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Day
3: Wednesday September 1st
Corum conference center
“The
Heart and the Art of Agronomy” :
Scientific advances and challenges of Agronomy as a Science
Sessions
of the three new European Society for Agronomy divisions,
topics will be defined by the scopes of each division:
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D1: Crop System Biology: The
functioning of the plant in a field
(S3.1)
This
symposium covers research on plant function and development in
the context of a cultivated field. Emphasis is on the function
of individual plants in plant populations utilising both laboratory,
field and model based science including phenology, architecture,
photosynthesis, transpiration, mineral nutrition, stress, plant
competition and source-sink interactions. Focus is sought on research
linking genomic, genetic and crop physiology approaches.
Chairs:
Dimah Habash (Rothamsted Research, UK) and Xinyou Yin (Wageningen
University, the Netherlands)
Oral
presentations >>
- D2:
Field Scale Agroecology: The cultivated
field as an ecosystem (S3.2)
Focus is on the systemic approach to design and assess cropping
systems at field level, responding to various objectives: pest
protection, water, nutrients and energy efficiency, food and feed
supply, reduction of greenhouse gases. It will identify scientific
outcomes and challenges for ecological intensification of multifunctional
cropping systems. This division is dealing with the analysis and
management of a cultivated field, considered as a complex -and
generally heterogeneous- ecosystem made of a monospecific or a
plurispecific plant population, a soil and the associated flora
and fauna among which weeds, diseases and pests in a context of
global change or not. The heterogeneity in a field has sometimes
to be considered to manage pests, energy and water and it results
in studies dealing with precision agriculture, which is also in
the scope of this division.
Chairs:
Muriel Valantin-Morison (INRA Grignon, France) and Christian Gary
(INRA Montpellier, France)
Oral
presentations >>
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D3: Cropping Systems at Farm, Regional
and Global Scales: the Cropping System in its embedding systems
(S3.3)
This symposium will cover research relevant to
agricultural production and its environmental effects on the farm,
the regional and the global level. It will link research on different
time scales with various regional scales and will identify major
methodological advances in complex assessment systems using indicators
systems and modelling approaches.
The question of indicators will be addressed in each session considering
potential and limits at each level.
Chairs: Olaf Christen (Martin Luther
University, Germany) and Marc Benoit (INRA Mirecourt, France)
Oral presentations >>
The ESA General Assembly
will take place after the divisions sessions, from 5pm to 6.30pm
in Einstein auditorium.
More
information on ESA >>
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