COST ACTION “Parasitic Plant Management in SustainableAgriculture”

Workshop Use of Natural Compounds for Parasitic Plant Management

NAPOLI 29-30 October

Programme

Friday 29 October 2004

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome

09:15 - 10:45 New natural compounds for parasitic plant management(chairman: Stephen O. Duke)

1. Ludovit Cagan Possible role of secondary metabolites emitted by parasitic weeds in attraction of insects

2. Evgenia Dor Metabolite from Inola viscosa is toxic to dodder (Cuscuta campestris)

3. Stephen O. Duke The potential for genetically engineering natural phytotoxins into crops for parasitic weed resistance

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 13:00 New natural compounds (cont.) (chairman: Stephen O. Duke)

4. Kotoula Eleni - Germination response of Orobanche populations to GR24 and to a new natural product

5. Maurizio Vurro - Natural compounds: weapons against parasitic plantaggression

6. Nadjie Zermane - Secondary metabolites of rhizobacteria and perspectives oftheir use for biocontrol of Orobanche spp.

13:15 Lunch

15:00 – 17:00 Natural compounds as stimulants

(chairman: Francisco A. Macías)

7. Antonio Evidente Plant and fungal bioactive metabolites as stimulants for germination of Orobanche ramosa seeds

8. Francisco A. Macías New chemical clues for sunflower-broomrape host-recognition

9. Jens Streibig Root exudates from Sorghum responsible for Striga hermonthica germination

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 – 19:00 Chemistry of stimulants/inhibitors (chairman: Binne Zwanenburg)

10. Anna Andolfi Fungal toxins in the control of the parasitic weed Orobanche ramosa

11. Klaus Wegmann The search for inhibitors of the exoenzyme of the Orobanche radicle

12. Binne Zwanenburg The quest for natural germination stimulants. A critical account on the structure and chemistry of compounds with claimed germinating activity

20:30 Dinner

As well as it want that who has seen a ghost would never find happiness, on the contrary I can say that my father, who has never be unhappy because his thought always came back to Naples

Johann Wolfgang Goethe