tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66378944883772007452024-09-07T09:11:39.648-04:00Adventures in Plant PathologyAMBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909766245880500085noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637894488377200745.post-519726353972490332008-11-15T12:30:00.002-05:002008-11-15T12:32:48.158-05:00

It has taken a lot more of my time and energy that I thought it would to finish writing my dissertation. If all goes well, that will soon be over, and I am looking forward to returning to this blog and posting regularly. In the meantime, I have been saving all the notes from seminars I attended, and I will post them as soon as possible. Sadly, I was unable to attend all of those seminars. Blame

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The summer is almost over. I have not been posting as much as I would have like to. Currently I am trying to finish up my degree by December of this year. This poses interesting challenges. The first submission of my dissertation is due in the second week of October, but I still have experiments running until at least the third week of September. I have a set of backup experiments that will not

AMBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909766245880500085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637894488377200745.post-16854653335974608452008-07-26T22:14:00.002-04:002008-07-26T23:17:37.332-04:00

Today, I attended my first committee meeting, and a lively event it was. I officially joined the "Joint Committee on Women in Plant Pathology and Cultural Diversity." That is a mouthful, isn't it? And indeed, a good deal of the discussion concerned the name and scope of the committee.The committee finds its roots in two committees of the past. One was the Committee of Women in Plant Pathology,

AMBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909766245880500085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637894488377200745.post-40363930815156267012008-07-26T22:11:00.001-04:002008-07-26T22:14:02.821-04:00

The American Phytopathological Society (APS) annual meeting started today July 26, 2008. It is a very special meeting, since it is the centennial meeting, and I'm very excited to be here. This is the first APS meeting I've had the pleasure to attend. I'm hoping to write regularly about the happenings at the meeting, so stay tuned! Hopefully, I'll also get a chance to put in some pictures over

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Attention:Two recent posts at the Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blog:1. Research on the causal agent of Sudden Oak Death, Phytophtora ramorum.2. A project of the J. Craig Venter Institute aims to sequence the genome of Rhizoctonia solani, a soil pathogen that affects a number of crops. This is the direct link to the project page.

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The seminar disclaimer applies to this post.The topic of seminar this week was: "Xylella fastidiosa: pathogenicity, host specificity, and disease management." The talk was given by Don Hopkins, faculty member of the University of Florida Institute for Agricultural Sciences Mid-Florida Research & Education Center (UF/IFAS-MREC)Xylella fastidiosa is a bacterium that used to be classified as

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The seminar disclaimer applies to this post.Seminar was canceled two weeks ago. Last week’s seminar was presented by Mike Irey from the United States Sugar Corporation and Southern Gardens. Southern Gardens is the 3rd largest orange grower in Florida, with 21,000 total grove acreage, all planted with oranges. Over the years more than 21% of the acreage has been lost as a result of citrus canker

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The seminar disclaimer applies to this post.Seminar this week was given by Dr. Ronald Walcott from the University of Georgia (UGA), Athens. He got his BS and MS degree from Iowa State University, and his PhD from UGA. While searching the internet for references related to this post, I found this interview with Dr. Walcott. Dr. Walcott studies seed-borne plant pathogens.Picture creditBacterial

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The seminar disclaimer applies to this post.The topic of seminar for this week was the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas albilineans, the causal agent of leaf scald of sugarcane. The speaker was Dr. Philippe Rott, from CIRAD UMR BGPI, Montpellier, France.Sugarcane is the main source of sugar in the world. Sugarcane is propagated vegetatively from stalk cuttings. The cuttings germinate, tiller (

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The seminar disclaimer applies to this post.This week our departmental seminar was given by none other than the current President of the profession organization for plant pathologists, the American Phytopathological Society (APS), Dr. Raymond D. Martyn. Dr. Martyn is a homegrown graduate, who did his PhD research on biological control of waterhyacinths. He then moved to Texas A&M, where he

AMBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05909766245880500085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6637894488377200745.post-31340763203740929752008-03-19T14:00:00.000-04:002008-03-19T14:07:41.580-04:00

The department of Plant Pathology at the University of Florida offers weekly seminars in the Spring and Fall semesters. I attend most of these seminars, and take notes. In the "weekly seminar" series I will summarize my notes on this blog.It is important to note that the normal disclaimer applies to these posts (see top of the blog page). In addition, these posts are exclusively based on my notes

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Welcome to The Hypersensitive Response! This blog is intended to provide information about the basics of plant pathology, the history of plant pathology, plant diseases, plant disease diagnosis, disease management, current topics, recently published papers, and much more.For those of you who have never thought about it, plants are organisms that suffer stresses just like animals/humans do.

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