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Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries - 4th Meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7.03.04 - Suonenjoki Research Station in Finland July 25-28, 1999

Local organizer: Suonenjoki Research Station

Committee members:

• Dr. Arja Lilja
• Dr. Marja Poteri
• Station director, Dr. Heikki Smolander

Technical programme committee:

• Dr. Robert L. James (USDA Forest Service, USA)
• Dr. Robert Perrin (INRA, France)
• Dr. Arja Lilja (Vantaa Reseach Centre, Finland)
• Dr. Heikki Smolander (Suonenjoki Research Station, Finland)
• Dr. Maria I. Salerno (Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, Argentina)
• Dr. Jack Sutherland (Applied Forest Science, Canada)

• Dr. Jack Sutherland
• Dr. Robert Perrin
• Prof. Timo Kurkela
• Dr. Jarmo Holopainen

Conference purpose:

• To review progress in the scientific understanding of the problematic to produce healthy forest seedlings since the last meeting of Working Party in Gainesville in 1996
• To explore the role of nursery technology in integrated pest control
• To understand of disease developments in tree nurseries

Participants:

So far 45 participants (Sweden, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Slovakian Republic, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Morocco, Japan, Canada, the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, India) have returned the preregistration form and plan to attend the meeting