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Monitoring Progress Report – 2009 COST 873 – Bacterial Diseases of Stone Fruits and Nuts _________________________________________________________________________________ Planned meetings for 2010 Two Training Courses to provide training in classical and molecular phytobacteriology – Xylella fastidiosa (Bari IT, October); Pseudomonas (Belgrade RS, April) are scheduled. Joint meeting with COST873 and FAO/IPGRI (International Plant Genetics Resources Institute) on Prunus is scheduled for the summer 2010 in Romania. Joint international conference with COST873 and the OECD Biopesticides Steering Group is scheduled for Spring in Paris. This effort was initiated by the COST873 CoP. Joint international congress on Pseudomonas syringae scheduled for September in Oxford UK. A CoP meeting is planned to transfer COST873 research accomplishments to stakeholders, and to elicit stakeholder needs for directing research initiatives of COST873. Several Specific Task Force small meetings are planned for various MoU tasks of COST873. STF meetings on Applied Genomics of Xanthomonas (Zürich) and Host Genomics/Genetics (Barcelona) are already arranged for February 2010. The fourth All-WG meeting and MCM is scheduled for October in Latvia. This will again focus on ESR presentations, break-out discussions to organize cooperative research, and recruitment of international know-how. II.B.d. Website The homepage www.cost873.ch was launched in February 2007 and is freely accessible and open to all interested parties. It provides information about the Action and its corresponding topics for interested researchers, technical staff and the public, and additionally serves as an international promotion outreach aspect for European-sphere research in this area. A CMS tool enable economical and timely updating of the website by the COST873 Chair. A password-protected tool facilitates exchange among COST873 registered participants for: 1) uploading project, publication and other information for secure access among COST873 partners and the Chair, 2) targeted searching of the participant database that facilitates reporting, WG management, and search for research collaboration partners. The Home Page provides Press Releases from COST873, online registration tool and login for participants to secure areas, summary of important content such as upcoming meetings and participant profiles, NEWS releases, and provides navigation to sub-pages: „About COST873‟ summarises our mission/structure, country participation/national contacts, general opportunities available to individual participants, national reports as provided by MC members, introduction to COST in general, and information on the crops covered in COST873, with links to other pages. „Bacterial diseases‟ provides information on the pathogens covered in COST873 and posts disease fact sheets in various COST873 languages. „People‟ provides a portal to secure areas where detailed participant profiles can be accessed and searched to facilitate partnering in research and other activities. Contact information for MC and lead participants is provided. Job announcements related to COST873 are posted here. 28
Monitoring Progress Report – 2009 COST 873 – Bacterial Diseases of Stone Fruits and Nuts _________________________________________________________________________________ „Industry & Government‟ provides information on the CoP and its stakeholder activities, and links to stakeholders. „Activities‟ includes up-to-date information on all upcoming meetings, documentation and all presentations for past meetings, easy to access information for STSMs and other exchange opportunities, and publication of training materials for phytobacteriology and protocols developed in COST873. „Research‟ provides descriptions of STF activities, accomplishments and opportunities to either join a running STF or establish a new STF within COST873, COST873 participant research projects and publications (searchable with login), and extensive information on how and where to obtain research funding for participants! „Gallery‟ is a depository for COST873 photos related to crops, diseases, people and activities. „Related Links‟ provides a space for participants to link with their institutes, laboratories, companies, etc., and to provide information on non-COST873 meetings of interest to our participants. The website has received very positive reviews from across COST873 participants and has been used by other COST Action participants as a simple portal to COST documents and procedures (i.e., STSM application procedures). Content has increased at a dramatic rate with new posting of disease profiles/fact sheets/photos, personal profiles, job announcements etc. This site has become a major resource for phytobacteriology and will continue beyond the Action end as such. The usefulness of the website is evidenced also by the rapid response to the Job Announcements already posted and from applicants even outside COST873 countries, and the wide response to meeting announcements soon after they go online. The website has been used as a resource for national phytosanitary authorities (e.g., the Dutch phytosanitary authority). Several institutes involved in COST873 have established linked sites with www.cost873.ch to disseminate information at the national level (e.g., Institute of Botany in Latvia: http://www.botanika.lt/COST_873/index.html). A new website has been opened to a new European Journal on Fruit growing (G. Poldervaart will be editor), which will also contain information of Pseudomonas in stone fruits : http://www.fruitmagazine.eu/leaflet-dutch.pdf. II.B.e. Scientific and technical cooperation A number of new collaborations have been established in the first 3 years of COST873 on targeted and critical research areas related to the COST873 mission, in all WGs. The primary instrument for research and collaborations within COST873 is the STF. Specific cooperations are described above in the descriptions of each WG. The interest in the STF instrument increased tremendously in 2009. Cooperative research activity has really kicked-off in all working groups and almost all MoU Task areas of COST873. The only lagging areas have been host genetics/genomics and WG4 chemical control. Both of these areas have been targeted for 2010 to reach project goals, including specific STSMs and small meetings in 2010. 29
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