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EAPR TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE

Next EAPR Triennial Conference is scheduled to take place in 2014 in Belgium.

MEETINGS OF SECTIONS OF EAPR

Most recent EAPR section meetings have been held during the 18th Triennial Conference in Oulu, Finland.

Recent meetings have also included:

  • The 2010 tri-annual conference organised by EAPR-Eucarpia sections Breeding and Varietal Assessment was held in Wageningen, The Netherlands, 27–30 June 2010. The theme of the conference was: Potato Breeding after completion of the DNA Sequence of the Potato Genome.  The Abstracts of the meeting are published in Potato Research (2010) 53: 199-252.  http://www.eapr.net/publications/
  • 14th Meeting of the Virology Section was held at Hamar, Norway, 4-9 July, 2010.  Check out http://www.bioforsk.no/eapr2010 for photographs from the meeting
  • EAPR Pathology Section meeting 2010 was held at Carlow, Ireland, 13-16 September, 2010. This three day meeting, jointly hosted by Teagasc and the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (Belfast), dealt with all aspects of potato pathology with a special emphasis on new threats to potato posed by changes in the behaviour of existing pests and pathogens and by new species. The presentations are available from the Teagasc website see http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2010/20101014/index.asp
  • The first meeting of the Agronomy & Physiology Section of the EAPR after the joining two sections was held at the symposium Potato AgroPhysiology 2010, in Nevsehir, Turkey, 20-24 September 2010.

For further details on meetings of EAPR Sections check out the respective Section pages at http://www.eapr.net/sections/

PREVIOUS TRIENNIAL CONFERENCES

XVIII Triennial Conference of the EAPR: July 24-29, 2011; Oulu (Finland). The conference covered the following topics:

  1. From genomes to practice: what should be the priorities in utilizing genomic data from the potato and its pests and pathogens?
  2. Where is potato breeding going?
  3. Is there a future for transgenic and cisgenic potatoes in European agriculture?
  4. What can potato research do to increase potato consumption?
  5. What is required from research to make potatoes a true food security crop in the developing world?

see http://www.eapr2011.com/

XVII Triennial Conference of the EAPR: July 6-10, 2008; Brasov (Romania): http://www.eapr2008-brasov.com/ In the International Year of Potato (2008), this conference was organised to be an interactive forum where scientists and potato experts can meet and share their thoughts and identify solutions for “a potato in a changing world”.

Minutes of the 18th General Meeting – Brasov 2008


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