Proceeding of the 21st International Conference on Virus and other Graft Transmissible Diseases of Fruit Crops

Quedlinburg

2010

432 S.

Bandaufführung

978-3-930037-67-4

169088

The papers contained in this volume of the "Julius-Kühn-Archiv" report the Proceedings of the XXIst International Conference on Virus and other Graft Transmissible Diseases of Fruit Crops. All scientists who contributed oral and poster presentation were invited to submit manuscripts for publication. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of topics of research on viruses, viroids, phytoplasmas and diseases of unknown etiology. The majority of the conference presentation were for historical reasons on pome and stone fruits, as well as on small fruit crops. However, contribution on nuts and subtropical and tropical fruit crops also appear in the program. The topics include characterization of the pathogens, their transmission by vectors, suveys and quarantine aspects, elimination of the agents for certification purposes and effects of the diseases on host plants. A considerable number of presentations are on detection of pathogens using a wide range of modern nucleic acid technologies but also serology and classical biological indexing procedures. In addition, some papers report improvement of crop resistance to pathogens by classical breeding or transgenic approaches. The papers were reviewed by the organizers of the 2009 Conference, with the support of the Scientific Committee and some professional language editing. Other contributions to the conference not appearing as an article in this volume are available for download from the ICVF website.