COST 817

Directorate-General For Research And Innovation European Commission

Description

Population studies of airborn pathogens on cereals as a means of improving strategies for diseas control: Annual report 1994
Agricultural and fisheries research
Health policy
Consumers' health

Sujets

• Cereal
• Research program

Informations

• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-RESEARCH-AND-INNOVATION-EUROPEAN-COMMISSION
• Nombre de lectures: 17
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

Extrait

European cooperation in the field of scientific and technical research
COST 817
Population studies of airborne
pathogens on cereals as a
means of improving strategies
for disease control
Annual report 1994
Belgium
The Netherlands
Czechlands
Norway
Denmark
Austria
Germany
Poland
Greece
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland
France
Slovenia
Croatia
Slovak Republic Ireland
Finland Iceland
Sweden Italy
Luxembourg Turkey
Hungary United Kingdom
European Commission COST 817
Population studies of airborne
pathogens on cereals as a
means of improving strategies
for disease control
Annual report 1994
Edited by
Hanne Ostergard
Chairperson COST Action 817
and
Jean Pierre Masson
Scientific Secretary COST Agriculture and Biotechnology
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development
DG ΧΠ - B/l
EEA, COST, EUREKA, International Organizations
COST Agriculture and Biotechnology
200 rue de la Loi
B-1049 Brussels
July 1995 Published by the
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
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Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1995
ISBN 92-827-4197-4
© ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels · Luxembourg, 1995
Printed in Belgium LIST OF CONTENT
Pages
Introduction
Summary of objectives 7
Current Status and Work Planned 9
Management
Memorandum of Understanding and Rules of procedures 13
Members of the Management Committee 35
Minutes oft Committee Meetings
First Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, 8-9 February 1994 4
Second, Szeged, Hungary, 21 September 1994 51
Third Meeting, Zürich, Switzerland, 9 November 19949
Electronic mailing list 7
Work in the Working Groups
WG 1 Surveys on virulence, aggressiviness and fungicede resistance in Europe
Report5
Minutes of meeting in Szeged7
Description of participants 81
Subgroup information
Subgroup 1: Barley powdery mildew 13 2: Wheatyw 143
Subgroup 3: Yellow rust of wheat (and barley) 15p 4: Leaf rust (brown rust) of wheat and barley 16
Subgroup 5: Fungicide sensitivity 169
WG 2 Variety and species mixtures to control airborne diseases of cereals
Report 211
Minutes of meeting in Kappel2
WG 3 Cereal rust and mildew genome database
Report7
Minutes of meeting in Kappel8 s ofg at Risø 22
WG 4 Nomenclature and distribution of mildew and rust resistance genes
Report
Minutes of meeting in Kappel
Recommandation for Designations of barley and wheat powdery
mildew resistance and virulence in Europe 232
WG 5 Epidemiological parameters
Report 243
Minutes of meeting in Kappel4
Description of participants6
Publications
Book of Abstracts from 3rd Cereal Mildew/Cost 817 Workshop in
Kappel am Albis, Switzerland 277
Study Contracts (Short Term Scientific Missions)
Reports from 8 Short Termc Missions 351 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
This new COST Action 817 is the result of a Danish proposal [COST/202/93]. The Draft
Memorandum of Understanding has beeen approved by the Committee of Senior Officials on
June 1993 and the Memorandum of Understanding has been signed in Brussels on 16th of
December 1993 by 6 countries: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary and
United Kingdom.
The Memorandum of Understanding for COST 817 [COST/213/94, 25-01-1994] has validity
from 16-12-93 to 15-12-98. At present 5 additional countries have signed: France, Poland,
Slovakia, Switzerland and The Netherlands.
SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVES
The project aims at improving integrated strategies for use of host resistance genes and
fungicides to control pathogens spread by wind throughout Europe and thus support European
agriculture in its attempt to produce healthy and high quality cereal crops at a low input and in
an environmentally safe way. The emphasis is put on the major pathogens, i.e. the powdery
mildews and rusts of barley and wheat.
To achieve these goals, a detailed knowledge of pathogen populations across Europe is required
concerning among other things: how the fungal spores are spread; which selection forces
influence the pathogen populations; how these selection forces can be changed by better
strategies for the use of resistance genes and fungicides; the frequency of mutations and sexual
recombination in the pathogen; how these mechanisms influence the appearance of new
pathotypes and how molecular markers can be used for improving our understanding of the
genetics of host plant resistance and of pathogen virulence, aggressiveness and fugicide
sensitivity.
The Action concerns the major cereal pathogens in Europe, powdery mildews and rusts, and has
the following objectives:
to coordinate national surveys on virulence and fungicide resistance as well as
analyses of pathogen population data;
to compare and, where necessary, to standardize methods, e.g. assessment of
virulence, aggressiveness, fungicide sensitivity and definition of DNA markers, so that
results from different laboratories can be integrated; to coordinate definitions and national monitoring of host resistance genes;
to improve strategies for management of host resistance genes supplemented by
fungicides and coordinate national recommendations;
to establish regular expert meetings and an information system to ensure a rapid and
effective exchange of information to scientists, breeders and farmers.