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The German Organizing Committee has the honour to invite you to attend the XXIst International Conference on Virus other Graft Transmissible Diseases of Fruit Crops held in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany between July 5 and 10, 2009.

 

The Conference is dedicated to the diverse fields of plant virology, viroids and phytoplasmas. The different sessions of the symposium will cover applied and basic plant virus, viroid and phytoplasma research and provide an opportunity for plant virologists to exchange knowledge, to develop co-operative research, renew old acquaintances and make new ones.

 

 

The Conference will be held in the historical Saalbau Convention Centre, near to the city of Neustadt which offers many historical sights, including the Hambach Castle which is said to be the cradle of German democracy

 

A special mid-meeting tour is planned which will include a trip through the lovely region of the Rhine-Neckar valley including the famous Heidelberg Castle as well as a conference dinner at the historical castle of Schwetzingen.

 

 

The first announcement will be made available on the conference web site. Registrations, abstract submissions, hotel bookings and other arrangements will be accepted on–line through this web site. Therefore, it will be updated regularly  to bring you further details about scientific and social programmes, travel, accommodation and other news.

 

We look forward to welcoming you in south western Germany in July 2009.

 

CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Section 1: Pome fruit viruses
Section 2: Stone fruit viruses
Section 3: Plum pox virus
Section 4: Viroids
Section 5: PhytopIasmas
Section 6: Small fruit viruses
Section 7 Quarantine, resistance and control
Section 8: Emerging diseases and diseases of unknown etiology
Section 9: other topics

 

POSTER SESSIONS
Pome fruit viruses
Stone fruit viruses
Plum pox
Viroids
PhytopIasmas
Small fruit viruses
Detection
Quarantine, resistance and control
Emerging diseases and diseases of unknown etiology
Other topics

 

The Conferences
The topic of viruses and other graft transmissible diseases dates back to a meeting in 1954 in Wädenswil, Switzerland (read more...). This meeting was entitled “Symposium on Fruit Tree Virus Diseases” and was held by a small group of international plant pathologists interested in the few virus diseases of deciduous fruit trees then known to occur in Europe and North America. The subsequent meetings became progressively wider in scope and increasingly concerned with viruses per se and virus diseases of fruit trees and small fruit crops worldwide. Furthermore, the scope included diseases caused by phytoplasmas and viroids when these organisms were identified as new and serious pathogens, many of them in fruit crops.

 

A scientific committee responsible for organizing the meetings was founded from the first meeting on. It consisted of the local organizers of subsequent meetings and other leading scientists in the field.

 

In 1973 the organizing committee accepted the invitation of the International Society for Horticultural Science to become one of the working groups set up by its Plant Protection Commission. This meeting was entitled “IXth International Symposium on Fruit Tree Virus Diseases”.

 

Proceedings of the first eight meetings were published as supplements of different phytopathological journals. Extended abstracts were published for the meetings in 1954 (available for download here) and in 1958. With one exception, the proceedings since the 9th meeting were published by ISHS in Acta Horticulturae.

 

Although research on virus diseases of strawberry was already a topic at the 1954 meeting, a separate symposium title on virus diseases of small fruit crops was established at the 1976 conference in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2006 the XXth International Symposium on Virus and Virus-Like Diseases of Temperate Fruit Crops and the XIth International Symposium on Small Fruit Virus Diseases were held in Antalya, Turkey. The chronological order of meeting places that have hosted the Symposia have been:

 

 

1954 Wädenswil Switzerland

1955 Wageningen The Netherlands

1956 East Malling United Kingdom 

1960 Lyngby Denmark

1962 Bologna Italy 

1965 Belgrad Yugoslavia 

1967 Aschersleben Germany 

1970 Bordeaux France 

1973 East Malling United Kingdom 

1976 Heidelberg Germany 

1979 Budapest Hungary 

1982 Vancouver Canada 

1985 Bordeaux France 

1988 Thessaloniki Greece 

1991 Vienna Austria 

1994 Rome Italy 

1997 Bethesda USA 

2000 Canterbury United Kingdom 

2003 Valencia Spain

2006 Antalya Turkey

 

 

 

After discussions and approval by the current Scientific Committee it was decided to return to a meeting organization without the auspices of an international organization. Thus, the local organizers of the 2009 conference informed ISHS about this decision. At the same time it seemed appropriate to identify and establish a new title for the conference. The goal was to establish one name covering the Tree Fruit and Small Fruit Crops and to include viroid and phytoplasma diseases, that were referred to as virus-like diseases when no or little information was available on these pathogens in the past.

 

 

The Scientific Committee therefore decided to hold future meetings under the title “International Conference on Virus and other Graft Transmissible Diseases of Fruit Crops”

 

 

We are proud that the scientific community interested in the above fields of research will now meet again in Germany after 33 years and come together for the 21st time….

 

 

 

 

Please prepare your abstracts as rtf-file and use 50-300 words  (Times New Roman, 12). This will ensure no problems with use of special characters and that you stay within the limits of permitted length. Expect to copy and paste your file during the process.

 

NOTE: after submission of your abstract you will receive an email providing you with

Abstract-ID: 123

Abstract-Passwort: 1234ab

Using this ID and Password will allow you online access for further editing your abstract until 30. April 2009 (see below).

If you should have problems with the submission don´t hesitate to contact us (Feldmann@phytomedizin.org).

 

Deadline for the submission of abstracts is the 1st February 2009.

 

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