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The 1999 Brighton Conference
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WEDNESDAY 17 NOVEMBER

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SESSION 6A: THE ROLE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN HERBICIDE DISCOVERY


Chairman & Session Organiser: Dr K E Pallett (Rhône-Poulenc Agriculture Ltd, Ongar, UK)


Chairman's introduction

The impact of plant genomics on herbicide discovery
P G Thomas, Zeneca Agrochemicals, Bracknell, UK

From genes to targets: impact of functional genomics on herbicide discovery
D Berg, K Tietjen, D Wollweber and R Hain, Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany

Molecular approaches supporting the identification and validation of new herbicide targets
Höfgen, J Freitag and S Maimann, Max-Planck-Institut, Golm/Potsdam, Germany F Schmidt, AgrEvo, Frankfurt, Germany
H Hesse, FUB, Berlin, Germany

The generation of novel secondary metabolites through combinatorial biosynthesis
J McDermott, G Meurer, B Waters, Y-S Wanggui, W Pan, X Li, C Silva, P Brian and J Davies, TerraGen Discovery Inc, Vancouver, Canada