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[ THE
TRICHODERMA & GLIOCLADIUM ELECTRONIC
NEWSLETTER ]
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[ Issue 1 - January 1998 ]
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[ ]
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[ edited by Matteo LORITO
& Sheri WOO ]
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> ++++++++++
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> *Welcome to the Trichoderma &
Gliocladium Electronic Newsletter!*
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We have a new tool to improve communication in Trichoderma &
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Gliocladium research field!! The newsletter will distribute all kinds
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of information among interested scientists and will serve as a basis
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for online discussion, proposals, questions and announcements. The
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contents of each issue of the newsletter will
depend strictly on YOUR
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contributions. The newsletter is subdivided into sections in which we
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will collect and publish the input presented from all the interested
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individuals. Please read carefully the instructions relative to each
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field and send to us your contributions for the next issue. The
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newsletter will continue only if we receive enough feedback!!. If too
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the little material is collected, then the news will be distributed as
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a "T-G flash". The objective is to 4 issues/year, but it will depend
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on the amount of info collected. You are welcome to provide
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suggestions to improve this initiative (i.e.,. Add and taking care of
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specific sections). We are confident that all of you understand the
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importance and the potential of the newsletter for our activities.
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Please participate and make this initiative worthwhile!!!!!
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* CONTENTS (5 sections)*
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> I - The Trichoderma-Gliocladium
International Working Group
> II - Research news, publications and
bookshelf
> III - Research and technical discussion
> IV - Meetings
> V - General announcements and comments
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I. THE TRICHODERMA & GLIOCLADIUM INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP
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(This section of the newsletter will contain all the info concerning
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our international group. If you wish to add, remove or correct entries
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in the group list, publish comments, propose new or already
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established subgroups and committee
etc. please write to us and
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refer to this section)
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The TG-group is established!!! The first call was sent around over a
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year ago and we received an enthusiastic response (see section V).
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After one year of collecting names, addresses, research descriptions
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and comments, we compiled a first international directory of the
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people involved with Trichoderma and Gliocladium. The directory
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updated Jan 1998 is attached to this issue as two files in Word 6 for
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Mac and text format (other formats can be provided if requested). The
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call was a success: we have collected over 150 addresses from 33
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countries around the world, and a lot of great comments. The directory
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will be updated regularly: new entries will be included in the
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newsletter and a complete new list will be provided every year. Please
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check your name and info for mistakes or empty fields and help to
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expand the list!! Thank you all for your contribution and I hope that
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you will find the directory useful!!! please continue to inform
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colleagues about the TG-group and inform us of any additions or
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omissions.
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II. RESEARCH NEWS, PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKSHELF
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(This section will collect info about new publications and research
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news. Please add to this section the abstract of your next papers
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after journal acceptance, and the reference after publication!!! This
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can be very useful for all of us. Info about books and meeting
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abstracts or proceedings are also welcome!!)
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III. RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL DISCUSSION
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(Include in this section your research info, questions and answers.
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You are looking for or offering a new protocol, strain or technical
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info? Place your message here!! This section will also serve as a room
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for discussion about important research related issues. For instance,
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news from the taxonomy group may be placed here!!)
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IV. MEETINGS
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(This section should collect info about Trichoderma & Gliocladium
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related meetings, especially the Trichoderma & Gliocladium
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International Workshop, which is being planned and should be announced
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soon)
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V. GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AND COMMENTS
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(This section will collect a miscellanea of comments, announcements
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and various info that you wish to provide to the group people,
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including job offers and requests, people profiles, letters,
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commentaries, new activities and services, new products etc.)
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The following initiatives are being considered:
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- Establish an International Committee as indicated on the original
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call
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- Establish a Trichoderma-Gliocladium world wide web site. We are
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currently
> working on this and will welcome your
contributions as pictures,
>
text
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> and links to related sites (also to
personal web pages)
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- Find a sponsor for this newsletter and eventually establish a
> professional editing office
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Everybody is welcome to participate in these projects.
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>
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Below are some comments collected about the establishment of the
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Trichoderma-Gliocladium International Working Group:
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"Thanks for starting this!"
- "The working group
sounds good" - "
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My suggestion is to ask everybody to include in the list recent
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publications (and MSs accepted) on Trichoderma and Gliocladium as a
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full reference. It will give more help in learning research interest
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each other." - "Based on the last info from the 1995
proceedings of
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the working group I feel it as
important to have a meeting organised
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in a short time." - "It would be nice to have a Web site
on current
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bibliography with titles and abstracts of papers on
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Trichoderma/Gliocladium where eweryone should send his/her update
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immediately as the relevant paper gets published. It should also
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enable discussions between the members of the club." -
"Editing a
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Trichoderma newsletter. A WWW site would be great, but as WWW is
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probably not available to all the partecipants, a paper bulletin would
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be fine as well." - "I very much welcome this
idea" - "I would be
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interested in serving as part of a committee when it is formed." -
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"This is great idea." - "This idea is of great benefit. It will
be
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fully informative if you plan to issue a newslettre" -
"I think that
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it will be more useful if you plan to issue periodically a
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news-letter." - " I am
curious as to when and where the next
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International Workshop will be held."
- "Discuss and resolve
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important matters resolving the research and commercialization of
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Trichoderma/Gliocladium." - " Please do not let this meeting become
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overshadowed by commercial marketing
objectives." - "Excellent
>
initiative. Hopefully, you will be able to maintain it for a long
>
time. I am afraid that all these initiatives begin very rpomisory, but
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are difficult to keep them working"
- " very specific working
groups
>
will be more interesting I beleive."
- " Your initiative is a
very
>
very good think and I am really interested in an international
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discussion of aims and results of our research." - "Although
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relatively little of my research effort involves Trichoderma /
>
Gliocladium, I would appreciate being kept informed of new
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developments." - "I would be pleased if you introduced
someone to
>
identify a Trichoderma species. Also, if you could send a news letter
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about Trichoderma to the researchers
montly" - "In addition to the
>
tasks division in the committee (like bitech, genetics, taxonomy etc),
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I also believe it would be interesting to have representatives by
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Continent. Thus, these guys could be not only responsible for all the
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activities you suggested but also to make more advertisement and to
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drive more people interested in working with Trichoderma/Gliocadium."
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- "I am very interested in keeping
in touch with Trichoderma
>
activities. Thanks for your
efforts" - "Suggestions for improving
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the idea may come later depending on how the activities develop." -
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"Suggestions: Reinstate a
Trichoderma Newsleter to be distibuted by
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email." - "Good initiative." -
"The idea of a working group is
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great; however, its success will be dependent upon active
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participation and regular communication."
- "Thank you for the
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interesting information." - "I think the iniciative to invite
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investigators to exchange results will be successful." -
"IĞm very
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glad to hear that this much-discussed idea is becoming concrete!" -
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"Do you think there would be an interest in developing an open e-mail
>
discussion list? And/or a newsletter,
at least a periodic listing of
>
new papers, etc. I realize this would
take some time to do, but
>
perhaps you know someone who has efficient search "connections" and
is
>
interested in such work." - "This is good idea. Hopefully their
will
>
also be in the future conferences organized on
>
Trichoderma/Gliocladium." - "I think the Trichoderma/Gliocladium
>
Working group is a fantastic idea-right now I'm trying to control
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Trichoderma on mushrooms. It's kind of
a puzzle since it is not
>
clearly "pathogenic" but rather seems to be a competitive weed
mold"
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- "Perhaps an email driven
newsletter where people can make inquiries
>
or report results???" - "Availability of an electronic news
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bulletin(Notice board?). For example we are interested in selective
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media for Trichodermas. I am sure that there must be loads of
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preliminary unpublished information that can be exchanged. Sadly for
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science, some of these data may never see the light of day because of
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commercial sensitivities. Fortunately there are many, like me, who
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will never make a penny out of these beasts and can only benefit by
>
these exchanges." - "Thank you for your kind efforts to
promote
>
Trichoderma/Gliocladium research."
- "My suggestion is to ask
>
everybody to include in the list recent publications (and MSs
>
accepted) on Trichoderma and Gliocladium as a full reference. It will
>
give more help in learning research interest each other." -
"It is a
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splendid idea. International collaboration is needed to 'move'" -
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"With regards to the Trichoderma/Gliocladium researcher list, let me
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tell you that I find the suggestion most interesting". -
"Just the
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idea of organizing a Trichoderma working group I think is a very good
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one. I will try to contact those people I know which are not in the
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list and that can also be interested."
> -
"Trichoderma taxonomy (and phylogeny)! You should be aware that an
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International Subcommission Trichoderma (under ICTF) already excists.
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Any conflict with info from others ?"
- "I would suggest
development
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of a Trichoderma/Gliocladium web site, where we could exchange
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information and get answers to questions." - "A meeting with
like
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the Beltsville workshop can help the organization of the group. A book
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of publications to be prepared after such a meeting can also help to
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organize all the ideas and knowledge. Needs money..."
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Thank you so much to all of you for the kind and interesting comments.
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This is a great response!!!
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(Matteo Lorito)
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