12th INTERNATIONAL CEREAL RUSTS and POWDERY MILDEWS CONFERENCE Abstract Book October 13-16, 2009 Antalya – Turkey ICRPMC 2009 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Monday 12th October 4:30pm – 7:30pm Registration 8:00pm – 9:00pm Board meeting of the Cereal Rusts Foundation (private) Tuesday 13th October 8:00am – 9:00am Registration Chair: James Brown Mahinur S. Akkaya (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) 9:00am – 9:10am and James Brown (on behalf of the Scientific Programme Committee) Welcome Plenary: Ravi Singh (CIMMYT, Mexico) 9:10am – 9:45am Building international cooperation: Crucial to mitigate the threat from Ug99 race of stem rust and other rust pathogens Offered papers: Wheat Stem Rust Davinder Singh (CIMMYT, Kenya) 09:45am – 10:00am Stem rust screening and breeding for Ug99 resistance in East Africa Zafer Mert (Central Research Institute for Field Crops, Turkey) 10:00am – 10:15am Global initiatives for management of Ug99 stem rust race and reactions of some winter wheat genotypes to Ug99 in 2008 Matthew Rouse (University of Minnesota, USA) 10:15am – 10:30am Aggressiveness of races TTKSK and QFCSC of Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici at various temperatures Cornel Bender (University of the Free State, South Africa) 10:30am – 10:45am Development of a greenhouse screening method for adult plant response in wheat to stem rust 10:45am – 11:15am COFFEE BREAK Chair: Robert Park Plenary: Mogens Hovmøller (University of Aarhus, Denmark) 11:15am – 11:50am Rates of evolution in Puccinia striiformis Offered papers: Yellow Rust Pathogens Eugene Milus (University of Arkansas, USA) 11:50am – 12:05pm Comparison of old and new strains of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici for ability to initiate epidemics from overwintering infections and for ability to infect at high temperature Alexander Loladze (University of Sydney, Australia) 12:05pm – 12:20pm Differential adaptation of Australian and New Zealand stripe rust isolates to high temperature Claude de Vallavieille-Pope (INRA UMR BIOGER-CPP, France) 12:20pm – 12:35pm Adaptation of the clonal pathogen Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici to temperature and resistance genes in North-West Europe and Mediterranean area Colin Wellings (NSW Department of Primary Industries, Australia) 12:35pm – 12:50pm Potential vulnerability of barley to an undescribed form of Puccinia striiformis in Australia 12:50pm – 2:00pm LUNCH Chair: Colin Wellings Plenary: Wanquan Chen (Institute of Plant Protection, China) 2:00pm – 2:35pm Regional epidemics and management of wheat stripe rust in China Offered papers: Rust Pathogen Variation Amor Yahyaoui (ICARDA, Syria) 2:35pm – 2:50pm Wheat yellow rust (Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici) in Central West Asia and North Africa Xianming Chen (USDA-ARS and Washington State University, USA) 2:50pm – 3:05pm Race changes of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici and Puccinia striiformis f.sp. hordei in the United States Johanna E. Snyman (University of Sydney, Australia) 3:05pm – 3:20pm A new pathotype of stripe rust affecting triticale in Australia Julio Huerta-Espino (INIFAP-CEVAMEX, Mexico) 3:20pm – 3:35pm Phenotypic variation among leaf rust isolates from durum wheat in northwestern Mexico Jochen Prochnow (BASF SE) 3:35pm – 3:50pm Wheat brown (leaf) rust in Europe: Studies on disease sensitivity towards azoles and strobilurins and their fungicidal efficacy 3:50pm – 4:20pm COFFEE BREAK Chair: Claude de Vallavieille-Pope Plenary: Robert Park (Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Australia) 4:20pm – 4:55pm Achieving durable rust resistance in agriculture: from gene to continent and beyond Offered papers: Rust Resistance Genetics Tom Fetch (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Canada) 4:55pm –5:10pm Inheritance of resistance to Ug99 in wheat line Tr129 with an introgression of Aegilops triuncialis chromatin Colin Hiebert (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada) 5:10pm – 5:25pm Genetics and mapping of stem rust resistance genes conferring resistance to race Ug99 (TTKSK) in the wheat cultivars Webster, Peace and AC Cadillac Mike Bonman (USDA-ARS, USA) 5:25pm – 5:40pm Wheat landraces from the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Collection with resistance to new races of Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici Roger Wise (Iowa State University, USA) 5:40pm – 5:55pm Genetical genomics of stem rust infection identifies master regulators of defense in barley Henriette Goyeau (INRA UMR BIOGER-CPP, France) 5:55pm – 6:10pm Efficiency of specific and partial resistance to wheat leaf rust in bread wheat cultivars grown in France Javier Sánchez-Martín (CSIC Institute of Sustainable Agriculture, Spain) 6:10pm – 6:25pm Screening and characterization of resistance to crown rust (Puccinia coronata f.sp. avenae) and powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f.sp. avenae) in an oat germoplasm collection 6:30pm – 8:30pm WELCOME RECEPTION & POSTER PRESENTATIONS 8:30pm – 10:00pm DINNER (at your hotel) Wednesday 14th October Chair: Ralph Hückelhoven Plenary: Roger Wise (USDA-ARS, Iowa State University) 9:00am – 9:35am Regulation of innate immunity in barley-powdery mildew interactions Offered papers: Non-Host and Basal Resistance Rients Niks (Wageningen University, Netherlands) 9:35am – 9:50am The barley-rusts and mildews: Two models to study the molecular basis of host-status of plants to specialized pathogens Thierry Marcel (Wageningen University, Netherlands) 9:50am – 10.05am Efficient targeting of barley genes for basal resistance to Puccinia hordei Hossein Jafary (Zanjan Agricultural & Natural Resource Research Center, Iran) 10:05am – 10:20am Non-host immunity in barley to Puccinia hordei-bulbosi is a polygenic trait with multiple components Reza Aghnoum (Wageningen University, Netherlands) 10:20am – 10:35am SusBgt: Experimental barley lines with susceptibility to wheat powdery mildew as a tool to study non-host resistance 10:35am – 11:05am COFFEE BREAK Chair: Soledad Sacristán Benayas Plenary: Ralph Panstruga (Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) 11:05am – 11:40am The molecular basis of broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistance Offered papers: Molecular Biology and Physiology of Rusts Mahinur S. Akkaya (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) 11:40am – 11:55am Antagonistic behavior of the two players of ubiquitinylation process in disease resistance Özge Karakaş (Istanbul University, Turkey) 11:55am – 12:10pm EST-Based multiplex gene expression in yellow rust infected wheat using GenomeLab GeXP genetic analysis system Javier Sánchez-Martín (CSIC Institute of Sustainable Agriculture, Spain) 12:10pm – 12:25pm Effect of different resistance mechanisms to crown rust (Puccinia coronata f.sp. avenae) and powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f.sp. avenae) on oat stomatal conductance Nicholas Lauter (Iowa State University, USA) 12:25pm – 12:40pm Mlsp confers semi-dominant, developmentally-dependent resistance to barley powdery mildew 12:40pm – 2:00pm LUNCH Chair: Mogens Hovmøller Plenary: Jérôme Enjalbert (INRA UMR BIOGER-CPP and UMR Plant Genetics, France) 2:00pm – 2:35pm Clonality and recombination footprints in wheat yellow rust genetic structure Offered papers: Yellow Rust Genetics Donal O’Sullivan (National Institute of Agricultural Botany, England) 2:35pm – 2:50pm Dissecting the contributions of specific and partial resistance to yellow rust in UK wheat germplasm Eugene Milus (University of Arkansas, USA) 2:50pm – 3:05pm Characterization of adult-plant resistance in soft red winter wheat to stripe rust Xianming Chen (USDA-ARS and Washington State University, USA) 3:05pm – 3:20pm Molecular mapping of a new gene for resistance to stripe rust in durum wheat PI 480148 and transfer the gene into common wheat Ahu Uncuoğlu (TUBITAK, Turkey) 3:20pm – 3:35pm Identification and potential use of DNA markers for yellow rust disease resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum) Zhensheng Kang (Northwest A&F University, China) 3:35pm – 3:50pm Molecular mechanism of wheat and stripe rust interaction and functional characterization of resistance-related genes 3:50pm – 4:50pm COFFEE BREAK + POSTER PRESENTATIONS Chair: Xianming Chen Offered papers: Epidemiology David Hodson (FAO, ITALY) 4:50pm – 5:05pm Global Cereal Rust Monitoring System – prospects and progress Colin Wellings (NSW Department of Primary Industries, Australia) 5:05pm – 5:20pm Stripe rust epidemics in Australia: Implementing national integrated disease control strategies Amarilis Barcellos (Universidade de Passo Fundo, Brazil) 5:20pm – 5:35pm Sensitivity of Puccinia triticina races to fungicides M. Nabil A. Omar (Soils, Water and Environment Research Institute, Egypt) 5:35pm – 5:50pm Biological control of wheat leaf rust using Pseudomonas fluorescens and Bacillus spp Evsey Kosman (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) 5:50pm – 6:05pm New tools for comprehensive evaluation of virulence and resistance data Yehoshua Anikster (Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement, Israel) 6:05pm – 6:20pm Estimation of nuclear DNA and other methods for identification of wheat leaf rusts 7:30pm-11:00pm GALA DINNER Thursday 15th October Chair: Ralph Panstruga Plenary: Beat Keller (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 9:00am – 9:35am Molecular basis of durable rust resistance in wheat Offered papers: Lr34 and Lr46 Brent McCallum (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) 9:35am – 9:50am Leaf tip necrosis co-segregates with seedling leaf rust resistance conditioned by Lr34 at low temperatures Liselotte Setler (University of Zürich, Switzerland) 9:50am – 10.05am Functional characterization of the durable disease resistance gene Lr34 Hassan Soltanloo (Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural