PROGRAMME
In Collaboration with the Polytechnic University
of Valencia
Pests and Diseases Risk Assessment
Sampling as an essential tool in Integrated Protection
Valencia, 14th and 15th of December 2004
MAIN HALL
Central Venue – Rector’s Building - Valencia Polytechnic University
One of the fundamental elements of
the pest control system known as Integrated Control or Integrated Protection
is having a set of decision-making rules that guide the selection of control
measures, on the basis of assessment of the risk to the crop presented
by the pests and diseases.
The aim with pests is to maintain their populations below
economic injury levels. This means having access to sampling techniques
and treatment thresholds for the populations of the main pest of the crop,
as of their natural enemies. Sampling methods must fulfil apparently contradictory
conditioning factors. In the first place, they must be sufficiently simple
so that they can be applied routinely in the field in an integrated management
programme. Secondly, they must be sufficiently exact to give reliable
results that may be compared with previously set out treatment thresholds.
In turn, the treatment thresholds must first be evaluated and contrasted
experimentally, taking into account biological, economic and environmental
aspects in a given crop and area.
The Integrated Production programmes currently applied
in our crops always require risk assessment procedures for pests and diseases
given by sampling methods and treatment thresholds. A great effort is
needed to provide applicable and sufficiently precise methodologies if
we wish Integrated Production techniques, considered as the most rational
and sustainable system of crop management, to be consolidated and disseminated
in the future. The aim of this Symposium is to expound and analyse the
current situation of sampling techniques and treatment thresholds for
pests and diseases in our country’s principal crops.
F. Garcia Marí
Mediterranean Agroforestry Institute
Valencia Polytechnic University
Tuesday, 14th December 2004
8,30-10,00h. Documentation handed over at the Symposium Secretariat.
10,00-10,30h. Symposium inauguration presided by the Honourable Minister
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the Valencian Generalitat Mr. Juan
Gabriel Cotino and the Rector of the Valencia Polytechnic University,
Mr. Francisco Javier Sanz Fernández.
ARTHROPOD POPULATION SAMPLING: a fundamental tool
in Integrated Pest Management in crops
10,30-11,00h. Inaugural presentation. Arthropod population sampling: principles
and methods.
Mr. Ferran García Marí. Mediterranean Agroforestry Institute.
Valencia Polytechnic University.
11,00-11,30h. Coffee break, courtesy of BASF.
11,30-12,00h. Sampling methods for natural enemies and their practical
application in integrated production programmes.
Mr. Alberto Urbaneja* and Mr. Joseph Jacas**. IVIA-CIB/CSIC Associated
Entomology Unit. Vegetal Protection and Biotechnology Department. Valencian
Agricultural Research Institute, IVIA. Moncada. Valencia. Experimental
Science Department. University Jaume I. Castellón.
12,0012,30h. Applications of Geostatístics and Geographic Information
Systems in the study of pest populations.
Mr. Jesús Avilla* and Mr. Manel Ribes**. *Crop Protection Area.
UdL-IRTA R+D Unit. University of Lleida. **Agroforestry Engineering Department.
University of Lleida.
Cereals
12,30-13,00h. Assessment methods for
potential effects of transgenic maize crops in target insects and predatory
arthropods.
Mr. Pedro Castañera, Mr. Félix Ortego, Ms. Gema Pérez-Farinós
and Ms. Marta de la Poza. Department of Plant Biology. Biological Research
Centre (CIB), CSIC. IVIA-CIB Associated Unit. Madrid..
Cotton
13,00-13,30h. Monitoring of arthropod populations
in cotton crops.
Mr. Manuel Alvarado and Mr. José Manuel Durán. Seville Vegetable
Health Laboratory. Junta de Andalucía.
.
Afternoon
Outdoor and greenhouse vegetables
15,30-16,00h. Sampling techniques for lepidoptera and thrips in open-air
and greenhouse vegetable crops.
Mr. Tomás Cabello. Almería Polytechnic University.
16,00-16,30h. Spatial distribution
and sampling of Bemisia tabaci in tomato and pepper.
Mr. Pedro Guirao* and Mr. Pedro Fernández Molina**. *Department
of Vegetal and Microbiology Production. Miguel Hernández University.
Orihuela. Alicante. **Integrated Agricultural Experimentation and Training
Centre, Molina de Segura. Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment.
Murcia region.
Vines
16,30-17,00h. Grape berry moth (Lobesia
botrana) pest indices.
Mr. Ramón Coscollá. Doctor of Agricultural Engineering.
General Directorate of Research, Agricultural Innovation and Livestock.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the Valencian Generalitat.
Olive
17,00-17,30h. Arthropod sampling in
olive trees. Treatment thresholds for main crop pests.
Mr. Alfonso Montiel Bueno. Director of Vegetable Health Laboratory,
Jaén. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Junta de Andalucía.
17,30-17,45h. Break
Cítrus
17,45-18,15h. Red spider, Tetranychus urticae: sampling methods and economic
treatment thresholds for in clementines.
Ms. María Teresa Martínez-Ferrer*, Mr. Josep Jacas**
and Mr. José Luis Ripollés***. **Agroalimentary and Technological
Research Institute (IRTA). Ebro Experimental Station. Tarragona. **University
Jaume I. Castellón. ***E. Martinavarro, S.A. Castellón.
18,15-18,45h. Sampling methods for
aphids in citrus.
Mr. Alfonso Hermoso de Mendoza. Vegetal Protection and Biotechnology
Department. Valencian Agricultural Research Institute, IVIA. Moncada.
Valencia.
18,45-19,15h.Whitefly population sampling
in citrus.
Ms. Antonia Soto Sánchez, Mr. F. Ohlenschläeger and Mr.
F. García Marí. Mediterranean Agricultural and Forestry
Institute. Valencia Polytechnic University.
19,15-19,45h.Treatment thresholds
for Aonidiella aurantii, Parlatoria pergandii and Lepidosaphes beckii
(Homoptera: Diaspididae) in citrus.
Mr. F. García Marí, Mr. P. Hernández Penadés,
Mr. J.M. Rodríguez and Mr. E. Rodrigo. Mediterranean Agricultural
and Forestry Institute. Valencia Polytechnic University.
Wednesday, 15th December 2004
Fruits
9,30-10,00h. Population sampling methods
for psylla (Cacopsylla pyri L.) in commercial pear plantations.
Mr. Marià Vilajeliu, Mr. P. Vilardell and Mr. M. Casals. IRTA-Experimental
Agricultural Station. Mas Badia. Girona.
10,00-10,30h. Use of semichemicals
in control and monitoring of agricultural pests: application on Cydia
pomonella and Ceratitis capitata.
Mr. Vicente Navarro. Agrochemical Ecology Centre. Valencia Polytechnic
University.
DISEASES: support systems for decision-making
in Integrated Protection
10,30-11,00h.Sampling and Experimental Design. Conceptual aspects.
Mr. Emilio Carbonell. Department of Biometry. Valencian Agricultural
Research Institute, IVIA. Moncada. Valencia.
11,00-11,30h. Coffee break, courtesy of BASF.
11,30-12,00h. Epidemiological prediction models as a tool in integrated
disease control.
Mr. Isidro Llorente, Lecturer in Vegetal Production; Mr. Emilio Montesinos,
Professor of Vegetal Production (Vegetable Pathology), Agroalimentary
Technology Institute - CIDSAV. University of Girona.
12,00-12,30h. Impact of new technologies
used in Alert Stations on control of pests and diseases: GPS at monitoring
points and SMS messages in information transmission.
Mr. Jordi Giné i Ribó. Head of Phytosanitary Information
and Campaigns. Vegetal Health Service. Department of Agriculture, Livestock
and Fisheries. Generalitat de Catalunya. Barcelona.
12,30-13,00h. Establishing the season,
vegetative period and ideal organs to be sampled for virus detection in
woody species.
Mr. Mariano Cambra Álvarez. Vegetal Protection and Biotechnology
Centre. Laboratory of Virology and Immunology. Valencian Agricultural
Research Institute, IVIA. Moncada. Valencia.
13,00-13,30h. Sampling, quantification and monitoring of foliar and fruit
bacteriosis and mycosis in pome fruit crops.
Mr. Emilio Montesinos. Professor of Vegetable Production (Vegetal
Pathology), Agroalimentary Technology Institute - CIDSAV. University of
Girona.
AFTERNOON
15,30-16,00h. Sampling, quantification
and pathogenic characterisation of phytopathogenic fungi and nematodes
in soil: Implications for control of crop diseases.
Mr. Rafael M. Jiménez Díaz*, MR. Pablo Castillo Castillo**
and Mr. Juan A. Navas Cortés**. *Professor of Vegetal Pathology,
ETSIAM-University of Córdoba and Institute of Sustainable Agriculture
- CSIC. **Head Scientist, Institute of Sustainable Agriculture - CSIC.
Córdoba.
16,00-16,30h. *Vascular diseases:
new dignostic methods and field trials. Induction of self-defence as a
possible solution.
Mr. Victor Frías and Ms. Mónica Perdices from Agrométodos.
Mr. Juan Antonio del Río, Ms. Ana G. Avidez and Mr. Pedro Gómez
from the University of Murcia. Mr. Antonio C. Codón and Ms. Tahía
Benítez from the University of Seville.
Potato
16,30-17,00h. Validation of mildew
warning models in potato.
Mr. Francisco Montes* and Ms. Mª Gracia Ortega**.* Seville Vegetable
Health Service. Junta de Andalucía. **Asociafruit.
17,00-17,15h. Break.
Vines
17,15-17,45h.Vine mildew modelling,
systems used and results.
Mr. Gonçal Barrios and Mr. Joan Reyes. Vegetal Health Service
of Catalunya. Tarragona. Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.
Generalitat de Catalunya. Barcelona.
Olive
17,45-18,15h. Epidemiological bases
for integrated control of fungal leaf fall diseases in olives.
Mr. Antonio Trapero Casas. Department of Agronomy. ETSIAM. University
of Córdoba. Córdoba.
Cítrus
18,15-18,45h. Knowledge of the epidemiology
of Alternaria alternata pv. citri and its use in the design of control
strategies for brown spot in citrus.
Ms. Joaquina Badal*, Mr. José García-Jiménez,
Mr. A. Vicent, Mr. A. Peris and Mr. J. Armengol. Mediterranean Agricultural
and Forestry Institute. Valencia Polytechnic University
18,45h. Closing act presided by Mr. Eduardo Primo Millo, General Director
of Investigation and Innovacion Agrarian and Ganaderia of the Generalitat
Valenciana.
22,00h Closing Dinner
* Corresponding speeches or company presentations
Simultaneous Spanish English translation services
will be available during the Symposium.
NOTE for STUDENTS: The Polytechnic
University of Valencia will award a free choice credit to those students
of agronomy or agriculture who attend the Symposium.
