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Reading 2002

Working Group Workshop
6 - 7 January 2002
School of Plant Sciences, University of Reading, UK

29 participants from 11 countries were registered

 

Programme

 

Dick Shaw (CABI Bioscience, Ascot, UK)
Classical biological control of weeds in the UK: the challenges
Heinz Müller-Schärer (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
  The genetic population structure of Senecio vulgaris and Puccinia lagenophorae: implications for biocontrol
 
Blair Grace & Heinz Müller-Schärer (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Biological control of Senecio vulgaris in carrots - applying the theory
Jonny Gressel (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
A proposed system for 'Bio-barcoding' mycoherbicides
Alois Honek & Z Martinkova (Research Institute of Crop Production, Prague, Czech Republic)
  Development of two pre-dispersal predators of Taraxacum officinale seed
Esther Gerber & Hariet L Hinz (CABI Bioscience, Delemont, Switzerland)
  Effect of herbivore density, timing of attack and plant size on the invasive weed Alliaria petiolata (Cruciferae)
Ian Keary & Paul Hatcher (University of Reading, UK)
  Prospects for the biological control of Rumex obtusifolius in competition with Lolium perenne: evidence from pot trials
Urs A Treier (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
  Seedling recruitment of an unpalatable weed in mountain grassland in relation to cattle and molluscs grazing
Alan C Gange (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Biological control of Poa annua in sports turf
Dorette Müller-Stöver & J Sauerborn (University of Hohenheim, Germany)
  Biological control of Orobanche cumana in sunflower with a granular formulation of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. orthoceras
Joseph Hershenhorn, E Dor & D Plakhine (Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay, Israel)
New pathogens of the parasitic plant Egyptian broomrape
Barry A Cohen, Ziva Amsellem & Jonny Gressel (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
  Engineered Fusarium against Orobanche
Evgena Dor, Y Kashman & J Hershenhorn (Newe Ya'ar Research Centre & Tel Aviv University, Israel)
  Allelopathic compounds from Inula viscosa
Marion K Seier & Harry C Evans (CABI Bioscience, Ascot, UK)
  Indigenous fungal pathogens - a potential additional tool for management of Rhododendron ponticum L. in the UK
Dick Shaw & Djami Djeddour (CABI Bioscience, Ascot, UK)
Progress on the Japanese knotweed biocontrol programme
Peter Tóth & Ludovít Cagán (Slovak Agricultural University, Nitra, Slovakia)
Are there important natural enemies of parasitic weeds in Slovakia?

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