GHRC 2017 Scientific
Program
The
GHRC 2017 Proceedings
are
available.
The 2nd
Global Herbicide
Resistance Challenge
was held
May
14-18, 2017
in Denver, Colorado,
USA. We hope you and your colleagues will
participate in this event. It is a great
opportunity to interact with other scientists and
professionals in research, education, government, and
industry for four days of oral paper and poster
presentations and networking on key herbicide resistance
issues spanning the spectrum from genomics to
management. Abstract submission has
closed.
Thanks to everyone who submitted an
abstract. The
Scientific Program Committee
has developed
a program to bring together academic and industry weed
researchers, land managers, policy makers, and
communication experts.
The GHRC Scientific Program will
open
Monday, May 15, 2017
with
a General Session providing an overview of the current
global status of weed resistance and successful
strategies used to meet the resistance challenge.
Speakers from Europe, North America, South America, Asia,
and Australia will address issues at the continental
scale. Additional talks will address research
prioritization in the US and strategies for successful
communication. Monday afternoon will feature a Symposium
sponsored by the Global Herbicide Resistance Action
Committee (HRAC) focusing on auxin herbicides and
resistance management.
Tuesday, May
16
, morning will be dedicated to concurrent
interactive
workshops
(Socioeconomic and Human Dimensions of
Herbicide Resistance; Communication is critical to solve
our herbicide resistance problems; Bridging the gap
between weed genomics and herbicide resistance
management; and Linking Big Data and Resistance Testing
for Precision Herbicide Resistance Management). Tuesday
afternoon will feature concurrent sessions Genomics,
Education and Regulatory Issues, and Resistance
Diagnostics. The day will conclude with rapporteur
presentations from the four workshops.
Wednesday, May 17
,
is designed to help the participants focus on the future
of managing herbicide resistance. Experts dealing
with insecticide, fungicide and antibiotic resistance
will provide insights on resistance evolution and
management from their respective disciplines.
Wednesday afternoon will feature concurrent sessions
including Non-Target-Site Resistance, Modeling and
Population Genetics, Herbicide Resistance in Crops, and
Transcriptomics/Genomics.
Thursday, May
18
, will conclude the GHRC with a
management-focused day. The morning will feature
concurrent sessions including an HRAC Global-sponsored
HPPD resistance workshop and a resistance management
session. The GHRC wrap-up session will feature
forward-looking presentations and conference
summaries.
On Thursday afternoon, there will be
a special symposium to launch the
aEURoe
Global Initiative for Harvest
Weed Seed Control
(HWSC).aEUR The
objective of the symposium is a coordinated approach to
establishing the potential, evaluating the technologies,
and implementing the practices needed for HWSC in
cropping systems. The current global understanding
and opportunities for HWSC in cropping systems will be
covered with information presented on seed retention and
system evaluations. A highlight will be
presentations by growers, notably Ray Harrington inventor
of the Harrington Seed destructor, on their experiences
in implementing HWSC systems. Attendees will participate
in a facilitated discussion on challenges and
opportunities for fitting HWSC into different cropping
systems. Importantly strategies to facilitate grower
adoption of these technologies will be
discussed.