Concurrent Sessions

Xylella fastidiosa in the Euro-Mediterranean countries: Disclosing new genetic diversity and innovations in diagnostics and disease management.

Blanca B. Landa,Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (IAS)-Spanish National Research Council, Cordoba, Spain

Maria Saponari,Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP)-Italian National Research Council, Bari, Italy

Franco Valentini, CIHEAM Bari, Italy

Progress made in the control and containment of major diseases that affect economic crops in the Arab and Mediterranean countries

Safaa Kumari,President of the Arab Society of Plant Protection; The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Lebanon

The role of pathogens in forest tree mortality in times of global change

Funda Oskay, Department of forest entomology and protection-Çankırı Karatekin University, Turkey

Luisa Ghelardini, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Forestry Science and Technology – University of Florence, Italy

Iva Franic, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Plant Viruses and Phytoplasma diseases in a Changing Climate

Nihal Buzkan,Plant Protection Faculty-Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Turkey

Toufic Elbeaino, CIHEAM Bari, Italy

Asma Najar,Plant Protection Laboratory- National Institute of Agricultural Research of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia

Huanglongbing of citrus and bacterial plant diseases

Cellier Gilles,French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), Réunion

Vittorio Venturi, African Genome Center of the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Ben Guerir, Morocco; International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy

Emerging and re-emerging wood and vascular diseases of grapevine

Florence Fontaine, Faculty of Exact and natural Sciences-Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, France

Elia Choueiri, Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute (LARI), Lebanon

Phytophthora - prominent, emerging threats to crops and forest ecosystems

Olga Santa Cacciola, Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Italy

Ana M. Pérez Sierra, Centro de Protección Vegetal y Biotecnología, IVIA, Moncada, Spain

Advances in understanding and managing canker diseases of fruit, nut, and forest trees

Themis J. Michailides, Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center, Parlier, USA

Giorgio Gusella, Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Italy

Nematodes of crops and forestry

Sergio Molinari, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP)-Italian National Research Council, Bari, Italy

Isabel Abrantes, NEMATO-lab Centre for Functional Ecology Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Recent and future developments in plant pathogen diagnostics

Gonçalo Silva, Natural Resources Institute-University of Greenwich, United Kingdom

Maria Holeva Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Kifisiá, Greece

Chemical and Integrated Plant Disease Management

George Karaoglanidis, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment-Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Silvia Toffolatti, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (DiSAA) – University of Milan

Innovation in alternatives to synthetic fungicides

Gianfranco Romanazzi, President of the Italian Plant Protection Association; DSAA-Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy

Cheryl Lennox, President of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology; Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Biocontrol of plant pathogens: recent advances and future challenges

Ali Siah, BioEcoAgro-University of Lille, France

Emilia Markellou, Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Kifisiá, Greece

Abdelhamid Foughalia, Scientific and Technical Research Center on Arid Regions (CRSTRA), Biskra, Algeria