1. First Australasian soilborne disease symposium

   • Rob Magarey

   Announcement Pages: 1 - 1

2. Major Australian advances in the investigation of soilborne diseases

   • Albert Rovira

   BriefCommunication Pages: 2 - 3

3. A new approach to the search for indicators of root disease suppression

   • A. H. C. van Bruggen
   • A. M. Semenov

   ASDS Keynote Address Session 1 Pages: 4 - 10

4. Reduced productivity in long term monoculture: where are we placed?

   • R. C. Magarey

   ASDS Keynote Address Session 2 Pages: 11 - 20

5. Plant root-bacterial interactions in biological control of soilborne diseases and potential extension to systemic and foliar diseases

   • J. W. Kloeppe
   • R. Rodríguez-Kábana
   • C. Fernández

   ASDS Keynote Address Session 3 Pages: 21 - 26

6. Fractal geometry and soil wetness duration as tools for quantifying spatial and temporal heterogeneity of soil in plant pathology

   • D. Backhous
   • D. B. Nehl

   ASDS Keynote Address Session 4 Pages: 27 - 33

7. Detection, identification and disease diagnosis of soilborne pathogens

   • David M. Cahill

   ASDS Keynote Address Session 5 Pages: 34 - 44

8. Progress in breeding wheat for tolerance and resistance to root-lesion nematode (Pratylenchus thornei)

   • J. P. Thompson
   • P. S. Brennan
   • N. P. Seymour

   ASDS Keynote Address Session 6 Pages: 45 - 52

9. Hurdles and bottlenecks on the road to biocontrol of plant pathogens

   • Deborah Ravel

   ASDS Keynote Address Session 7 Pages: 53 - 56

10. Fusarium wilt suppressive soils: an example of disease-suppressive soils

    • Claude Alabouvette

    ASDS Keynote Address Session 8 Pages: 57 - 64

11. Alternatives to methyl bromide: chemical fumigants or integrated pest management systems?

    • Ian J. Porter
    • Robyn W. Brett
    • Bronwyn M. Wiseman

    ASDS Keynote Address Session 9 Pages: 65 - 71

12. Increasing the adoption of sustainable, integrated management strategies for soilborne diseases of high-value annual crops

    • Graham R. Stirling

    ASDS Keynote Address Session 10 Pages: 72 - 79

13. Detection of peach latent mosaic viroid in Australia

    • F. Di Serio
    • M. Malfitano
    • J. W. Randles

    ASDS Keynote Address Session 10 Pages: 80 - 81

14. Cryopreservation of air-dried conidia of Uncinula necator

    • B. E. Stummel
    • T. Zanke
    • E. S. Scott

    ASDS Keynote Address Session 10 Pages: 82 - 84

15. Susceptibility of Australian rice cultivars to the stem rot fungus Sclerotium oryzae

    • Eric Cother
    • Helen Nicol

    ASDS Keynote Address Session 10 Pages: 85 - 91

16. Erratum to: A competitive ELISA for detecting resistance to latent stem infection byDiaporthe toxica in narrow-leafed lupins

    • Shankar
    • Gregory
    • Sweetingham

    Erratum Pages: 91 - 91

17. Celery mosaic potyvirus occurring naturally in cultivated Apiaceae in Victoria, Australia

    • V. Traicevski
    • T. Schreurs
    • J. Moran

    Disease Notes or New Records Pages: 92 - 92

18. First record of Phytophthora capsici from Queensland

    • M. P. Weinert
    • B. N. Smith
    • A. Drenth

    Disease Notes or New Records Pages: 93 - 93

19. A sclerotium-forming strain of Botrytis cinerea associated with shoot blight of Eucalyptus globulus in Tasmania

    • Z. Q. Yuan
    • T. Wardlaw
    • C. Mohammed

    Disease Notes or New Records Pages: 94 - 94