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Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries

- 4th Meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7.03.04
- Suonenjoki Research Station
- Finland July 25-28, 1999

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PROGRAMME

 

Sunday, 25.7

18.00 - 22.00    Get together at Hotel Mansikkapaikka, Registration and
   Opening session, Ice brakers

Monday, 26.7

08.00-08.30    Hanging of posters
08.30-09.00    Holistic nursery pathology: A new emphasis on seedling health
   Tom D. Landis
09.00-09.15    BREAK
09.15-09.35    Of Fusarium oxysporum on Douglas-fir germinants: Comparison of isolates from nursery    soil and roots of healthy and diseased conifer seedlings
   Robert L. James, R. Perez, R.K. Dumroese and D.L. Wenny
09.35-09.55    Contamination of pine seeds by Fusarium circinatum
   L.D. Dwinell and S.W. Fraedrich
09.55-10.15    Presence of Fusarium species in diseased Pinus radiata seedlings in forest nurseries in
   Argentina
   G. Lori, Maria Isabel Salerno and S. Wolcan
10.15-10.30    BREAK
10.30-12.00    Presentation of research in Suonenjoki nursery
12.00-13.00    LUNCH
13.15-13.35    Pest problems and fumigation in pine nurseries in the Southern United States
   Stephen W. Fraedrich and L.D. Dwinell
13.35-13.55    Biofumigation in forest nurseries an alternative to chemical fumigation ?
   B. Lebihan, Robert Perrin and P. Camporata
13.55-14.15    Outcome of five years solarisation in French forest nurseries.
   B. Lebihan, Robert Perrin and P. Camporata
14.15-14.35    Diseases, insects and the use of pesticides in Finnish forest nurseries
   Marja-Liisa Juntunen
14.35-14.50    BREAK
14.50-15.10    Pyrenopeziza betulicola (anamorh Cylindrosporium sp.) the causative agent of leaf spot
   disease of birch
   Laura Paavolainen, T. Kurkela and J. Hantula
15.10-15.50    Proposal to prepare an IUFRO world series entitled ‘Forest nursery diseases and their
   management: A worldwide perspective’
   Jack R. Sutherland and Z. Prochazkova
15.50-16.00    BREAK
16.00-18.00    Posters
18.00-20.00    Nursery Technology
20.00-    Dinner, sauna

Tuesday, 27.7

08.00 - 08.20    Nursery diseases of broad leaved tree species in India - an overview
   J.C. Kaushik
08.20 - 08.40    Some new forest tree seedling diseases in Czech Republic
   V. Jancarik and Zdenka Prochazkova
08.40 - 09.00    Cylindrocladium scoparium a new soilborne pathogen in French forest nurseries
   B. Le Bihan, M L. Soulas, Robert Perrin and P. Camporata
09.00 - 09.15    BREAK
09.15 - 09.35    Phytophthora cactorum: Diversity and identification
   Jarkko Hantula, E.J. Vainio, H. Nuorteva and A. Lilja
09.35 - 09.55    Experiences with different diagnostic techniques to detect Phytophthora spp. in water
   Karin Themann and S. Werres
09.55 - 10.15    Reports of Phytophthora cinnamomi from Italy
   S. O. Cacciola, A. Pane, E. Motta, Gaetano Magnano di San Lio
10.15 - 10.30    BREAK
10.30 - 10.50    Status of forest nursery diseases in India and emerging trends in seedling disease
   management
   C. Mohanan
10.50 - 11.10    Diseases of the most important trees growing in Egypt
   Ahmed A.A. El-Settawy
11.10 - 11.30    Insect effects on Tectona grandis in Nigeria
   Ademola Fola Bolumole
11.30 - 11.40    BREAK
11.40 - 12.00    A review of foliage diseases in nursery stocks and their control in Shimane prefecture,
   Japan
   Yasuo Suto
12.00 - 12.20    Title not known
   Ma Chuo
12.20 - 13.30    LUNCH
13.30 - 19.00    Excursion to Pieksämäki Field experiments
19.00 -21.00    Dinner and scientific discussions

Wednesday, 28.7

08.30 - 08.50    Species specific PCR-primers as a tool to detect latent shoot and needle disease
   Elna Stenström
08.50 - 09.10    Identification and characterication of Rhizoctonia solani using PCR/RFLP and bioassay
   P. Camporata, M. L. Soulas and Robert Perrin
09.10 - 09.30    Monoclonal antibodies to Gremmeniella abietina
   S. Vartiainen, K. Koistinen, K. Ehrbar, E. O. Kajander and R.-L. Petäistö
09.30 - 09.45    BREAK
09.45 - 10.05    Ectomycorrhizal fungi and biological control of soil-borne pathogens in forest
   nurseries
   Karoliina Niemi, H. Heinonen-Tanski and A. Lilja
10.05 - 10.25    Short and long term effects of solarisation on pathogens and mycorrizal fungi in forest
   nurseries
   Robert Perrin, B. Lebihan and P. Camporata
10.40 - 11.40    LUNCH
11.40 - 14.45    Excursion to Lapinlahti nursery
14.45 - 17.00    Drive to Kuopio harbor
17.00    Boat drive to a wine farm Alahovi and Hotel Rauhalahti, Sauna and Banquet

Metla/KKK 15.7.1999