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Newsheadline bar Christie Williams Dr. Christie Williams of the Crop Production and Pest Control Research 
    Unit in west Lafayette IN, traveled to Stockholm Sweden on April 22. The 
    reason for the trip was to participate in a panel reviewing a research 
    program for MISTRA, the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. 
    The other three panel members were from Denmark and Finland. The program 
    that was reviewed, PlantComMistra,is a large project focusing on plant 
    communication and aphid control using a strategy that encompasses ecological, 
    biochemical, breeding and molecular genetic research. During this review, 
    the panel met with the core researchers, assessed their first two years 
    of progress as well as the approach proposed for the next two years, and 
    wrote a 15-page report. Although the review process was intense, the down-time 
    was enjoyable as the Swedish hosts accompanied the panel members on a walking 
    tour of downtown Stockholm and out for meals where traditional Swedish 
    food was featured. Steve Scofield Purdue and USDA-Agricultural Research Service scientists have discovered 
    that a type of gene in grain-producing plants halts infection by a disease-causing 
    fungus that can destroy crops vital for human food supplies. The research 
    team is the first to show that the same biochemical process protects an 
    entire plant family - grasses - from the devastating, fungal pathogen. 
    The naturally occurring disease resistance probably is responsible for 
    the survival of grains and other grasses over the past 60 million years. 
    More:http://news.uns.purdue.edu/hp/JohalGrassgene.html Steve Goodwin Dr. Stephen Goodwin will travel to Ede, the Netherlands during October 
    15-22. He will serve for two days on the Scientific Advisory Group for 
    the European project BioExploit. This will entail hearing summaries of 
    research conducted on wheat and potato diseases during the past year, and 
    will provide an excellent way to get caught up on the latest scientific 
    research in Europe. After the meetings, Dr. Goodwin will spend two days 
    visiting the lab of long-term collaborator Dr. Gert Kema at Plant Research 
    International in Wageningen (a ten-minute drive from Ede). The purpose 
    of that visit is to finish the draft of a manuscript on the genome sequence 
    of Mycosphaerella graminicola. Most of Dr. Goodwin???s travel expenses will 
    be paid by the BioExploit project so the cost to his CRIS project will 
    be minimal. Dr. Goodwin is a co-organizer of a Dothideomycetes Comparative 
    Genomics Jamboree to be held in Walnut Creek, CA, November 10-12. The purpose 
    of the workshop is to facilitate and perform comparative genomics analyses 
    of seven sequenced fungal genomes to better understand pathogenicity, evolution 
    and gene function. So far, it looks like at least 25 scientists from nine 
    countries will participate and a broad range of topics will be covered, 
    hopefully leading to one or more publications in peer-reviewed journals.Dr. Stephen Goodwin will attend the celebrations of the 50th anniversary 
of the All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology, Golytsino, Russia 
(near Moscow), November 24-29. The trip also will satisfy an annual site 
visit required as part of a collaborative research project funded by the 
U.S. State Department (through ARS) and the International Science and Technology 
Center. The event will be attended by at least nine ARS scientists and 
employees who are part of the grant program. Hopefully we can have a Thanksgiving 
abroad, as the meetings are the same week as our holiday, despite efforts 
to get the Russians to change the date. Dr. Goodwin is interested in borrowing 
any Russian language tapes you may have. All expenses for the trip will 
be paid by the grant program, so there will be no cost to Dr. Goodwin???s 
CRIS project.    ARS News Articles  Strengthening Sorghum Against a Worldwide Fungal ThreatFeb 02, 2023ARS, Collaborating Scientists Tackling "Tar Spot" Threat to U.S. CornOct 25, 2021Microbial Marauder of Potato, Tomato Crops Has an AccompliceNov 05, 2019Grasses' Guardian Gene FoundJan 29, 2008Genes Foil Hessian Flies' Feeding on WheatApr 05, 2007Virulent Hessian Flies Renew Attack on U.S. WheatJan 24, 2007Silencing Wheat and Barley ScabMay 26, 2006


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