• Presenting current research projects and results in short lectures and poster sessions
• Debating current plant cultivation problems related to mycological causes
• Drafting potential solutions to prevent and control mycological-related problems

• 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.