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Program Schedule

Oral Presentations (Posters in Session 5)

Session 1 – Presentations: Population Biology

Keynote Speaker
J. Clarkson, Warwick HRI, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Populations of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from agricultural hosts and meadow buttercup in the UK

S. McCoy, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA
Improvement in screening for resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in common bean through characterization of the pathogen

S.T. Koike, University of California Cooperative Extension Service, USA
Host range of Sclerotinia minor and lettuce production practices pose challenges to lettuce drop management in coastal California

E.N. Njambere, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, USA Development and characterization of microsatellite markers in Sclerotinia trifoliorum

Session 2 – Presentations: Host-Parasite Interaction

Keynote Speaker
S.J. Clough, USDA-ARS & University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Preliminary analysis of high-throughput expression data and small RNA in soybean stem tissue infected with Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

J-P. Marelli, Agriculture and Agri-food, Ontario, Canada
The  NLP1 and NLP2 genes of  Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary exhibit different expression patterns in axenic cultures and infected soybean hypocotyls

M. Chilvers, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Developing expressed sequence tags to study the genetics of the Pisum sativum-Sclerotinia sclerotiorum host-pathogen interaction

C. Muellenborn, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Transcriptomic and phytochemical analysis of leaf tissue of resistant wild sunflower after infection with the pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Session 3 – Presentations: Biocontrol

Keynote Speaker
W.G.D. Fernando, Dept of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Cloning and characterization of the pyrrolnitrin gene Ccuster of Pseudomonas chlororaphis PA23 involved in the control of Sclerotinia stem rot in canola

W. Zeng, Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Efficacy of Coniothyrium minitans on controlling Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in soil

G. Li, The Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, Wuhan, China
Advances in use of Coniothyrium minitans to control Sclerotinia stem rot of rapeseed in China

M.R. McDonald, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada,
Increased incidence of Sclerotinia in vegetable crops using artificial petal inoculum improves fungicide efficacy trials

Session 4 – Presentations:  Disease Control

H. Dillard, Cornell University, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Geneva, NY, USA
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum – considerations for control on snap beans in New York State

A.I. Putman, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Comparison of sampling strategies to determine the prevalence of fungicide-insensitive Sclerotinia homoeocarpa

R.N. Attanayake, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
Variation in fungicide sensitivity between two field populations of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

A.C. Wallenhammar,Rural Economy and Agricultural Society/HS Konsult, Örebro, Sweden
Improved risk assessment of Sclerotinia stem rot in oilseed rape using real-time PCR

Session 6 – Presentations: Host Resistance

Keynote Speaker
T. Gulya, USDA-ARS Sunflower Research Unit, Fargo, ND, USA
Identifying sources of Sclerotinia stalk rot resistance in wild annual Helianthus species for improvement of cultivated sunflower

J. Hu, Tidewater AREC, Virginia Tech, Suffolk VA, USA
Characterization of transgenic Virginia-type peanuts with resistance to Sclerotinia blight

S.P. Singh, University of Idaho, Kimberly, ID, USA
Breeding common bean for resistance to white mold

Session 7 – Presentations:  Sclerotinia Biology

Keynote Speaker
R.C. Venu, Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus,OH,
Molecular analysis of Sclerotinia homoeocarpa Secretome

J.E. Cowan, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Influence of freezing temperatures and a biological control as regulators of germination in sclerotia of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

D. Jiang, Plant Pathology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P R China
Mycoviruses in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and using to probe host’s pathogenesis

M. Xiang, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
Biochemical and molecular characterization of insertional mutants of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum 

Session 5 - Posters

Population Biology

L. Aldrich-Wolfe, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
Genetic variation of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on four crops in the north central United States

G. Jung, Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences,University of Massachusetts-Amherst, MA,  USA
Structure and dynamics of Sclerotinia homoeocarpa populations on golf courses

T. Taylor, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Multi-locus sequence analysis of Sclerotinia homoeocarpa from turfgrasses

D. Shew, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Temporal and spatial distribution of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum ascospores around tobacco-seedling greenhouses

Host-Parasite Interactions

D.D. Hegedus, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
Saskatoon, SK, Canada,
Patterns of gene expression in Brassica napus cultivars infected with Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Biocontrol

J. Huang, The Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Effects of crop rotation on Sclerotinia stem rot of rapeseed and biocontrol using Coniothyrium minitans

H.B. Highland, PhD., 1069 Eisenhower Dr., Nokomis, FL, USA
Serenade MAX®, a biofungicide for use against Sclerotinia spp. white mold diseases in vegetable and canola crops

M. Lopez-Meyer, CIIDIR-IPN Unidad Sinaloa. Guasave, Sin, Mexico
Isolation of potential biocontrol agents for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Sinaloa, Mexico

W.G.D. Fernando, Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Identification of Sclerotinia-inhibitory antibiotics of Bacillus species using PCR and MALDI-TOF

Disease Control

M. Matheron, The University of Arizona, Yuma Agricultural Center, Yuma, AZ, USA
Comparative performance of chemical, biological and cultural tools for management of lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia minor and S. sclerotiorum

R.D. Peters, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
In-field and post-harvest management of Sclerotinia rot in carrots

J.E. Woodward, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Diagnosing Sclerotinia blight of peanut in Texas: new players in an old game

J. Kerns, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dept. of Plant Pathology, Madison, WI, USA
Multifaceted approach to understanding dollar spot epidemiology

J. Clarkson, Warwick-HRI, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, UK
Forecasting and control of Sclerotinia in field lettuce

Host Resistance

M. Barbetti, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A. Australia
Identifying resistance to Sclerotinia stem rot in Brassica napus and B. juncea

J.R. Steadman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Multi-site screening for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: A successful approach to identifying resistance in dry and snap beans

K.Y. Rashid, AAFC, Morden Research Station, Morden Manitoba, Canada R6M 1Y5,
Epidemiology and resistance to Sclerotinia head rot in wild sunflower species

F.C. Juliatti, UFU, Department of Plant Pathology, Uberlândia, MG, CEP, Brazil
Sclerotinia stem rot in Brazil: management by biocontrol, fungicides and evaluation for resistance of soybean genotypes

Sclerotinia Biology

J. Hollowell, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
In Vitro Apothecial Production of Sclerotinia minor