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October 2009
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October 1-2
International Conference on Knowledge Management in
Agri-biotechnology: The Asian Experience - Rama
Gardens Hotel - Bangkok,
Thailand
October 2-5
9th Agri
Intex International Agricultural Trade Exhibition -
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
October 5-8
1st Program on African Seed Systems (PASS) Stakeholders'
Meeting - International Conference Center - Bamako, Mali
Info:
lassana.sacko55@yahoo.fr
October 5-9
Curso de Posgrado: "Ingeniería Genética de Plantas"
- En el marco del Doctorado de la Facultad de Ciencias
Agrarias de la UNR Campo Villarino, Santa Fé, Argentina
October 5-9
Regional Training Course on Mutation Breeding for Crop
Disease Resistance, RAS/5/045 - Mumbai, India
Info: Q.Y.Shu@iaea.org
October 6, 2009
USDA/PVPO Plant Variety Protection Training Session
- San Juan Oaks Golf Club - Hollister, California
October 6-7
California Seed Association -
Mid-Year Meeting - Hyatt
Regency - Monterey, California
October 6-9
Inovatec
2009 (5ª Feira de Inovação Tecnológica) - Expominas
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
October 7
11am to Noon CDT
Free Webinar on New
Biotech Soybean Varieties and Testing Strategies -
Eurofins
October 7-10
8th
Plant Genomics European Meeting (Plant GEM) -
Lisbon, Portugal
Octobre 9
Colloque
Agrimonde Inra-Cirad - Agricultures et alimentations du
monde en 2050 - Campus de la Gaillarde - Montpellier
SupAgro –Inra
October 11-12
Fourth Regional
Yellow Rust Meeting - Antalya, Turkey
October 11-14
European Seed Association - Annual
Meeting - Sheraton Brussels Hotel & Towers - Brussels, Belgium
October 11-16
Interdrought-III,
The 3rd international conference on integrated
approaches to improve crop production under
drought-prone environments - Shanghai, China
October 12-13
High-Level Expert
Forum on How to Feed the World in 2050 -
FAO headquarters - Rome, Italy
October 12-14
Agriculture: Africa's Engine for Growth - Plant Science
& Biotechnology Hold the Key - Rothamsted Research,
Harpenden, Herts, United Kingdom
October 12-14
Southwest
Turfgrass Conference - Ruidoso, New Mexico
October 12-15
International Conference on Food Security and Climate Change in Dry Areas
- Amman, Jordan
October 13-16
Hortifair -
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October 13-16
12th International
Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference & 4th
Regional Yellow Rust Conference - Antalya, Turkey
October 14-15
International Conference on the issue of seed laws and
their impact on landraces, population and conservation
varieties - Marseille, France
October 14-17
Expo Semilla
- Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
October 15-15
International Conference on Forage legumes in Temperate
Pasture-Based Systems - Teagasc, Moorepark -
Silver Springs Hotel, Cork and at Moorepark’s Solohead
Research Farm (near Limerick Junction)
October 18-21
V International Symposium on Seed , Transplant and Stand
Establishment - Murcia, Spain
Info:
alfocea@cebas.csic.es or
jpascual@cebas.csic.es
October 18-21
Third Edition
European Food & Agribusiness Seminar (EFAS), offered
by Wageningen University and Research Centre - Rome,
Italy
October 19-21
CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences
International) Global Summit - London, United
Kingdom
October 19-23, 2009
Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture, Twelfth Regular Session of the Commission
on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture -
Rome, Italy
October 19-23
ISTA Workshop on Quality Assurance in Seed Testing -
Palmerston North, New Zealand
October 19-20
4th Annual
Biocontrol Industry Meeting (ABIM-Lucerne 2009) &
IBMA’s Annual General Assembly and Group Meetings -
Lucerne Culture and Convention Centre (KKL) - Lucerne,
Switzerland
October 19-21
CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences
International) Global Summit - London, United
Kingdom
October 19-22
4ht Meeting of
the International Peanut Genome Initiative (IPGI) on
Advances in Arachis through Genomics & Biotechnology
(AAGB-2009) - Bamako, Mali
October 19-23
33rd Annual
Meeting of the North American Plant Protection
Organization (NAPPO) - Chicago, Illinois
October 19-23
22nd Asian Pacific Weed
Science Conference - Lahore, Pakistan
October 20-23
ENDURE Annual Meeting - Wageningen, The Netherlands
October 21-22
XVIII
Reunião Nacional de Pesquisa de Girassol (RNPG) e do VI
Simpósio Nacional sobre a Cultura de Girassol - Sede
da Embrapa Clima Temperado, em Pelotas (RS), Brasil
October 22
Symposium on
biotechnology - North American Plant Protection
Organization (NAPPO) - Chicago, Illinois
October 22-23
2nd Crop Science Seminar in East Asia 2009 "Important
Gene Mining and Molecular Breeding in Rice and Soybean"
- Beijing, China
Info:
zhanghx@mail.las.ac.cn
October 25-30
9th International
Congress on Plant Molecular Biology – St. Louis,
Missouri, United States
October 26-28
BIO, Intellectual Property
Counsels Fall Conference and Committee Meeting -
Washington, DC
October 26-29
6th Master Class on Seed Technology - Wageningen
Seed Center - Wageningen, The Netherlands
October 26-31, 2009
First RCM on Isolation and Characterization of Genes
Involved in Mutagenesis of Crop Plants - St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
Info:
P.Lagoda@iaea.org
October 27-30
AusBiotech
2009 - Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center -
Melbourne, Australia
October 29 - November 1
XII International
Asparagus Symposium - Lima, Peru
October 30-31
2009 International
Conference on Agricultural Biotech Frontiers -
National Chiayi University - Chiayi City, Taiwan
September 2009
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August 31 - September 4
1st All African Horticultural Congress - Safari Park
Hotel - Nairobi, Kenya
August 31 - September 3
16°
Congresso Brasileiro de Sementes - Curitiba, PR,
Brasil
August 31 - September 4
23rd
EUCARPIA Symposium Section Ornamentals ‘Colourful
Breeding and Genetics’ – Leiden, the Netherlands
September
IOBC/WPRS Study Group “Benefits and Risks of Biological
Control” - Switzerland
Info: Marc Kenis
September 1-3
Farm Progress
Show - Dacatur, Illinois
September 1-3
6th Annual 2009
Midwest Specialty Grains Conference & Trade Show -
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
September 1 - October 4
8th
International Symposium of Recent Advances in Plant
Biotechnology New Developments in Green Gene Technology
- Szeged, Hungary
September 1 - October 4
UPOV distance learning course DL-205, Session II
"Introduction
to the UPOV system of plant variety protection under the
UPOV Convention"
September 1-16
Rice Breeding Course:
Laying the Foundation for the Second Green Revolution
- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) - Los
Baños, Laguna, Philippines
September 2-4
Meeting of the Biometrics in Plant Breeding section of
Eucarpia - Dundee, Scotland
September 2-4
Asia Fruit
Logistica - Hong Kong, China
September 3-4
10th International Cotton Conference - Gdynia,
Poland
September 6-11
IOBC/WPRS Integrated
Control in Protected Crops - Mediterranean Agronomic
Institute of Chania (MAICh) - Crete, Greece
September 7-8
EPSO Workshop on Plant Productivity – Ghent, Belgium
September 7-9
International Conference on Heterosis in Plants:
Genetics and molecular causes and optimal exploitation
in breeding -
University of Hohenheim - Stuttgart, Germany
September 7-11
Curso: Protección de Cultivos: Omicas y Nuevas
Estrategias para Estudiar las Interacciones
Planta-Microorganismo (MAMPS) - INTA Castelar -
Argentina
September 7-11
68th Plenary Meeting of
the International Cotton Advisory Committee - Cape
Town International Convention Centre - Cape Town, South
Africa
September 8-10
PotatoEurope
2009 Congress & Exhibition - Emmerloord, The
Netherlands
September 8-10
2nd
World Seed Conference: Responding to the challenges of a
changing world - FAO headquarters - Rome,
Italy
September 8
History of Genetics - The John Innes Centre -
Norwich, United Kingdom
September 8-10
Tercer Congreso
Colombiano de Horticultura “Ciencia y Tecnología
Hortícola frente al cambio económico y ambiental” -
Paipa, Boyacá, Colombia
September 9-10
Tercer Congreso Colombiano de Horticultura "Ciencia
y Tecnología Hortícola Frente al Cambio Económico y
Ambiental" -
Hotel Panorama Comfaboy - Paipa, Boyacá, Colombia
September 9-11
John Innes Centenary Symposium ‘Genetics 100 Years On’
- The John Innes Centre - Norwich, United Kingdom
September 9-12
2009
International Conference on Horticulture -
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
September 10-12
Primer Simposio Internacional de Cebolla en el Trópico -
Hotel Panorama Comfaboy - Paipa, Boyacá, Colombia
Info:
soccolhort@gmail.com
September 11-13
Euromaïs 2009 -
Ostheim, Haut Rhin, France
September 13-16
14th European Congress on
Biotechnology - Barcelona, Spain
September 14-16
Agriculture Outlook Asia 2009 - Singapore
September 15-16
International Seminar on
"Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future" - Udayana
University, Sudirman Campus, Indonesia
September 15-17
Global
Crop Protection Summit 2009 - The George Hotel -
Endinburgh, Scotland
September 15-18
VII Congresso Brasileiro do Algodão - Foz do Iguaçu,
PR, Brazil
September 16-19
8th International Conference ‘Eco-physiological Aspects
of Plants Responses to Stress Factors’ – Krakow,
Poland
September 21-25
World Congress on Organic Cotton - Interlaken,
Switzerland
September 21-25
1st International
Jujube Symposium - Agricultural University of Hebei,
Baoding, China
September 21-26
8th
Phytochemical Society of Europe Meeting on Biopesticides
- La Palma, Canary Islands
September 21-26
IV International
Cucurbit Symposium - Changsha, Hunan, China
September 22-23
Genetically Modified Organisms / Organismes
génétiquement modifiés - University of Ottawa -
Ottawa, Canada
September 22-24
V Congresso Panamericano de Incentivo ao Consumo de
Frutas e Hortaliças - Brasília, Brasil
September 22-25
VI Brazilian Biosafety
Congress & International Symposium on Biosecurity and
Dual Use Research - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
September 22-25
ABIC 2009
Conference - Queen Sirikit National Convention
Center - Bangkok Thailand
September 23-25
EuroBio 2009
- Grand Palais - Lille, France
September 23-26
XXXII Congreso
Argentino de Horticultura y 1er. Simposio
Latinoamericano de Fruticultura Tropical - Salta,
Argentina
September 24
"Focus2
Grow", Innovation in Seed Treatment, an informative
program - INCOTEC Coating and Seed Technology -
Enkhuizen, The Netherlands
September 25-27
2009
International Conference on Food Engineering and
Biotechnology (ICFEB 2009) - Cairo, Egypt
September 27 - October 8
ICARDA Training Course:
Crop Management and Post Harvest Operations in Quality
Seed Production - Aleppo, Syria
September 28-30
II Seed Congress of the
Americas - Bourbon Spa Resort Atibaia - Sao Paulo, Brazil
September 28 - October 1
9th African Crop Science Society Conference - Cape Town,
South Africa
September 28 - October 2
XLIX Curso
Diacom: tetrazólio e patologia de sementes - Brazil
September 29-30
Measures of Hope and Promises Delivered: An
International Conference on Socioeconomic and
Environmental Impact Assessment of Biotech Crops -
Rama Gardens Hotel - Bangkok,
Thailand
September 29 – November 3
Germplasm
and Genes - Mini-course for seed professionals -
University of Nebraska-Lincoln / Distance Education &
Life-Long Learning Program - Lincoln, Nebraska
September 30 - October 1
XVIII Reunião Nacional de Pesquisa de Girassol (RNPG) e
o VI Simpósio Nacional sobre a Cultura de Girassol -
Embrapa Clima Temperado - Pelotas, RS, Brasil
August 2009
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August 1–5
Annual Meeting of The
American Phytopathological Society (APS) - Oregon
Convention Center - Portland, Oregon
August 2-13
ICARDA Training Course:
Marker-assisted Selection and Genetic Engineering of
Crops - Aleppo, Syria
August 3-5
2009 US Ag HR
Roundtable - Champaign, Illinois
August 3-5
3rd Annual Plant Breeding Workshop - National
Association of Plant Breeders, Monona Terrace Community
and Convention Center - Madison, Wisconsin, USA
August 5-7
Guelph 09 - Joint
annual meetings of the Canadian Society of Agronomy
(CSA), the Canadian Society of Soil Science (CSSS) and
the Canadian Society of Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology (CSAFM) - "Sciences for Sustainability:
Soils, Agronomy, and Atmosphere" - Guelph, Ontario,
Canada
August 9-11
Home
Garden Seed Association -
2nd Annual Summer Conference and Trials - Corvallis,
Oregon
August 10-14
14th Australasian Plant Breeding (APB) Conference and
the 11th Society for the Advancements of Breeding
Researches in Asia and Oceania (SABRAO) Congress
- Cairns, Queensland, Australia
August 10-15
World Soybean Research
Conference VIII - Beijing, China
August 11-12
Great Plains
Sorghum Conference - Amarillo, Texas
August 11-13
June 24-25
Iowa State University Seed Science Workshops 2009:
Gravity separation - Seed Science Center at Iowa
State University
August 14
Biotechnology from a Legal Perspective - University
Tunku Abdul Rahman, PJ Campus - Malalysia
Info:
nicholas@bic.org.my
August 19
SGS Seed
Services: Corn and Soybean Seed Quality Workshop -
Brookings, South Dakota
August 19-20
Iowa State University Seed Science Workshops 2009: Corn
& Soybean Seed
Quality Workshop - Seed Science Center at Iowa State
University
August 19-21
10th Plant
Genomics in China Conference - Chongqing, China
August 19-21
International
Symposium on Organic Agriculture 2009 - Emerald
Hotel - Bangkok, Thailand
August 20-21
SGS Seed
Services: Seed Sampler Workshop - Brookings, South
Dakota
August 23-28
2nd
World Congress of Agroforestry - Nairobi, Kenya
August 24-27
IX Curso
sobre Tecnologia de Produção de Sementes de Hortaliças
- Petrolina e Juazeiro, Brasil
August 24-28
II Congresso Nacional de Feijão-caupi e VII Reunião
Nacional de Feijão-caupi - Belém/PA, Brasil
August 25 –September 24
Self-Pollinated CropBreeding - Mini-course for seed
professionals - University of Nebraska-Lincoln /
Distance Education & Life-Long Learning Program -
Lincoln, Nebraska
August 25-28
1st IFOAM Conference on Organic Animal and Plant
Breeding - Breeding Diversity - Santa Fe, New Mexico
August 26-30
XVI International Plant
Nutrition Colloquium -
Sacramento, California, USA
August 28
National Conference on Genetically Modified Organisms
and Biosafety Management - Hanoi, Vietnam
Info:
quyendt2000@yahoo.com
July 2009
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July 2-3
2nd Annual AgriGenomics World Congress - London,
United Kingdom
July 6-8
2009 Joint International Agricultural Conference (JIAC)
- Wageningen, Netherlands
July 7-9
June 24-25
Iowa State University Seed Science Workshops 2009:
Soybean and small grain seed - Seed Science Center
at Iowa State University
July 8-10
10th World Congress
on Parasitic Plants - Pine Bay Resort Hotel -
Kusadasi, Turkey
July 8-11
IV
Congreso Interuniversitario de Biotecnología -
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia - Valencia, Spain
July 8-11
Canadian Seed
Growers' Association Annual General Meeting 2009 -
Fairmont Winnipeg - Winnipeg, Manitoba
July 12-14
Alabama Seed Association, Annual Meeting - Sandestin,
Florida
July 12-14
Georgia Seedsmen's Association, Annual Meeting -
Sandestin, Florida
July 12-15
Canadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA) 86th Annual
Meeting - Westin Whisler Resort and Spa - Whistler,
British Columbia
July 13-17
2nd International Association of Agricultural
Information Specialists (IAALD) Africa Conference:
"Towards Opening Access to Information & Knowledge in
the Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Africa"
- Accra, Ghana
July 13-17
Course on "Plant Structure and Reproduction in Evolution
- A New Approach" - IPB Campus at Baranangsiang -
Bogor, Indonesia
July 13-17
VI Curso sobre Cultura de Tecidos de Plantas -
Embrapa Cenargen - Brasil
July 14-16
Mid-year AgGateway
meeting / Councils, Committees and Projects Meeting
(CCP) - Marriott Indianapolis North - Indianapolis,
Indiana
July 16-18
South Carolina Seedsmen's Association, Annual Meeting -
Hilton Head, South Carolina
July 18-22
Plant Biology 2009
- Hawaii Convention
Center - Honolulu, Hawaii
July 14-17
Annual Meeting of the
American Peanut Research & Education Society, Inc. -
Raleigh, North Carolina
July 19-23
Association of
American Seed Control Officials, Annual Convention -
Scottsdale, Arizona
July 19-23
XlVth
Congress of the International Society for Molecular
Plant-Microbe Interactions - Quebec City, Canada
July 19-24
17th International Farm
Management Congress - Agriculture: Food, Fiber and
Energy for the Future - Bloomington/Normal, Illinois
USA
July 22-23
Northern & Field Seed Institute, Summer Meeting -
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
July 22-23
Workshop: Breeding for Resistance to Whitefly-transmitted Viruses
- Royal Plaza Hotel in the Walt Disney World Resort - University of Florida - Orlando, Florida
July 22-25
Tropical Crop
Biotechnology Conference – New Horizons for the Tropics
- Kruger National Park, South Africa.
July 23-26
BioTaiwan 2009
- Taipei World Trade Centre - Taipei, Taiwan
July 25-28
North Carolina
Seedsmen's Association, Annual Meeting - Hilton
Riverside - Wilmington, North Carolina
July 25-28
American Society for Horticultural Science - Annual
Meeting - Millenium Hotel - St. Louis, Missouri
July 29
Soybean
Cyst Nematode (SNC) Workshop - Ag Information
Center, University of Iowa Extension - Ames, Iowa
July 29 - August 1
International Symposium on Molecular Markers in
Horticultural Species - Corvallis, Oregon, USA
July 30
Corn
Nematode Workshop - Ag Information Center,
University of Iowa Extension - Ames, Iowa
July 30-31
1st Regional Conference in Biotechnology - Traders
Hotel - Manila, Philippines
July 30-31
Arkansas Seed Dealer
Association, Annual Meeting - Chateau on the Lake -
Branson, Missouri
June 2009
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May 30 - June 5
Association of
Official Seed Analysts (AOSA) and
Society of
Commercial Seed Technologists (SCST)
Annual Meeting - University Park Hilton - Fort Collins, Colorado
May 31 - June 5
6th International Triticeae Symposium - Kyoto
University Conference Hall - Kyoto, Japan
May 31 - June 5
III
Reunião Anual da Biofortificação no Brasil -
Aracaju, SE, Brasil
June 1-5
Third
Session of the Governing Body of the International
Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture - Hotel Ramada Plaza - Les Côtes de
Carthage, Gammarth, Tunis, Tunisia
June 1-5
Tecnologia
para qualidade de semente de soja - IV curso de vigor
para semente de soja - Londrina, PR, Brasil
June 1-26
Course: Seed Potato Technology, Certification and Supply
Systems - Wageningen University - Wageningen, The
Netherlands
June 3-4
Iowa State University Seed Science Workshops 2009: Color
sorting (Satake) - Seed Science Center at Iowa State
University
June 3-5
The
Co-Extra International Conference: "Coexistence and
traceability of GM and non-GM products in food and feed
supply chains" - AgroParistech -
Paris, France
June 4-5
Tercer Seminario
Internacional de Semillas / 3rd International Seed
Seminar - Antenor Orrego Private University,
Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Pabellón E- tercer piso.
Campus universitario - Trujillo - Perú
June 6-7
2009 World Grain
Forum - St. Petersburg, Russia
June 8 - July 5
Moderated Forum “Learning from the past: Successes and
failures with agricultural biotechnologies in developing
countries over the last 20 years”
June 9
IGC Grains Conference - London, United Kingdom
June 9-13
Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) Seed Schemes Annual
Meeting - Paris, France
June 10-11
Iowa State University Seed Science Workshops 2009: Color
sorting (Sortex) - Seed Science Center at Iowa State
University
June 10-12
HORTITEC -
Exposição Técnica de Horticultura, Cultivo Protegido e
Culturas Intensivas - Holambra SP, Brazil
June 10-13
ISTA Workshop on Molecular Markers for Variety Identity
and Purity - Bologna, Italy
June 11-12
Oil & Oilseed
Innovation Asia 2009 - Beijing, China
June 11-13
ISTA Quality Assurance Workshop - ISTA Secretariat -
Bassersdorf, Switzerland
June 11-18
Oil and Oilseed
Innovation Asia 2009 - Beijing, China
June 15 (6-8 weeks course, starting mid-June)
Wheat Chemistry and Quality Improvement Course
-CIMMYT - El Batan, Mexico
June 14-19
Greensys2009:
International Symposium on High Technology for
Greenhouse Systems - Québec, Canada
June 14
International Seed Testing Association
(ISTA) - Seed Analyst Training Workshop/Seminar - Glattbrugg, Zurich, Switzerland
June 15
International Seed Testing Association
(ISTA) - Seminar on Purity Testing - Glattbrugg, Zurich, Switzerland
June 15-18
Iowa State University Seed Science Workshops 2009:
Commercial seed corn - Seed Science Center at Iowa
State University
June 15-18
Montana Seed Trade Association, 2009 Summer Meeting
- Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort - Worley, Idaho
June 15-18
International Seed Testing Association
(ISTA) - Annual Meeting - Glattbrugg, Zurich, Switzerland
June 15-26
Course: Plant variety protection (Plant Breeders'
Rights) - Wageningen University - Wageningen, The
Netherlands
June 17-19
VII International
Symposium on Artichoke,
Cardoon and their Wild
Relatives -
Saint-Pol de Léon,
France
June 17-21
IV International Symposium on Breeding Research in
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Biodiversity
conservation and use of genetic resources - Ljubljana,
Slovenia
Info:
dea.baricevic@bf.uni-lj.si
June 18
Curso de Análise
Fundamental e introdução a Comercialização de Soja -
Safras & Mercado - Gelps Hotel - Rio Verde, GO, Brasil
June 18-20
Bangalore Bio 2009
- Bangalore, India
June 18-20
13th ICABR Conference: "The Emerging Bio-economy" -
Ravello, Italy
June
20-24
126th ASTA Annual Convention
-
Hyatt
Regency Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Gainey Ranch -
Scottsdale, Arizona
June 21-23
Ag Expo at Michigan
State University - Michigan State University - East
Lansing, Michigan
June 22-23
Australian
National Farmers’ Federation - 1st National Congress
- Brisbane Convention Centre - Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia
June 24-25
Iowa State University Seed Science Workshops 2009: Seed
treatment - Seed Science Center at Iowa State
University
June 25
Curso de Análise
Fundamental e introdução a Comercialização de Soja -
Safras & Mercado - UNIBALSAS - Balsas, MA, Brasil
June 25-27
Sustainable Food Summit - Okura Hotel - Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
June 28 - July 1
Association of Official
Seed Certifying Agencies (AOSCA) Annual Meeting -
Portland, Oregon
June 28 - July 2
2009 IUFRO
Tree Biotechnology Conference - Whistler, Canada
June 29-30
OECD Global Forum on Agriculture - Preparing for the
Future - Paris, France
May 2009
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May 1 - November 30
Preliminary Exhibition to the International New-superior
Vegetable Expo 2010 - Shanghai, China
Info:
shanghai@zhongdu.com.cn
May 3-5
International Plant Breeding Conference - Egyptian
Society of Plant Breeding - Suez Canal University,
Faculty of Agriculture, Agronomy Department - Ismailia,
Egypt
May 4-6
2009
Australian Vegetable Industry Conference -
Melbourne Convention Centre - Melbourne, Australia
May 4 - June 7
UPOV Distance Learning course DL-205: Introduction to
the UPOV System of Plant Variety Protection under the
UPOV Convention
May 5 –7
Agritech 2009 -
Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds - Tel Aviv, Israel
May 7
International Conference on Fresh Produce Marketing in a
Changing Economic Environment - Tel Aviv, Israel
May 6-9
2nd EMBO
Conference on Plant Molecular Biology ‘Frontiers in
Plant Research’ – Cadiz, Spain
May 7-8
National Vegetable
Expo - Werribee, Victoria, Australia
May 8-9
5th International Greek
Biotechnology Forum - Athens, Greece
May 11-12
Symposium:
“Seed
Biotechnologies:
Filling the Gap
between the Public
and Private Sectors”
Seed Biotechnology
Center at the
University of
California, Davis
May 11-14
Nigerian Phytopathological Society (NPS),
Inaugural Meeting - Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria
Info:
s.aigbe@cgiar.org
May 12-13
I Curso de
Tecnologia e Gestão da Produção e do Comércio de
Sementes Pela Agricultura Familiar - Lagoa Seca/PB,
Brazil
May 12-13
Primera Conferencia Nacional de Biotecnología - Lima,
Peru
May 12-13
Seed Quality
Workshop - SGS Mid-West Seed Services, Inc. -
Brookings, South Dakota
May 12-15
Segundo Simposio Chileno de Control Biológico: Cambio y
Oportunidades - INIA Quilamapu - Chillán, Chile
May 13-17
Thaifex – World
of Food Asia - Bangkok, Thailand
May 14-15
Seed Sampling
Workshop - SGS Mid-West Seed Services, Inc. -
Brookings, South Dakota
May 14-16
Ecological Impact
of Genetically Modified Organisms (EIGMO) - Rostock,
Germany
May 18-20
World
Agricultural Forum 2009 - St. Louis Ballpark Hilton
Hotel - St. Louis, Missouri
May 18-21
BIO 2009 - Georgia
World Congress Center - Atlanta, Georgia
May 18-29
Fifth training course of
ICRISAT-Center of Excellence in
Genomics - ICRISAT Campus -
Patancheru, Greater Hyderabad,
India
May 19-20
Registration of Agrochemicals in
Europe - Crowne Plaza
Brussels City Centre "Le Palace"
- Brussels, Belgium
May 19-21
Delivering Agricultural
Biotechnology to African
Farmers: Linking Economic
Research to Decision Making
- Entebbe, Uganda
May 19-21
International Public Health
Pesticides Workshop -
London, United Kingdom
May 19-21
NAPPO Electronic Phytosanitary
Certification Workshop -
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
May 19-22
V Congresso Brasileiro de Soja
(CBSoja) / Mercosoja 2009 - Centro de Convenções
- Goiânia, Brasil
May 25-27
ISF Congress -
Antalya, Turkey
May 25 - June 26
Conservation Agriculture: Laying
the groundwork for sustainable
and productive cropping systems
- CIMMYT, Mexico
May 26-27
4th International Converence of the Round Table on
Responsible Soy Association - Campinas, São Paulo,
Brasil
May 26-28
Nordic
Bioenergy Conference 2009 - Aalborg, Denmark
May 26-29
19th EUCARPIA
Conference, Genetic Resources Section - Ljubljana,
Slovenia
May 27-29
Training
for Recall, Communicating Under Fire” training program
- Salinas, California
May 28
Curso de Análise
Fundamental e Mercadológica de Arroz - Everson
Palace Hotel - Cachoeira do Sul/RS, Brasil
May 28
ISF workshop on Phytosanitary Procedures for
International Seed Trade - Antalya, Turkey
April 2009
April
8th ISTA Seminar on Statistics in Seed Testing - Aussonne, France
April 1-3
International Conference on
Plant Virology - Harrogate
International Center -
Harrogate, United Kingdom
April 5-8
1st International Symposium on
Cryopreservation in
Horticultural Species -
Leuven, Belgium
April 6-10
8th ISTA Seminar on Statistics
in Seed Testing - Aussonne,
France
April 6 - May 1
Contemporary approaches to plant
genetic resources, conservation
and use
- Wageningen, The Netherlands
April 7-8
The Second European Ramularia
Workshop, Edinburgh 2009 – A New
Disease and Challenge in Barley
Production – Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
April 8-10
1st International Conference on
Corn and Sorghum Research -
Jomtien Palm Beach Hotel -
Pattaya City, Thailand
April 8-10
34th National Corn and Sorghum
Research Conference -
Jomtien Palm Beach Hotel -
Pattaya City, Thailand
April 8-10
1st International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology - New Orleans,
Louisiana, U.S.A.
April 8-12
VI International Postharvest
Symposium - Antalya, Turkey
April 14-15
XXVII Reunião Nacional de
Pesquisa de Cevada - Embrapa
Trigo, Passo Fundo- RS, Brazil
April 16-18
Progeny Trial Analysis with
ASReml - International
Centre for Plant Breeding
Education and Research (ICPBER)
- University of Western
Australia
April 18-21
ISTA Seed Vigour Workshop -
Mashhad, Iran
April 19-21
4th international ‘Genomics in
Business’ conference -
Innovations and Business
Strategies in the Agro-Food
Sector - Renaissance
Amsterdam Hotel - Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
April 20-21
13th QTL-MAS workshop -
Wageningen UR - Wageningen, The
Netherlands
April 20-21
CSIRO/AFAA Workshop on the
science and regulation of gene
technology - Esperance,
Western Australia
April 20-24
Seventh National Symposium on
Biotechnology REDBIO-Argentina
"Biotechnology and the future
global scenario" - Rosario,
Santa Fe, Argentina
April 21-22
1st European Turfgrass Society
Field Day - Universidad
Politecnica de Valencia -
Valencia, Spain
April 21-22
6th Annual BIGMAP Symposium:
"Food and Fuel Crops: Issues,
Policies and Regulation" -
Gateway Hotel & Conference
Center - Ames, Iowa
April 21-22
Measures of Hope and Promises
Delivered: An International
Conference on Socioeconomic and
Environmental Impact Assessment
of Genetically Modified (GM)
Crops - Bangkok, Thailand
April 22-23
CSIRO/AFAA Workshop on the
science and regulation of gene
technology - Geraldton,
Western Australia
April 22-24
1st International Plant
Phenomics Symposium -
Canberra, Australia
April 22-24
Total Food 2009 - Sustainability
in the Agri-Food Chain -
Norwich BioScience Institutes
Conference Centre -
Norwich, United Kingdom
April 23-28
3ième
Salon International de
l'Agriculture - Mekness,
Maroc
April 25-28
1st International IFOAM
Conference on Organic Animal and
Plant Breeding - Santa Fe,
New Mexico, USA
April 26-30
5th International Conference on
Biopesticides: Stakeholders'
Perspective (ICOB-V 2009) -
Indian Habitat Center (IHC) -
New Delhi, India
April 27 - May 1
ISTA Workshop on Seed Sampling
- Lusaka, Zambia
April 27-28
ECO-PB/ITAB Workshop: Strategies
for a future without cell fusion
techniques in varieties applied
in Organic Farming - Paris,
France
April 27-29
China-U.S. symposium on Barley,
Malt and Brewing - Wuxi,
Jiangsu, China
April 28-30
"Flaxseed: Adding Functional
Food Value" Short Course -
Northern Crops Institute -
Fargo, North Dakota
March 2009
March 1-4
California Seed Association -
Annual Convention - Sir
Francis Drake Hotel - San
Francisco, California
March 2-5
ICARDA/JICA Workshop on
Plant Variety Protection and Implications for Seed
Industry Development - ICARDA - Aleppo, Syria
March 2-6
9th Annual Congress of the
African Seed Trade Association
(AFSTA) - Cape Sun
International Hotel - Cape Town, South Africa
March 3
Canola College 2009 - Warman, Saskatchewan, Canada
March 3-6
ASTA
Management Academy - Purdue University Center for
Food and Agricultural Business - Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana
March 3
Soyfoods 2009 - Hilton Anaheim - Anaheim, California
March 4
18th Annual WANFTA Conference - Vines Resort - Swan
Valley, Western Australia
March 4-5
NUTRACON -
Hilton Anaheim - Anaheim, California
March 4-5
III
Curso de capacitação e difusão de tecnologia em canola
- Embrapa Trigo - Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil
March 5
Canola College 2009 - Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
March 8-9
5th International Greek
Biotechnology Forum - Zappeion Megaron, Athens,
Greece
March 8-10
1st
Asian Regional Congress of the World Agricultural Forum
- Phuket, Thailand
March 9-11
NZ Bio Conference 2009
- Sky City Convention Center - Auckland, New Zealand
March 9-13
XLVIII
Curso Diacom: Tetrazolio e patologia de sementes -
Londrina- Paraná- Brasil
March 10
Canola College 2009 - Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
March 10
Mycotoxins 2009
- Imperial Queen's Park Hotel - Bangkok, Thailand
March
10-12
Seed Quality
Assessment Workshop
Sponsored by
ASTEC-Global Seed Technology, the workshop will
demonstrate Q2 – ASTEC’s new technology which monitors
seed germination based on individual oxygen consumption
in a fully controlled air-tight environment.
Seed Biotechnology Center, UC
Davis, California
March 10-12
Canada Council of Canada - Annual Convention -
Sheraton Center - Toronto, Canada
March 10-12
International scientific congress "Climate Change:
Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions" -
Copenhagen, Denmark
March 11
Canola College 2009 - Grande Prairie, Alberta,
Canada
March 12
Masterclass:
Licensing Intellectual Property - AJ Park -
Auckland, New Zealand
March 12
HGCA/MAGB Malting
Barley Conference - Peterborough, United Kingdom
March 12-13
Teagasc Agricultural
Research Forum - Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland
March 12-15
51st annual Maize Genetics Conference - Pheasant
Run, St. Charles, Illinois
March 16-20
Fifth Moscow International Congress on Biotechnology:
State of the Art and Prospects of Development and
VII International Specialized Exhibition Biotech World
2009 - House of Moscow Government - Moscow, Russia
March 16-27
Intensive training course in ‘Quantitative Genetics in
Plant Breeding’ - The National Institute of
Agricultural Botany (NIAB) - Cambridge, United Kingdom
March 17-19
Technical workshop of the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
- Cd. Obregón, Sonora, Mexico
Online registration at
http://www.globalrust.org
March 18
European Conference on Ensuring
Seed Availability in the 21st
Century - European
Commission DG 'Health and
Consumers' - Brussels, Belgium
March 19
Canola College 2009 - Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
March 19-20
11th
National Forum on Seed Meeting / 11ième Réunion du Forum
national sur les semences - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
March 19-21
Genomics
in Business 2009 - Innovations and Business Strategies
in the Agro-Food Sector - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 19-21
Adaptation Potential in Plants – Vienna, Austria
March 20-21
The Future of Crop Protection in China - Dijon Hotel
- Shanghai, China
March 22-25
7th World Potato
Congress - Christchurch, New Zealand
March 23-26
GREENHOUSE 2009:
Climate change & resources - Perth, Western
Australia
March 23-26
International Triticale Symposium - Cd. Obregon, Sonora,
Mexico
Info:
k.ammar@cgiar.org
March 24-26
Sixth
International Integrated Pest Management Symposium -
Transcending Boundaries - Portland, Oregon
March 25-26
Seed Biology,
Production & Quality course
Seed Biotechnology
Center and UC Davis Extension
Davis, California
March 25-27
Biotechnologies végétales : sélection des variétés
assistée par marqueurs - Gif sur Yvette, France
March 25 - April 23
Cross-pollinated Crop Breeding: distance-delivered
courses for academic credit, noncredit professional
development and CEU credit - Department of Agronomy
and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska -
Lincoln, Nebraska
March 26-27
Understanding Impact Assessment: the Biofuel Challenge -
A workshop - SEARCA, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
March 26 - June 4
WIPO
distance learning course on biotechnology and
intellectual property
Curso especializado sobre propiedad intelectual y
biotecnología
Cours avancé sur la biotechnologie et la propriété
intellectuelle
March 28 - April 3
Pack Trials 2009 - Ernst
Benary of America Inc. - Santa Barbara, California
March 29 - April 2
Proteomic Forum 2009 - Freie Universität Berlin -
Berlin, Germany
March 30-31
Michigan
Agri-Energy Conference - Kalamazoo Radisson Plaza
Hotel - Kalamazoo, Michigan
March 30 - April 1
AGRAme -
Dubai Exhibition Center - Dubai, UAE
March 31
HGCA Biofuels
Conference: "The future of UK biofuels" - Judges
Country House Hotel - Yarm, Cleveland, United Kingdom
February 2009
February - May
Hands-on Breeding Program -
Wheat Breeding: Addressing food
secutiry issues of the 21st
century - CIMMYT Obregon &
El Batan, Mexico
Feburary 1-4
2009 National Biodiesel
Conference and Exposition -
Moscone Center - San Francisco,
California
February 2-4
BioAsia 2009: The Global
Biobusiness Forum -
Hyderabad International
Convention Centre (HICC) -
Hyderabad, India
February 3
2009 New Mexico Chile Conference
- Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces -
La Cruces, New Mexico
February 3-4
Mid-America Alfalfa Expo -
Kearney, Nebraska
February 4
23rd Annual Illinois-Indiana
Seed Conditioning Workshop -
Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel and
Suites - Keystone Crossing,
Indiana
February 4-6
Freshconex 2009 - International
Trade Fair and Congress for
Fresh-cut Convenience -
Berlin, Germany
February 4-6
Fruit Logistica 2009 -
Berlin, Germany
February 4-6
Illinois/Indiana Seed
Conditioning Workshop &
109th Annual Conference -
Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel and
Suites - Keystone Crossing,
Indiana
February 4-7
Expo Agro Sinaloa 2009 -
Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
February 4-7
4th World Congress on
Conservation Agriculture-
New Delhi, India
February 5
East Texas Turfgrass Conference
- Texas AgriLife Research and
Extension Center - Overton,
Texas
February 5-6
Indiana Crop Improvement
Association (ICIA) Annual
Conference - Sheraton
Keystone Hotel - Indianapolis,
Indiana
February 7-10
ASTA 48th Vegetable & Flower
Seed Conference
Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel
& Marina
Tampa, Florida
February 8-11
International Conference on
Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance
- Vienna, Austria
February 9-12
Agricultural Equipment
Technology Conference -
Louisville, Kentucky
February 9-13
49th Annual Meeting of the Weed
Science Society of America
(WSSA) and 62nd Annual Meeting
of the Southern Weed Science
Society (SWSS) - Walt Disney
World Resort - Orlando, Florida
February 10
Air Drill Clinic - Yorkton,
Saskatchewan, Canada
February 10-12
World Ag Expo - Tulare,
California
February 10-13
The IOBC-APRS Australian and New
Zealand Biocontrol Confrence
2008 - Menzies Hotel -
Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia
February 12
2nd Idaho Oilseed Conference
- University Inn Best Western -
Moscow, Idaho
February 13-14
6th Global Knowledge Millennium
Summit, "Biotechnology and
Nanotechnology for Sustainable
Agriculture: Eradicate Global
Hunger and Ensure Food Security"
- New Delhi, India
February 14-19
International Conference on
Grain Legumes: Quality
Improvement, Value Addition and
Trade - Kanpur, India
February 16-20
United Soybean Board Annual
Meeting - Charleston
Marriott Hotel - Charleston,
South Carolina
February 17-18
World Grain Trade Summit 2009
- Singapore
February 17-18
Quebec Seed Growers Annual
General Meeting -
L'Hostellerie Rive Gauche de
Beloeil - Beloeil, Quebec
February 17-19
Le Salon du Végétal - Parc
Expo - Angers, France
February 18-19
Seed Sampler Training Workshop
- SGS Mid-West Seed Services -
Brookings, South Dakota
February 19
29th Kentucky Alfalfa Conference
- Cave City Convention Center -
Princeton, Kentucky
February 19-20
ESA Seminar on Intellectual
Property Protection: "Opensource
Innovation Models in the Seed &
Plant Biotech Industry" -
Sheraton Hotel - Brussels,
Belgium
February 21 - March 1
46ieme Salon International de
l'agriculture - Paris,
France
February 22-26
SIMA - Salon des fournisseurs du
monde agricole - Parc des
Expositions de Paris-Nord
Villepinte, France
February 23 - March 6
Plant Breeding and Seed
Production -
A SIDA Advanced International
Training Program, Phase 2 (phase
1: September 1-26,
2008) - Svalöv, Sweden
February 24
HGCA Milling Wheat Conference
- Hinxton, Cambridgeshire,
United Kingdom
February 24-25
U.S. National Agriculture
Pollinator Forum - Hyatt
Regency Crystal City -
Arlington, Virginia
February 24-25
2009 Agribusiness Crop Updates
- Burswood Entertainment Complex
- Perth, Western Australia
February 24-25
Seed Production and Treatment in
a Changing Environment - The
Belfry Hotel - Wishaw, West
Midlands, United Kingdom
February 24-27
World Agricultural Forum's (WAF)
2009 World Congress: "Africa
Meets the World: Creating
Prosperity By Investing in
Agriculture" - Kampala,
Uganda
February 25-26
Plant Bio-Industrial Oils
Workshop - Delta Bessborough
Hotel - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Canada
February 25-26
Eurofins International Seminar
2009 "An outlook on next
generation biotech crops" -
Paris, France
February 25-27
Workshop on the role of Marker
Assisted Selection in breeding
varieties for organic
agriculture - Wageningen, The
Netherlands
Info:
mail@eco-pb.org
February 26
Canola College 2009 - Nisku,
Alaberta, Canada
February 26-28
Commodity Classic -
Gaylord Texan - Grapevine, Texas
February 27-28
New Mexico Organic Farming
Conference - Hotel Encanto -
Las Cruces, New Mexico
January 2009January 5-8
2009 Beltwide Cotton Conferences
- Marriott Rivercenter/Riverwalk
- San Antonio, Texas
January 6-15
2009 University of Illinois Corn
and Soybean Classics address
essential issues for growers
- Various locations, Illinois
January 8-9
University of Idaho’s 2009 Snake
River Sugarbeet Conference -
Twin Falls, Idaho
January 9-11
Southeastern Regional Fruit and
Vegetable Conference -
Savannah, Georgia
January 10-14
Plant and Animal Genome XVII
Conference - Town & Country
Convention Center - San Diego,
California
January 11-14
American Farm Bureau
Federation - Annual Convention - San Antonio, Texas
January 13-14
U.S. National Sunflower
Association Research Forum -
Ramada Plaza & Suites - Fargo,
North Dakota
January 14
58th Annual Rice Council Meeting
- El Campo Civic Center - El
Campo, Texas
January 14-16
SIVAL, Salon de Référence des
Cultures Spécialisées / Trade
Fair for Specialty Crops -
Angers Expo Congrès -Angers
January 15-25
Internationale Grüne Woche -
Berlin, Germany
January 15-16
American Corn Growers
Association - 22nd Annual
Convention - Marriott Hotel
- Coralville, Iowa
January 16
2nd Iowa State University Aphid
Research Symposium - Ensminger
Room, Kildee Hall, Iowa State
University - Ames, Iowa
January 18-21
33rd International Carrot
Conference - Embassy Suites
· Anaheim South - Garden Grove,
California, USA
January 20-22
Independent Professional Seed
Association (IPSA) - Annual
Meeting - The Westin
Downtown - Indianapolis,
Indiana
January 21-22
Midwest Organic Production and
Management Conference and Trade
Show - Adams Mark
Hotel-Airport - Indianapolis,
Indiana
January 21-22
Sommet du Végétal 2009 -
Palais de la Musique et des
Congrès - Strasbourg, France
January 21-22
University of Idaho’s
41st Annual Potato Conference
- Pocatello, Idaho
January 21-23
U.S. Sclerotinia Initiative
Meeting - Holiday Inn Select
- MPLS/Bloomington, Minnesota
January 22
CSTA Western Researchers'
Committee Meeting - Four
Points Sheraton Hotel - London,
Ontario, Canada
January 22
Swissem - Delegiertenversammlung
/ Assemblée des délégués
- Murten/Morat, Switzerland
January 25
Produce First! American Menus
Initiative - The Culinary
Institute of America's (CIA)
Greystone Campus - St. Helena,
California
January 26-27
Alberta Seed Growers'
Association Annual General
Meeting - Westin Hotel -,
Edmonton, Alberta
January 28-30
ICABE 2009: International
Conference on Agricultural and
Biological Engineering -
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
January 31 - February 2
IPM ESSEN, Internationale
Fachmesse für Pflanzen, Technik,
Floristik und Verkaufsförderung
- Essen, Germany
January 31 - February 2
International Workshop on Crop
Improvement under Drought an
Integrated Approach - Karaj,
Iran
December
2008
November 30 - December 5
AgBiotechnology: Facing Huge Challenges with New
Approaches - Havana, Cuba
December 2
Ontario Seed Growers' Association - Annual General
Meeting - London, Ontario
Info:
Harold.Rudy@ontariosoilcrop.org
December 2-3
Deep South
Fruit & Vegetable Conference & Trade Show - Myrtle
Beach, South CArolian
December 2-4
Regulatory and safety issues in commercialization of
biotechnology research in developing countries - Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Info:
biotechsymp2008@yahoo.com
December 2-4
2008 California Alfalfa & Forage Symposium and Western
Seed Conference - San Diego, California
December 2-4
CropLife
Canada - 56th Conference - The Westin - Ottawa,
Canada
December 2-4
2008 National Fusarium
Head Blight Forum - Indianapolis, Indiana
December 3
California Asparagus Day - Robert J. Cabral
Agricultural Center - Stockton, California
December 4-6
National Symposium on Plant Protection - University
of Agricultural Science GKVK - Bangalore, India
December 4-6
2008 Wheat Genomics
Conference - Indianapolis, Indiana
December 5-7
BioAsia 2009 -
Hyderabad, India
December 7-9
2008 USA Rice Outlook Conference - Little Rock,
Arkansas
December 7-11
Vth International Symposium on Horticultural Research,
Teaching and Extension - Chiang Mai, Thailand
December 7-12
International
Conference on Legume Genomics and Genetics IV -
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
December 8-9
U.S. Soy Industry
CONNECTIONS - United Soybean Board Annual Meeting -
Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark - St. Louis, Missouri
December 8-10
Atelier International Epigénétique Végétale 2008 -
Cirad - Montpellier, France
December 8-13
Embrapa
Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia - Curso “Introdução à
análise de dados genômicos para conservação e
melhoramento molecular de plantas” - Brasília, DF
December 9-10
XIX
Reunião da Comissão Nacional de Cultivares de Girassol
- Brazil
December
9-12
ASTA 38th
Soybean Seed
ASTA 63th Corn & Sorghum Seed Conferences
Seed Expo 2008
Hyatt Regency Hotel -
Chicago, Illinois
December
9-12
Global Potato Conference
2008 - NASC Complex - New Delhi, India
December 10-11
104th Midwest Food
Processors Convention & 81st Annual Processing Crops
Conference - Prospering in Challenging Times -
Marriott Madison West Hotel and Conference Center -
Middleton, Wisconsin
December 10-11
Turfgrass Institute
and Trade Show - Gwinnett Civic and Cultural Center
- Duluth, Georgia
December 10-12
Biomass and Energy Crops III – Defra's Central
Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom
December 10-14
International Soybean Processing and Utilization
Conference - The Soybean Processing and Utilization
Centre, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
(CIAE), Bhopal, India
Info:
ispuc.v@gmail.com
December 12-13
Invasive
Species Conference - Lexington, Kentucky
December 15-17
Conference
on “Water for Agriculture and Energy in Africa: the
Challenges of Climate Change” - Sirte, Libya
December 16
National
Forum on Seed Working Group Meeting on Use of Variety
Names / Réunion du groupe de travail portant sur
l'utilisation des noms des variétés - Winnipeg,
Manitoba
December 16-17, 2008
Cereal Pathosystems Conference - Queen Mary,
University of London - London, United Kingdom
December 22-23
National Seed Congress 2008 - University of
Agricultural Science GKVK - Bangalore, India
November 2008
November
International Conference Wheat Stem Rust Ug99 – A Threat
to Food Security’ - New Delhi, India
November
2-3
Western Seed Association - Annual Meeting
ASTA Farm and Lawn Seed Meeting
Westin Crown
Plaza - Kansas City, Missouri
November 2-5
Workshop on Mixed Models for Plant Improvement -
International Centre for Plant Breeding Education and
Research - University of Western Australia - Perth,
Western Australia
November 3-6
7th International Safflower Conference - Wagga Wagga New
South Wales, Australia
November 3-7
ISTA Workshop on Seed Moisture, Germination & Vigour
Workshop - Nakuru, Kenya
November 3-7
7th International Safflower Conference - Wagga
Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
November 3-14
Transgene Expression in Plants - New Delhi, India
Info:
biotechsymp2008@yahoo.com
November 4-5
Conférence "Biodiversité et Agricultures : défis
d’aujourd’hui, recherche de demain pour une agriculture
durable" - Montpellier, France
November 4-5
Sixth New Zealand Biosecurity Summit - Christchurch
Convention Centre - Christchurch, New Zealand
November 4-6
Jahrestagung der
Gemeinschaft zur Förderung der privaten deutschen
Pflanzenzüchtung e.V. (GFP) - Hotel Königshof -
Bonn, Germany
November 4-7
Curso Internacional Teóretico Práctico sobre métodos de
Detección de Organismos Geneticamente Modificados -
Bogota, Columbia
November 4-8
3rd
International Meeting of the Peanut Genomics Initiative
on Advances in Arachis through Genomics and
Biotechnology (AAGB-2008) - ICRISAT Headquarters -
Hyderabad, India
November 6-7
BBSRC Next Generation
Conference 2008 - Newcastle, United Kingdom
Contact:
next.generation@bbsrc.ac.uk
November 9-12
2009
International Conference on Horticulture -
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
November 9-12
8th
International Symposium on the Role of Soy - Hilton
Hotel - Tokyo, Japan
November 9-13
Asian Seed Congress
2008 - Hyderabad, India
November 9-14
5th International Symposium of the European Amaranth
Association - Institute of Plant Genetics and
Biotechnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences - Nitra,
Slovak Republic
November 10-12
2008
Corn Belt Seed Conference - Sheraton Indianapolis -
Indianapolis, Indiana
November 10-14
11th KARI Biennial Scientific Conference & 3rd
Agricultural Forum - KARI Headquarters Complex -
Loresho, Nairobi, Kenya
November 12
Meeting of Canada's National Forum on Seed - Delta
Hotel - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
November 12-13
Global Commercial
Pipeline of New GM Crops - Seville, Spain
November 12-13
Effects of Climate Change on Plants: Implications for
Agriculture - Rothamsted Research - Harpenden,
United Kingdom
November 13
Meeting of the Working Group on Variety De-registration
of Canada's National Forum on Seed - Best Western -
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
November 13-17
Workshop on reference sets of food crop germplasm for
international collaboration - Montpellier, France
November 14
November 16-18
Texas Seed Trade
Association - Annual Meeting - Galvestn, Texas
November 16-18
Eastern European Seed Network (EESNET) - 8th Annual
Meeting - Siófok, Hungary
November 16-21
10th International
Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified
Organisms (ISBGMO) - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa
Tongarewa - Wellington, New Zealand
November 17-18
5th World Mycotoxin Forum - Hotels van Oranje -
Noordwijk, the Netherlands
November 17-21
67th Plenary Meeting of
the International Cotton Advisory Committee -
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
November 17-28
Molecular
methodologies for assessing and applying genetic
diversity in crop breeding - ICRISAT Campus -
Patancheru, Greater Hyderabad, India
November 18-19
Third
International Conference on Genetically Modified Food
- Amman, Jordan
November 18-19
National Conference for Agribusiness - Purdue
University
November 18-20
Canadian Seed Trade
Association - Semi-Annual Meeting - Hyatt Regency -
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
November 18-20
Global Grains
2008 - Geneva, Switzerland
November 18-20
58th Annual Kansas Turfgrass Conference - Topeka, Kansas
Info: +1 785 532 6173
November 19-21
Biodiversity & Biotechnology Symposium 2008 - Crowne
Plaza Hotel - Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
November 20-22
World Biodiversity Conference - Chiang Mai, Thailand
November 23-27
International Conference on Genetic Control of Plant
Pathogenic Viruses and their Vectors: Towards New
Resistance Strategies – Puerto de Santa María,
Spain
November 23 - December 2
Introductory Course in Bioinformatics - Agricultural
Genetic Engineering Research Institute - Giza, Egypt
November 24-27
Conventional and Molecular Breeding of Field and
Vegetable Crops - Novi Sad, Serbia
Info:
tanja@ifvcns.ns.ac.yu
November 25-27
Review and Planning Meeting on Vegetable Variety
Selection and Adoption in Central Asia and the Caucasus
- hosted by AVRDC –
Central Asia and the Caucasus - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
November 25-27
The Second Steering Committee Meeting on Central Asia
and the Caucasus Vegetable Research and
Development Networks - hosted by
AVRDC – Central Asia and
the Caucasus - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
November 25-28
II Simpósio Brasileiro de Recursos Genéticos
/
Second Brazilian Symposium of Genetic Resources - Hotel
Nacional - Brasília, Brasil
November 25-29
Agromek - MCH
Messecenter Herning, Herning, Denmark
November 27-30
6th Sifel Morocco:
International Fruit & Vegetables Trade Show -
Agadir, Morocco
November 28-30
The Challenges for North Africa and Promises for a
Regional Integrated Program in Biosciences - Ezzahra
Hotel Zahra Dar - Tunis, Tunisia
Info:
me_aouani07@hotmail.fr
October 2008
October 1-2
8th AMT Agri Outlook Conference
- CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa
October 1-3
XI Seminário Mineiro
sobre Produção Orgânica - Embrapa Milho e Sorgo - Sete Lagoas, MG,
Brasil
October 2
1st International Watermelon Conference - Museum Principe Felipe of
Ciudad de las Ciencias - Valencia, Spain
Info:
watermelonconference@universoseleccion.com
October 4-10
2008 Wuhan Seed Trade
Fare - Wuhan Science and Technology Exhibition Center - China
October 6-31
Regional training programme on Plant Genetic Resources and Seeds:
Policies, Conservation and Use -Ethiopia
October 7-8
L'événement Fruits & Légumes - Angers, France
October 7-9
2nd International Non-GMO Soy
Summit - Brussels, Belgium
October 7-9
EuroBIO 2008 - Palais des
Congrès - Paris, France
October 8-9
1st meeting of EFSA's Advisory Forum Representatives on Plant Health
– Parma, Italy
October 12-14
11th General Conference of AARINENA, the Association of Agricultural
Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa - Damascus,
Syria
October 12-15
European Seed Association - Annual
Meeting - Brussels, Belgium
October 12-15
1st
International Conference "Diversifying Crop Protection" - The
European Network for the Durable Exploitation of Crop Protection
Strategies - La Grande Motte, France
October 12-16
5th Solanacea Genome Workshop 2008 - Cologne, Germany
October 12-17
13th International Biotechnology
Symposium (IBS) and Exhibition - China
October 14-15
IV International
Uzbek Cotton Fair - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
October 14-16
IV Congreso de Mejora Genética de
Plantas - Córdoba, Spain
October 14-17
HortiFair 2008 - Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
October 14-17
XXI Congreso
Panamericano de Semillas - Federación Latinoamericana de
Asociaciones de Semillas (FELAS)
- Hotel Hilton - Cartagena, Colombia
October 15-18
XXXVII Convention of
AMSAC: “Challenges and Opportunities facing the seed producing industry”
- Hotel Velas - Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
October 18
Seminar on Phytosanitary Regulations - ASTA is partnering with the
Mexican Seed Trade Association (AMSAC) to hold a one-day seminar on in
conjunction with the AMSAC Annual Congress in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
October 19-23
SIAL 2008 - Paris, France
October 20-23
10th
Asian Regional Maize Workshop - Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
October 20-25
Curso de Postgrado sobre producción de fármacos en plantas / Plant cell
biotechnology for the production of biopharmacs - Ministerio de Ciencia
y Tecnología, Subsecretaría Ceprocor - Córdoba, Argentina
E- mail:
goleniow@ceprocor.uncor.edu
October 20-31
II Curso teórico-práctico: “Herramientas biotecnológicas en el
mejoramiento de cultivos ornamentales” - Instituto de Floricultura.
INTA-Castelar, Argentina
Info:
aescandon@cnia.inta.gov.ar
October 20-31
International Course on Crop Prebreeding /
Curso Internacional de Pre-Mejoramiento Genético de Plantas
- Universidad Central de
Venezuela, Facultad de Agronomía - Maracay, Venezuela
October 21-22
Seminário sobre
Ferrugem Asiática da Soja - Embrapa Trigo - Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil
October 21-22
Seed Sampler Workshop -
SGS Mid-West Seed Services - Brookings, South Dakota
October 21-22
Maximizing the Impact
of Agricultural Research in Africa: A Workshop on Research Communication
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
October 22-23
Cultivos transgénicos y orgánicos: impacto en el desarrollo económico
del Perú - Miraflores, Peru
October 22-24
II Congresso
Brasileiro de Tomate Industrial - Centro de Convenções de Goiânia -
Goias, Brasil
October 23-24
2008 PREISM Workshop - Waugh Auditorium, Economic Research Service,
USDA - Washington, DC
October 26-29
AusBiotech 2008 National Conference
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
October 26-30
Annual Meetings, American
Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science
Society of America - Chicago, Illinois
October 27
3rd Workshop of the National Forum on Seed on Plants with Novel Traits
and Novelty
Réunion de travail du Forum national sur les semences portant sur les
VCN
Minto Suite Hotel, Ottawa, Canada
October 28
Deutscher Bauernverband
Fachausschuss für Saatgutfragen - Berlin, Germany
October 28
National Workshop on
Seed Program Modernization /
Atelier national sur la modernisation du Programme des semences
-
Canadian
Food Inspection Agency -
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
October 28-29
Workshop
em viroses de cereais transmitidas pelo ácaro Aceria tosichella - Wheat
streak mosaic virus e High plain virus - nos países do Cone Sul:
situação, detecção e manejo - Hotel Balcarce, Balcarce, Pcia. Buenos
Aires, Argentina
October 28-30
6th National Seed Information Exchange and Products Fair - Zhengzhou
Zhongyuan International Exhibition Center - Zhengzhou
City, Henan province, China
Info:
chenmiao870421@yahoo.com.cn
October 28-31
Organic ASIA 2008 - Sarawak
Cultural Village - Kuching, Malaysia
September 2008
September 1-5
47ª
edição do Curso Diacom: Tetrazólio e Patologia de
Sementes - EMBRAPA - Londrina, Paraná, Brasil
September 1-12
Training course on Seed
Pathology and Seed Health Technology, in
collaboration with the African Seed Health Centre
(AFSHC) at Sokoine University of Agriculture in
Morogoro, Tanzania
September 1-26
Plant Breeding and Seed Production -
A SIDA Advanced International Training Program, Phase 1
(phase 2: February 23 - March 6, 2009) - Svalöv,
Sweden
September
2008 - June 2010
Plant Breeding Academy
Offered by the Seed
Biotechnology Center at
UC Davis, Davis,
California
September 2-7
3rd
International Symposium on Fusarium head blight (10th European Fusarium
Seminar) - Szeged, Hungary
September 4-5
II Congreso Nacional
/ I Congreso Internacional de Enseñanza de las Ciencias Agropecuarias
- Colegio de Profesionales de la Agronomía de Entre Ríos, España 281 -
Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina
September 4-5
Seed Resarch Summit - Organized by the Seed Biotechnology Center at UC
Davis, ASRF, NCCPB and ASTA - Chicago, Illinois
Info: scwebster@ucdavis.edu
September 8-12
ISTA Workshop on Seed sampling, Moisture, Germination, Purity and
Quality Management - Taichung, Taiwan
September 8-12
V International Symposium on Brassicas and XVI Crucifer Genetics
Workshop - Lillehammer, Norway
Info: magnor.hansen@umb.no
September 9 at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard
Time
Is Your
Intellectual Property Protected? - A Soyatech Webinar - presented by
attorneys from the McLane Law Firm - offered by
Soyatech, LLC
September 9-11
Monsanto Canada's Technology Expo -
Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
September 9-12
IV Balkan Symposium on Vegetables and Potatoes - Sadovo, Bulgaria
Info: krasteva@ipgr-bg.org
September 9-13
International Symposium on Tomato in the Tropics -
Simposio Internacional de Tomate en el Trópico
- Villa de Leyva, Colombia
September 10-11
PotatoEurope 2008 - 5ièmes Journées Internationales de la Pomme de Terre
- Villers-Saint-Christophe, Aisne, France
September 10-12
China Seed
Expo 2008
Liaoning Industrial Exhibition Center - Shenyang, China
September 11-14
18th EUCARPIA General
Congress - Modern Variety Breeding for Present and Future Needs -
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia - Valiencia, Spain
September 11-15
5th International Hybrid Rice Symposium
- Changsha, China
September 12-17
BioSpain 2008 - Granada
Congress and Exhibition Center - Granada, Spain
September 14-18
Harlan II - Biodiversity
In Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution and Sustainability -
University of California, Davis, USA
September 14-18
12th International Lupin Conference - Freemantle, Perth, Western
Australia
September 15-18 (originally scheduled July 28 - 31)
ISTA Purity, Germination & Tetrazolium Test on Tropical and SubTropical
Seeds - Córdoba, Argentina
September 15-19
Workshop: Risks,
benefits and opportunities from the release of GMOs in the African
Regions - The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology (ICGEB) - Cape Town, South Africa
September 16-17
Bioenergy World Americas 2008
- Salvador da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
September 16-17
California Seed Association Mid-Year
Meeting - Marriott Hotel - Monterey, California
September 16-20
Bioenergy World Americas 2008
- Salvador, Brazil
September 17-19
Soya & Oilseed Summit 2008 -
Chase Park Plaza Hotel - St. Louis, Missouri
September 17-19
BioSpain 2008 - Congress and
Exhibition Centre - Granada, Spain
September 17-20
19th
New Phytologist Symposium - Physiological Sculpture of Plants: New
Visions and Capabilities for Crop Development - Mount Hood, Oregon,
USA
September 18-20
CSIRO Plant
Industry symposium: Plant energy and water productivity: from genes to
environment - A satellite conference to ComBio 2008 assessing future
strategies to develop improved plants for agriculture and bio-fuel
production and to assess the performance of plants in natural
environments - Robertson Theatre, Research School of Biological
Sciences, Australian National Univestity - Canberra ACT, Australia
September 19
III Encontro Nacional do
Agronegócio Pimenta e Pimentão - Brasília, Brasil
September 20-24
14th Australian Agronomy
Confenrence - Adelaide Convention Center - Adelaide, South Australia
September 22-25
Biennial meeting of the International Union of Forestry Research
Organisations' Seed Physiology Working group: 'Trees, Seeds and a
Changing Climate' - The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew's, Millennium Seed
Bank Project, Sussex and the conference centre of the University of
Sussex.
September 22-26
1st All Africa Congress on
Biotechnology: ‘Harnessing the Potential of Agricultural Biotechnology
for Food Security and Socio-Economic Development in Africa’ - Nairobi, Kenya
September 22-26
8th ISTA Seminar on Statistics in Seed Testing - POSTPONED UNTIL
APRIL 2009
September 23-24
Western Nursery & Garden Expo
September 24-25
Seed Sampler Training Workshop - SGS
Mid-West Seed Services - Brookings, South Dakota
September 29
Northern Plains Biomass Economy: What Makes Sense? - Ramada Plaza
Suites and Conference Center - Fargo, North Dakota
September 29-30
First Workshop on
Phytosanitary and Trade Regulations - Brasilia Alvorada Hotel -
Brasilia, Brasil
September 29-30
AgriGenomics World Congress - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 29 - October 3
Agroforestry and Tree Genetics: Making Markers Meaningful - Nairobi,
Kenya
September 29 - June 2009 & October 2009 –
July 2010
International Master in Plant Breeding (17th edition) - Zaragoza
(Spain)
September 30 - November 4
Germplasm and Genes: distance-delivered courses for academic credit,
noncredit professional development and CEU credit - Department of
Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
Nebraska
August
2008
August 4-8
XXth International
Congress of Sexual Plant Reproduction - Brasília DF, Brazil
August 4-15
Rice
Breeding Course: Laying the Foundation for the Second Green Revolution
- The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Laguna,
Philippines
August 5-7
4th Indonesian Biotechnology
Conference 2008 (IBC 2008) - IPB International Convention Center -
Bogor, Indonesia
August 6-9
Association of American Seed
Control Officials (AASCO) - Annual Meeting - Nashville, Tennessee
August 11-14
14th Australian Cotton
Conference - Australia
August 12 - 13
Soybean Rust Identification Short Course (free) -
University of Florida - North Florida Research and Education
Center - Quincy, Florida
August 12-15
International Symposium on
Induced Mutations in Plants
(ISIM) - International Atomic
Energy Agency - Vienna, Austria
August 17-22
16th Conference of The
Federation of European Societies
of Plant Biology (FESPB)
- Tampere, Finland
August 19-22
Barley Malt Quality Evaluation
Short Course - Northern
Crops Institute - Fargo, North
Dakota
August 19-22
International Cconference on
Sorghum for Biofuel - Omni
Houston Hotel - Houston, texas
August 20-21
XXX Reunião de Pesquisa de Soja
Região Central do Brasil -
Centro Technológico Coming - Rio
Verde, GO, Brasil
August 20-22, 2008
Fifth International Symposium
Integrative Bioinformatics -
Leucorea,
Lutherstadt-Wittenberg, Germany
August 22-29
International Workshop on
Sorghum for Biofuels - Omni
Houston Hotel - Houston, Texas
August 24-27
Agricultural Biotechnology
International Conference (ABIC)
- UCC Campus - Cork City,
Ireland
August 24-28
Sixth International Symposium on
In Vitro Culture and
Horticultural Breeding -
Queensland, Australia
August 24-29
9th Congress of the International
Society for Plant Pathology - Torino, Italy
August 24-29
11th International Wheat
Genetics Symposium (IWGS 2008)
- Brisbane Convention Centre -
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
August 25-27
VIII Curso sobre tecnologia de
produção de sementes de
hortaliças - Embrapa
Hortaliças, Brasília-DF, Brasil
August 25 - December 12
Agricultural Biochemistry:
distance-delivered courses for
academic credit, noncredit
professional development and CEU
credit - Department of
Agronomy and Horticulture at the
University of Nebraska -
Lincoln, Nebraska
August 25 - December 12
Plant Science:
distance-delivered courses for
academic credit, noncredit
professional development and CEU
credit - Department of
Agronomy and Horticulture at the
University of Nebraska -
Lincoln, Nebraska
August 26 - September 25
Self-pollinated crop breeding:
distance-delivered courses for
academic credit, noncredit
professional development and CEU
credit - Department of
Agronomy and Horticulture at the
University of Nebraska -
Lincoln, Nebraska
August 26-28
Fram Progress Show - Boone,
Iowa
August 26-28
African Food Safety &
Traceability Conference and
Exhibition - Arusha,
Tanzania
August 28-29
Phytosanitary Workshop -
presented by The Asia Pacific
Seed Association (APSA) and the
American Seed Trade Association
(ASTA) - Bangkok, Thailand
Info:
lnichols@amseed.org
August 30 - September 2
10th International Fusarium
Workshop and the International
Fusarium Genomics Workshop 2008
- Hotel Carlos V, Alghero,
Sardinia (Italy)
August 31 - September 4
58th Australian Cereal Chemistry
Conference - Surfers
Paradise Marriott Resort & Spa -
Gold Coast, Queensland,
Australia
August 31 - September 4
XXVII Congresso Nacional de
Milho e Sorgo - Centro de
Exposições e Eventos de Londrina
- Londrina PR, Brazil
July 2008
July 1-2
Annual meeting of OECD Seed Schemes - The Sheraton
Chicago Hotel and Towers - Chicago, USA
July 1-3
II Reunião da Comissão Brasileira de Pesquisa de Trigo e
Triticale - Embrapa Trigo - Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil
July 2-4
BIOTRACER 2nd
General Meeting - Dublin, Ireland
July 3
II Reunião
Brasileira de Pesquisa de Trigo e Triticale - Passo
Fundo, RS, Brasil
July 4-6
IX Feria de las Flores - Mérida, Venezuela
Info:
feriadelasflores@gmail.com
July 6-8
Canadian Seed Trade
Association - 85th Annual Meeting - Fairmont
Newfoundland - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
July 6-11
9th ISSS
Conference on Seed Biology - University of Warmia
and Mazury Conference Centre - Kortowo, district of
Olsztyn, Poland
July 7-11
Curso sobre Cultura de Tecidos de Plantas - A Embrapa
Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia e a Fundação de Apoio
à Pesquisa Científica e Tecnológica
Info:
catcurso@cenargen.embrapa.br
July 8-11
International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGI) Research
Conference - Anyang Hotel Conference Center -
Anyang, China
July 9-12
Congreso Interuniversitario de Biotecnología - León,
Spain
July 12-14
Alabama Seed Trade Association Annual Meeting - King
Prince Beach & Golf Resort - St. Simons Island, Georgia
July 13-14
Georgia Seed Trade Association Annual Meeting - King
Prince Beach & Golf Resort - St. Simons Island, Georgia
July 13-17
44th Annual Caribbean Food Crops Society Meeting -
Miami, Florida
July 14-18
Noções e
Aplicações em Bioinformática - Embrapa Trigo - Passo
Fundo, RS, Brasil
July 14-18
Association of Official Seed
Certifying Agencies (AOSCA) - 90th Annual Meeting - Québec City,
Québec, Canada
July 16-18
Development of plant breeding and crop management in time and space -
Priekuli, Cesis district, Latvia
Info:
priekuli-conference@inbox.lv
July 19-24
The European
Bioenergetics Conference 2008 - Dublin, Ireland
July 20-23
9th International Conference on
Precision Agriculture (ICPA) - Hyatt Regency Tech Center - Denver,
Colorado
July 21-24
American Society for
Hortitultural Science - Annual Meeting - Rosen Plaza Hotel -
Orlando, Florida
July 21-25
Third
International Biofumigation Symposium - Canberra, Australia
July 26-30
Workshop on Applying Modern Genomic Tools to the Management and
Characterization of Plant Genetic Resources - University of British
Columbia - Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
July 26-30
American Phytopathological Society -
Annual Meeting - Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 27- August 2
American Society of Plant Biologists
(ASPB) - Annual Meeting - Merida, Mexico
July 28-30
2008 Australian Grains
Industry Conference - Melbourne, Australia
July 28 - 31 (now September 15-18)
ISTA Purity, Germination & Tetrazolium Test on Tropical and SubTropical
Seeds - Córdoba, Argentina
June 2008
June 2-3
1st International Symposium Soy &
Strategic Marketing and the 5th International Conference Soy & Health
- Het Pand, Ghent University - Ghent, Belgium
June 2-4
2008 Corn Utilization and
Technology Conference (CUTC) - Kansas City, Kansas
June 2-16
International
e-Conference on Agricultural BioSciences 2008 (IeCAB 2008) -
Internet conference
June 2-20
Seed potato technology, certification and supply systems -
Wageningen, The Netherlands
June 2-27
Contemporary approaches in plant genetic resources, conservation and use
- Wageningen, The Netherlands
June 3
Partnerships, Innovation, Agriculture - International meeting organised
by INRA, CIRAD and their public interest group IFRAI, the French
Initiative for International Agricultural Research - Paris, France
June 3-5
High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate
Change and Bioenergy - FAO - Rome, Italy
June 6-9
Oregon Seed Trade Association -
Annual Meeting - Sunriver Resort - Sunriver, Oregon
June 6-11
Association of Official Seed Analysts
(AOSA) and Society of Commercial
Seed Technologists (SCST) - Annual Meeting - Saint Paul, Minnesota
June 7
8th Annual Native Seed Symposium - Mid-West Seed Services - St.
Paul, Minnesota
June 9-11
XI International Symposium on the Processing Tomato - Toronto, Canada
Info: ofpa@sentex.net
June 9–11
World Biofuels Forum
2008 - Prague Congress Center - Prague, Czech Republic
June 10
IGC Grains
Confenrence 2008 "Volatile markets – who will pay the price?" -
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center - London, United Kingdom
June 11-13
ISTA GMO Detection Workshop - Bologna, Italy
June 12-14
ISTA Moisture, Forest Tree and Shrub Seed & Tetrazolium Workshop -
Peri, Italy
June 12-14
The future
of agricultural biotechnology: creative destruction, adoption, or
irrelevance? - 12th ICABR Conference - Ravello, Italy
June 13-15
China International Seed Industry
Expo 2008 (CISIE 2008) - Hunan International Convention & Exhibition
Centre - Changsha, Hunan, China
June 14-18
World Congress on In Vitro
Biology - Tucson, Arizona, USA
June 16
Intellectual Property for Biotech - A comprehensive overview of IP
valuation and exploitation - Berjaya Times Square Hotel - Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Info:
ramesh.ramakrishnan@lexisnexis.com
June 16
ISTA Seminar on Specified Trait Seed Testing - Savoia Hotel Regency - Bologna, Italy
June 16-18
2008 Workshop of the U.S. Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee -
Des Moines, Iowa
June 16-19
International Seed Testing Association
(ISTA) - Annual Meeting - Savoia Hotel Regency - Bologna, Italy
June 16-24
The 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress: Cultivate the Future -
Modena, Italy
June 16-27
Plant variety protection - Wageningen, The Netherlands
June 17-20
2008 BIO International Convention -
San Diego Convention Center - San Diego, California
June 18
Illinois Crop
Improvement Association/Illinois Seed Trade Association Annual Meeting
- Hawthorne Suites Hotel, Champaign, Illinois
June 18-20
16th IFOAM Organic World Congress - Modena, Italy
June 18-21
BIO 2008 - San Diego Convention Center
- San Diego, California
June
21-25
125th Annual Convention
of the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA)
Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center -
Kissimmee,
Florida
June 22-24
IFOAM General Assembly - Modena, Italy
June 22-24
Workshop on Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) /
Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) and Enforcement of Biosafety
Regulations - Siem Reap, Cambodia
June 22-25
Joint Annual Meeting of
the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and the Sociedad
Mexicana De Bioquimica Rama: Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular de Plantas
- Fiesta Americana Hotel - Merida, Mexico
June 22-26
2008 EPSO Conference - Presqu’île
de Giens, France
23-25 June 2008
International Plant
Hopper Conference - International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) -
Los Baños, Philippines
June 23-
African Conference for Biotechnology - Tripoli, Libya
June 23 - July 4
Organization and Management in the German Seed Sector
Info: walter.haege@gmx.de
June 24-26
II Workshop sobre Potencial Forrageiro da Alfafa nos Trópicos - São
Carlos (SP), Brazil
June 24-27
1st Global
Conference on GMO Analysis - Villa Erba - Como, Italy
June 24-28
DLG-Feldtage 2008 - Gut
Buttelstedt bei Weimar, Thüringen, Germany
June 26 - July 1
Plant Biology 2008 -
Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists and the
Sociedad Mexicana De Bioquimica Rama: Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular de
Plantas - Mérida, Mexico
June 28 - July 2
8th International Oat Conference - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Info: Deon Stuthman
June 29 - July 2
OECD - Annual Meeting of the Seed Schemes
- Chicago, Illinois
June 29 - July 5
21st International Grassland
Congress and 8th International Rangelands Conference - Hohhot, China
June 30 - July 4
Technologia para qualidade
de semente de soja - III Curso de vigor para semente de soja -
Londrina, PR, Brazil
June 30 - July 4
Curso de posgrado sobre interacciones planta-patógeno: “Aspectos
fisiológicos y moleculares de las interacciones planta-patógeno
causantes de stress bióticos y su aplicación en la selección de
estrategias de control” - Universidad de
Rosario - Argentina
Info: posgrado-agr@unr.edu.ar
June 30 - July 4
ISTA Workshop on Seed Moisture, Germination & Vigour - Nakuru, Kenya
June 30 - July 3
International Durum Wheat
Symposium "From Seed to Pasta: The Durum Wheat Chain" - Bologna,
Italy
June 30 - July 11
APSA-JAAS Hybrid Rice Training Course 2008 - Jiangxi, China
Info: apsa@apsaseed.org
May 2008
May
National Training Course on Molecular Marker Techniques for
Mutant Characterization, VIE/5/015 - Ho Chi Minh City,
Viet Nam
May 4-8
XXVI
Congresso Brasileiro da Ciência das Plantas Daninhas
- Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil
May 4-8
International Symposium on Biotechnology - Sfax, Tunisia
May 5-6
62nd annual Southeastern
Turfgrass Conference -
University of Georgia - Tifton
campus
May 5-6
Internationales Hopfensymposium
- Wolnzach (Hallertau), Germany
May 5-7
United Fresh 2008 - Las
Vegas, Nevada
May 5-7
Commercialisation of
Agricultural Biotechnology Crops
in Asia - Moving from Ideas to
Useful Products - Le
Meridien - Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
May 5-9
Workshop “Criação de Percevejo
em Laboratórios” - Embrapa -
Londrina, PR, Brasil
May 6-8
Bundesverband Deutscher
Planzenzüchter e.V. - 63.
ordentliche
Mitgliederversammlung - Bad
Dürkheim statt
May 6-9
82nd Annual Convention of the
Pacific Seed Association (PSA)
- Gleneden, Oregon
May 6-10
3rd
European Whitefly Symposium - Aguadulce, Alemria, Spain
May 7-28
Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights -
A SIDA Advanced International Training Program - Svalöv,
Sweden
May 8
Biotechnology and Biosafety in Developing Countries
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) -
Washington, DC
May 12-15
XVIth
Eucarpia meeting, section Vegetables, Working Group
Tomato - Wageningen, The Netherlands
May 12-16
Fourth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the
Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP
4) - Bonn, Germany
May 12-16
10th Annual Seed
Technologist Workshop - Mid-West Seed Services -
Brookings, South Dakota
May 12-16
ISTA Quality Management Training Course - Hotel 'The
Chancery' - Bangalore, India
May 12-16
World
Congress on the Future of Food and Farming - Bonn,
Germany
May 12-22
Workshop on plant
pre-breeding - The Center for Agricultural
Biotechnology - Kamphaengsaen Campus, Kasetsart
University, Thailand
May 12-23
Workshop on Agricultural Robotics - Held in conjunction
with the IEEE
Conference on Robotics and Automation - Pasadena,
California
May 14
Seed Industry Conference -
Recreation Pool Lodge - Davis, California
May 14-16
‘Seed and Young
Plant Health’ Symposium - De Ruiter Seeds -
Bergschenhoek, the Netherlands
May 15-16
Seed Trade
Association of Arizona (STAA) - 16th Annual Convention
- Carefree Resort & Villas - Carefree, Arizona
May 18-22
16th Australian Weeds
Conference - Cairns Convention Center - Cairns,
Queensland
May 19
Workshop on Agricultural Robotics - held in
conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Robotics and
Automation - Pasadena, California
May 19-23
Workshop "Introduction
to Biosafety for the Environmental Release of GM Crops:
Evaluation of Scientific Data and Risk Assessment
Dossiers" - The International Centre for Genetic
Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) - Ca' Tron di
Roncade, Italy
May 19-30
Conference
of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Bonn, Germany
May 20-22
Irrigation Australia 2008 National Conference and Expo
- Melbourne, Australia
May 21-22
Seed Sampler Workshop
- Mid-West Seed Services - Brookings, South Dakota
May 24-28
ISF Congress -
Prague, Czeck
Republic
Info: isf@worldseed.org
May 24 - September 28
Gregor
Mendel - Planting the Seeds of Genetics - An exhibit
is presented by Villanova University and The Academy of
Natural Sciences - Academy of Natural Sciences,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 27-30
Sommet
des fruits et légumes - Paris, France
May 29
Seed Treatment
Conference - Prague, Czeck Republic
May 29-31
Europatat 2008
- Berne, Switzerland
May 30
5o Simpósio Paranaense de Pós-Colheita e 4o Simpósio
Internacional de Grãos Armazenados - Cascavel, PR,
Brazil
April 2008
March 31 - April 3
2nd
International Salinity Forum
- Adelaide Convention Center -
Adelaide, Australia
March 31 - April 11
Molecular marker applications in
crop genetics and breeding -
ICRISAT - Patancheru, India
April
National
Training Course on Tissue Culture Techniques including Rice Anther
Culture, SIL/5/007 - Freetown, Sierra Leone
April 1-2
Third International Conference on Intellectual Property in Agriculture
- Amman, Jordan
April 1-3
Fédération nationale des syndicats
d'exploitants agricoles (FNSEA) - Nantes, France
April 2-4
International conference on Implications
of GM-Crop cultivation at large spatial scales (GMLS 2008) - Bremen,
Germany
April 3-6
3rd Global Initiative on Late
Blight (GILB) - Beijing, China
April 5-10
The 10th International Barley
Genetics Symposium - Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
April 6-9
California Seed Association -
Annual Convention - Palm
Springs Hilton Resort - Palm
Spring, California
April 7-9
Advancing Agriculture in Developing Countries through Knowledge and
Innovation - Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
April 7-11
ISTA Seed Health Testing Workshop - Pretoria, South Africa
April 7-12
Intergovernmental Plenary Meeting
of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology
for Development (IAASTD) - Johannesburg, South Africa
April 7-18
IAEA-AFRA Regional Training Course on “Basic Molecular Markers and Data
Analysis”, RAF/5/056 - Thiès, Senegal
April 7-18
Quantitative Methods in Plant Breeding - The National Institute of
Agricultural Botany (NAIB) - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Info: courses@niab.com
April 8-10
Ethanol 2008 - Sydney
Convention Center - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
April 8-10
AGRA Middle East - Dubai
International Exhibition Centre - United Arab Emirates
April 8-11
Global Agro-Industries Forum (GAIF)
- New Delhi, India
April 9-10
APSA-AVRDC Workshop on Collaborative
Research - Kaohsiung, Taiwan
April 10-12
International
Conference on the Organic Sector Development in Central/Eastern European
and Central Asian Countries - National Agricultural University -
Kyiv, Ukraine
April 11-13
International Plant Tissue and Biotechnology Conference - University of
Dhaka - Dhaka, Bangladesh
Info: mimdadul07@yahoo.com
April 13-18
5th International Crop Science
Congress 2008 - Jeju, Korea
April 14-18, 2008
"Methods in Plant Population Genetics",
An International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) Workshop - IPK
Gatersleben, Germany
April 14-18
II International Conference on Vegetable Crops — ICV 2008 - Fortaleza,
Brasil
Info: aragao@cnpat.embrapa.br
April 14-18
6TH ISTA Seed Health Symposium - Berg en Dal, Kruger National Park,
South Africa
April 15 - 18
Curso de postgrado sobre Recursos Genéticos - Facultad de Ciencias
Agrarias - Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Brasil
E-mail:
posgrado@agr.unne.edu.ar
April 15 - 18
ISTA Seed Vigour Workshop - Bologna, Italy
April 17-18
Colloque: Agriculture biologique et changement climatique - ENITA
Clermont - Lempdes, France
April 17-18
3rd
International Conference on IP Protection for Plant Innovation -
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April 21-25
ISTA Workshop on Species & Variety Testing / Verification -
Freising-Munich, Germany
April 22-24
"Agricultures et défis globaux" Atelier pour un observatoire des
agricultures du monde - Cirad - Agropolis International,
Montpellier, France
April 23 - 25
VIII International Symposium of
Plant Biotechnology - The Institute of Plant Biotechnology - Villa
Clara, Cuba
April 24-26
Bangalore Bio 2008 - Bangalore,
India
April 26-29
2008 All Things Organic Conference
and Tradeshow - McCorkmick Place - Chicago, Illinois
April 29
Journée Nationale Protéagineux: "Marchés
et débouchés des protéagineux : Saisir les opportunités" - Chartres,
France
March 2008
March
IAEA/RER Regional Training course (RTC) on Methodology
in Drought Tolerance Research, RER/5/013 - Aleppo, Syria
March 3-7
International Symposium
“Underutilized Plants for food, nutrition, income and
sustainable development” - Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge -
Arusha, Tanzania
March --28 (in two phases)
Generation Challenge Programmme
phenotyping course for
drought-related traits across
tropical legumes – Concepts and
practices - ICRISAT -
Patancheru, India
Info:
Vincent Valdez
March 3 - April 8
Distance-delivered mini-course
in Production of Specialty Grain
Crops - offered by the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
for academic credit, noncredit
professional development and CEU
credit
March 4-5
Outlook 2008 - Australia's
premier commodity forecasting
conference - Canberra,
Australia
March 4-5
Seed Sampler Workshop -
Mid-West Seed Services - Salem,
Oregon
March 6
Forage Technology Conference
- Michigan State University
(MSU) Kellogg Hotel and
Conference Center
March 9-11
Canola Council's 2008 Convention
- Boca Raton Resort, Florida
March 10-11
CSREES-USDA Integrated
Competitive Programs
Grantsmanship Workshop -
Memphis, Tennessee
March 11-13
21st National Rice Research and
Development (R&D) Conference
- PhilRice Central Experiment
Station - Maligaya, Science City
of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, The
Philippines
March 12-13
World Biofuels Markets Congress
- Brussels, Belgium
March 13
Illinois-Indiana Seed Conditioning Workshop 2008 -
Hawthorn Suites - Champaign, Illinois
March 13-14
2nd
Biennial Charley Rick Symposium
– Plant Responses to Biotic and
Abiotic Stress- Organized by the
UCD Plant Genomics Program
March 17
Plant Breeding in the 21st
Century: Challenges and
Opportunities across the Plant
Sciences - A symposium -
Cargill Center for Microbial and
Plant Genomics, St. Paul Campus
- St. Paul, Minnesota
March 24-28
XLV Curso Diacom: Tetrazólio e
patologia de sementes -
Embrapa Soja - Londrina, Brazil
March 24 - April 11
Curso de Actualización en
Análisis de Riesgo y
Bioseguridad en
AgroBiotecnología - Buenos
Aires, Argentina
March 25-28
Potato Science for the Poor –
Challenges for the New
Millennium - A Working
Conference to Celebrate the
International Year of the Potato
- Cuzco, Peru
March 26
1º Seminário Nipo-Brasileiro
sobre a Cultura do Arroz" -
Auditório da Embrapa Sede -
Brasília (DF), Brasil
March 26-28
Training course: Perspectives in
coexistence and traceability
along the supply chain: GMO
detection, identification and
quantification -
AgroBioInstitute - Sofia,
Bulgaria
March 27-28
Convención anual de CropLife
Latin America - Ciudad
Antigua, Guatemala
February 2008
February 3-6
International Conference
“Molecular Mapping & Marker
Assisted Selection in Plants
- Pharmaziezentrum Althanstrasse
- Vienna, Austria
February 4-5
National Alfalfa Symposium -
Ramada Inn - Kearney, Nebraska
February 4-5
2008 New Mexico Chile Conference
- Hotel Encanto - Las Cruces,
New Mexico
February 4-6
55th Annual National Hard Spring
Wheat Show - Airport
International Inn - Williston,
North Dakota
February 4-7
Weed Science Society of America
- Annual Meeting - Chicago,
Illinois
February 5-8
1st Global Workshop on High
Resolution Digital Soil Sensing
and Mapping - Sydney,
Australia
February 6
GMO-seminariou Sveriges
lantbruksuniversitet -
Alnarp, Sweden
February 6-7
Kansas Seed Industry Association
- Annual Meeting - Clarion
Hotel - Manhattan, Kansas
February 6-7
North Dakota Crop Improvement
Association - Annual Meeting
- International Inn - Minot,
North Dakota
February 6 - March 6
Distance-delivered mini-course
in Advanced Plant Breeding for
the Tropics - offered by the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
for academic credit, noncredit
professional development and CEU
credit
February 7-8
Indiana Crop Improvement
Association - Annual Conference
- Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel
and Suites at Keystone Crossing
- Indianapolis, Indiana
February 7-9
Fruit Logistica 2008 -
Berlin, Germany
February 8
Best of the Best in Wheat
Research and Marketing Workshops
- Minot, North Dakota
February 8-13
48th Annual Meeting of the U.S.
Grains Council - Hyatt
Regency - San Antonio, Texas
February 8-13
U.S. National Sorghum Producers
- Annual Meeting - Hyatt Regency
- San Antonio, Texas
February
12-14
4th ASTA Executive Management
Forum - Chicago, Illinois
February 13-18
National Farm Machinery Show
- Louisville, Kentucky
February 14
New Mexico Seedsmen's
Association - Annual Meeting -
Clovis, New Mexico
February 14-15
5th Biennial Organic Seed
Growers Conference - Salem
Conference Center - Salem,
Oregon
February 17-18
I International Symposium on
Horticulture in Europe -
Wien, Austria
February 18-22
13th meeting of the Subsidiary
Body on Scientific, Technical
and Technological Advice
(SBSTTA-13) of the Convention on
Biological Diversity -
Headquarters of the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization -Rome,
Italy
February 20-21
3rd Breeding with Molecular
Markers course - Offered by the
Seed Biotechnology Center at UC
Davis -
UC Davis Buehler Alumni Center -
Davis, California
February 20-22
Eurofins Internatinal Seminar
2008 - Analytical expertise for
seed, feed & food safety -
Paris, France
February 21
28th Kentucky Alfalfa Conference
- Cave City Convention Center -
Cave City, Kentucky
February 21
Wheat Research, Marketing, Crop
Protection and Variety Update
Seminar - Texas AgriLife
Research and Extension Center -
Amarillo, Texas
February 21
Milling Wheat Conference -
Linton, Cambridgeshire, United
Kingdom
February 21-22
Agricultural Outlook Forum 2008
- Crystal Gateway Marriott -
Arlington, Virginia
February 22
Biotechnology as a toolbox to
study and monitor agricultural
genetic resources - FAO -
Rome, Italy
February 22-24
Mississippi Seedsmen's
Association - Annual Meeting -
Gold Strike Casino - Tunica,
Mississippi
February 23 - March 2
Salon international de
l'agriculture 2008 de Paris
- Paris, France
February 26-29
8th Annual Congress of the
African Seed Trade Association
(AFSTA) - Casablanca,
Morocco
February 28 - March 1
2008 Commodity Classic - The
Gaylord Opryland Resort -
Nashville, Tennessee
February 29 - March 1
2008 New Mexico Organic Farming
Conference - Marriott
Albuquerque Pyramid Hotel -
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Info: (505) 841-9067
January 2008
January 6-8
Joint meeting of the Kentucky
State Horticultural Society, the
Kentucky Vegetable Growers
Association, and the Kentucky
Farmers’ Market Association
- Embassy Suites Hotel -
Lexington, Kentucky
January 8-10
Louisiana Seedsmen's Association
- Annual Convention - Hotel
Acadiana - Lafayette, Louisiana
January 8-10
Crop Production Show -
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
January 8-11
Beltwide Cotton Conference -
Gaylord Opryland Resort &
Convention Center - Nashville,
Tennessee
January 9-10
University of Illinois' 2008
Crop Protection Technology
Conference - the Illini
Union - University of Illinois
campus
January 9-12
5th Philippine National Corn
Congress: "Nagkakaisang
Pagpapalaganap ng Akmang
Teknolohiya Tungo sa Maunlad na
Maisan" - Punta Villa Resort
- Ilo-ilo City, the Philippines
January 10-11
U.S. National Research
Association - Research Forum
- Ramada Plaza Suites &
Conference Center - Frago, North
Dakota
January 11
2008
Snake River Sugarbeet Conference - Twin Falls, Idaho
January 11-12
Great Plains Vegetable Growers Conference - Ramada
Inn - St. Joseph, Missouri
January 12-16
Plant and Animal
Genome XVI Conference - Town & Country Convention
Center - San Diego, California
January 13-14
Minesota Crop
Improvement Association Annual Meeting - Jackpot
Junction, Morton, Minnesota
January 13-16
American Farm Bureau
Federation - Annual Convention - New Orleans,
Louisiana
January 14-15
International Plant Meeting:
Value Creation
- Convention Center - Angers,
France
January 14-16
Nebraska Seed Improvement
Association Annual Conference
- Sandhills Convention Center -
North Platte, Nebraska
January 14-18
2008 University of Illinois Corn
and Soybean Classics -
University of Illinois
January 14 - February 18
Distance-delivered mini-course
in Crop and Weed Genetics -
offered by the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln for academic
credit, noncredit professional
development and CEU credit
January 14 - February 29
Distance-delivered mini-course
in Animal, Food and Industry
Uses of Grain - offered by
the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln for academic
credit, noncredit professional
development and CEU credit
January 14 - April 18
Distance-delivered mini-course
in Speciality Grain Utilization
Package - offered by the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
for academic credit, noncredit
professional development and CEU
credit
January 15-17
Manitoba Ag Days - Brandon,
Manitoba, Canada
January 16
Oregon Seed Trade Association
Mid Year Meeting - Salem
Conference Center - Salem,
Oregon
January 16-17
Farm Foundation conference, The
Second Decade of Crop
Biotechnology - Westin City
Center - Washington, D.C.
January 17-18
Midwest Organic Production and
Management Conference and Trade
Show - University of
Illinois
January 17-20
1st Symposium on Horticulture in
Europe - Vienna, Austria
January
18-22
Southern Seed Association -
89th Annual Meeting - Don
Cesar Beach Resort - St. Pete
Beach, Florida
January 20-22
Northwest Alfalfa Seed Growers -
Winter Conference - Sivler
Legacy Resort - Reno, Nevada
January
22-25
American
Seed Trade Association
-
47th Vegetable & Flower
Seed Conference -
Sheraton Hotel -
New Orleans, Louisiana
January 22-24
IPSA - Independent Professional
Seedsmen Association - Annual meeting - Sheraton Sand Key Resort -
Clearwater, Florida
January 23-24
"Arable Cropping in a
changing climate" - HGCA Research Conference -
Belton Woods Hotel - Lincolnshire
January 23-24
R&D Conference: 'Arable Cropping
in a Changing Climate' -
Belton, nr Grantham, United
Kingdom
January 23-24
University of Idaho's 2008
Potato Conference -
Pocatello, Idaho
January 24-25
Arkansas Seed Dealers'
Association Annual Convention -
Capitol Hotel - Little Rock,
Arkansas
January 24-27
Internationale Pflanzenmesse
(IPM) - Essen, Germany
January 26
Success, obstacle and
perspectives of bio-dynamic
plant breeding - Conference
of the Foundation for Future
Farming - Anthroposophical
Centre - Kassel, Germany
January 29-30
1st Annual Georgia Cotton
Conference - University of
Georgia Tifton Campus Conference
Center - Tifton, Georgia
January 30 - February 1
FarmTech - Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada
January 31
HGCA and PGRO Oilseeds and
Pulses Conference -
Peterborough, United Kingdom
January 31
Best of the Best in Wheat
Research and Marketing Workshops
- Dickinson, North Dakota
and Feb. 8 in Minot
December
2007
December 2-4
USA Rice Outlook Conference - Buena Vista Palace
Hotel - Orlando, Florida
December 4-6
2007 Great Lakes Fruit,
Vegetable and Farm Market Expo - DeVos Place - Grand
Rapids, Michigan
December
4-7
ASTA 37th
Soybean Seed
ASTA 62th Corn & Sorghum Seed Conferences
Seed Expo 2007
Hyatt Regency Hotel - Chicago, Illinois
December 5-8
Workshop on food assessment of GM crops to support
environmental release and commercialization - Dai Lai,
Vietnam
Info:
httnhan@yahoo.com
December 9-13
The 3rd Sunflower Symposium for Developing Countries
- Imperial Resort Beach Hotel - Entebbe, Uganda
December 11-12
Mississippi State University Extension Service’s 24th
annual Cotton Short Course - Mississippi State
University - Bost Extension Center - Starkville,
Mississippi
December 12
University of California Small Farm Program - UC
Davis Activities and Recreation Center, Rooms A and B -
Davis, California
December 12-13
Specialty Crops Conference - UC Davis - Davis,
California
December 12-13
Gene Flow Among Transgenic Plants and Their Wild
Relatives: Implications for Risk Assessment - The
Hyatt Regency, St. Louis, Missouri.
December 12-14
2007 National Soybean Rust Symposium - Marriott
Louisville Downtown - Louisville, Kentucky
December 13-14
Iowa Soybean
Association Leadership Conference and Annual Meeting
- Ames, Iowa
December 15-16
Plant Molecular Farming: From Biodiversity to
Bioindustry - 1st Sudan- Egypt Workshop - National
Centre for Research - Khartoum, Sudan
Info:
molecularcourse@gmail.com
December 17-19
2007
California Alfalfa & Forage Symposium - Portola
Plaza Hotel - Monterey, California
November 2007
November 4-6
Canadian Seed Trade
Association - Semi-Annual Meeting - Fairmont
Winnipeg - Winnipeg, Manitoba
November 4-8
Annual Meetings, American
Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America,
Soil Science Society of America - New Orleans,
Louisiana
November 5-6
Biofuels Markets Africa - Cape Town, South Africa
November 5-7
Simpósio Internacional sobre Melhoramento de Forrageiras
- Auditório da Embrapa Gado de Corte - Campo Grande,
Mato Grosso do Sul - Brasil
November 6-7
Corn Belt Seed Conference - Indiana Seed Trade
Association - Indianapolis, Indiana
November 6-9
Flaxseed: Adding
Functional Value - A short course - Northern Crops
Institute - Fargo, North Dakota
November 6-10
Asian Seed Congress
2007 - Edsa Shangri-la Hotel - Manila, The
Philippines
November 7-9
1st EUCARPIA-Symposium on Organic Plant Breeding -
Wageningen, Netherlands
November 7-9
Congreso Agrario Nacional - Hotel Tequendama - Bogota,
Colombia
Info:
comunicaciones@sac.org.co
November 7-9
3rd International Aphanomyces Workshop on Legumes -
Rennes, France
November 7-9
6th Asian Crop
Science Association Conference (BioAsia 2007) -
Queen Sirikit National Convention Center - Bangkok,
Thailand
November 7-10
Agri-Trade
- Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
November 8 – December 13
Cross-Pollinated Crop Breeding - Distance-delivered
mini-course - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
November 10-13
Western Seed Association - Annual Meeting - Westin Crown
Plaza - Kansas City, Missouri November 11-12
ASTA Farm and Lawn Seed Meeting
Westin Crown Plaza - Kansas City, Missouri
November 11-13
Soya & Oilseed
Summit 2007 "Nourishing Innovations in Food and Energy"
- InterContinental Hotel - Chicago, Illinois
November 11-14
Iowa Seed Association
Annual Meeting - Ames, Iowa
November 11-17
Agritechnica 2007
- Hannover, Germany
November 12-16
6th European
Conference on Grain Legumes - Lisbon Congress Centre
- Lisbon, Portugal
November 12-23
Practical and Theoretical Course ''Insecticidal
Proteins: Application and Regulatory Issues" - New
Delhi, India
November 13-14
Alfalfa Intensive
Training Seminar - Doubletree Hotel Riverside -
Boise, Idaho
November 13-14
National Conference for Agribusiness - Purdue
University - West Lafayette, Indiana
November 13-17
Agritechnica 2007 -
Messegelände - Hannover, Germany
November 14-15
Open
meeting of the Plant Variety Protection Board, U.S.
Department of Agriculture - Beltsville, Maryland
November 18-20
Eastern
European Seed Network (EESNET) - Annual Meeting -
Novi Sad, Serbia
November 19-21
Second
International Seed Trade Conference 2007 in the Central
and Est Asia and North Africa (CWANA) Region - Mena
House Oberoi - Cairo, Egypt
November 20-21
Coexistence between
Genetically Modified (GM) and non-GM based Agricultural
Supply Chains - Third International Conference -
Sevilla, Spain
November 26-30
XLV Curso
Diacom: Tetrazólio e Patologia de Sementes - Embrapa
Soja = Brazil
November 26-30
2nd International
Vavilov Conference: Crop Genetic Resources in the 21st
Century - Current Status, Problems and Prospects -
The N. I. Vavilov All-Russian Research Institute of
Plant Industry (VIR) - St. Petersburg, Russian
Federation
November 27-28
Regional Conference on Agri-Biotechnology and Biosafety
- Dushanbe, Tajikistan
November 27-29
103rd Midwest Food
Processors Association Convention & Expo + 80th
Annual Processing Crops Conference - Midwest Airlines
Center - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
November 27-29
Enjeux
et Perspectives des Biocarburants pour l’Afrique -
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
November 28
Kolloquium „Klimawandel – Herausforderung für die
Pflanzenzüchtung - Abgeordnetenhaus - Berlin, Germany
Anmeldung bitte unter Telefon: 0228-98581-28
November 28-29
New York Seed Association Annual Meeting - Ramada Inn -
Geneva, New York
November 29
National Workshop on Seed Program Modernization -
Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada
Atelier national sur la modernisation du Programme des
semences
November 29
'Restoring
Ancient Wheat' Seminar -
The Israel Genebank, Machon Volcani, Beit Dagan,
Israel
October 2007
October 1-12
Rice Breeding Course: Laying the foundation for the
second green revolution - International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) - Los Baños, The Philippines
October 1-12
Training programme: Plant genetic resources and seed -
Debre Zeit, Ethiopia
October
Second International
Seed Trade Conference in the
Central Asia, West Asia and
North Africa (CWANA) region
- Cairo, Egypt
October 2 – November 6
Germplasm
and Genes - Distance-delivered mini-course -
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
October 3-5
Annual Meeting of the Missouri Seedsmen's Association -
The Resort at Port Arrowhead - Lake Ozark, Missouri
October 3-5
17ª Reunião
Nacional de Pesquisa de Girassol - V Simposio Nacional
sobre a Cultura de Girassol - Uberaba, MG, Barzil
October 3-5
XXVIII
Congreso Ascolfi - Instalaciones del Centro
Internacional de Agricultura Tropical - CIAT
Cali, Colombia
October 3-6
Plant Genomics European Meetings - PlantGEMs 6 -
Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain
October 4-5
Next Generation Biofuels Markets - Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
October 5-7
Fruit Logistica
Asia - Bankgkok, Thailand
October 6-8
Atlantic Seed Association Annual Meeting - Hershey
Lodge & Convention Center - Hershey, Pennsylvania
October 7-8
Oil and Protein Crops Section of the European
Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA) -
Scientific Conference - Budapest, Hungary
October 7-10
Scientific Conference 2007 of The Oil and Protein Crops
Section of the European Association for Research on
Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA) - Budapest, Hungary.
October 8-12
II International
Symposium on Tomato Diseases - Kusadasi, Turkey
October 8-12
ISTA Moisture, Purity and Germination Workshop -
GEVES-SNES - Beaucouzé, France
October 8-12
Practical Course ''Evaluation of Risk Assessment
Dossiers for the Deliberate Release of Genetically
Modified Crops'' - ICGEB Biosafety Outstation -
Ca'Tron di Roncale, Italy
October 8-19
Theoretical and Practical Course ''Molecular Approaches
in Gene Expression Analysis for Crop Improvement'' -
New Delhi, India
October 9-11
Biotechnica - 15th
International Trade Fair for Biotechnology -
Hannover, Germany
October 9-12
IV
Baltic Genetical Congress - Daugavpils University,
Latvia
October 9-12
Hortifair -
Amsterdam RAI - The Netherlands
October 9-14
4th International Rice
Blast Conference - Vaya Huatian International Hotel,
Changsha - Hunan, China
October 10-12
BioFach Japan 2007 - Tolyo, Japan
October 12-15
Fresh Summit
International Convention & Exposition - George R.
Brown Convention Center - Houston, Texas
October 14-17
European Seed
Association (ESA) - Annual Meeting - Sheraton
Brussels Hotel - Brussels,
Belgium
October 15-17
5th International
Symposium of Rice Functional Genomics - Epochal
Tsukuba International Congress Center - Tsukuba, Japan
October 15-18
XVI
International Plant Protection Congress - SECC -
Glasgow, Scotland
October 15-19
10th International
Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium: Controlling
Epidemics of Emerging and Established Plant Virus
Diseases - The Way Forward - ICRISAT, Hyderabad,
India
October 16
IV Seminario Internacional sobre Propriedad Intelectual
Vegetal - Hotel Atton - Las Condes, Chile
October 16-17
Oklahoma Biofuels
Conference - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 16-18
BioFach America Latina 2007 - São Paulo, Brazil
October 18-19
Biodiesel Congress - Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 19-20
Asociación Mexicana
de Semilleros, A. C. (AMSAC) / Mexican Seed Trade
Association - XXXVI Asamblea General Ordinaria / 36th
Annual Convention - Guadalajara, Mexico
October 21-23
5th
National Seed Information & Product Fair - Anhui
International Exhibition Center - Hefei, China
October 22-24
Genomics Symposium:
The Genomics of Drought - The Australian Centre for
Plant Functional Genomics - Adelaide, Australia
October 22-25
North American Plant
Protection Organization (NAPPO) - 31st Annual Meeting
- St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
October 22-26
66th Plenary Meeting of
the International Cotton Advisory Committee - Izmir,
Turkey
October 22-26
Strategic Agrimarketing - Purdue University
October 22-26
VI Encuentro
Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Biotecnologma
Agropecuaria (REDBIO 2007) - Vina del Mar and
Valparaiso, Chile
October 24-26
22nd annual Tomato
Disease Workshop - Virginia Tech - Crowne Plaza at
Fort Magruder - Williamsburg, Virginia
October 24-26
VI
International Pensa Conference - Sustainable Agri-food
and Bioenergy Chain/Networks Economics and Management
- Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State, Brazil
October 27-31
V
International Symposium on Edible Alliaceae -
Lelystad, The Netherlands
October 29-31
VII Curso sobre Tecnologias de Produção de Sementes de
Hortaliças - Embrapa Hortaliças - Brasília/DF,
Brazil
October 27-31
8th African Crop
Science Society Conference - Suzann Mubarak Center
for Arts and Letters, Minia University Campus - El-Minia, Egypt
October 29 - November 1
2nd
World Onion Congress - Congress Centre de Pijler -
Lelystad, The Netherlands
October 29 - November 2
2nd Meeting of the
Governing Body of the International Treaty of Plant
Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - FAO -
Rome, Italy
October 30-31
Second International Conference on Genetically Modified
Foods (GMF): "Biosafety, and Genetically Modified Seeds
and Fodders" - Holiday Inn - Amman, Jordan
Info:
conferences@tc-center.com
October 31
5th
International Symposium on Edible Alliaceae -
Congress Centre de Pijler - Lelystad, The Netherlands
September 2007
(incomplete)
August 28 – September 27
Self-Pollinated Crop
Breeding - Distance-delivered mini-course - University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
September 23-26
Agricultural Biotechnology
International Conference (ABIC) - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
September 24-28
Curso ‘Bioseguridad
de Cultivos Genéticamente Modificados y la Evolución de Marcos
Regulaorios: temas actuales y desafíos futuros’
Workshop on “Biosafety of GM Crops
and the Evolution of Regulatory Frameworks: Issues and Challenges” -
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
September 25-26
California Seed Association - Mid-year
Meeting - Portola Plaza Hotel - Monterey, California
September 25-27
1st Annual Pan-Africa Biofuels
Conference & Expo - Durban International Convention Centre - Durban,
South Africa
September 26-27
Western Nursery & Garden Expo
September 26-28
Danforth Plant
Science Center's Fall Symposium, "Frontiers in Transgenesis" - St.
Louis, Missouri
September 26-28
EuroBio 2007 - Lille, France
September 27-29
BioFach America
2007 - Baltimore, Maryland |
