The conference provides a prestigious business platform to meet and to exchange and create novel technologies, commercial applications and partnerships in the field of genomics in the agro and industrial biotech industries.
AgroParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences) - Paris, France
Several topics will be developped: mecanisms of plant-microbe interactions, plant defense, virulence and symbiotic processes, epidemiology of plant disease, plant pathogen detection and disease control.
Association Française de Protection des Plantes (AFPP)
Montpellier, France
Will address the main current issues related to plant protection : locusts, pollinators, beneficials, new pests, resistance, methods of control, integrated pest management, biological control, side effects of pesticides, new active substances, reglementation.
European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)
Rothamsted Research - Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Introduction to chemical control of Septoria leaf blotch and current regulatory considerations for azole use. Azole sensitivity monitoring data for Mycosphaerella graminicola (e.g. temporal and regional aspects, laboratory and field results, azole diversity)
Presentations will cover fungicide resistance update and new chemistry, genetic control of yellow rust, sulphur nutrition and fertilisers, importance and limitations of pellets in slug control, active herbicide resistance management, market needs and the varieties that ...