Special Interest Group Meeting

Biology, biodiversity, evolution and systematics of the Erysiphales

PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS NOW FULL

Organiser

Susumu Takamatsu, Uwe Braun, and Levente Kiss

The Erysiphales is a group of plant pathogenic fungi well known as causal agents of powdery mildew diseases on about ten thousands species of higher plants worldwide, including numerous economically important host plants. All the members of this group are holobiotrophic pathogens representing good model systems to investigate host-parasite relationships. The Erysiphales is one of the most important groups of fungi in terms of both applied and basic plant pathological, mycological and other studies. The SIG meeting will be a good chance for scientists working on, or interested in, the Erysiphales to discuss all kinds of topics on this fungal group and to represent brand new results on powdery mildew fungi.

Uwe Braun:
The current systematics and taxonomy of the powdery mildews (Erysiphales) – an overview

Roger T. A. Cook*, Uwe Braun and Paul Beales:
Development of appressoria on conidial germ tubes of Erysiphe species

Susumu Takamatsu* and Yusuke Seko:
Erysiphe syringae? or E. syringae-japonicae?: molecular and morphological characteristics of the two powdery mildew genotypes occurring on Syringa spp. (lilacs)

Levente Kiss:
A more than 100-year old enigma solved: fibrosin bodies, crystalline cell inclusions in conidia of some species of the Erysiphales, consist of lipids

Alexandra Pintye* and Levente Kiss:
Microcyclic conidiogenesis, a recently discovered sporulation mechanism in powdery mildews

Teruo Nonomura*, Yoshinori Matsuda and Hideyoshi Toyoda:
Pseudochain formation and lifelong production of highly germinative conidia on conidiophores of highly virulent isolates of Oidium neolycopersici

Nicolas Feau*, Cyril Dutech, Amira Mougou-Hamdane and Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau:
Spatio-temporal dynamics of two cryptic powdery mildew species infecting European oaks

Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau*, Amira Mougou-Hamdane and Cyril Dutech:
Local adaptation of European oak powdery mildew to its host

Konstanze Schubert*, Dagmar Triebel, Markus Weiss, Tobias Schneider, Dieter Neubacher and Gerhard Rambold:
Integrated data network for phytopathogenic fungi: a case study using Erysiphales taxa

Ales Lebeda*, Eva Kristkova, Bozena Sedlakova, James D. McCreight and Michael D. Coffey:
Gaps and perspectives of pathogenicity evaluation and denomination in cucurbit powdery mildews (Golovinomyces cichoracearum and Podosphaera xanthii)