Tropical forest mycology and pathology

Course Title: Tropical Forest Mycology & Pathology (3 credit points).

Period III: Winter

 

ME 462: Tropical Forest Mycology & Pathology (3 credit points); 28 – 30th March, 2011

Aim: The course will cover diseases of forest trees in subtropical and tropical regions. Insights on the diversity of wood decomposing fungi in tropical forests will also be covered. There will also be lectures on Biodiversity and sustainable management of tropical forest, fungi and bacterial diseases of tropical forest trees, entomological damages of tropical forest trees, tropical species diversity, and applied tropical ethnobotany. Additionally, several aspects of legislation and quarantine regulations in tropical forest protection will be highlighted.

 

Contents:  The course will consists of lectures and written assignments. The grading will be based on written assignments and active participation during the course.

Additional  Information:  The course will  be in English. Number of students  expected is 25 – 35

Invited Teachers: Prof. Mike Wingfield, Prof. Meike Piepenbring, Dr. Clovis Douanla-Meli

 

Registration: You can register in in Weboodi: https://oodi-www.it.helsinki.fi/hy/opettaptied.jsp?html=1&Tunniste=81432&AlkPvm=28032011&Kieli=6

 

Alternatively if you can not access weboodi,  please express your interest by sending e-mail to Susanna Keriö (susanna.kerio@helsinki.fi)

 

 

 Literatures to be read:

1. Bernard Slippers, Michael J Wingfield. Botryosphaeriaceae as endophytes and latent pathogens of woody plants: diversity, ecology and impact. fungal b i o l o gy r e v i e ws 2 1 ( 2 0 0 7 ) 9 0 – 1 0 6

2. David M. Richardson, PhilipW. Rundel, Stephen T. Jackson, Robert O. Teskey,

James Aronson, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Michael J.Wingfield, and S¸ erban Proches.

Human Impacts in Pine Forests: Past, Present, and Future. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 2007. 38:275–97

3.  MJ Wingfield, B Slippers, BP Hurley, TA Coutinho, BD Wingfield and J Roux. Eucalypt pests and diseases: growing threats to plantation productivity. Southern Forests 2008, 70(2): 139–144

4. Michael Wingfield Increasing threat of diseases to exotic plantation forests in the Southern hemisphere: lessons from cryphonecteria canker Austalian Plant Pathology 2003, 32, 133 – 2139

5. Tina A. Hofmann & Roland Kirschner & Meike Piepenbring. Phylogenetic relationships and new records of Asterinaceae (Dothideomycetes) from Panama. Fungal Diversity (2010) 43:39–5

6. Me i k e Piepenbring & Armando Ruiz-Boyer. Diversity and ecology of fungi in the Golfo Dulce region. Stapfia 88, zugleich Kataloge der oberosterreichischen Landesmuseen Neue Serie 80 (2008): 179-192.

7. Solomon P. Wasser. Current findings, future trends, and unsolved problems

in studies of medicinal mushrooms. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol online 29 December 2010

8. “State of the World´s Forests 2011” published by FAO:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i2000e/i2000e00.htm

9. Yuan Fei1, LUO You-qing, Shi Juan, Kari Heliövaara, Qi Guo-xin, Li Xiang-jun, Han Yong-shi, Chen Chao.  Invasive sequence and ecological niche of main insect borers of Larix gmelinii forest in Aershan, Inner Mongolia For. Stud. China, 2008, 10(1): 9–13

10. Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding  AND Carl Folk.  Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management.  Ecological Applicatiotns, 10(5), 2000, pp. 1251-1262

11. David Lonsdale,  Marco Pautasso, Ottmar Holdenrieder.  Wood-decaying fungi in the forest: conservation needs and management options.  Eur J Forest Res (2008) 127:1–22

12. Jane Fröhlich  and Kevin Hyde. Biodiversity of palm fungi in the tropics:

are global fungal diversity estimates realistic? Biodiversity and Conservation 8: 977–1004, 1999.

The  schedule for the three day course is as follows:

Day 1: Monday 28th March 2011 (Room LS B5)

0845 Coffee break

0900 Introduction by Fred Asiegbu
0910 Fred Asiegbu, University of Helsinki, Finland

Basic  principles of Forest Tree Pathology

1000 Olavi Luukkanen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Trees of the World: an overview

1100  Break

1105 Meike Piepenbring, Goethe University, Germany
Tropical fungal diversity (South American perspective)

 

1200 Lunch

 

1315  Faculty Seminar by Mike Wingfield  (open to everyone) (Room LS B4)

Global tree health:  What next?

1415  Clovis Douanla-Meli, University of Kassel, Germany
Tropical fungal diversity (West African  perspective)
1505 Coffee break

1515 Mike Wingfield, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Tree diseases in the tropics

 

1900 Dinner in a Restaurant (Helsinki city centre)
Day 2: Tuesday 29th March 2011(Room LS B5)

0845 Coffee

0900 Meike Piepenbring, Goethe University, Germany
Plant parasitic micro-fungi in tropical forests

1000 Kari Heliövaara, University of Helsinki, Finland

Biodiversity and Forest insect problems in China

1100  Coffee break

1110  Mike Wingfield, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Insect pests on tropical forest trees

 

1200 Lunch

1310 – 1440: Meike Piepenbring, Goethe University, Germany (Room K176)

Laboratory demonstration and Microscopic observation of plant parasitic fungi (Group 1) 

 

1440 – 1610: Meike Piepenbring, Goethe University, Germany (Room K176)

Laboratory demonstration and Microscopic observation of plant parasitic fungi  (Group 2)

 

1930 Dinner in a Restaurant (Helsinki city centre)

 

Day 3: Wednesday 30th March 2011 (Room LS B4)

0845 Coffee

0900 Clovis Douanla-Meli, , University of Kassel, Germany
Conservation of wood inhabiting fungi in rain forest region of Cameroon

1000 Mike Wingfield, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Sustainable management of pest and disease problems in the tropics

and implications for biodiversity

 

1100 Coffee break

1110 Lu-Min Vaario, Finnish Forest Research Institute, METLA, Finland

Tropical mushrooms from Asia: edible and medicinal value

 

1200 Lunch

 

1315 Kurt  Walter, University of Helsinki, Finland

Applied Tropical Ethnobotany

1400  Legislation and quarantine regulations in tropical forest protection

 

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