The Mediterranean Phytopathological Union (MPU) is a non-profit society open to organizations and individuals involved in plant pathology with a specific interest in the aspects related to the Mediterranean area considered as an ecological region. The Union was created with the aim of stimulating contacts among plant pathologists and facilitating the spread of information, news and scientific material on plant diseases occurring in the area. The Union also intends to facilitate and promote studies and research on diseases of Mediterranean crops and their control. The Union hosts scientific papers dealing with problems related to diseases of Mediterranean crops in Phytopathologia Mediterranea, a journal specifically devoted to these aspects of plant pathology. The Union is affiliated to the International Society for Plant Pathology (ISPP). |
NEWS
- NEW great achievement!!
1960-2010, Phytopathologia
Mediterranea 50th Anniversary is celebrated gaining a 2009 Impact Factor = 1.117
- XIII MPU Congress, Rome 20-25 June 2010
- Joint ‘MycoRed project – MPU 2010 Workshop in Egypt on mycotoxins in the Mediterranean area’.
- 9th Conference of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology and 6th Congress of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Fitopatologia
Evora, Portugal 15-18th Nov. 2010
- Available on line - free download: INTRODUCTION TO NEMATODES: A NEW MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION.
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Periwinkle showing flower virescence from Colombia infected with 16SrIX-C phytoplasmas.
BERTACCINI ET AL., Phytopathol. Mediterr. 49(3)
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Pepino mosaic virus, a first report of a virus infecting tomato in Syria Abstract
Citrullus lanatus, a new host of Bipolaris spicifera in Morocco Abstract
Neofusicoccum luteum associated with leaf necrosis and fruit rot of olives in New South Wales, Australia Abstract
Occurrence of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae in Jin Tao kiwi plants in Italy Abstract
Mycosphaerella leaf disease (MLD) outbreak on Eucalyptus globulus in Brazil caused by Teratosphaeria (Mycosphaerella) nubilosa Abstract
Sorosphaera viticola, a plasmodiophorid parasite of grapevine Abstract
First report of shoot blight and dieback caused by on Pinus pinaster and P. radiata trees in Tunisia Abstract
First report of Pseudocercospora cladosporioides, the causal agent of Cercospora leaf spot of olive trees, in Tunisia Abstract
Grapevine decline in Italy caused by Lasiodiplodia theobromae Abstract
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