Summaries of Oral Presentations, Posters and Invited Speeches Presented at the Twelfth Hellenic Phytopathological Congress, Kastoria, Greece, October 12-14, 2004

Abstract

The 12th National Phytopathological Congress, organized every two years by the Hellenic Phytopathological Society (HPS), was held in Kastoria, October 12–14, 2004 and was attended by more than 300 scientists. Fifty-five oral presentations and 57 posters were presented at the meeting, dealing with plant diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, with non-parasitic disorders, and with disease control. Three invited speakers gave papers on the following subjects: “Non parasitic disorders of cultivated plants: current approaches to determine their importance and the molecular basis of their pathogenesis, detection and control”, “Current problems and developments in phytodiagnosis”, “Approaches for the control of crop diseases in organic farming”. Abstracts of the papers and posters are presented in this issue.