The 12th International Conference on Weed Biology will be held as usual in Dijon (France) on 
August 31^th – September 2^nd 2004 at ENESAD, 26 bd du Docteur Petitjean à Dijon (France). 

Conference organised by the working group on Biology, Ecology and Systematics of Weeds from AFPP , with the participation of the European Weed Research Society and the UMR INRA-ENESAD-UB Biologie et Gestion des Adventices.

This year the scientific organization will be mainly conducted by several EWRS Working groups. So the offered papers must fit in the following

Provisional scientific programme

1. Physical and cultural weed control (Bo Melander, Nicolas Munier-Jolain).
   Development of physical and cultural  weed control and its implementation in sustainable agriculture.

2. Crop-weeds interactions (Lammert Bastiaans, Henri Darmency).
   Fundamental understanding of processes governing crop-weeds interaction as well as utilisation of this knowledge for improved weed management.

3. Site specific weed management (Svend Christensen, Louis Assemat).
   State-of-art of sensors, GPS/GIS hard- and software and some implements (mainly sprayers) in agronomic and biological exploitation for specific weed monitoring and management.

4. Weed biology in other cropping conditions (Pascal Marnotte, Bruno Chauvel).
   Weed biology and control in tropical crops, biological control, biodiversity and endangered species …

5. Herbicide resistance (Jean-Pierre Claude, Jacques Gasquez).
   Use of both cultural and chemical methods to prevent further development of resistances as well as management strategies of resistant populations.

6. Optimisation of herbicide dose (Per Kudsk, Christian Gauvrit).
   Research on chemical weed control in crop production : optimisation (adjustment of doses to the weed problems) and reduction of herbicide inputs (reduction of soil pollution).

    

GENERAL INFORMATIONS

Presentations will be made as oral communications or posters.

Due to French Government Policy official languages are both French and English. Simultaneous translation will be provided during all the sessions.

The proceedings will be available starting from the opening of the Conference.

Registration fees:           AFPP ou EWRS members :      210 €
                                    Others :                                   260 €
                                    Students                                   50 €

PROPOSITIONS DE COMMUNICATIONS  

Return of the form will ensure that you receive all future circulars.
If you wish to present a paper or a poster, you are kindly requested to fill in this form with the title and a short summary. The paper of maxi 8 pages (even for a poster) must be written in either of the two official languages.

Deadline for submission of your paper proposal is December 15, 2003 .

Afterwards you will receive the instructions to the authors, but in any case, the draft should be sent no later than April 15, 2004 in order to allow enough time for referees to review it.

Call for papers (click)

Accomodation
For accommodation you will receive a list of the available hotels in Dijon. But, as usual, it will be possible to get rooms in the University Residence at lower prices provided we are able to book for enough in advance.

ORGANISING SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Informations
 Inquiries may be made to :

Dr J. Gasquez
UMR Biologie et Gestion des Adventices
BP 86510
21065 Dijon Cedex
France

Fax : +33 (0)3 69 32 62
Mél : gasquez@dijon.inra.fr

And consult : http://www.dijon.inra.fr/malherbo/AccueilF1.htm