7.02.07 – Diseases of tropical forest trees

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The Working Party covers research on all aspects of diseases of tropical forest trees including diseases in nurseries, forest plantations, natural forests and urban trees. The objectives of our Working Party are to promote interaction and exchange of information between scientists and researchers working on tree diseases in the tropics through Working Party meetings, information postings on the Working Party website and communication via the internet. Due to the nature of tree diseases and the pathogens that cause them we see our Working Party interacting with those dealing with insects that vector fungi and bacteria, those that deal with silivicultural and tree breeding issues and climate change, to name but a few.

We plan to highlight one tropical forest tree disease every 3-4 months on the Working Party website so that members are more aware of potential disease threats to tropical forest trees and can be kept up-to-date on current research developments in the tropics. We will also be posting a list of names of researchers and their contacts on this website so as to encourage information exchange among fellow researchers.  We also plan to run a workshop on tropical and sub-tropical plantation forestry diseases in 2007.

Biosecurity: recent and potential incursions of pathogens into new areas; "Host jumps" – many pathogens occur on more than one host and can use "alternative" hosts to enter a country.

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