Do not miss the early registration deadline on May 30, 2012

The call for papers is now closed and more than 300 abstracts have been submitted. The conference takes a number of themes from “agriculture at the extremes”, including tolerance to stresses, pushing the margins of sustainability, and extending models of crop growth to include responses to long days and cool droughts.

Keynote speakers

- Barbara Ekbom, SLU, Sweden, in the session on Biodiversity;
- Ramon Albajes, Lleida, Spain, in the session on Crop protection;
- John Foulkes, University of Nottingham, UK, in the session on Resource use efficiency;
- Brian Fowler, University of Saskatchewan, Canada in the session on Crop stress response;
- Dyno Keatinge, World Vegetable Centre, Taiwan, in the session on Extension and education;
- John Kirkegaard, CSIRO Australia, in the session on Soils and soil-plant-microbe interactions;
- Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio, MTT Finland, in the session on Crop adaptation to high latitudes;
- Gustavo Slafer, Lleida, Spain, in the session on Yield gap assessment and reduction;
- Pablo Tittonell, Wageningen University, in the session Farming System Design Session (FSD);
- Francisco Villalobos, Cordoba, Spain in the session on Water management;
- Christine Watson, SAC, UK, in the session on Legume-supported rotations.

 

Session titles

• Division 1: Plant system biology: The cultivated plant in a field
  Crop adaptation to high latitudes
  Crop stress response
  Omics in crop sciences
  Modelling up to the whole-plant level
  Resource use efficiency
  Yield gap assessment and reduction

• Division 2: Field scale agroecology: The cultivated field as an ecosystem
  Crop protection, allelopathy, and pesticide reduction
  Field biodiversity
  Legume-supported rotations
  Management of novel crops, including cover/catch-crop systems
  Modelling up to the crop, field or farm level
  Soils and soil-plant(-microbe) interactions
  Water management

• Division 3: Cropping systems at farm, regional and global scales: The cropping system in its embedding systems
  Agricultural landscape features
  Environmental impacts of cropping systems
  Extension and education
  Farming systems design
  Energy efficiency in cropping, including tillage systems
  Modelling at the system level
  Sustainable bioenergy cropping

The now traditional modelling course will run on the Wednesday, in parallel with a set of field tours.