Sessions and presentations
Date: 12 May, 2024. Download as pdf
EuroBlight workshop 13-16 May, 2024 at de Werelt, the Netherlands.
Monday 13 May | |
18:00-21:00 | Registration and mounting of posters, de Werelt
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Tuesday 14 May | |
07:30-08:15 | Registration and mounting of posters, de Werelt |
08:15-08:45 | Opening and organisational remarks
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Session 1 Plenum | Late and early blight - importance and pathogen characteristics. Status in Europe and beyond Chair: Jens G. Hansen, Sub-chair: Alison Lees |
08:50-09:20 | Late blight and early blight in Europe in 2022 & 2023 / Isaac Abuley, Geert Kessel, Jens G. Hansen & Hans Hausladen |
09:20-09:40 | A dynamic decade: shifts in populations of Phytophthora infestans in Europe and the consequences for late blight management / David Cooke |
09:40-09:55 | EuroBlight – a consultant’s view over the years / Howard Hinds |
09:55-10:05 | Status of global networks – key research questions and future directions / Ivette Acuna |
10:05-10:20 | Discussion |
10:20-10:45 | Coffee break and poster session |
10:45-11:05 | The history of EU43 and resistance to mandipropamid in Denmark / Jens G. Hansen |
11:05-11:20 | Experience of late blight management in Denmark in the light of EU43 / Lars Bødker |
11:20-11:35 | Status from Syngenta - Field and environmental diagnostics for monitoring fungicide resistance evolution in P. infestans / Lorenzo Borghi |
11:35 – 11:50 | Status from Corteva – resistance risk management for oxathiapiprolin / Mamadou Kane Mboup |
11:50-12.05 | Status of resistance management in potato pathogens and updated FRAC guidelines / Juergen Derpmann |
12.05-12.30 | Panel Discussion. Moderator: Geert Kessel |
12:30-13.30 | Lunch |
Session 2 Plenum | Epidemiology and host resistance Chair: Geert Kessel Sub-chair: Didier Andrivon |
13:30-13.45 | Spuds, Spores and Potato Dumplings: Aligning Breeding Objectives within the Organic Potato Value Chain / Karen Sieber |
13:45-14:00 | De novo domestication as a new means to fight late blight / Kim Hebelstrup |
14.00-14:15 | Phytophthora resistance in hybrid potato breeding / Jeroen Berg |
14:15 – 14.30 | A KASP marker-based platform to identify the late blight resistance genes in potato varieties / Jack Vossen |
14.30-14.45 | Discussion |
14.45-15.15 | Coffee Break |
15.15-15.30 | Co-infections modulate late blight resistance expression in potato / Didier Andrivon |
15.30-15.45 | Global Solutions for Late Blight Management: Evaluating the Success of 3 R-Gene Potatoes in the Diverse Agricultural Landscapes of Asia and Africa / Philip Wharton |
15.45-16.00 | Review of DSSs: how to include both host resistance and pathogen information / Geert Kessel |
16.00-16.15 | Discussion |
17:15-23:00 | Guided walk and Dinner at the hotel |
Wednesday 15th May (Afternoon) Parallel Sessions | |
Session 5 | Parallel subgroup meetings |
13.45-13.50 | Introduction to parallel subgroup discussions Geert Kessel, Alison Lees and Jens G. Hansen |
Session 5 | Subgroup - control strategies Chair: Bert Evenhuis Sub-chair: Faye Ritchie |
13:55-14:10 | Control of potato late blight: considerable benefits from potassium phosphonate under a severe challenge / Ruairidh Bain |
14:10-14:25 | Harnessing the power of phosphorous acid in managing potato late blight / Sanjeev Sharma |
14:25-14:40 | |
14:40-14:55 | Biological control of Phytophthora infestans in Solanum tuberosum by volatile organic compounds / Laurence Vandenbulcke |
14:55-15:10 | Suppressing potato late blight through (strip) intercropping, exploring potential disease suppressive mechanisms / Zohralyn Homulle |
15:10-15:30 | Discussion |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00-16:15 | A new field experimentation method to improve IPM strategies for potato late blight / Faye Ritchie |
16:15-16:30 | ECOSOL – IPM approaches for the control of late blight / James Lynott |
16:30-16:45 | Experience in the implementation and impact of an early warning system for potato late blight management in Latin America / Ivette Acuña & Florencia Lucca |
16:45-17:00 | Update on the EuroBlight table / Bert Evenhuis |
17:00-17:15 | Discussion |
Session 5 | Subgroup - Pathogen characteristics & host resistance Chair: David Cooke Sub-chair: Geert Kessel |
13:55-14:10 | Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of P. infestans isolates from Kenya and Nigeria / Eric Magembe |
14:10-14:25 | Phenotypic traits of novel P. infestans genotypes in Denmark / Isaac K. Abuley |
14:40-14:55 | Predicting future P. infestans outbreaks: New tools to identify emerging lineages, virulence phenotypes and track spread / Jean Ristaino |
14:55-15:10 | Rating potato varieties: 30 years of experiments reanalysed to explicit resistance and explain its variability /Delphine Chauvin |
15:10-15:30 | Discussion |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00-16:15 | Enabling effector diversity studies in Phytophthorainfestanspopulations prevalent in the U.K. and Ireland / Amanpreet Kaur |
16:15-16:30 | Unveiling effectoromeprofiles of Phytophthora infestansduring different phases of the infection in potato / Vikrant Singh |
| 16:30-17:00 | Subgroup discussions - The way forward. What are the main research questions and how can we collaborate? |
19:30-22:30 | Workshop dinner at the Doorwerth Castle |
Thursday 16 May | |
Plenum 08:30-08:50 | Jens G. Hansen & Geert Kessel & Alison Lees |
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: Laura Meno Fariñas)
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10:00-11:00 | Coffee break |
Session 6 | Plenary session - outlook and new initiatives – reports and discussion. Chair: Jens G. Hansen Sub-chair: Alison Lees |
11:00-12:15 | Report from the subgroups
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12:15-12:40 | Introduction to EuroBlight workshop 2026 - Carmen Seijo Coello Closing of the workshop / Geert Kessel & Alison Lees |
12:40-13:00 | Sandwich To Go and Depart |
Post workshop tour to ICM Field Trials | |
Poster Presentations
Lead author | Title |
Anna Gerdtsson | Combining cultivation of resistant varieties with the use of blight monitoring and control according to decision support systems (DSS) as effective IPM strategies in potato cultivation |
Steve Bicko | Transgene-free molecular breeding techniques |
Steve Bicko | Fighting potato late blight with molecular breeding technology and optimal deployment/rotation of host resistant genes |
Charlotte Prodhomme | Preliminary results of the use of genomic selection for late blight resistance: influence of the MAF (Minor Allele Frequency) on the predictions reliability. |
Chiara De Pasqual | Evolution of fungicide resistance in Alternaria solani. How can we mitigate resistance development? |
Manuela Hermeziu | The response of some potato varieties to the use of fungicides applied to control late blight in current climatic conditions in the central part of Romania |
Rebecca Joynt | Late blight epidemics in the UK, and their development in relation to risk predictions over the last 10 years |
Žarko Ivanović | Occurrence and distribution of the Phythophthora infestans populations on potato and tomato in Serbia |
Steven Kildea | Detection of resistance in Phytophthora infestans to the carboxylic acid amide (CAA) fungicides using digital droplet PCR |
Laura Meno Fariñas | Testing of the late blight prediction model NEGFRY in Galicia |
Pierre Deroo | Potato Early Blight: a weakness disease that scares more than it looks and a decision support system to avoid over treatment |
Jean Beagle Ristaino | Mining historic herbaria to track Phytophthora infestans effector and Solanum R gene diversity and evolution over time |
Mout De Vrieze | How robust is the inhibitory potential of bacterial strains against different P. infestans genotypes? |
Isaac K. Abuley | Sustainability and Resilience in Organic potato production - SROPP |
Martin Teichmann | Revyona®, a summary of its field performance |
Alison Lees | Monitoring fungicide sensitivity in the wider European context |
Trudy van den Bosch | The Wageningen UR Phytophthora infestans reference collection |
Sponsors
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