Plant Associated Microbe Genomics

Activities 2007-08:
Request for Committee Members’ Input to the APS List of Proposed Organisms to Sequence - Re: Microbial Genome Sequencing Program FY2008 (National Science Foundation initiative):  Scott Gold (sgold@uga.edu) has asked APS Subject Matter Committees to send him their input concerning the APS list revision request for high priority pathogens that should be sequenced.  PLEASE send your input (organism and brief justification) to Jennifer Juzwik (jjuzwik@fs.fed.us) or Ned Klopfenstein (nklopfenstein@fs.fed.us) NO LATER THAN January 7, 2008, so a committee response can be formulated.

Activities 2002-2003:
See the related APSnet feature (July 2002) article "A Plant-Associated Microbe Genomics Initiative: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?" for more information. http://apsnet.org/online/feature/microbe/

Louis Bernier eloquently summarized the situation and importance of forest pathology input in a letter to the Forpath listserv in August 2002.
Letter from Louis Bernier

The Forest Pathology Committee discussed how to best provide input at the committee meeting in Milwaukee in summer 2002. As an outcome of that discussion, Louis Bernier, Ned Klopfenstein, and Paul Zambino represent the forest pathology committee on this issue. Each of them wrote a short argument for representation of a forest pathogen on the sequencing list. These are included in the following document:
Forest Pathology Input

Thanks to the good input by members of the forest pathology committee, the APS white paper "Microbial Genomics Sequencing" included a good representation of forest pathogens as high priority species.
Microbial Genomic Sequencing Perspectives of the American Phytopathological Society (Revised 2003) (This is a pdf file)