Jepson Workshop 2018

Emergent forest diseases threatening California Ecosystems
The course is organized in eight parts:
- Introduction to tree diseases and their causal agents
- Ecology of forest diseases, differences between native and non-native diseases
- Principles of Biological Invasions and diseases caused by off-site hosts or by forestry practices
- Emergent diseases in California caused by exotic fungi
- Emergent diseases in California caused by exotic oomycetes
- Newest threats
Readings and resources:
The following readings are general on the theory of emergent diseases:
Desprez2007
Fisher2012
Garbelotto2008phytomed
Haydenetal2012
Santini2012
The following readings are specific to the diseases covered in the workshop:
WhitepinesRibesandBlisterRust (white pine blister rust)
PitchcankerReviewWingfield (pine pitch canker)
Eukaryotic Cell (sudden oak death)
Dutchelmbrasier2001 (dutch elm disease)
Annurev.phyto.graniti1 (cypress canker) AnnualReviewGarbelottoGonthier (heterobasidion)