameters of durable resistance to leaf rust in wheat

      Elizaveta Kovalenko (All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology, Vyazemy, Russia)

 

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

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

 

39   Does the mlo resistance gene increase the susceptibility of spring barley to spotting diseases?

      Joanne Makepeace (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

 

40   Detection of race-nonspecific resistance against leaf rust of wheat at seedling stage

      Klára Manninger (Plant Protection Institute, Budapest, Hungary)

 

41   Virulence survey for wheat rusts in Hungary during 2000-2003

      Klára Manninger (Plant Protection Institute, Budapest, Hungary)

 

42   Effects of meteorological conditions on uredo- and teliospores of rusts

      Klára Manninger (Plant Protection Institute, Budapest, Hungary)

 

43   Genetic diversity of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in the United States

      Samuel Markell (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA)

 

44   Catalogue of rust fungi in the Czech and Slovak Republics to be published

      Jaroslava Marková (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

 

45   Orientation of mycelium growth of Puccinia triticina in wheat seedling leaves

      Fernando Martinez (University of Wageningen, The Netherlands)

 

46   Changes in the wheat leaf proteome caused by compatible and incompatible interactions Puccinia triticina (wheat leaf rust)

      Brent McCallum (Cereal Research Centre, Winnipeg, Canada)

 

47   Microsatellite tagging of the leaf rust resistance gene Lr16 on wheat chromosome 2BS

      Brent McCallum (Cereal Research Centre, Winnipeg, Canada)

 

48   Temporal gene expression of the wheat leaf rust pathosystem using cDNA microarray

      Brent McCallum (Cereal Research Centre, Winnipeg, Canada)

 

49   Genetic and physiological analysis of mutations in wheat showing enhanced adult plant resistance to yellow rust

      James Melichar (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

 

50   New races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici more aggressive than older races at 18oC

      Eugene Milus (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA)

 

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

      Alexei Morgounov (CIMMYT, Almaty, Kazakhstan)

 

52   High-yielding winter wheat varieties resistant to yellow and leaf rust in Central Asia

      Alexei Morgounov (CIMMYT, Almaty, Kazakhstan)

 

53   Genetic analyses of adult-plant resistance to wheat stripe rust, Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici,  in seven Australian wheat cultivars

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

 

54   Interaction between bacterial inoculum from a previous crop with fungal disease development on a subsequent crop

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

 

55   Introgression of non-host resistance to Puccinia hordei from Hordeum bulbosum into cultivated barley

      Rients Niks (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

 

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

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

 

57   Pathogenicity of Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei, the causal organism of barley powdery mildew, in Iran

      Mehran Patpour (Seed and Plant Improvement Institute, Karaj, Iran)

 

58   Studying the powdery mildew fungus at genome, transcriptome and proteome level

      Carsten Pedersen (Risř National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

 

59   Defence responses activated by Iodus 40®, Milsana®, salicylyl heptanoate and trehalose during the wheat/Blumeria graminis f.sp.tritici compatible interaction

      Delphine Renard (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Calais, France)

 

60   Increased gene expression in leaf epidermis of barley leaves following attack by barley powdery mildew

      Jesper Rung (Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark)

 

61   The distribution of brown and yellow rusts of wheat on different scales is related to the monocyclic processes of infection and dispersal

      Ivan Sache (INRA, Thiverval-Grignon, France)

 

62   Efficient low cost methods in epidemiology of airborn pathogens

      Erik Schwarzbach (Miroslav, Czech Republic)

 

63   Natural variation of non-host disease resistance in Arabidopsis against wheat leaf rust and powdery mildew

      Reza Shafiei (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

 

64   Threat to stable wheat production in Eastern Africa and Asia from a new race of Puccina graminis tritici

      Ravi Singh (CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico)

 

65   Partial virulence for mlo resistance to barley powdery mildew in UK in 2003

      Susan Slater (NIAB, Cambridge, England)

 

66   Comparison of virulence frequencies in populations of cereal powdery mildew from Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Lancashire in 2003

      Susan Slater (NIAB, Cambridge, England)

 

67   Identification of molecular markers linked to the wheat leaf rust resistance gene Lr20

      Melinda Tar (Cereal Research Non-Profit Company, Szeged, Hungary)

 

68   Stabilisation of polymorphism in gene-for-gene relationships through host-mediated interactions between parasites

      Aurélien Tellier (John Innes Centre, Norwich, England)

 

69   Powdery mildew control in winter barley pure stands and cultivar mixtures using different timing and doses of fungicides

      Anna Tratwal (Plant Protection Institute, Poznań, Poland)

 

70   Analysis of mutual occurrence of two diseases: powdery mildew and leaf rust on winter wheat cultivars with susceptible, partially resistant and specific resistant reactions to powdery mildew

      Lubomir Vechet (Research Institute of Crop Production, Prague-Ruzyne, Czech Republic)

 

71   Efficient substances of biological and synthetic texture induced resistance to powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici) on winter wheat

      Lubomir Vechet (Research Institute of Crop Production, Prague-Ruzyne, Czech Republic)

 

72   Virulence of Puccinia triticina population in the North-Caucasian Region, Russia

      Galina Volkova (All-Russian Research Institute of Biological Plant Protection, Vyazemy, Russia)

 

73   Studies of interaction between pathogens

      Jeanette Vollmer (Risř National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

 

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

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

 

75   Getaneh Woldeab (Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization, Ambo, Ethiopia)

      Resistance of Ethiopian barley landrace lines to Puccinia hordei under field conditions

 

76   Linkage analysis of powdery mildew resistance gene Pm16 in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) using molecular markers

      Xianchun Xia (CAAS Institute of Crop Breeding and Cultivation, Beijing, China)

 

77   Seedling and adult-plant resistance to powdery mildew in Chinese bread wheat cultivars and introductions

      Xianchun Xia (CAAS Institute of Crop Breeding and Cultivation, Beijing, China)

 

78   Resistance gene analog markers co-segregating with powdery mildew resistance gene Pm31, derived from wild emmer wheat

      Weilong Xie (University of Haifa, Israel)

 

79   Syntaxin required for penetration resistance

      Ziguo Zhang (Risř National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)

 

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