Events
2009
NIAB Training Courses - dates and prices - here
Training course for the National Listing (NL)of conservation varieties
NIAB in conjunction with Fera, will be holding a training event on May 11th 2009, to assist potential applicants in understanding the requirements outlined in new legislation for National Listing of conservation varieties.
An introduction to the legislation and how to make an application for National listing will be given by Fera, followed by a practical session to identify the main characters used in making a wheat variety description for National Listing.
Courses to cover Barley and Oats identification are planned for later in the year. Please see the Seed Certification training area of the website for more details here.
2010
Preliminary announcement
We are pleased to invite you to participate at the EUCARPIA Cereal Section Meeting. The Conference will be held in Cambridge, United Kingdom between 6 and 8 April 2010.
The previous successful conference of the Cereal Section in Leida, Spain proved that the Cereal Section is one of the most popular sections of EUCARPIA for plant scientists and breeders interested in the genetics and improvement of cereals.
The conference is being hosted in Cambridge by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany.
The main topics of the conference is:
MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF DIPLOID AND POLYPLOID CEREAL GENOMES: ‘HOW CAN WE EFFECTIVELY DETECT AND EXPLOIT THIS VARIATION IN BREEDING PROGRAMMES?’
Deadline of application for oral and poster presentations is 1 December 2009.
Registration and accommodation details will be available on the 1st circular website of the meeting (www.niab.com) and EUCARPIA homepages (http://www.eucarpia.org/).
EUCARPIA offers a one year free membership for non Eucarpia member participants.
We hope this will be a very successful and interesting conference for all of us.
We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge!
Dr Tina Barsby - Chairman of the Organizing Committee
Prof Wayne Powell - Head of the Cereal Section