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Saturday 18 June
09:00 - 18:00 EWRS Scientific Committee Meeting

Sunday 19 June
09:00 - 18:00 EWRS Executive Committee Meeting
Joint IBG-EWRS Workshop
17:00 - 20:00 Registration & posters put up
18: Welcome drink - Puglia wine and food tasting

Monday 20 June
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & posters put up
Opening
(Chair: Bob Froud-Williams, UK)
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome address 1 - Rector/Dean University of Bari
09:10 - 09:20 Welcome address 2 - Chairman of LoCom
09:20 - 09:30 Welcome address 3- EWRS President
09:30 - 10:00 Andrée Carter (UK) - Allan Walker's plenary lecture
10:00 - 10:10 Discussion AW's plenary lecture
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
Session 1 - Biodiversity, invasive species and biological weed control
(Chair: Paul Hatcher, UK & Jon Marshall, UK)
10:40 - 11:10 Andy SHEPPARD (FR) - Keynote paper: Classical biological control of European exotic environmental weeds: opportunities and constraints
11:10 - 11:30 Heinz MUELLER-SCHÄRER (CH) - Evolution in invasive plants and implications for biological control
11:30 - 11:50 Emmanuel YAMOAH (NZ) - Potential vectoring of Fusarium tumidum spores by four insect species for biological control of gorse
11:50 - 12:10 Giorgio RAGAGLINI (IT) - Field-scale interactions between weeds and Aphis fabae Scop. (homoptera: aphididae) in conventional and low-input sugarbeet
12:10 - 12:30 Santiago Luis POGGIO (AR) - Spatial patterns of plant species richness in relation to distance from crop field margins in the Rolling Pampa (Argentina)
12:30 - 12:50 Richard HULL (UK) - The potential for managing weeds to minimise impacts on yields and enhance the ecological diversity of arable fields - a winter wheat case study
12:50 - 13:10 Discussion
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Poster session
Session 2 - Weed ecology and community dynamics
(Chair: Andrea Grundy, UK & Bob Froud-Williams, UK)
15:30 - 16:00 Niels HOLST (DK) - Keynote paper: Field weed population models: a review of approaches and application domains
16:00 - 16:20 Arnd VERSCHWELE (DE) - Effects of organic farming on population dynamics of weeds - long-term results from a site in Northern Germany
16:20 - 16:40 Pavel SASKA (CZ) - Seed predation by carabids in organic wheat fields in the Netherlands
16:40 - 17:10 Coffee break
17:10 - 17:30 Peter LUTMAN (UK) - Studies on the seed production and germination characteristics of Poa annua, Senecio vulgaris, Stellaria media and Tripleurospermum inodorum
17:30 - 17:50 Andrea GRUNDY (UK) - Long-term changes in the weed populations resulting from strategies for restricted herbicide use in field vegetable systems
17:50 - 18:10 Nathalie Colbach (France) - ALOMYSYS: a model of the effect of cropping systems on weed demography. Example of blackgrass (Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.)
18:10 - 18:30 Discussion
18:30 - 20:00 Working Groups meetings:
  • Crop-Weed Interactions
  • Physical and Cultural Weed Control

Meeting of Weed Research Editorial Board


Tuesday 21 June
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & poster exhibition
Session 3 - Weed biology and crop/weed interactions
(Chair: Lammert Bastiaans, NL & Francesco Tei, IT)
09:00 - 09:30 Nicolas DELABAYS (CH) - Keynote paper: Allelopathy: from field evidences to agronomic utilizations
09:30 - 09:50 Laila KARLSSON (SE) - Stepwise rather than cyclic dormancy changes explain emergence of the summer annuals Fumaria officinalis and Galeopsis speciosa
09:50 - 10:10 Jack DEKKER (US) - Patterns in Setaria seedling emergence
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00 Bärbel GEROWITT (DE) - Driving forces for the development of Cirsium arvense in arable farming systems
11:00 - 11:20 Jens PETERSEN (DK) - Inter- and intra-species competition for applied nitrogen
11:20 - 11:40 Lynn COLLINGS (UK) - Testing a simple approach to estimating the seed production of arable weeds within contrasting crops
11:40 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 13:00 EWRS General Assembly (Chair: Bob Froud-Williams)
13:15 Buses leave to excursion (lunch at a winery)
13:15 - 19:30 Excursion
21:00 Symposium dinner
24:00 Back to hotels

Wednesday 22 June
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & poster exhibition
Session 4 - Chemical weed management and optimisation of herbicide technology
(Chair: Per Kudsk, DK & Marco Quadranti, CH)
09:00 - 09:30 Willy T. Rueegg (CH) - Keynote paper: Herbicide development - challenges and opportunities
09:30 - 09:50 Nicolas MUNIER-JOLAIN (FR) - Decid'herb, a decision support system on the WEB, designed for sustainable weed management in cultivated fields
09:50 - 10:10 Jan NETLAND (NO) - Evaluation of the weed model in the Danish decision support system "Plant Protection Online" adapted to Norwegian conditions, IT)
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00 Christian Ritz (DK) - Analysis of Bioassay
11:00 - 11:20 Zenon WOZNICA (PL) - Extremely reduced herbicide rates applied with adjuvants for weed control in sugar beets
11:20 - 11:40 Urs HOFER (CH) - Challenges and solutions for grass weed management in small grain cereals in Europe
11:40 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 13:00 Poster session
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
Session 5 - Non-chemical approaches to weed management
(Chair: Bo Melander, DK & Paolo Bārberi, IT)
14:30 - 15:00 Rommie VAN DER WEIDE (NL) - Keynote paper: Innovation in mechanical weed control in crop rows
15:00 - 15:20 Jerry A. IVANY (CA) - More effective weed control methods in potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.)
15:20 - 15:40 Andrea PERUZZI (IT) - The rotating rolls harrow: a new operative machine for physical weed control in pre-sowing and post-emergence
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 16:30 Fabio FAUSTINI (IT) - Organically grown durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) varieties under different intensity of mechanical weed control
16:30 - 16:50 Milton McGIFFEN (US) - Competitiveness of erect, semi-erect, and prostrate cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) genotypes with sunflower and purslane
16:50 - 17:10 Kico DHIMA (GR) - Annual grass weed control in cotton by cereal cover crop mulches
17:10 - 17:30 Discussion
17:30 - 19:00 Working Groups meetings:
  • Biological control of weeds
  • Germination and early growth
  • Optimisation of herbicide dose
  • Weed management systems in vegetables
  • Weeds and Biodiversity
20:00 Concert

Thursday 23 June
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & poster exhibition
Session 6 - Cutting-edge methodologies and site-specific weed management
(Chair: Svend Christensen, DK & Cesar Fernandez-Quintanilla, ES)
09:00 - 09:30 Roland GERHARDS (DE) - Keynote paper: Practical experiences with a system for site-specific weed control using real-time image analysis and GPS-controlled patch spraying (TURBO)
09:30 - 09:50 Louis ASSEMAT (FR) - A practical software to compute early weed competition from cover images analysis
09:50 - 10:10 Sanne HEIJTING (NL) - Species specific spatial relations between weed patterns and soil characteristics; a three year study
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00 Corné KEMPENAAR (NL) - Adjustment of doses of potato haulm killing herbicides by using reflection and fluorescence sensing techniques (MLHD applied on leaf dessicants)
11:00 - 11:20 Martin PILAR (ES) - Discrimination of grassweeds in winter cereal crops by radiospectrometry
11:20 - 11:40 Karel KLEM (CZ) - Weed detection using chlorophyll fluorescence imaging and artificial neural network
11:40 - 12:00 Discussion
Session 7 - Herbicide resistant weeds and crops
(Chair: Jean-Pierre Claude, FR and Anne Thompson, UK)
12:00 - 12:30 Baruch RUBIN (IL) - Keynote paper: The impact of transgenic herbicide-resistant crops on herbicide-resistant weeds and the environment: a review
12:30 - 13:00 Steve POWLES (AU) - Keynote paper: Herbicide resistance from detection to management: the experience in Australia
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 14:50 José Maria URBANO (ES) - Screening for biotypes of Conyza bonariensis resistant to glyphosate in southern Spain
14:50 - 15:10 Giovanni DINELLI (IT) - Physiological and molecular mechanisms of glyphosate resistance in Conyza canadensis
15:10 - 15:30 Maurizio SATTIN (IT) - An Italian population of Amaranthus retroflexus resistant to ALS-inhibiting herbicides: molecular basis and resistance pattern
15:30 - 15:50 Christophe DELYE (FR) - To better understand how target-site based resistance is selected and spreads within and between weed populations
15:50 - 16:10 Jordi RECASENS (ES) - The effect of different cultural methods on a herbicide-resistant corn poppy
16:10 - 16:30 Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
Final Session(Chair: Bob Froud-Williams, UK)
17:00 - 17:20 Summary of the scientific programme (Paolo Bārberi, EWRS Scientific Secretary)
17:20 - 17:30 Concluding remarks (Bob Froud-Williams, EWRS President)
17:30 End of Symposium
17:30 - 20:00 Working Group meeting
  • Herbicide resistance Working Group (continues on Friday 24 June, 09:00 to 13:00)
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