AS.A.R is a family seeds company born in late ’70s. The aim was increase yield and quality of agricultural crops by introducing new varieties with high potential yield and stability. Since ‘2000s AS.A.R. has build up a durum wheat and barley breeding program and now cooperates with national and international research centres.
Sicily was appointed a Case Study Region in RustWatch and AS.A.Rs role is to coordinate and carry out activities in the region aiming at facilitating the interaction between stakeholders in the region and RustWatch acivities.
One major activity is to host and coordinate a yearly Case Study Region workshop and to organise open field days and other activities that promote the project, demonstrate outputs from the RustWatch project. Secondly to identify needs and ideas from stakeholders in the region that will feed directly into the activities and developments in RustWatch.
In RustWatch we will facilitate the exchange of ideas, knowledge and technologies between the 5 selected case study regions. Workpackage 3 will also accomplish a comparable case study describing and comparing innovative IPM strategies in each region.
Contact Person: Biagio Randazzo, AS.A.R e-mail: Biagio Randazzo;| Tel:
Time: 6 March 2019
Place: Palermo
Topics and presenters
Negli ultimi anni in Sicilia si è assistito a un graduale incremento dell’incidenza di ruggine gialla (Puccinia stiiformis f. sp. tritici) e ruggine nera (Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici
) riscontrata su frumento tenero e duro www.nature.com/news/deadly-new-wheat-disease-threatens-europe-s-crops-1.21424 . Il problema della comparsa di nuove razze altamente virulenti è stato affrontato da diverse iniziative e nel 2018 è stato approvato il nuovo progetto RustWatch dalla commissione europea (H2020) per la ricerca e l’innovazione al fine di anticipare e di combattere la diffusione delle tre ruggini del frumento agro.au.dk/forskning/projekter/rustwatch/ .
Public material from the meeting. Some material are in local language.
A tutti gli interessati della regione - Invitation in Italian language
Wheat rust early warning in Sicily - In the frame of the European project H2020 RustWatch.
When and where: On Friday 7 June 2019 at 16.00 we are pleased to invite you to our experimental station of C.da Loreto - Ciminna (PA) coord. GPS 37.8902 13.5400.
Hosts:
Biagio Randazzo - AS.A.R. 3294183354 biaran@yahoo.it
Liborio Norata – Bayer Crop Science 335 1846411 liborio.norata@bayer.com
Time Schedule 7 June 2019
16:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registration of participants
16:30 to 16:45 Greetings and opening of the proceedings B. Randazzo
16:45 to 18:00 Visit to the AS.A.R. monitoring station B. Randazzo
18:00 to 18:30 Visit the breeding station and VCU trials G. Randazzo - B. Randazzo
18:30 to 19:30 Full field visit with integrated control L. Norata - A. Comparato - B. Randazzo
19,30-19.45 Transfer To pizzeria Garden - Villafrati (PA)
19:45 to 20:15 Discussion All participants
20:15 to 22:00 Tasting pizzas thanks and greetings
Background and objectives
The yield potential of wheat in Sicily is threatened by severe attacks of all three rusts throughout the region. Surveys carried out in 2019, shows a high incidence of brown rust detected on the main varieties cultivated in the area since the boot-heading phase, while the stripe rust and stem rust appeared late and threaten the later areas and the later sowing farmers’s fields http://agro.au.dk/forskning/projekter/rustwatch/news-and-events/show/artikel/wheat-rusts-threaten-european-wheat-production/. For this reasons we need to assess the risk of potential yield losses caused by new and unexpected epidemics through a comparison between all stakeholders. We will evaluate the resistance and susceptibility to the three rusts on main bread and durum wheat cultivars grown in Italy and Europe, lines and CVs sourced from international genebank and finally our breeding program aimed at introducing new sources of resistance. At the end of the day we will move into farmers’ fields to evaluate the methodologies and the effects of the integrated pest management (IPM) in the control of rusts on strip plots managed in collaboration with Bayer Crop Science and farmers.
Time: 2nd April 2020
Place: Online Zoom
Topics and presenters: Invitation
Public material from the meeting. Some material are in local language.
Ruggine gialla et nera La situazione attuale in Europa / Fabio Mascher, Jessica Joaquim, Biagio Randazzo, Annemarie F. Jorgensen, Kerstin Flath, Jérôme Enjalbert, Mogens Hovmoller
Metodi di lotta alternativi studiati in RustWatch / Fabio mascher et al.
NUOVI STUMENTI PER IL MONITORAGGIO DELLE RUGGINI IN EUROPA / Jens G. Hansen, Alberto Lafarga, BiagioRandazzo, Kerstin Flath, A.F. Justesen, V. Cadot, N. A. Fariñas , B. Clark, J. Joaquim, Fabio Mascher
Ruggini in Europa: Stato dell’arte e monitoraggio / A. F. Justesen et al.
Minute from the meeting
Roadmap including goals, timeplan, activities and responsibilities until next year workshop
Time: 9 June 2021
Place: Zoom meeting
Topics and presenters: Invito
Public material from the meeting. Some material are in local language.
Introduzione / Biagio Randazzo & Fabio Mascher
Discussione di gruppo
Valutazione delle tolleranze e delle sensibilità alle ruggini della RustWatch Field Nursery in Europa / Fabio Mascher & Biagio Randazzo
Strategie di controllo integrato per la riduzione di perdite produttive causate dalle ruggini in Europa / Fabio Mascher, & Biagio Randazzo
Nuovi strumenti per la divulgazione tempestiva della situazione epidemiologica regionale RustWatch Early Warning Dashboard – Sicily / Biagio Randazzo & Fabio Mascher
Metodi di lotta: Inchiesta presso i produttoriMetodi di lotta: Inchiesta presso i produttori / Sophie Nobel, Valérie Holzer, Nicolas Blanc, Jessica Joaquim, Fabio Mascher
Evoluzione delle ruggini in Europa, Italia e Sicilia dal 2016 al 2020 / Biagio Randazzo & Fabio Mascher
Quastionario CSR / Fabio
Discussione di gruppo, Sintesi e prospettive / Fabio & Biagio
Outlook, saluti e ringraziamenti
Minute from the meeting
Roadmap including goals, timeplan, activities and responsibilities until next year workshop