The IPC

Working Party on Plant health, Resilience to Threats and Climate Change

Mission

To assist in developing improved forest material with a reasonable level of tolerance by discussing and exchanging selection and breeding strategies for durable disease resistance.

Primary activities

• Increase exchange between research organizations on disease-resistant improved forest planting material
• develop protocols in order to reduce the risk of introduction of new pathogens into new areas by importing reproductive material (cuttings, seeds)

Officers

Chairperson
Mr Mauritz Ramstedt
Swedish University of Agriculture
Forest Mycology and Pathology
Box 7026
SE-750 07 Uppsala
SWEDEN
Tel: (46-0) 704943010
E-mail: [email protected]

Vice-Chairpersons
Mr Yash Pal Singh
Scientist, Forest Research Institute
P.O. New Forest
Dehradun 248006
Tel.: (+91-135) 2224313
E-mail: [email protected]

Vice-Chairpersons
Ms Silvia Cortizo
E.E.A. Delta del Paraná INTA
Facultad de Agronomía
Universidad de Buenos Aires
CC 14 2804
Campana (Provincia de Buenos Aires)
Tel: (54-11) 49617328
E-mail: [email protected]
or: [email protected]

Publications and work of interest

• Review of fungal diseases in Poplar by Gian Pietro Cellerino, FAO 1999 http://www.fao.org/3/AC492E/AC492E00.htm

 Program of action through 2021

• Continue the update of the list of active researchers in Plant Health
• Report on poplar and willow selection and breeding programs, for sustainable and resistant plants, in different parts of the world.
• Organize a WP meeting, concurrently with the next Session of IPS or IUFRO.

Network organizations

International Society for Plant Pathology; https://www.isppweb.org/
American Phytopathological Society; http://www.apsnet.org/Pages/default.aspx
International Plant Protection Convention; https://www.ippc.int/en/news/category/announcements/
European & Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization; http://www.eppo.int/
IUFRO https://www.iufro.org/

Link to additional organizations: Plant Pathology Organizations - http://plantpathologynews.com/Plant-Pathology-Associations/Plant-Pathology-Organisations-Conventions-Treaties.html