BCPC PREvIEW 2007
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Session 6A
Meeting the challenges facing arable crop protection at the start of the 21st century
Effective protection of arable crops from the threats that seeks to ensure food safety and protect the of Aarhus, Denmark) who will look at the issues from
posed by pests, diseases and weeds is an increasing environment. Genetically modified (GM) crops may be an European perspective.
challenge at the start of the 21st century. Farmers part of the answer but they bring their own problems,
and their advisors have declining numbers of products both technical and political, some of which will be Chairman
available to help them grow healthy productive crops. discussed in Session 7A. Jim Orson (The Arable Group, Morley, UK)
The effectiveness of products that remain on the market
is threatened by the emergence of resistant biotypes, The challenges facing arable farmers around the world,
Session Organiser
which is the subject of Sessions 6B and 7B. Use of including the USA and China, will be discussed in this
Dr Peter Lutman
pesticides is also increasingly constrained by legislation session, which will be opened by Per Kudsk (University
(Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK)
Sessions 6B and 7B
Resistance to crop protection agents: monitoring, mechanisms and management
Resistance of pests to the pesticides used to control Marshall (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK). The report on the possible threats associated with pyrethroid
them and its monitoring and management, is role of novel genes in contributing to azole fungicide resistance in pollen beetles in European winter oilseed
considered to be one of the main challenges in modern resistance in Mycosphaerella graminicola will be rape cultivation. Finally, Dr Robin gunning (Tamworth
crop protection. These two sessions will consider described by Dr Hans Cools (Rothamsted Research, Agricultural Institute, Australia) will share her thoughts
resistance to important classes of fungicides, herbicides Harpenden, UK). To finish this session, Dr graham on a novel synergist-driven approach to restoring Bt-
and insecticides, and current understanding of the Moores (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK) will toxin efficacy against resistant insects on transgenic
mechanisms that cause it and the effectiveness of report on temporal synergism to control insecticide- crops.
different approaches to its management. resistant crop pests by piperonyl butoxide.
Chairman (6B)
In the first of the two sessions, Dr Kevin gorman Dr Thomas van Leeuwen (University of Ghent, Dr Ralf Nauen
(Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK) will consider Belgium) will open the second session with an (Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany)
current understanding of the resistance of hemipteran overview on acaricide resistance and its mechanisms
pest insects to one of the most important classes of in two-spotted spider mites, one of the globally Chairman (7B)
insecticides, the neonicotinoids (the current and future most important spider mite pests. Dr Jean Wagner Dr Kevin Gorman
status of neonicotinoids will also be discussed in Session (University of Hohenheim, Germany) will then discuss (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK)
9B). The subject of herbicide resistance due to target- the attributes of, and opportunities presented by,
site mutations and its impact on weed management pyrosequencing technology in the monitoring of target-
Session Organiser
practices will be discussed by Professor Baruch Rubin site resistance to ACCase inhibiting herbicides. Dr Ralf
Dr Ralf Nauen
(Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) and Dr Ron Nauen (Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany) will
(Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany)
Session 6C
Bioterrorism – identifying the threats and preventing damage
The cultivation of crop and amenity plants is potentially explore the types of threat which may occur, how they introduction of plant pathogens has been approached in
vulnerable to the deliberate introduction of pathogenic might be detected, and the approaches which should be the USA, and the surveillance, monitoring and retrieval
organisms or other biotic and abiotic agents which taken to prevent losses and damage. systems which could be implemented.
could damage plant productivity and product quality.
The outcome of such actions may be far-reaching, and Professor James Stack (National Agricultural Session Organiser
includes effects on food supply and prices, disruption Biosecurity Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Dr Jane Thomas
of international trade, and social consequences. The USA) will provide an introduction to the topic, and (NIAB, Cambridge, UK)
session will examine the issue of bioterrorism and examine the way in which the threat of deliberate
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