Report on Li Honglian and Ding Shengli's visit to the United States to attend international conferences
Report on two people from Li Honglian and others to attend academic conferences and academic exchanges in the United States
From August 1 to August 11, 2019, Li Honglian and Professor dingshengli of Plant Protection College of Henan Agricultural University attended the 2019 annual meeting of American Plant Pathology Society (APS) in Cleveland, USA. after the meeting, they held academic exchanges with the Citrus Research Center and Department of plant pathology of University of Florida in Orlando, Florida.
This year, APS academic annual meeting is in Cleveland, Ohio, where international conferences are very suitable. The climate is humid and pleasant. The theme of the conference is "plant health 2019", which takes place from August 3-7. More than 1300 people from all over the world attended the conference. Dr. Laurence Madden, a disease epidemiologist at Ohio State University, was awarded the outstanding contribution award at the meeting, and he praised him for his outstanding contribution in the research and application of disease epidemic for more than 40 years; 11 APS members were selected, all of them from the United States except one from the Canadian Society of infectious diseases. Last year, Professor Peng Youliang of China Agricultural University was elected the APS member of the Chinese mainland. In addition, nine of them have won the outstanding awards, which are from promotion, pesticide production, international services, crop safety, education and other fields.
In addition to the regular general assembly report, group report (including special session, technical session, workshop, etc.), wall report and product display, the meeting also provides a variety of communication platforms, including field trip, epotters, hot topic, idea caf é（ Ideas cafe, panel discussion, phytoviews and pod (honorary plant pathologist) talk, one to one conversations with an expert. In addition to dozens of reports, participants of the conference provided more than 700 wall papers. According to 27 different research fields and directions, they were displayed twice, with electronic version. They can download app browsing on computers and mobile phones, and I was present for communication before they were published. The hot issues of concern, some unique views, including the application for the subject, will invite managers or pathology experts to introduce them. A wide range of invited reporting chapters and registered seminars and outstanding symposiums of plant therapists. Coffee dessert will be arranged for free exchange in the afternoon. We exchanged two Wallpapers at this meeting, which attracted many participants' interest.
Professor Li Honglian conducted the field investigation on forest health challenges and forest diseases (existing and emerging forest health challenges in the Great Lakes region), and observed the serious harm of some new diseases to forestry. Professor Ding Shengli participated in the plant root system: gateway to plant
Beneficial rhizosphere microbiome interactions (Workshop on plant roots: portal for the interaction of plant rhizosphere microbial communities). At the conference, Li Honglian and Professor dingshengli had a wide and in-depth exchange with foreign counterparts on the fields and issues of interest, and met many new friends, especially some famous Chinese plant pathologists in the plant pathology field in North America, and invited them to visit Henan Agricultural University at a convenient time.
From August 7 to 9, we visited the University of Florida at the invitation of Dr. Amit levy, University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC). On the morning of the 7th, we left Cleveland to Orlando, Florida. In the afternoon, professor and wife wanghezhong of our school met us at Orlando Airport to take a rest at the home of Lake Alfred, the center of citrus. Visiting the University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC), the largest Citrus Research Center in the world, it has a history of 102 years and enjoys a great reputation in the world. Under the arrangement of Dr. Amit levy, they visited the laboratories of Nabil killiny, Yu Wang, Larry Duncan, Nian Wang and Amit levy respectively, and conducted in-depth exchanges. We learned the current research directions of these laboratories, mainly focusing on the main work of Citrus Yellow Dragon disease (HLB), viral disease, Ulceration Disease, nematodiasis, etc. Their research goal is to produce and serve the market safely, involving pathogenic mechanism and the control of HLB and transmission medium of transgenic plants with in vivo transmission, secondary metabolism, gene editing, double stranded RNA interference and invasive cloning.
In the conference room of Citrus Research Center, President Li Honglian systematically introduced the general situation of Henan Province and Henan Agricultural University, the research direction and research results of various disciplines and research teams of Plant Protection College. Through the exchange with experts in various laboratories, we found that we have many common fields, especially the interaction mechanism of pathogen and mediator, the biological and control potential of weak strain lines, gene editing, secondary metabolism mechanism of toxin, double stranded RNA pesticide, green control of nematode, new type sterilization and insect killing development of nano materials, We also have outstanding research results and large-scale field applications, and hope to have more cooperation opportunities in the future. Professor Wang Hezhong also focuses on the status of pesticide discipline in our hospital and the joint research projects carried out by the discipline. President Li Honglian also made a detailed introduction to the questions raised by relevant experts.
On the 9th, we visited the experimental greenhouse of the research center to understand the actual effect of disease resistance of different varieties and transgenic plants; And go deep into the citrus field, and know the occurrence and harm of Citrus Diseases and insect pests.
The 10th drive to the Department of plant diseases of the University of Florida, Gainesville, visited Professor Jeffery Rollins laboratory, plant disease diagnosis center and the University of Florida Museum of nature and history. Professor Jeff has been doing fungi research, especially nuclear disk bacteria for many years, from pathogenic mechanism to transgenic plants and gene editing. He has substantial cooperation with our colleagues and is willing to provide us with a vector system for gene editing. The plant disease diagnosis center has advanced equipment, complete facilities, standardized sample separation and identification and treatment procedures, provides the social identification service for plant disease pathogens, issues authoritative appraisal report, undertakes plant samples in the United States and internationally, and processes more than 3000 samples per year. The charging standards for American and international samples in and outside the state are different, and there are also common and urgent parts. The charge for each sample is generally between $40-300. At the same time, the diagnosis center also undertakes the teaching and training tasks of undergraduates and postgraduates.
There are abundant species in the history and Nature Museum of University of Florida, among which the insect part has left us a deep impression. Relying on the insect Laboratory of the museum, we have carried out insect classification, identification, biology and other aspects research, breeding and displaying various butterflies and insects, and the science popularization and social public welfare services are powerful.
Our school also has a good specimen library, which can strengthen exchange and specimen exchange, enrich the collection, learn from their breeding technology for various butterflies, especially for rare species of artificial breeding, and broaden the social public welfare service function of our school specimen museum.
It should be said that the 10-day visit to the United States is very short, but the harvest is very great. Not only have we demonstrated and exchanged our research achievements, understood the current research situation of international counterparts, especially those in the United States in the field of plant diseases, and more clearly understood the position of our related disciplines and the direction of future efforts, strengthened international exchanges and actively promoted the international development process of our disciplines.