Professor Congli Wang in the Agricultural Pest Control Group of NEIGAE was invited to attend The American Phytopathological Society (APS) and The Canadian Phytopathological Society (CPS) Joint Meeting which was organized by the Department of Plant Pathology of University of Minnesota on August 9-13, 2014 at the Minneapolis Convention Center, Minnesota. Professor Wang gave one oral presentation to talk about cotton resistance inheritance to root-knot nematodes in the session of Disease Resistance in Dicots. The title was “QTL mapping Fusarium wilt race 1 and race 4 resistance in an interspecific cotton cross between Gosypium barbadense and G. hirsutum” She also organized one session of Disease Resistance in Monocots. Her report received very positive response from plant pathologists. She received invitation to submit manuscripts to journals (Phytopathology, Plant Disease, Molecular Plant-Mircrob Interactions, and coming Plant Health Progress) hold by APS. Moreover, she was invited to join the editorial board of ‘International Journal of Phytopatholgy’ from the editor. The editorial board of Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (JSSPN) registered her name in the reviewer database for JSSPN.
Through the meeting, Professor Wang not only mastered the latest research dynamics of Plant Pathology, but also learned some new techniques and new detection tools of pathogens. During the meeting exhibition, she bought one portable microscope which can be connected to computer, phone and ipad and can be used to observe nematodes, plant leaves, insects, bacterial in vivo et al. from the lab, greenhouse and/or field assay with changeable magnifying lens.
The state of Minnesota localizes in similar altitude with Heilongjiang Province. Therefore, the two places share many common characteristics, such as black soil, soybean and corn as major crops, races of soybean cyst nematodes (SCN). Based on this, Professor Wang visited Southern Research and Outreach Center of University of Minnesota at Waseca close to meeting place. Professor and Nematologist Senyu Chen showed Professor Wang around their field experiments, greenhouse and lab facilities. They had very deep communication about collaboration in many aspects of nematode ecology, pathogenicity, biology, especially in the area of genetic diversity of SCN. Since genetic diversity of SCN is very complicated in the world, both sides were willing to share their resources and data to expedite the research progress of genetic diversity of SCN and finally to provide theoretical understanding for integrated control of SCN.
In summary, Professor Wang exhibited research progress of our institute in the area of Plant Pathology and improved research level through communication with top-level scientists in the meeting.
