May 2005 • Volume 39 • Number 5

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Hillman, Martyn, Cardwell, and Wilcox for 2005 APS Office Elections

APS officer candidates Bradley I. Hillman, Rutgers University, and Ray D. Martyn, Purdue University, have graciously accepted the responsibility of running for election as APS vice president. Likewise, Kitty F. Cardwell, Cooperative State Research, Extension, and Education Service, USDA, and Wayne F. Wilcox, Cornell University, Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, have agreed to stand for election as councilor-at-large. Profiles on all of the candidates are available for your review beginning on page 70.

The APS Officer Election will be conducted online. APS members were sent a broadcast e-mail with instructions for voting online on May 2, 2005. Those members without an e-mail address on file at APS headquarters were sent letters with instructions. We encourage all members to take a few minutes and cast your vote. Ballots must be submitted by May 31, 2005. All votes are confidential.

Nominations were received from APS members. The Nominating Committee, which consists of the intermediate councilor-at-large as chair and the division councilors, selected candidates from the nominees using the procedures described in the APS Manual of Operations. APS Council will declare the officers elected based on a plurality vote. Results of the election will be announced in the July issue of Phytopathology News and on APSnet.

Your contribution is essential to the success of this process—so vote today!

 

First Plant Disease Lesson Published in Spanish

Nik Grunwald, USDA ARS, Corvallis, OR, grunwaln@onid.orst.edu and Randy Ploetz, University of Florida, IFAS, Homestead, FL, rcp@ifas.ufl.edu

As you know, the Education Center on APSnet is an excellent, free source of information for teachers and students at all levels of education. Among the Education Center’s resources are Plant Disease Lessons that have been written for Introductory Plant Pathology (www.apsnet.org/education/LessonsPlantPath/). To date, more than 35 lessons have been published on nematode, viral, bacterial, and fungal diseases. This collection has become an exceptional source of information on many important plant diseases.

Previously, these lessons were only available in English. In cooperation with Gail Schuman, editor-in-chief of the Education Center and the Plant Health Instructor, the Office of International Programs (OIP) recently began to coordinate the translation of lessons into Spanish and Portuguese. On February 17, 2005, the first Spanish translation, “Sigatoka Negra Bananeros y Plátaneros,” was released on APSnet (www.apsnet.org/education/LessonsPlantPath/BlackSigatokaEspanol). A truly collaborative effort, it was translated by Robert Knight from the original lesson written by Rebecca Bennett and Phil Arneson and edited by Gloria Abad, Jorge Abad, Gustavo Astua-Monge, and Carlos Balerdi prior to its release. Additional translations that are currently in progress are Portuguese and Spanish versions of the coffee rust and citrus canker lessons, and translations of other tropical disease lessons are planned. In the future, Arabic and French may be added to the list of languages used in this series. The illustrated glossary of plant pathology of the APSnet Education Center is currently being translated into Spanish. When completed, it will be linked to the Spanish translations of disease lessons and other appropriate materials.

Ultimately, OIP and the Education Center intend to have a major multilingual section of these lessons available on APSnet. They should be an outstanding resource for extension and teaching colleagues in the developing world and for anyone who desires fundamental information on plant diseases in languages other than English.

In closing, we would like to recognize Bob Knight’s work in starting this project. Bob, who is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, is a retired USDA tropical fruit geneticist who works at the University of Florida’s Tropical Research & Education Center. We appreciate his willingness to help with this project and look forward to interacting with him on future translations.

If you are interested in more information or could serve as either a translator or editor for Spanish, Portuguese, or other languages please contact Nik Grunwald (grunwaln@onid.orst.edu) or Randy Ploetz (rcp@ifax.ufl.edu).
 

 
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