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| Session 9 |
Platform Presentations
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09.00 - 10.30 |
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9A Forecasting,
Modelling and Risk Assessment as Part of Decision Making Processes
for Disease Management |
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Oxford Room
Time: 09.00 – 10.30
Chairman: Dr G Hughes, University of Edinburgh,
UK
Session Organiser: Dr N Evans, Rothamsted Research,
Harpenden, UK
Chairman’s introduction
The application of decision theory in pest and disease management
Disease management decisions – making decisions that
matter
J Yuen, Swedish University of Agricultural Research, Uppsala,
Sweden
Towards an early warning system for winter wheat disease
severity
S Pietravalle and F van den Bosch, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden,
UK;
M W Shaw, University of Reading, UK;
S R Parker, ADAS High Mowthorpe, Malton, UK
Oilseed rape and cereal diseases – how are farmers
responding to their control?
N V Hardwick, J A Turner, J E Slough and S J Elcock, CSL, York,
UK;
D R Jones and P Gladders, ADAS Rosemaund, Hereford, UK
International developments in pest risk analysis for phytosanitary
decision making: a review of methodologies for pest risk assessment
L Zhu, R Black and J Holt, Natural Resources Institute, University
of Greenwich, UK
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9B Interaction
Between Pest and Disease Control and Crop Physiology |
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Room: Regency Room
Time: 09.00 – 10.30
Chairman: W S Clark, ADAS Boxworth, Cambridge,
UK
Session Organiser: Dr D R Jones, ADAS Rosemaund,
Hereford, UK
Chairman’s introduction
Improving and exploiting self-defence against wheat diseases
S R Parker, N D Paveley and M J Foulkes, ADAS High Mowthorpe,
Malton, UK;
D J Lovell, Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, UK;
S J Welham, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK;
A J Worland, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
The influence of crop physiology on the development and
impact of summer aphid infestations on wheat
J N Oakley, ADAS Rosemaund, Hereford, UK
Effects of light leaf spot (Pyrenopeziza brassicae) infection
on canopy size and yield of oilseed rape (Brassica napus)
G D Lunn, University of Nottingham, UK;
J M Steed, A Baierl, N Evans and B D L Fitt, Rothamsted Research,
Harpenden,UK;
P Gladders, ADAS Boxworth, Cambridge, UK;
D T Stokes, Plumpton College, UK
Anti-oxidative and anti-senescence effects of the strobilurin
pyraclostrobin in plants: a new strategy to cope with environmental
stress in cereals
T Jabs, J Pfirrman and S Schäfer, BASF, Limburgerhof, Germany;
Y X Wu and A v Tiedemann, University of Göttingen, Germany
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9C Biodiversity
in Arable Ecosystems |
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Room: Clarence Room
Time: 9.00 – 10.30
Chairman: Dr K F Walters
CSL, York, UK
Session Organiser: Dr N D Boatman
CSL, York, UK
Chairman’s introduction
Biodiversity in different farming systems
A R Leake, The Allerton Trust, Loddington, UK
Biodiversity in British agro-ecosystems: the changing regional
landscape context
S Petit, D C Howard, S M Smart and L G Firbank, NERC Centre
for Ecology & Hydrology, Grange-over Sands, UK
Indirect effects of pesticides on breeding yellowhammers
Emberiza citrinella
A J Morris and R B Bradbury, RSPB, Sandy, UK;
J D Wilson, RSPB, Edinburgh, UK
Increasing the Government’s Farmland Bird Index through
conservation management at the farm scale: a ten-year demonstration
C Stoate, The Allerton Trust, Loddington, UK
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COFFEE |
10.30 - 11.00 |
| Session 10 |
Platform Presentations |
11.00 - 12.30 |
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10A Global
Aspects for the Safe Use of Crop Protection Agents |
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Room: Oxford Room
Time: 11.00 – 12.30
Chairman & Session Organiser: C Furk, Pesticides
Safety Directorate, York, UK
Chairman’s introduction
Pesticides in the third world – changing role and
a need for new thinking
J F Cooper and H M Dobson, Natural Resources Institute, University
of Greenwich, UK
The importance of product specifications to ensure availability
of safe, high quality crop protection and public health products
in world markets
T S Woods, DuPont, Newark, USA
Implementation of FAO Guidelines on Minimum Requirements
for Pesticide Application Equipment: a case study in Cameroon
G Matthews, IPARC, Ascot, UK;
T Wiles, T L Wiles and Associates, Chichester, UK;
H Dobson, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich,
UK;
T Friedrich, FAO, Rome, Italy
Safe and effective use of crop protection products in developing
countries
J Frei, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Basel,
Switzerland
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10B The
Potential Role of Transgenic Crops in Sustainable and Durable Pest
and Disease Management |
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Room: Regency Room
Time: 11.00 – 12.30
Chairman & Session Organiser: Dr H Barker,
SCRI, Dundee, UK
Chairman’s introduction
Transgenic crops: can European consumers benefit from eating
them and will they want to?
J Wesseler, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Transgenic crops and integrated pest management
A H Hilbeck, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich,
Switzerland
Transgenic papaya: a case for worldwide control of papaya
ringspot virus
D Gonsalves, US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center,
Hawaii, USA
Adaptive resistance management in Bt maize
D A Andow, University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA
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