Abstracts of oral and poster presentation given at the first COST Action FA 1303 workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases, Cognac, France, 23-24 June 2015

Abstract

The International COST Action FA1303 Workshop on “Sustainable control of Grapevine Trunk Diseases: current state and future prospects” was held in Cognac, France, on June 23-24 2015. The meeting was attended by 90 participants. Forty-eight oral and posterpapers were presented,in four sessions: Pathogen characterization, detection and epidemiology; Microbial ecology; Host-pathogen and fungus-fungus competitive interactions; and Disease management. A field trip to the nursery Mercier at Vix was undertaken on June the 22th and 25th, including a demonstration of the MYCORRAY detection tool in the nursery research lab. A second field trip was to the Hennessy cellar, on the  afternoon of June 23th.
The workshop was organized by members of the COST Action FA1303 (www.managtd.eu), in collaboration with Hennessy.