Report of the 11th Meeting of the Panel on Diagnostics
Olomouc, CZ, 2007-01-16/18
At the kind invitation of the Czech State Phytosanitary Administration, the meeting took place in Olomouc. Warm thanks are due to Mrs Kozelska and her colleagues for the very fine organization of this meeting. The Panel continued its task of developing diagnostic protocols for regulated pests. Altogether, 75 diagnostic protocols and 2 general protocols ‘Use of EPPO diagnostic protocols’ and ‘Documentation and reporting on a diagnosis’ have already been approved and/or published, and about 26 more are at various stages of preparation. The ‘Instructions to authors on the format and content of a diagnostic protocol’ are now finalized and available through the EPPO Website (see our section Standards). |
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Four new protocols were considered ready to be sent to EPPO member governments for their critical comments: Rhynchophorus ferrugineus and Rhynchophorus palmarum, Margarodes spp, Cucumber vein yellowing virus, and Gremmeniella abietina. The Panel noted the importance of keeping published protocols up to date, particularly as the science of diagnostic methodology was rapidly advancing. Accordingly, the following protocol was revised and considered ready to be sent for country comment Tilletia indica.
The Panel studied a draft protocol for Heterodera glycines. Provided modifications are made by the author, the text was considered ready to be sent for country consultation. The Panel also discussed the revision of the diagnostic protocol for Globodera rostochiensis and Globodera pallida but considered that it should be studied by the ad hoc Panel on Quarantine Nematodes.
Definitions included in ‘PM7/76 Purpose of EPPO diagnostic protocols’ were slightly amended.
The Panel reviewed the results of the questionnaire on diagnostic expertise that was launched on the EPPO Website in 2006-05. A demonstration of the searchable database on diagnostic capacity that had been designed on the EPPO website was made. The Panel was very satisfied with the database structure and searching tools.
The Panel on Diagnostics also identified priorities for research in the Plant Heath diagnostic field to be communicated to Alan Inman (UK) the EUPHRESCO coordinator (for more information visit the EUPHRESCO web site).
The next meeting is planned in March or April 2007 in Paris. The exact date is to be decided.
Participants
Hanna Baginska (Mrs)
Central Laboratory of the State Plant Health and Seed Inspection Service , Wspolna 30, 00-930 WARSAW (PL) - 48/ 22 623 23 02 - 48/ 22 623 23 04 - h.baginska@piorin.gov.pl
Marina Barba (Mrs)
C.R.A. - Istituto Sperimentale per la Patologia Vegetale , Via C.G. Bertero, 22, 00156 ROMA (IT) - 39/682070244 - 39/682070243 - m.barba@ispave.it
Nadezda Bukvayova (Mrs)
Central Control and Testing Institute of Agriculture - Section of Diagnostics, Dept of General and Quarantine Diagnostics , Hanulova 9/A, 844 29 BRATISLAVA (SK) - 421/2 69204436 - 421/2 64462089 - Bukvayova.Nadezda@uksup.sk
J.E. Frey (Mr)
Agrocope FAW Wädenswil, Swiss Federal Research Station , 8820 WÄDENSWIL (CH) - 41/17836332 - 41/17836434 - juerg.frey@acw.admin.ch
Jean-François Germain (Mr)
LNPV Unité d'entomologie EAZA , 2 place Viala, 34060 MONTPELLIER (FR) - 33/499612843 - 33/499612393 - germain@supagro.inra.fr
Reijo Karjalainen (Mr)
AgriFood Research in Finland University of Kuopio, 31600 JOKIOINEN (FI) 358/90400925778 - reijo.karjalainen@mtt.fi
Linda Kox (Mrs)
Dept. of Diagnostics, Plant Protection Service , P.O. Box 9102, 6700 HC WAGENINGEN (NL) - 31/317 496754 - 31/317 421701 - l.f.f.kox@minlnv.nl
Svetla Kozelska (Mrs)
Division of Diagnostics, State Phytosanitary Administration , Slechtitelu 11, 78371 OLOMOUC (CZ) - 420/602247174 - 420/585227790 - svetla.kozelska@srs.cz
Helga Reisenzein (Ms)
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) , Spargelfeldstrasse 191, 1220 VIENNA (AT) - 43/50 555 333 40 - 43/50 555 333 03 - helga.reisenzein@ages.at
Christiane Scheel (Mrs)
Diagnostic Laboratory - Danish Plant Directorate , Skovbrynet 20, 2800 LYNGBY (DK) 45/45263842 - 45/45263613 - csc@pdir.dk
Natalia Sherokolava (Mrs)
All-Russian Centre for Plant Quarantine , Pogranichnaya str. 32, 140150 MOSCOW Oblast, Ramensky region, Bykovo (RU) - 74/957857613 - 74/952237241 - natalia_sh@mail.ru
Gregor Urek (Mr)
Agricultural Institute of Slovenia , Hacquetova 17, 1001 LJUBLJANA (SI) 386/12805262 - 386/12805255 - gregor.urek@kis.si
H.Josef Vetten (Mr)
BBA , Messeweg 11-12, 38104 BRAUNSCHWEIG (DE) - 49/531 299 3720 - 49/531 299 3006 - h.j.vetten@bba.de
Sue HOCKLAND (Mrs)
Central Science Laboratory , Sand Hutton, YORK Y042 2TH (UK) - 44/1904 462320 - 44/1904 462149 – s.hockland@csl.gov.uk
Françoise Petter (Mrs) (Chairman)
Vlasta Zlof (Mrs)
OEPP/EPPO , 1 rue Le Nôtre, 75016 PARIS (FR) - 33/ 1 45 20 77 94 - 33/ 1 42 24 89 43 - hq@eppo.fr