PROPOSED PLENARY PRESENTATIONS
1. Plant protection in a changing world- are the answers in the past?
2. The effect of climate change on plant protection
3. Strategies for developing and implementing digital identification tools for plant biosecurity and plant protection
4. Resistance breeding in the context of the EU-strategy ‘from farm to fork
5. Enabling sustainable agriculture through understanding and enhancement of microbiomes
6. Sustainable Weed Management
7. Coordinated approach for transboundary plant pest and disease management
PROPOSED CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Α. PLANT PROTECTION
1. Global challenges in Plant Protection
2. New and emerging pests and diseases
3. Surveillance and management of invasive and quarantine pests
4. Plant Protection in a changing climate
5. Plant Protection and food security
6. Stored products’ protection
7. Abiotic stresses
8. Frost damage mitigation strategies for crops
9. Education and Science Networks
10. Interdisciplinary education
B. PHYTOPATHOLOGY AND PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
1. Diseases in tree crops and forests
2. Diseases in field and vegetable crops
3. Diseases affecting forest ecosystems and biodiversity
4. Mycotoxins and food safety
5. Postharvest pathology
6. Significance and Management of Soilborne pathogens
7. Detection and diagnosis of plant pathogens
8. Molecular plant pathology and Plant-pathogen
9. Microbiomes and their role in plant pathology
10. Genome analysis-Application to Plant pathology
11. Fungal plant pathogens- Current challenges in fungal classification
12. Innovative approaches for plant diseases resistance
13. Unlocking the potential of microbiomes for sustainable agriculture
C. ENTOMOLOGY-NEMATOLOGY AND MOLECULAR ENTOMOLOGY
1. Plant-pests’ interactions
2. Pests in tree crops and forests
3. Pests in field and vegetable crops
4. Insect pests affecting forest ecosystems and biodiversity
5. Pests of tropical trees and crops
6. Fruit flies
7. Autocidal control methods to address insect pests
8. Pest prognosis and monitoring
9. Endophytes as biocontrol agents
10. Molecular entomology
D. WEEDS
1. Weeds in tree crops and forests
2. Weeds in field and vegetable crops
3. Chemical weed management
4. Non-chemical weed management
5. Fighting Weeds with Resilient Crops
E. PLANT PROTECTION PRODUCTS
1. Novel synthetic fungicides in plant protection
2. Biological Plant Protection Products - Microbial Pesticides
3. Botanicals, Plant Defense Inducers and Basic Substances in Plant protection
5. Nano applications in plant protection
6. Biostimulants and their future role in Plant protection
7. Functional biodiversity and conservation in biological pest control
8. Bio-pesticides and honeybees
9. Pesticides on honeybees and pesticide application practices and pollinators
10. Putting pollinator conservation under pesticide research
F. INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT
1. Integrated Pest Management -IPM
2. Insecticide, Fungicide, Herbicide Resistance
3. Modelling and Forcasting
4. Precision Farming in Plant Protection
5. Digital technologies in Plant Protection
6. Legal issues in Plant Protection
7. European sustainable use of Plant Protection Products (SUR) and how EU is going to adapt to current challenges. What about the rest of the world?