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Day 1 - Monday, 17 September 2007   Registration and Opening Session Master of Ceremony: Dae-Geun Oh 09:00-09:40 Registration 09:40-10:00 Opening Ceremony   Opening remarks by Paul Gniffke, Chair of Symposium Executive Committee and Head of AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center Pepper Breeding   Welcome address by Il-Gin Mok, Director General of the National Horticulture Research Institute   Congratulatory remarks by Sok-Dong Kim, Director General of the National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology 10:00-10:20 Coffee break 10:20-10:30 Introduction/Housekeeping by Dae-Geun Oh 10:30-11:10 Introduction of speaker by Lowell Black   Preamble: Problems of anthracnose in pepper and prospects for its management by Hyo Guen Park 11:10-11:50 Introduction of speaker by Seong-Sook Han   Keynote address: Overview of the phylogenetics species concept in Colletotrichum as it relates to chili anthracnose by James Correll 11:50-12:10 Introduction of speaker by Dae-Geun Oh   Background information: Chili anthracnose research in AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, 1993-2002 by Lowell Black 12:10-13:20 Lunch break     Country Reports Chairs: Paul Gniffke/Hyo Guen Park 13:20-13:40 Country report: Korea by Byung-Soo Kim 13:40-14:00 Country report: Thailand by Srisuk Poonpolgul 14:00-14:20 Country report: Vietnam by Dinh Don Le 14:20-14:40 Country report: India by N. Ramachandran 14:40-15:00 Country report: China by Deyong Zhang 15:00-15:20 Country report: Indonesia by Ir. Widodo 15:20-15:40 Country report: Brazil by Gilmar Henz 15:40-16:00 Coffee break     Pathogen Species Identification and Diagnosis Chairs: James Correll/Wan Gyu Kim 16:00-16:20 Pathotypes of Colletotrichum spp. infecting chili peppers and mechanisms of resistance by Paul Taylor 16:20-16:40 Characterization of Colletotrichum spp. associated with pepper anthracnose in China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand by Tien-chen Wang 16:40-17:00 Taxonomic characteristics of Colletotrichum spp. and their teleomorphs by Sung Kee Hong 17:00-17:20 Application of ITS-RFLP analysis for identifying Colletotrichum spp. associated with pepper anthracnose in Taiwan by Zong-ming Sheu 17:20-17:40 The occurrence of chili anthracnose in Taiwan and its control (poster) by Zong-ming Sheu 17:20-17:40 Variability among Colletotrichum capsici causing chili anthracnose in North Eastern India (poster) by R. Selvakumar 17:40-18:00 Discussion on international collaboration to be led by Lowell Black, Paul Gniffke, and Dae-Geun Oh     Entertainment and Dinner 18:30-19:15 Korean folk music (percussions) by Gongsaemi 19:15-20:30 Dinner       Day 2 - Tuesday, 18 September 2007   Pathology Chairs: Young Ho Kim/Tien-chen Wang 08:30-08:50 Colletotrichum acutatum associated with anthracnose disease on chili (Capsicum spp.) in Thailand by Po Po Than 08:50-09:10 Occurrence of pepper anthracnose and the morphological characterization of its pathogen Colletotrichum spp. in Guangxi, China by Yong-Mei Liao 09:10-09:30 Morphological and molecular diversity and distribution of hot pepper anthracnose causing Colletotrichum spp. isolates of Southern India by Mohan Rao 09:30-09:50 The development of fungicide application system for the control of pepper anthracnose by Heung Tae Kim 09:50-10:10 Development of forecasting system for anthracnose in pepper by Sung-Chul Yun 10:10-10:30 Effect of different media, pH, and temperature on growth and sporulation of Colletotrichum capsici (poster) by Ruchi Garg 10:30-10:50 Coffee break     Resistance Sources and Mechanisms Chairs: Kyung Seok Park/Paul Taylor 10:50-11:10 Evaluation of diverse chili pepper sources for resistance to anthracnose by Paul Gniffke 11:10-11:30 Resistant sources of chili (Capsicum annuum L.) anthracnose fruit rot disease [Colletotrichum capsici (Syd.) Butler and Bisby] against different isolates collected from commercial chili growing areas of India by Aryind Deshpande 11:30-11:50 Structural resistance and defense mechanisms of chili pepper against pepper anthracnose disease by Young Ho Kim 11:50-12:10 Diagrammatic scale to evaluate anthracnose severity on sweet pepper fruits for disease progress studies by Gilmar Henz 12:10-12:30 An early stage differentiation of pepper anthracnose pathogen, Colletotrichum acutatum JC24, on the fruit with or without wound (poster) by In Joon Cho 12:30-13:40 Lunch break     Breeding and Inheritance of Resistance Chairs: Paul Gniffke/Byung-Soo Kim 13:40-14:00 Backcross introgression lines between Capsicum annuum and C. baccatum for breeding chili pepper resistant to anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum spp. by Jae Bok Yoon 14:00-14:20 Study on the characteristics of interspecific hybrids and their progenies for the breeding of anthracnose-resistant pepper by Young Chae 14:20-14:40 Inheritance of resistance to anthracnose caused by isolates of Colletotrichum acutatum and C. capsici in Capsicum by Sang Hoon Kim 14:40-15:00 Development of anthracnose-resistant chili pepper varieties at AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center by Paul Gniffke 15:00-15:20 Breeding for anthracnose resistance in hot pepper (Capsicum annuum) (poster) by Yong Kwon Kim 15:00-15:20 Evaluation of horticultural characteristics of anthracnose-resistant breeding lines in pepper (poster) by Do-Ham Pae 15:20-15:50 Coffee break     Molecular Marker and Biotechnology Chairs: Byoung-Cheorl Kang/Robert de la Peña 15:50-16:10 Construction of linkage map and mapping QTLs for anthracnose resistance in Capsicum baccatum population by Ki-Taek Kim 16:10-16:30 Introgressed QTL mapping and developing molecular markers associated with anthracnose resistance in Capsicum by Jae Bok Yoon 16:30-16:50 Transgenic peppers transformed with anthracnose resistance related genes by Chee Hark Harn 16:50-17:10 Development and optimization of a microsatellite marker library for Collectotrichum capsici, a major causal agent of anthracnose disease in chili pepper by Nalika Ranathunge 17:10-17:30 Identification of hot pepper mapping population putative parents for molecular tagging of genes conferring resistance to anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum species isolates of Southern India by Nanda Chinnaswamy 17:30-17:50 Expression profiling of genes involved in preinfection-related development stages of pepper anthracnose fungus, Colletotrichum acutatum (poster) by Yoonhee Kim 17:30-17:50 Characterization of an ABC transporter gene, CaABC1, from the pepper anthracnose fungus, Colletotrichum acutatum (poster) by Hyejeong Kim 17:50-18:30 Discussion to be led by Lowell Black, Paul Gniffke, and Dae-Geun Oh 18:30 Dinner       Day 3 - Wednesday, 19 September 2007     Day Tour 9:00 Departure from Hoam Guest House 13:30 Arrival at chili powder processing factory 15:00 Arrival at farmer's field 20:30 Expected arrival at Hoam Guest House