The number of laboratories working with
Trichoderma/Gliocladium worldwide is increasing and the field would benefit from
a better organization, as well as improved communication.
Europe
America
Asia, Africa, etc.
Austria 6
Argentina 1
China 13
Belgium 2
Brazil 3
Iran
1
Denmark 11
Canada6
Iraq1
Finland 17
Chile 2
Israel 10
Germany 4
Mexico 2
Saudi Arabia 1
Greece 1
Panama 1
Egypt 2
Hungary3
USA 45
Italy 18
South Africa 4
Norway 4
Zimbabwe 3
Poland 2
Romania 1
Australia 9
Russia 1
New Zealand 4
Slovakia 4
Spain 4
Sweden 3
Switzerland 1
The Netherland 4
UK 10
Subsequently, we plan to form an International
Committee for Trichoderma/Gliocladium, having the duty to promote research and collaboration, help to
organize meetings (such as the Trichoderma/Gliocladium
workshop), and establish projects as well as consortia. The areas of research
in this field include BIOCONTROL, BIOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, TAXONOMY
and MOLECULAR GENETICS.
The comments
for this initiative were:
“Thanks
for starting this!” -
“The working group sounds good” -
“ 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.”
- “Based on the last
info from the 1995 proceedings of the working group
I feel it as important to have a meeting organised in a short time.”
- “It would be nice
to have a Web site on current bibliography with titles and abstracts of papers
on Trichoderma/Gliocladium where eweryone should send his/her update immediately
as the relevant paper gets published. It should also enable discussions between
the members of the club.” - ”Editing
a Trichoderma newsletter. A WWW site would be great, but as WWW is probably not
available to all the partecipants, a paper bulletin would be fine as well.”
- “I very much welcome this
idea” - “I would be interested in
serving as part of a committee when it is formed.”
- “This is great idea.”
- “This idea is of great benefit.
It will be fully informative if you plan to issue a newslettre” - “I think that
it will be more useful if you plan to issue periodically a news-letter.”
- “ I am curious as to when and where the next International Workshop will
be held.” -
“Discuss and resolve important matters resolving the research and commercialization
of Trichoderma/Gliocladium.” -
“ Please do not let this meeting become 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 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 discussion of aims
and results of our research.“ -
“Although relatively little of my research effort involves Trichoderma
/ Gliocladium, I would appreciate being kept informed of new developments.”
- “I would be pleased if you
introduced someone
to identify a Trichoderma species. Also, if you could send a
news letter about Trichoderma
to the researchers montly” -
“In addition to the tasks division in the committee (like bitech, genetics,
taxonomy etc), I also believe it would be interesting to have representatives
by Continent. Thus, these guys could be not only responsible for all the activities
you suggested but also to make more advertisement and to drive more people interested
in working with Trichoderma/Gliocadium.”
- “I am very interested in
keeping in touch with Trichoderma activities. Thanks
for your efforts” -
“Suggestions for improving the idea may come later depending on how the
activities develop.” - “Suggestions:
Reinstate a Trichoderma Newsleter to be distibuted by email.”
- “Good initiative.” - “The idea of
a working group is great; however, its success will be dependent upon active participation
and regular communication.” -
“Thank you for the interesting information.”
- “I think the iniciative
to invite investigators to exchange results will be successful.”
- “I´m very glad to hear that
this much-discussed idea is becoming concrete!”
- “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 Trichoderma
on mushrooms. It's kind of a puzzle since it is not clearly "pathogenic"
but rather seems to be a competitive weed mold”
- “Perhaps an email driven
newsletter where people can make inquiries or report results???”
- “Availability of an electronic
news bulletin(Notice board?). For example we are interested in selective media
for Trichodermas. I am sure that there must be loads of preliminary unpublished
information that can be exchanged. Sadly for science, some of these data may never
see the light of day because of commercial
sensitivities. Fortunately there are many, like me, who 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 splendid idea. International collaboration is needed
to 'move'“ - “With regards to the Trichoderma/Gliocladium researcher list,
let me tell you that I find the suggestion most interesting”.
- “Just the idea of organizing
a Trichoderma working group I think is a very good one. I will try to contact
those people I know which are not in the list and that can also be interested.”
- “Trichoderma taxonomy (and phylogeny)!
You should be aware that an International Subcommission Trichoderma (under ICTF)
already excists. Any conflict with info from others ?”
- “I would suggest development
of a Trichoderma/Gliocladium web site, where we could exchange information and
get answers to questions.” -
“A meeting with like the Beltsville workshop can help the organization
of the group. A book of publications to be prepared after such a meeting can also
help to organize all the ideas and knowledge. Needs money...”
There was generally a great response!!
To be part of the TG-IWG, please send your name to lorito@unina.it, full address and brief description of your research interest with Trichoderma and/or Gliocladium (3 lines at most).
If you are interested in the group you can dowload the latest, regularly updated, directory of the participants IWGTG directory
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and the first issues:
TG news issue 1
TG news issue 2