At its meeting on July 10, 2024, the DPG Executive Board agreed to the request of the working groups to combine the “Mycology” and “Host-Parasite Interaction” working groups, which traditionally meet together, and rename them “Plant-Microbe Interactions”. More information on page 5 of Phytomedizin 03/2024.
Thus, the 1st Annual Meeting of the Working Group Plant-Microbe Interactions took place on March 13 and 14, 2025 at the Department of Biology of the University of Kaiserslautern (RPTU).
Prof. Dr. Marco Thines
Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität/Biodiversität und Klima
(Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre - BiK-F)
Forschungszentrum Senckenberganlage 25
60325 Frankfurt am Main
marco.thines@senckenberg.de
Dr. Monika Heupel
Landwirtschaftskammer NRW, Pflanzenschutzdienst
Diagnostik von Pflanzenkrankheiten
Gartenstraße 11
50765 Köln-Auweiler
monika.heupel@lwk.nrw.de
- Scientific and practice-oriented topics in the fields of diagnosis and taxonomy, morphology and physiology, ecology and epidemiology, monitoring and prognosis
- Scientific basic research
- Reports from agricultural and horticultural practitioners
- New molecular-biological methods of diagnosis
- Threshold concepts
- Resistance to chemicals
The working group is comprised of colleagues from universities, the Julius Kuehn-Institute and plant protection services, industrial corporations, and other research institutes. Annual 2-day-meetings are open and held at changing locations; they are joint meetings with the working group “Host-Parasite-Interaction” and serve to present new research results and to exchange ideas and experiences. Between 60 and 120 members of both working groups attend the meetings.