New directions for a diverse planet

4th International Crop Science Congress
Brisbane, Australia, 26 September – 1 October 2004

Conference information

• Donald Oration

• 0. Crop science for a diverse planet
• 1. Crop science for addressing water scarcity
• 2. Crop science for a sustainable future
• 3. Crop science for harnessing genetics
• 4. Crop science for effecting change

• 1. Crop science for addressing water scarcity
  • Breeding crops that do better under water scarcity
  • Irrigated rice-based systems 5ACSC
  • Physiology and improving productivity under water scarcity
  • Dryland cropping systems
  • New imperatives for irrigated agriculture
  • Water and nutrients in turf grass
  • Environmental consequences of water management in farming systems
• 2. Crop science for a sustainable future
  • Farming and cropping systems
  • Conservation and reduced tillage systems
  • Turfgrass, the most visible crop
  • Asian cropping systems (5ACSC)
  • Biocide dependence and resistance
  • Nutrient recycling and balance in cropping systems
  • Managing climate risk in cropping systems
  • Raising yield potential in cropping systems
• 3. Crop science for harnessing genetics
  • Genome sequencing of model systems
  • Gene to phenotype complexity
  • Genetic resources for the 21st Century
  • Harnessing molecular markers for plant breeding
  • New frontiers in altering plant metabolism
  • Adaptation to abiotic challenges
  • Adaptation to biotic challenges (5ACSC)
  • Biotechnology for a better world
• 4. Crop science for effecting change
  • Proven processes for innovation and change
  • Implementing change - lessons for the future
  • The role of IT in enhanced delivery and adoption
  • New pathways for delivery in Asian countries (5ACSC)
  • Research planning monitoring and evaluation
  • Agents for change - public, private and NGOs
• 5. 5th Asian Crop Science Conference
  • Improving human diet in Asia
• 6. 12th Australian Agronomy Conference
  • Pathways to profitable agriculture
  • Farming and land stewardship
  • Crop-livestock interaction
  • Research implementation and delivery

• 0. Crop science for a diverse planet
• 1. Water
  • Breeding crops that do better under water stress
  • Irrigated rice-based systems 5ACSC
  • Physiology and improving productivity under water scarcity

• Root Specific
• WUE and drought resistance models
• Effects of water and salt stress on yield and components
• Other physiology and water stress
  • Manipulating dryland systems
  • New imperatives for irrigated agriculture
  • Environmental consequences of water management in farming systems

• 2. Sustainability
  • Farming and cropping systems

• General farming system/rotation
• Legumes in farming systems
• Other
  • Conservation and reduced tillage systems
  • Asian cropping systems (5ACSC)
  • Biocide dependence and resistance
• Weeds
• Diseases
• Insects
  • Nutrient recycling and balance in cropping systems
• Soil N cycling and uptake
• Soil OM and use of wastes
• Nutrient use efficiency, general fertilizer studies
• Phosphorus
• Other elements: S, Zn, microelements
• Inoculants, rhizobia, biofertilizers
  • Managing climate risk in cropping systems
  • Raising yield potential in cropping systems
• Rice
• Maize and sorghum
• Wheat
• Broad leaf crops
  • Simulation modelling in crops

• 3. Genetics
  • Genome sequencing
  • Gene to phenotype complexity

• Gene discovery
• Genotype by environment interaction
  • Genetic resources for the 21st Century
• Monocots
• Dicots
  • Harnessing molecular markers for plant breeding
• Molecular marker selection
• Tissue culture
• Interspecific crossing
• Heterosis rice and other crops
• Genetic analysis
• Physiological traits
• Variety identification, release, progress
  • New frontiers and products from breeding
  • Abiotic challenges and breeding
• General
• Salt
• Temperature
• Other: Heavy metal, waterlogging, drought
  • Biotic challenges and breeding (5ACSC)
• Insects, Nematodes
• Fungii, monocots
• Fungii dicots
• Viruses, bacteria
  • Biotechnology for a better world

• 4. Effecting Change
  • Proven processes for change

• Developed Countries
• Developing countries
  • Lessons for future from success stories
  • Role of IT in delivery and adoption
  • New pathways for delivery in Asia 5ACSC
  • Planning, monitoring and evaluation of research
  • Private/public complementation

• 5. Asian Crop Science Society
  • Food quality issues

• Rice
• Maize, wheat
• Other
  • Feed quantity and quality issues

 

• "New directions for a diverse planet". Edited by RA Fischer. Proceedings of the 4th International Crop Science Congress. Brisbane, Australia, 26 September - 1 October 2004.