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The next meeting of the working group will be held on Sunday 11 July 2010 in connection with the EWRS Symposium (July 12-15 2010) in Kaposvar, Hungary.

Please note that any person interested is welcome to attend our meeting.

Meeting of the EWRS Working Group Germination and Early Growth
Kaposvár, July 11th, 2010
9 AM to app. 5 PM
Seminar Room, Department og Botany and Plant Production, old building
Kaposvár University, H.7400 Kaposvár, Guba S. str. 40

Agenda

  1. Welcome and introduction of participants (Ilse A. Rasmussen)
  2. Introduction to the working group (Ilse A. Rasmussen)
  3. Brief outline of the common experiment (Ilse A. Rasmussen)
  4. Results from common experiment (all participants who want to do so).
  5. Summary of results from common experiment (by Adam Davis, presented by Ilse A. Rasmussen)
  6. Publications – how far are we and where do we go from here? (Jack Dekker, Paul Neve & Ilse A. Rasmussen) (Jack has mailed out a draft paper, please read & bring for the discussion)
  7. New common experiment (Donato Loddo)
  8. Website and online discussions (Alireza Taab)
  9. Future work in the WG, including next meeting (Ilse A. Rasmussen)
  10. Recruitment paper (Jack Dekker)
  11. Any other business

 

The germination and early growth working group became an officially recognised EWRS WG following the case presented for its establishment at the EWRS SciCom meeting in Basel 1999. The working group intends to focus on the window of time between a weed seed entering the seedbank and it's early stages of seedling growth. This represents a crucial stage in weed biology and important in the improvement and identification of new weed control opportunities. The main objectives of the group are:

 
bullet To bring fellow scientists together to disseminate information and provoke discussion on the working group topic.
bullet To plan and actively collaborate, through joint experimentation, towards a common goal. The end product being the development of improved models and joint publications.
bullet To plan a focused international conference on weed seed germination and early growth. To prepare a contribution for a future EWRS symposium.
bullet To explore collaborative funding either as a group or through using the working group as a vehicle to find new opportunities.

 
Click here to see an Adobe Acrobat version of a poster presenting our group and its activities (127 Kb).