The American Phytopathological Society (APS), in cooperation with related organizations, will hold a national forum of leaders in state and federal government, grower organizations, researchers, educators, crop consultants, agribusiness, food industry and others to review the U.S. soybean rust strategic plan and coordinated framework in light of knowledge acquired during the first crop season with Asian soybean rust in North America.

The technical program will include discussion of the latest information on:

• Detection and prediction systems for soybean rust - how well did they work in 2005?
• Fungicide efficacy and application studies
• Pathogen genetics - what does the sequence say?
• Host resistance - sources of partial resistance to soybean rust
• Marker assisted selection - what's in progress?
• Pathogen biology - epidemiology, additional hosts, inoculum sources

Time/Date: Tuesday, November 15-16, 2005; Technical program begins at 8 a.m. Eastern Time (9 a.m. CT) on November 15 and ends at noon on November 16

Location: Renaissance Hotel, 611 Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37203

Website: http://www.apsnet.org/online/sbr/

The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a nonprofit, professional scientific organization. The research of the organization’s 5,000 worldwide members advances the understanding of the science of plant pathology and its application to plant health.