| Saturday 18 June
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| 09:00 - 18:00 |
EWRS Scientific Committee Meeting
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Sunday 19 June |
| 09:00 - 18:00 |
EWRS Executive Committee Meeting |
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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)
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| 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
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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)
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| 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)
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| 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 |
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09:50 - 10:10
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Jan NETLAND (NO) - Evaluation of the weed model in the Danish decision support system "Plant Protection Online" adapted to Norwegian conditions, IT)
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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)
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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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