IPS 2014 - 8th International Pineapple Symposium

The 8th International Pineapple Symposium will be held in Brisbane, Australia as part of the International Horticultural Congress 17-22 August (IHC2014). IHC2014 will include many symposia covering a range of tropical and subtropical horticultural industries. Other symposia on tropical crops which might be of interest to pineapple registrants include papaya, banana & plantain and mango.
Key program dates for registration and submission of abstracts, shown on the right, also apply to the pineapple symposium. At the appropriate times, it will be possible to complete abstract submission, symposium registration and accommodation bookings through the menus to the left.
The pineapple symposium program is as follows:
Mon 18 August ? presentations and posters
Tues 19 August ? presentations and posters
Wed 20 August ? technical tour
Thurs 21 August ? optional other symposia
Friday 22 August ? optional other symposia
The organising and scientific committees will invite oral and poster papers (opens April 1, 2013) under the following 10 themes:
Industry and Trade
Biotechnology, Breeding and Genetics
Plant Physiology
This might include responses to climate change.
Cultural Practices
Sustainable Cropping Systems
This can include all forms of sustainable cropping systems such as conservation cropping, controlled traffic farming, organic production and integrated or new cropping systems.
Pest and Disease
Supply Chains, Post Harvest Handling, Processing and other uses.
Marketing and Consumers
New Technologies
As an example this can include technologies such as modelling, robotics, remote sensing and non-invasive maturity assessment as well as established technologies new to pineapple.
Extension Strategies.
Convenor: Garth Sanewski (Australia)
Dr Garth Sanewski is a Senior Horticulturist with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry based at Maroochy Research Facility, Nambour, Australia. He has broad experience in a range of sub-tropical tree, vine and plantation crops but has worked principally with pineapple over the last 22 years. He currently has programs in genetic improvement of pineapple with an emphasis on fruit quality and disease resistance.
The Australian pineapple industry extends from the sub-tropics of coastal south-east Queensland to the dry and wet tropics of north Queensland. The industry, traditionally based on the processing market, has changed emphasis in recent years and now supplies over 50% of its production to the expanding domestic fresh market. Production for processing is based on clones of Smooth Cayenne. The variety 73-50 is the main fresh market variety and is sold under various names. MD-2 is popular and small quantities of Aus-Jubilee are also marketed. The technical tour will visit 2-3 farms representing processing and fresh market production within 1 hr 30 min drive of the symposium venue.
The Organising Committee members of the 8th International Pineapple Symposium are:
Garth Sanewski. Convenor. (Dept Agric Fisheries & Forestry, DAFF Qld), Mike Smith (DAFF Qld), Lien Ko (DAFF Qld), Simon Newett (DAFF Qld), Lana Baskerville (GrowCom), Col Scott (Tropical Pines Pty Ltd), Tim Wolens (Heinz Pty Ltd), Chris Doyle (Grower & Industry representative).
The organising committee has great pleasure in introducing you to the Scientific Committee of the 8th International Pineapple Symposium.
The Scientific Committee members of the 8th International Pineapple Symposium are:
Garth Sanewski (DAFF Q, Australia), Lien Ko (DAFF Q, Australia), Mike Smith (DAFF Q, Australia), Haroldo Reinhardt (Embrapa, Brazil), Abdullah Hassan (MARDI, Malaysia), Duane Bartholomew (University of Hawaii), Yi Ganjun (Guandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China), Guang-Ming Sun (Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, China), Jingtair Siripanich (Kasetsart University, Thailand), Alain Soler (CIRAD, France), Elmarie Rabi (Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Crops, South Africa), Jorge Gonzales (Senior VP R,D & E, Dole, USA), Reynato Umali (Dole, Philippines).