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Latest report from Discussion Forum held at the BCPC Conference - Pests and Diseases 2002

Session 2B - Discussion Forum - Is field pathology and diagnosis a dying art? Does it matter?

Chairman: Dr James Gilmour
Member of BCPC; formerly Director of the Agricultural Advisory Service for Scotland; Edinburgh, UK.
Session Organiser: Professor Phil Russell
Consultant; Cambridge, UK
Reporter: Mrs Helen Riby
AgriSolutions; Loughborough, UK

This Discussion Forum was a departure from the normal format for the BCPC Conferences and was designed to involve the audience in active discussion of current issues in crop protection.

A report of the Discussion Forum, in pdf format can be accessed here (Adobe Acrobat PDF 84kb, PDF Help) along with the full texts of the views presented by two senior plant pathologists Derek Holloman (Adobe Acrobat PDF 72kb, PDF Help) and David Yarham (Adobe Acrobat PDF 78kb, PDF Help).

In view of the success of this session, further opportunities for active discussion are being built into the programme for the BCPC International Congress - Crop Science & Technology 2003 in Glasgow.