Collection of papers given at the 9th International Congress for Pla nt Pathology held in Turin in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Plant diseases and the world's dependence on rice / R.S. Zeigler, S. Savary -- Development of appropriate strategies to control cassava dis eases in Ghana / E. Moses -- Biosecurity in the movement of commodities as a component of global food security / N.A. van der Graaff, W. Khour y -- ISPP and the challenge of food security / Peter Scott, Richard Str ange -- Globalisation and the threat to biosecurity / Harry C. Evans, J ames M. Waller -- Genetic modification (GM) as a new tool in the resist ance toolbox / Thomas Hohn, Gabriele Schachermayr -- The role of plant pathology and biotechnology in food security in Africa / James M. Onsan do, Florence Wambugu -- The secondary metabolite toxin, Sirodesmin PL, and its role in virulence of the blackleg fungus / Barbara J. Howlett . .. [et al.] -- Biological and chemical complexity of Fusarium prolifera tum / Robert H. Proctor, Anne E. Desjardins, Antonio Moretti -- Bioterr orism : a threat to plant biosecurity? / J.P. Stack, F. Suffert, M.L. G ullino -- The revised international plant protection convention : a new context for plant quarantine / William Roberts -- Pest risk analysis a s applied to plant pathogens / Françoise Petter, Sarah Brunel, Muriel Suffert.