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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:
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To bring fellow scientists together to disseminate information and provoke discussion on
the working group topic. |
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To plan and actively collaborate, through joint experimentation, towards a common goal.
The end product being the development of improved models and joint publications.
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To plan a focused international conference on weed seed germination and early growth. To
prepare a contribution for a future EWRS symposium. |
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To explore collaborative funding either as a group or through using the working group as
a vehicle to find new opportunities. |
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Click here to see an Adobe Acrobat version of a poster
presenting our group and its activities (127 Kb). |
| Upcoming meeting of this working group in
Perugia, Italy (September 15-16 2008).
(Click here for details)
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