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Peter Bakker works in the Plant-Microbe Interactions group at Utrecht University
in The Netherlands. He joined this group in 1984 as a PhD student and has ever
since worked on the modes of action of biological control of plant diseases by
fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. and on effects of transgenic organisms on the
indigenous microflora. His current research program includes bacterial elicitors of
Pseudomonas induced systemic resistance (ISR), the effect of ISR on non
pathogenic microorganisms, and biological control of disease in white button
mushroom. During his stay in Pullman (June 1 – October 1)he will work on the
hypothesis that there is a selection pressure for development of 2,4diacetylphloroglucinol resistance in Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici (Ggt) in
take-all decline fields. Such resistant Ggt isolates would have consequences for
the robustness of take-all decline.
Debora Glandorf works at the National Institute of Public Health and the
Environment (RIVM) in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD in
Plant Pathology at the Utrecht University on mechanisms of root colonization by
fluorescent Pseudomonas bacteria. As a post doc risk assessment studies were
performed to study non-target effects of transgenic bacteria on the soil
microflora in field trials, for the Ministry of the Environment. Since 2000, she
works at the GMO office of the RIVM where she is involved with the scientific
assessesment of applications for release of transgenic organisms into the
environment in field trials or for their release on the European market. She also
operates as an expert for the European Food Safety Authority. During her stay in
Pullman (June 1 – October 1) she will work together with Peter Bakker on the
hypothesis that there is a selection pressure for development of 2,4diacetylphloroglucinol resistance in Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici (Ggt) in
take-all decline fields. Such resistant Ggt isolates would have consequences for
the robustness of take-all decline.