Summer School Success

The first powdery mildew summer school has come and gone. It was a great success with many things learned and many friends made.

As well as gaining enlightenment on many aspects of the powdery mildews and sharing ideas with colleagues, we sampled wine from two different vineyards. This was interesting and a lot of fun. Of particualr interest to me was the Botrytis infected wine, which is particularly sweet, though not my favourite. This honour goes to the Muskotály, a wine made with the Muscat grape.

David Vela Corcia and Davinia Bellon-Gomez

Me giving a presentation on Oak – powdery mildew coevolution

Morphological expert Roger Cook

Organiser and PM expert Levente Kiss

Miklós Pogány of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Quantifying powdery mildew spores

Culturing powdery mildew in the lab

The site of fungicide trials in Tokaj, Hungary

Field trials of fungicides on the grapevine

Powdery mildew is a very real problem in the grape growing regions of Hungary

Drinking ‘Bull’s Blood’ with Gerd Stammler of German chemical company BASF

Learning about the wine from the Tokaj region

Wine cellar

Wine tasting

Roger and Janet Cook and Teruo Nonumura

Powdery mildew on Berberis thunbergii in Budapest