Updated 16 May, 2022
Links to posters are available at the bottom at the page
Monday 9 May | |
18:00-21:00 | Registration and mounting of posters, Monte Verita
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Tuesday 10 May | |
07:30-08:10 | Registration and mounting of posters, Monte Verita |
08:15-08:45 | Opening and organisational remarks
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Session 1 (Plenum) | Late and early blight - importance and characteristics of the pathogens. Status in Europe and beyondChairman: Jens G. Hansen, Sub-chair: Alison Lees |
08:45-09:15 | Late blight and early blight in Europe in 2020 & 2021 / Geert Kessel, Isaac Abuley & Hans Hausladen |
09:15-09:35 | The evolving European population of Phytophthora infestans - global context and consequences for IPM / David Cooke |
09:35-09:55 | Five years of P. infestans population changes in France - patterns and hypotheses / Didier Andrivon |
09:55-10.15 | Discussion |
10.15-10:55 | Coffee break and poster session |
10:55-11.15 | Tizon Latino update / Florencia Lucca |
11:15-11.35 | AsiaBlight update / Louise Cooke |
11:35-11.55 | Update on EU regulatory system and ambitions of the Green Deal on disease control / Albert Schirring |
11:55-12.15 | Discussion |
12:15-13.35 | Lunch |
Session 2 (Plenum) | Epidemiology and host resistanceChairman: Geert Kessel, Sub-chair: Karen Sullam |
13:35-14.00 | Swiss agricultural policies and implications for practice / Jan Wäspe & Tomke Musa |
14:00-14.20 | Decision support and host resistance, experiences from the Netherlands / Geert Kessel |
14:20-14:40 | Application of blight forecasting to inform spray decisions / Alison Lees |
14.40-14.55 | Discussion |
14.55-15.15 | Coffee Break |
15.15-15.35 | Mechanistic modelling of potato yield loss caused by P. infestans. Relevance of rate of disease growth and time of infection in yield reduction / José Gonzalez |
15.35-15.50 | Efficacy of 3 R-gene late blight resistant potato cultivars in preventing infection by Phytophthora infestans in confined field trials in Indonesia / Philip Wharton |
15.50-16.10 | Role of seed potatoes in local migrations of Phytophthora infestans / Jadwiga Śliwka |
16.10-16-30 | Discussion |
17:15-23:00 | City tour of Locarno and dinner |
Wednesday 11 May (Morning) | |
Session 3 (Plenum) | Control strategies Chairman: Bert Evenhuis, Sub-chair: Faye Ritchie |
08.10-08.30 | Status and future of precision agriculture in potato/ Fedde Sijbrandij |
08:30-08:50 | Contribution of airborne inoculum monitoring in the improvement of late blight management / Vivien Le Vourch |
08:50-09:10 | Prolonging the effective life of fungicides for the control of late blight / Faye Ritchie |
09.10-09:30 | Systems approach for early warning and control of late blight and early blight in Denmark / Jens G. Hansen |
09:30-09.50 | Intercropping as a sustainable alternative to reduce late blight infestation in potato / Zohralyn Homulle |
09.50-10.10 | Discussion |
10.10-10.50 | Coffee break and poster session |
Session 4 (Plenum) | Alternaria Chairman: Hans Hausladen, Sub-chair: Isaac Abuley |
10.50-11.10 | Improving decision support systems for an integrated control of Alternaria spp. in potatoes / Pieter Vanhaverbeke |
11:10-11:30 | Comparison of prediction models for the prediction of the first symptoms of early blight in the potato crop in A Limia, NW Spain / Laura Meno Farinas |
11:30-11:50 | Advances in Alternaria resistance research / Juergen Derpmann |
11.50-12:10 | |
12:10-12:30 | ECOSOL – Biological control agents against early blight in potato – screening for candidates / Nicole Bellé |
12.30-12.50 | Discussion |
12.50-14.00 | Lunch |
19:30-22.30 | Workshop dinner at the hotel |
Thursday 12 May | |
Plenum 08.30-08.50 | The P. infestans global genetic landscape initiative (PiGGL) / Jens G. Hansen & David Cooke |
Session 5 08:50-10:00 | Parallel subgroup meetings continued |
Control strategies: (Moderator: Bert Evenhuis, Secretary: Faye Ritchie)
Pathogen and host resistance: (Moderator: David Cooke, secretary: Geert Kessel)
Alternaria: (Moderator: Hans Hausladen, Secretary: Nicole Bellé)
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10:00-11:00 | Coffee break |
Session 6 | Plenary session - outlook and new initiatives – reports and discussionChairman: Jens G. Hansen, Sub-chair: Alison Lees |
11:00-12.15 | Report from the subgroups
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12:15-12.30 | Closing of the workshop / Karen Sullam & Alison Lees |
12.30-13:00 | Sandwich To Go and Depart |
13:15 | Post workshop tour to Isole di Brissago for those registered |
VigiMildiou / BlightSurveyor: two mirror participate applications to monitor late blight primary infections and epidemics / R. Mabon, J. M. Armand, R. Corbiere, M. Guibert-Rolland, D. Guicher & D. Andrivon
Virulence and fungicide sensitivity of the most prevalent genotypes collected in Belgium in 2019-2021 / César V, Labbe V, Marteau A, Van Steenberge C and Houchard L
Combining antagonistic bacteria with copper to control late blight disease in potato plants / Fanny Germanier, Floriane L’Haridon , Laure Weisskopf , Mout De Vrieze
Zorvec™ Entecta™ Fungicide, a new solution for managing late blight in potatoes / Bernard Straebler, Amandine Picard, Craig Chisholm, Olivier Couery
Enhancing knowledge base on the dynamics of P. infestans effectors in order to reduce future fungicide inputs / Amanpreet Kaur, Miles Armstrong, Jeroen S. Stellingwerf, Dan Milbourne & Ingo Hein
New Potato Cultivars with Broad Late Blight Resistance / Sieber K, Forster G, Dehmer K, Hammann T and Kellermann A
Absence of a causal correlation between Phytophthora infestans SSR genotypes and sensitivity to the fungicides Mefenoxam, Mandipropamid and Oxathiapiprolin / Lorenzo Borghi, Jürg Wullschleger, Salvatore Accardo and Stefano Torriani
Surveillance on potato and tomato late blight populations in India reveals a rapid evolution of sub-clonal diversity in the Phytophthora infestans 13_A2 clonal lineage / Sanjoy Guha Roy, Tanmoy Dey, Sanjai K. Dwivedi, Sibnarayan Datta, David E. L. Cooke
