Sustainable disease management in a European context

Foreword.- What are the prospects for genetically engineered, disease resistant plants?.- Priming: it’s all the world to induced disease resistance.- Resistance proteins: scouts of the plant innate immune system.- How can we exploit functional genomics approaches for understanding the nature of plant defences? Barley as a case study.- Roles of reactive oxygen species in interactions between plants and pathogens.- Mechanisms modulating fungal attack in post-harvest pathogen interactions and their control.- What can we learn from clubroots: alterations in host roots and hormone homeostasis caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae.- Problems with disseminating information on disease control in wheat and barley to farmers.- Control of plant diseases by natural products: Allicin from garlic as a case study.- Use of Coniothyrium minitans as a biocontrol agent and some molecular aspects of sclerotial mycoparasitism.- International standards for the diagnosis of regulated pests.- Quality assurance in plant health diagnostics – the experience of the Danish Plant Directorate.- Tracking fungi in soil with monoclonal antibodies.- Exploiting generic platform technologies for the detection and identification of plant pathogens.- The challenge of providing plant pest diagnostic services for Africa.- Application of pathogen surveys, disease nurseries and varietal resistance characteristics in an IPM approach for the control of wheat yellow rust.- Molecular approaches for characterization and use of natural disease resistance in wheat.- Integration of breeding and technology into diversification strategies for disease control in modern agriculture.