Biotech Updates

8th African Crop Science Society Conference

January 12, 2007

The African Crop Science Society (ACSS) and Faculty of Agriculture, Minia University, Egypt is calling for abstracts for the 8th African Crop Science Society Conference. The conference will be held on 27- 31 October 2007 in El-Minia, Egypt. The conference theme is “Crop research, technology dissemination and adoption to increase food supply, reducing hunger and poverty in Africa”. Among the topics to be discussed at the conference include: crop improvement and physiology, biodiversity and natural resources management, post harvest handling and food sciences, crop protection, crop genetics and biotechnology, and environmental sciences.

More information on this event at http://www.africancrops.net/News/july06/acss8.htm.