US-South Africa Workshop: Bacterial Wilt Disease, White River, South Africa

0138300艾伦该奖项支持10名美国科学家参加2002年2月在南非怀特河举行的美国-南非细菌性枯萎病研讨会。 共同组织者是威斯康星州大学的Caitilyn艾伦和南非农业研究理事会工业兵团研究所的Jody Terdham和Gerrit Prinsloo。 第三届国际细菌性枯萎病研讨会将于二○ ○二年二月四日至八日举行。 美国的参与者中有三名研究生和一名博士后研究员。细菌性枯萎病侵袭热带和亚热带的许多经济作物和自给作物，包括西红柿、土豆、香蕉、大蕉、花生和烟草。 引起细菌性枯萎病的病原体是一种土传细菌，青枯雷尔氏菌。 由于其地理分布，这种疾病在欧洲和北美的研究人员中受到的关注相对较少，尽管它每年在发展中国家造成毁灭性的作物损失。 研讨会的目标是建立美国和南非研究人员的共同兴趣领域，设计合作项目，确定和优先考虑这些地区细菌性枯萎病研究人员目前面临的最紧迫问题，并制定有效细菌性枯萎病研究所需的科学材料交流程序。

0138300AllenThis award supports the participation of ten US scientists in a US-South Africa Workshop on Bacterial Wilt Disease, to be held in White River, South Africa, in February 2002. The co-organizers are Caitilyn Allen, University of Wisconsin, and Jody Terblance and Gerrit Prinsloo, Institute for Industrial Corps, South African Agricultural Research Council. The workshop is being held in conjunction with the Third International Symposium on Bacterial Wilt Disease, which is scheduled for February 4-8, 2002. Three graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow are among the US participants.Bacterial wilt disease attacks many cash and subsistence crops in the tropics and subtropics, including tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, plantains, peanuts, and tobacco. The pathogen responsible for bacterial wilt is a soilborne bacterium, Ralstonia solanacearum. Because of its geographic distribution, the disease has received relatively little attention from researchers in Europe and North America, even as it causes devastating crop losses each year in the developing world. The goals of the workshop are to establish common areas of interest among US and South African researchers, design collaborative projects, identify and prioritize the most pressing issues currently confronting bacterial wilt researchers in these regions, and develop procedures for exchanging scientific materials necessary for effective bacterial wilt research.