Arab and Near East Plant Protection Newsletter
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Arab and Near EasT Plant Protection Newsletter Number 61, April 2014 Editorial Board Shoki AL-DOBAI – Food and Agriculture Organization, Cairo, Egypt Wa’el ALMATNI – Ministry of Agriculture, Damascus, Syria Bassam BAYAA – Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria Ahmed DAWABAH – College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Ahmed EL-AHMED – Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria Ahmed EL-HENEIDY – Plant Protection Research Institute, ARC, Giza, Egypt Mustafa HAIDAR – Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon Ibrahim JBOORY – Faculty of Agriculture, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq Ahmed KATBEH – Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan Khaled MAKKOUK – National Council for Scientific Research, Beirut, Lebanon Bouzid NASRAOUI – INAT, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia Adwan SHEHAB – GCSAR, Damascus, Syria Editorial Assistant Nouran ATTAR – ICARDA, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria The Arab and Near East Plant Protection Newsletter (ANEPPNEL) is jointly published Triple a year by the Arab Society for Plant Protection and the Near East Regional Office of the FAO. All correspondence should be sent either to Adwan Shehab, Editor ([email protected]) or to Nouran Attar, Editorial Assistant ([email protected] ). Material from ANEPPNEL may be reprinted provided that appropriate credits are given. The designations employed and the presentation of material in this newsletter do not necessarily imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations or the Arab Society for Plant Protection (ASPP) concerning the legal or constitutional status of any country, territory, city or area, or its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Similarly, views expressed by any contributor to the newsletter are those of the contributor only, and must not be regarded as conforming with the views of FAO or ASPP. 1 ANEPPNEL 61, April 2014 Arab and Near EasT Plant Protection Newsletter Number 61, April 2014 CONTENTS EDITORIAL ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Crop Protection News from Arab and Near East Countries ............................................................................. 4 Invasive and New Pests .............................................................................................................................................. 4 Research Highlights ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Some Plant Protection Activities of FAO and Other Organizations ............................................................... 12 Desert Locust Situation ............................................................................................................................................. 12 Pest Risk Analysis training in Jordan ........................................................................................................................ 12 The 9th Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 13 The 2nd International Wheat Rust Symposium, Izmir, Turkey, 28 April - 1 May, 2014 .......................................... 14 Regional Workshop on the Good Practices for the Participation in the IPPC’s governing body, subsidiary bodies and meetings. Hammamet, Tunisia, 3-5 March 2014 ................................................................................................ 14 Midterm workshop of the TCP/RAB/3402 on Management of Tomato Borer: Tuta absoluta in the Near East Region ................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Short Plant Protection Notes ............................................................................................................................. 16 General News ..................................................................................................................................................... 17 New banana disease spreading throughout Africa. .................................................................................................... 17 A New Virus on Coffee. ............................................................................................................................................ 17 The First Journal Article on Insecticide Resistance was Published 100 Years Ago. ................................................. 17 Arab Society for Plant Protection News ............................................................................................................ 18 Second Announcement and Call for Abstracts, the 11thACPP, Amman, Jordan (9-13 November, 2014). ................ 18 Publications & New Books ............................................................................................................................... 22 New books. ................................................................................................................................................................ 22 Selected Research Papers ................................................................................................................................. 23 Papers which will be published in the AJPP, Volume 32, issue 1, April 2014. ........................................................ 24 Events of Interest .............................................................................................................................................. 24 Acknowledgment .............................................................................................................................................. 26 News and announcements from all on any aspect of plant protection in the Arab world are invited for the Newsletter. Contributions from the Executive Committee of the Arab Society for Plant Protection and from the four Subject Matter Committees, as well as from national societies in the Arab region dealing with any aspect of plant protection are kindly requested and highly appreciated. 2 ANEPPNEL 61, April 2014 EDITORIAL Promoting the Role of Social Media in Scientific Knowledge Since early ages, documentation and dissemination of scientific knowledge have been the main determination of scientists, in order to make the new knowledge available to as many interested people as possible. Writing was the main approach to attain that purpose, while the speed of dissemination posed the other part of this challenge. Societies which developed systems for widespread and rapid dissemination of knowledge are credited with special contribution to human civilization. Traditional documents, in the past, were represented by written texts in books, journals or other publications. During the last three decades however, new types of digital documents have been developed, such as images, audio or video files, many being accessible via links on the World Wide Web. It is necessary for scientists and all those interested in new scientific knowledge to develop their skills and techniques for appropriate communication with interested people. Social media holds huge potential for scientists. If used appropriately in a professional context, it can be a highly effective tool to quickly disseminate scientific knowledge and engage with different audiences. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube can be used to share scientific information with a potentially huge audience, to network with other scientists and form new research collaborations, and to communicate with interested non-experts in an informal way. Common barriers to using social media for science communication include the fear of being perceived as unprofessional, being wrong or misunderstood, lack of training or technical skills and, in special conditions, limited internet services. However, academic publishing is changing rapidly. Traditional metrics such as impact factors or citation numbers are being expanded with ‘altmetrics’, which aim to capture engagement with scientific content online (such as subscriber numbers, views, downloads or comments). Therefore we predict that digital literacy and social media will become essential skills in a scientist’s tool kit (Osterrieder, 2013). What is the level of ANEPPNEL’s presence on social media? What is the level of contribution and interaction of ASPP members and other interested people after one year of establishment (April 2013)? Important questions should be discussed face to face – may be during the coming congress of the ASPP in Amman, Jordan, November 2014 - to evaluate the real impact of our newsletter on plant protection sciences in Arab world countries, and what strategies should be taken to promote the role of social networking sites to achieve widespread and rapid dissemination of new knowledge in plant protection sciences. Anne Osterrieder, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK Adwan SHEHAB, General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Damascus, Syria 3 ANEPPNEL 61, April 2014 Crop Protection News from