British Mycological Society and British Society for Plant Pathology Joint Presidential Meeting 2017 – Fungal Exploitation and Control

Abstract

In September 2017, the British Mycological Society (BMS) and British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) joined forces for their annual Presidential Conferences on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham. It was the first time the societies had held a joint meeting since a Symposium on Phytophthora in 1989. The themes of the conference were control of plant pathogens, especially fungi, and the uses of fungi as food and in biotechnology. Around 160 delegates from at least 22 countries attended the conference. John Lucas and Nichola Hawkins summarise the key presentations from this conference.