Two themes will be guiding the workshop: the implementation of the Framework Directive and in particular the introduction of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), which will be compulsory across the European Union by 2014, and EuroBlight in a global perspective.

The event, which runs from May 3 to 6 and whose coordinators include several members of ENDURE’s potato case study team, will tackle the following specific topics:

• Host resistance to late blight (Phytophthora infestans )
• Pathogen characteristics and population biology and genetics
• Epidemiology, integrated control and decision support systems
• Fungicides
• Epidemiology and control of early blight (Alternaria spp. )

Participants are asked to provide a contribution on these topics - either an oral presentation or a poster - and these will be published as one of Wageningen University and Research Centre’s PPO Special Report series.

Registration is possible after December 15 on the EuroBlight website.

• For more details of the event:
  EuroBlight Workshop [pdf - 164.33 kB]