Call to Order
Chair Ronald Hammond called the meeting to order on October27 at 4:30 p.m.
Reading & approval of 2002 Business Meeting Minutes
A motion was made and passed to approve the 2002 minutes.
Announcements
The 16th Biennial IPRI Workshop/Conference will be held March 21-24 at will be held in Lod Cook Conference Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
Pete Clark, Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska, was the recipient of Entomological Foundation's Kenneth & Barbara Starks Plant Resistance to Insects Graduate Student Research Award.
New Business
Election of New Secretary
Secretary Fikru Haile introduced Assefa Gebre-Amlak, extension entomologist at Colorado State University, as the nominee for Section Fa secretary. Assefa was elected for 2004 by vote of proclamation.
Nomination for Section F Secretary
Former Section Fa Chair Bruce Hubbard of the University of Missouri, Columbia,was nominated for Section F secretary. Bruce will be competing against nominees from the other subsections.
Symposium Proposals to be Put Forward to Section F
Chair-Elect Tom Clark brought forward two symposia that will be forwarded to Section F: (1) Molecular analyses of host plant resistance to insect herbivores (Organizer: Fiona Goggin, University of Arkansas), and (2)Transgenic corn with rootworm resistance: Current status and the impact of rootworm biology on resistance management. (Organizers: Bruce Hubbard, USDA-ARS University of Missouri, and Thomas Clark, University of Missouri)
Update on Arthropod Management Tests
Chair Hammond suggested that contributors need to follow guidelines when submitting articles. Editors have been challenged with some papers that did not follow the table format set for this publication.
Other New Business
Ron Hammond invited Michael Smith, Kansas State University, to introduce a request that a group of Subsection Fa members made to the ESA Editorial Board about establishing a mechanism to publish information about arthropod biotype occurrence. Smith introduced the challenge of characterizing and documenting biotypes. The topic was discussed with the following remarks/possible recommendations:
There is a need to standardize arthropod biotype description. A possible solution would be to have DNA profiling done for each biotype.
Once the DNA data is collected, a biotype will be described from a given geographic area and the result will be published in ESA journal(such as JEE), similar to germplasm publication in Crop Sciences.
Biotype DNA profiling and publication will be limited to plant resistant biotypes only and does not include insecticide resistant biotypes. Based on recommendations from the ESA Editorial Board, a complete manuscript for a fully tested biotype will be required of author(s).
The DNA material for each biotype will then be kept at a centralized federal repository.
A consensus was reached to come up with a working proposal or guideline for biotypes that can be used as a standard operating procedure and will be given to the ESA Editorial Board for consideration.
Adjournment
The gavel was passed to Thomas Clark, incoming Section Fa chair. The meeting was adjourned for Section F business meeting at 5 p.m.