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Monitoring Progress Report – 2009 COST 873 – Bacterial Diseases of Stone Fruits and Nuts _________________________________________________________________________________ Cooperative research grants within EU FP7 * ENDURE NoE has been expanded in 2009 to include a WG on biological control which is headed by COST873 participant B. Blum, and which will include several COST873 groups. * FP7 KBBE: Q-BOL project (NL coordinator) was funded and has started in 2009. This project includes several COST873 bacteriology laboratories and the work will include most of the pathogens covered in COST873. * FP7 KBBE: Q-Detect project (UK coordinator) was funded and will start in 2010. This project includes several COST873 bacteriology laboratories, including WP Leader for Dissemination (B. Duffy). This project will develop phytosanitary monitoring technology for X. arboricola pv. pruni and joint activities are planned with COST873. * An infrastructure grant was submitted but was unsuccessful. II.B.f. Transfer of results Transfer of results: „Technology Transfer and Implementation‟ has been conducted between the concluding COST 853 and into COST 873 to further the mission of our Action. Specifically, host plant genotyping microarray technology has been made available for cherry resistance screening and germplasm resource cataloguing in COST873. This effort was initiated at the Trans-COST workshop in Spain, 2007. COST 853 experts have been integrated into COST873 resulting in significant advances in developing diagnostic microarrays (and 2 publications as of 2009). A special arm of COST873 Committee of Practioners (CoP) has been established with a Head (Bernard Blum, Agrometrix AG, Basel, CH). B. Blum is also the Vice-President of the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association (http://www.ibma.ch). This CoP is charged with arranging the smooth transfer of technology from Action scientists to stakeholders (industry, growers, plant protection officers, regulatory agencies) and the transfer of concerns/interests of stakeholders to Action scientists. The CoP has taken an active role in Technology Transfer, partly via stakeholder-researcher small events in 2008-2009. The CoP has taken the lead already in organizing an STF meeting with researchers and stakeholder grower groups and SMEs in order to develop a EUROAgri+ research (industry joint proposal related to walnut blight. The CoP has also coordinated industry research cooperation and funding on biological control – including Pantoea antagonist genome sequencing and field trials. The CoP promoted COST873 to stakeholder participants of the IBMA annual meeting in Switzerland (2007, 2008, 2009). Local efforts have been made in several countries to publicize COST873 and transfer our expertise through the local press and cooperation with regional governmental agencies. For example: The IMIDA has got as objective to transfer research results as soon as they are available to the Murcian´s growers through the mechanism of Technology Transference. In this way, all the local media connected to the Press Office of the Consejeria de Agricultura y Agua are available. Serbian disease surveys provide another example of policy impact of COST873 at the regional and national level. COST873 scientists coordinated two survey programs in 2008-2009 across Serbia, aimed to check quarantine status of X.a. pv. pruni and P.s. pv. persicae. The surveys were financed by 32
Monitoring Progress Report – 2009 COST 873 – Bacterial Diseases of Stone Fruits and Nuts _________________________________________________________________________________ Serbian National Plant Protection Directorate. As a result these two pathogens will remain on national A1 list of quarantine pathogens in 2009. Transfer of COST873 results at the national level and at non-COST international meetings is a key aim of the Action dissemination. A small sample of such activities that have been communicated by MC members: 1. November 2006: Epidemiology and control of bacterial diseases of Stone Fruits. Lessons organised for the Technical Extension Service and Inspectors of the Province of Ravenna. 2. January 2007: Epidemiology and control of bacterial diseases of Stone Fruits. Lessons organised for the Technical Extension Service and Inspectors of the Province of Forlì-Cesena and Rimini. 3. January 2007: The diagnosis and control of walnut blight and cherry canker. Instituto National de Investigationes Agropecuarias (INIA). Santiago de Chile, CHILE. 4. April 2007: Presentation of the COST873 action at the Regional Plant Protection Service, Bologna, Italy. 5. June 2007: Bacterial canker/leaf spot of stone fruits (Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni) in Italy. Oral presentation at the National Biological Institute (NIB), Ljubljana, Slovenia 6. M. Vasinauskienė, V. Snieškienė, D. Burokienė: “Evaluation of bacterial diseases on walnuts (Juglands spp.) grown in Lithuania”. - Conference of Lithuanian Microbiologists Society “Microorganisms in Human Environment and Control of their Activities”, 12, June, 2007, Vilnius 7. Hungarian National Walnut Meeting and Exposition 21.09.2007. 8. Presentation of COST Action 873 at the "Lithuanian Information Day of COST Activities" together with other Lithuanian COST participants (COST E55; COST 860; COST 725; COST FP0701) on 30th, October , 2008 at the Institute of Botany, Vilnius. Number of participants – 35. 9. November 20 th , SILVA GROUP INTERNATIONAL, Mondovì, Cuneo, Italy. Presentation of the EU-COST873 Action. Bilateral agreement to support research (2009-2011) on the use of biomolcules to control bacterial diseases of stone fruits and nuts. 10. NPPO Phytosanitary links in cooperation with Central Laboratory of Main Inspectorate of Plant Health and Seed Inspection in Toruń, Poland. 11. A grower awareness campaign (following the described outbreak) was started by Applied Plant Research, Research, Unit Fruit. Lectures (4x), including advice on control were provided for growers and articles published by G. Poldervaart. In lectures COST website was advertised to growers as an information source. According to feedback of growers the website was often consulted. In the year planning 2009 of the knowledge consultant of the Dutch National Fruitgrowers Organisation (NFO) Pseudomonas in stone fruit has been incorporated as an important issue (Published in Fruitteelt 49, 5th of December 2008, page 3). 12. Working group for writing the national method CEB (Commission des Essais Biologiques) for pesticide evaluation (for trials conducted for registration of chemicals) against Walnut Blight: governemental institution, Ctifl, experimental farms, industry, and representatives of growers. This method was requested because the copper products re-evaluation (directive EC 91/414); it was submitted in plenary session of the CEB in 2008 and published in 2009. 33
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