Room 311
Frank White, PhD
Professor
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA
Frank White, PhD
Professor
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA
Jan Leach
Professor
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
APS Sponsoring Committee: None
External Group Support/Co-Organization: None
Description: The session will be organized/chaired by Frank White, UF, and Jan leach, Colorado State University, and introduce solutions to bacterial diseases of globally important crops involving genome editing technologies and applying basic research knowledge of disease. The first speakers will present robust systems where the applications of genome editing are advanced. The first talk will provide the extensive application of genome editing technologies to resistance to bacterial blight of rice, a disease of Asia and Africa, using basic knowledge of the host-pathogen interaction. Applications of the technologies will also be presented for another global crop, cassava. In the third talk, the prospects for success against the refractile fastidious bacterial pathogen Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus and HLB will be presented. Finally, we will discuss the use of genome editing in tomato and pepper and questions of the barriers and likelihood of applications reaching the field. Two additional short talks will be selected from solicited attendees, one of which is the case of the prospect of improving resistance to bacterial blight of a small farmer cash crop in India, pomegranate. At the end of the session, attendees will understand the basic knowledge that has led to the promise that resistance to disease in globally important crops can be derived from advances in genome editing. The attendees will also gain some insight into the likelihood of success and barriers to deployment in the field.
Plant Health 2025 Theme: The speakers will address global projects addressing food security as well as prospects for enhancements for small scale farmers across geographies.
Speaker: Jose C. Huguet-Tapia, PhD – University of Florida
Speaker: Rebecca Bart (she/her/hers) – Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Author: Kira Veley
Author: ZJ Daniel Lin – Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Author: Kiona Elliott
Author: Zhibo Wang
Author: Suhua Feng
Author: Marisa Yoder
Author: Kerrigan Gilbert – Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Author: Joanna Norton
Author: Sharon Wages – University of Hawaii at Manoa
Author: James C. Carrington – Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Author: Steven E Jacobsen
Speaker: Nian Wang – University of Florida
Author: Nian Wang – University of Florida
Speaker: Jeffrey B. B. Jones, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Florida
Speaker: Federico Martin, PhD (he/him/his) – Colorado State University