Etiological Agents of Plant Diseases

• Diagnosis - Morphological, molecular, and ultra-structural Electro-microscopic detection and identification - Variability of pathogens

Elliot Watanabe Kitajima
Ivan Paulo Bedendo
Jorge Alberto Marques Rezende
Marcel Bellato Sposito
Mario Massayuki Inomoto
Nelson Sidnei Massola Júnior

Interaction between etiologic agents and their hosts or vectors

• Pathogenicity mechanisms - Cellular and molecular biology of interactions - Plant resistance to pathogens - Genomics - Proteomics - Biochemistry and physiology of interactions

Claudia Barros Monteiro Vitorello
Elliot Watanabe Kitajima
Ivan Paulo Bedendo
João Paulo Rodrigues Marques
Jorge Alberto Marques Rezende
Luis Eduardo Aranha Camargo
Nelson Sidnei Massola Júnior
Sergio Florentino Pascholati

• Plant Histopathology

João Paulo Rodrigues Marques

Plant disease epidemiology

• Temporal and spatial analysis of epidemics - Damage assessment - Disease prediction - Chemical, biological, genetic, and cultural control of phytopathogens

Armando Bergamin Filho
Ben-Hur Mattiuz
Elliot Watanabe Kitajima
Geraldo José da Silva Junior
Ivan Paulo Bedendo
Jorge Alberto Marques Rezende
José Belasque Júnior
Lilian Amorim
Luis Eduardo Aranha Camargo
Marcel Bellato Sposito
Mario Massayuki Inomoto
Sergio Florentino Pascholati