Final Meeting
Date: 26-28 March 2019. Skopje (North Macedonia)
Local Organizers: Irena Papazova-Anakieva and Kyril Sotirovski
- Agenda of the Meeting (Skopje, 26-28 March 2019)
- Minutes (Skopje, 26-28 March 2019)
- Chair Report Presentation
Session 1: Diagnosis of Fusarium circinatum
- Development of qPCR for detection of Fusarium circinatum and other Fusarium species in regulatory research. Guillaume Bilodeau (Canadian Food Inspection Agency, CFIA)
- Survey for Fusarium circinatum in Slovenia. Barbara Piškur (Slovenian Forestry Institute)
- Simultaneous differential detection of Caliciopsis pinea and Fusarium circinatum from pine samples using duplex real-time quantitative PCR. Nichola Luchi (Italy, IPSP-CNR)
- Effect of sample dilution on the accuracy of Fusarium circinatum detection by PCR. Imola Tenorio (Hungary, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre)
Session 2: Interactions of F. circinatum with other forest pest and pathogens
- Detection and biology of Gibberella circinata – essentials for future Pine pitch canker management in the Czech Republic. Miloň Dvořák (Czech Republic, Mendel University in Brno)
- Pine tree diseases reported in Greece. Panaghiotis Tsopelas (Greece, Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems)
Session 3: Pathways of PPC disease spread
- Seeds as carriers of Fusarium. Carolina Cornejo (Swiss Federal Research Institute)
- World occurrence of F. circinatum – summary of the global database. Rein Drenkman (Czech Republic, Mendel University in Brno)
Session 4: PPC Risk Analysis
- Foresight studies as a tool to estimate future impacts of Pine Pitch Canker. Johanna Witzell (Sweden, Southern Swedish Forest Research Center)
- Understanding Impact: how pine pitch canker has affected people in northern Spain. Eric Boa (United Kingdom, University of Aberdeen)
- The current situation of Fusarium circinatum and other quarantine pine pathogenic fungi in Lithuania. Kristina Raitelaitytė (The Nature Research Centre)
- PPC Contingency Plan as an outcome of the SUDOE PLURIFOR Project. David Gutiérrez (Spain, University of Valladolid)
Session 5: Management of PPC in forest and nurseries
- Do metabolites of Fusarium species enhance pine defence? João Caetano (Poland, Forest Research Institute)
- Effects of Fusarium circinatum metabolites on the growth of P. sylvestris germlings. Pola Wartalska (Poland)
- Are Polish provenances of P. sylvestris (L.) susceptible to pitch canker disease? Justyna A. Nowakowska (Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University)
- Testing of the susceptibility of coniferous tree-species of the Czech provenances to the pathogenic fungus Fusarium circinatum
in laboratory conditions. Aneta Lukačevičová (Czech Republic, Mendel University in Brno) - Susceptibility of Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian provenances of Pinus sylvestris to Fusarium circinatum and possible strategies for biocontrol. Kateryna Davydenko (Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry & Forest Melioration)
Session 6: Genetic regulation in Fusarium circinatum
- Association of genes related to chloroplasts with resistance Pinus against F.circinatum. Tadeusz Malewski (Poland, Museum and Institute of Zoology)
- Characterization of Rho1 GTPase encoding gene (Fcrho1) by deletion mutant formation in Fusarium circinatum. Jordán Muñoz (Spain, University of Valladolid)
Session 7: Coordination, identifying reserach gaps and dissemination
Updates of the Working Groups