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Please see herebelow the latest announcement on the 2nd Agriculture and Climate Change Conference.

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Current Opinion in Plant Biology

There is just one month left to submit abstracts for the 2nd Agriculture and Climate Change Conference: Climate ready resource use-efficient crops to sustain food and nutritional security to be held 26 – 28 March 2017 at the Meliá Sitges, Sitges (near Barcelona), Spain.

Submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations by Friday 17 October 2016.

The 2nd Agriculture and Climate Change Conference will focus on the likely impact of climate change on crop production and explore approaches to maintain and increase crop productivity into the future.

Plenary Speaker:
Bruce Campbell, CGIAR ((CIAT-CCAFS), Denmark

Keynote Speakers:
Hannes Dempewolf, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Germany
Jessica Fanzo, Johns Hopkins University, USA
George A. Kowalchuk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Martin A.J. Parry, Lancaster University, UK
Wayne Powell, CGIAR Consortium, France
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA
Johan Fredin Uddling, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Paul C. West, University of Minnesota, USA


Call for Abstracts
Submit abstracts by 17 October 2016

Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are invited on the below conference topics and should be submitted using the online abstract submission system.

Topics

  • Increased agricultural uncertainty
  • Modelling and its application
  • Abiotic stress
  • Effects of CO2 on plant growth
  • Impacts on nutrition, quality and resource use efficiency
  • Plant-microbe interactions
  • Innovative agronomic and breeding practices
  • New crops for a new climate
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Special Issue

Selected Speakers will be invited to extend their presentation into a review and submit it to Current Opinion in Plant Biology. When all invited papers have been published, a Virtual Special Issue will be created collecting all papers from the conference.

A virtual special issue with selected articles from the Agriculture and Climate Change Conference 2015 is freely available online until 6 March 2017. Click here.


For further information on the conference and to sign up for email updates, visit:
www.agricultureandclimatechange.com
Important Dates

17 October 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline

20 January 2017
Early Bird Registration Deadline

Conference Chairs

David Edwards (Chair)
University of Western Australia, Australia

Rodomiro Ortiz (Co-Chair)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

José Luis Araus Ortega (Co-Chair)
University of Barcelona, Spain


Scientific Advisory Committee

Senthold Asseng
University of Florida, USA

Molly Brown
University of Maryland, USA

Robin Buell
Michigan State University, USA

Robert Henry
University of Queensland, Australia

Andrew Paterson
University of Georgia, USA

Andrew Sharpe
National Research Council, Canada

Kadambot Siddique
University of Western Australia, Australia

Rob Snowdon
Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Clare Stirling
CIMMYT, Mexico

Mark Tester
KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Michael Udvardi
Noble Foundation, USA

Rajeev Varshney
ICRISAT, India

Liming Ye
Joint Laboratory of Global Change and Food Security, CAAS, China

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