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Tuesday, August 11, 2009: International PVY Symposium at 2009 PAA

Speakers from Canada, China, Poland and United States of America will discuss Potato Virus Y topics of interest to an international audience. This half-day symposium will include presentations on PVY nomenclature, recombinant isolate research, strain diversity in North America and Asia, breeding for PVY resistance, resistance through transgenic manipulation and seed certification schemes to control PVY.

Symposium presentation titles and speakers:

PVY: an old enemy and a continuing challenge James M. Crosslin, USDA-ARS, 24106 North Bunn Road, Prosser, WA 99350, USA

Historical aspects of the Potato virus Y nomenclature Rudra P. Singh, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 850 Lincoln Road, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 4Z7, Canada

Recent research progresses on Potato virus Y in Canada Xianzhou Nie, Potato Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, P.O. Box 20280, 850 Lincoln Road, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 4Z7, Canada

The seed potato inspection and virus research in China Yanju Bai, Supervision and Testing Center for Virus-free Seed Potatoes Quality of Ministry of Agriculture, 368 Xuefu Road Nangang District, Harbin, P. R. China

Sequencing the North American collection of Potato virus Y isolates: applications to identification of disease determinants and strain differentiation Alexander V. Karasev, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844-2339, USA

Sources and effectiveness of PVY resistance in IHAR’s breeding research Ewa Zimnoch-Guzowska, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR), 05-831 Mlochów, Platanowa 19, Poland

Overexpression of pepper eIF4E allele pvr12 confers broad spectrum resistance to Potato virus Y in potato Kari W. Perez, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

Controlling PVY in seed: what works and what doesn’t Rob D. Davidson, San Luis Valley Research Center, Colorado State University, Center, Colorado 81125, USA

For more details check out http://www.paa2009.org/