About
The International Conference Plant Health for Sustainable Agriculture (PHSA) was organized by Agricultural Institute of Slovenia within the framework of the FP7 project CROPSUSTAIN in Ljubljana on May 11th and 12th 2015. Over 170 participants from 18 European countries discussed current challenges in Plant Health, Biotechnology and Plant Breeding.
Our goals are effective and environmentally-friendly plant protection and pest management, which are the basis for sustainable agriculture. We will achieve this with preventive measures, pest monitoring, studying pest bionomy, their response to environmental factors, biological control and natural enemies, predictions of pest spread and modelling pest development, plant breeding and development of efficient Decision Support Systems. Essential for sustainability are implementation of measures for decreasing the risk due to the use of pesticides, and development and implementation of the principles of Integrated Pest Management in agriculture. As pests do not recognise geopolitical boundaries when they spread, cooperation, knowledge and data sharing, joint development of technologies between countries, institutions and individuals are necessary.
Videos
Welcome and Opening

Welcome and Opening
May 24, 2015
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Welcome and Opening
May 24, 2015
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Session 1: Challenges in Plant Health

Root-knot nematodes Meloidogyne spp. as emerging pests
May 24, 2015
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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security; the need to integrate of crop breedin...
May 24, 2015
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1920 views
Session 2: Plant Pests and Diseases Diagnostics

Phytoplasmas of grapevine: molecular diversity of Slovenian strains and new diag...
May 24, 2015
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Unravelling interactions in complex diseases and disease complexes
May 24, 2015
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The association of Grapevine Pinot gris virus with grapevine leaf deformation an...
May 24, 2015
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1679 views

Viruses of major European crops
May 24, 2015
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1351 views
Session 3: Nonchemical (Alternative) Control of Pests and Diseases

Study of metabolomics changes in grapevine leaves of resistant varieties after i...
May 24, 2015
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1441 views

Insecticidal proteins from mushrooms for controlling the Colorado potato beetle
May 24, 2015
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1465 views
Session 4: Biotechnology and Plant Breeding for Plant Protection

Resistance of wild Lactuca germplasm to diseases and pests, and their exploitati...
May 24, 2015
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1281 views

Genetic resources and plant breeding
May 24, 2015
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1989 views

Potato Virus Y infection hinders potato defence response and renders plants more...
May 24, 2015
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1454 views

Use of proteomics in breeding for drought tolerance in common bean
May 24, 2015
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Functional analysis of the roles of nematode effectors in the susceptible plant-...
May 24, 2015
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Potato breeding for resistance at the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia
May 24, 2015
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Session 5: Prognosis and Decision Supporting Systems

Application of remote sensing imagery in precision agriculture
May 24, 2015
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2080 views

A generic decision support system for integrated weed management
May 24, 2015
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1573 views
Session 6: IPM and Good Agricultural Practice

Population dynamics of Globodera pallida in relation to temperature
May 24, 2015
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Non-targeted side effect of microbial fungicides on grapevine: fact or fantasy?
May 24, 2015
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How agro-ecological research helps to address food security issues under new IPM...
May 24, 2015
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1457 views

Biodiversity & runoff best management practice for protection and productivity
May 24, 2015
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1861 views

Sustainable Territorial Wines (STW)
May 24, 2015
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1665 views