EUFRIN Fruit Thinning Working Group
Meeting Program, SKIERNIEWICE, 16.-18. March, 2006
Thursday, March 16th 2006
The participants will arrive to Warsaw airport. The bus with EUFRIN poster will be waiting at parking in front of Airport to pick up the participants. The bus will depart from the airport at about 12:30 and drive you to hotel in Skierniewice.
| 15:00 | Lunch |
| 16:30 | Welcome addresses (conference room No 238) Prof. Danuta Goszczyńska , the Director of Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture in Skierniewice Prof. Guglielmo Costa, the President of EUFRIN Fruit Thinning WG |
| General topics |
| 17:00 | Edward Żurawicz: The current status of horticulture research and fruit production in Poland. |
| 17:30 | Marian Saniewski: The role of ethylene and jasmonates in gummosis of stone fruit trees and their fruits. |
| 18:00 | Coffee break |
| Company presentations |
| 18:30 | Alessio Zanasi (Gobbi) (title not known yet) |
| 18:45 | Laurent Cornette (Chimac-Agriphar): 3,5,6-TPA for inhibiting pre-harvest fruit drop in apple and pear orchards |
| 20:00 | Dinner (restaurant FINEZJA, Skierniewice) |
Friday, March17th 2006
Presentation of trials (conference room No 238)
| 8:30 | Italy, Guglielmo Costa |
| 8:50 | France, Vincent Mathieu |
| 9:10 | Spain, Ignasi Iglesias |
| 9:30 | Poland, Alina Basak |
| 9:50 | Slovenia, Matej Stopar |
| 10:10 | Coffee break (room No136) |
| 10:40 | Germany, Hans J. Weber |
| 11:00 | France, Gerard Ferre |
| 11:20 | Switzerland, Albert Widmer |
| 11:40 | Austria, Gottfried Lafer |
| 12:00 | Norway, Mekjell Meland |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Visit at the Experimental Orchard in Dąbrowice (10 km from Skierniewice) |
| 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Presentation of trials (conference room No 238) |
| 17:00 | Italy, Alberto Dorigoni |
| 17:20 | Netherlands, Frank Mass |
| 17:40 | Poland, Iwona Szot |
| 18:00 | Poland, Aleksander Gonkiewicz |
| 18:20 | Germany, Michael Clever |
| 20:00 | Conference dinner (restaurant/hotel DWOREK, Skierniewice) |
Saturday, February 18th 2006
Common questions (conference room No 238)
| 09:00 | Protocol for common trials Proposal of new trials |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Administrative questions |
| 13:00 | Lunch ( room no.136) |
| 14:00 | Tourist trip to Warsaw |
The participants in the session “presentation of trials” are asked to prepare a 15 min. report, after than 5 min. of discussion is anticipated per trial. Presentations on power point (e-projector) or foil (overhead projector) are desired.
For additional information:
Alina Basak,
tel.: +48 46 834 53 26 (institut)
tel.: + 48 46 046 833 27 75 (private)
mobile +48 660 86 99 29
e-mail: abasak@insad.pl
Acknowledgement
The bus transport, meals & social dinner and the tourist trip to Warsaw is sponsored by Valent BioSciences, Gobbi, Fine Agrochemicals, Bayer-Poland, Chimac-Agriphar and Hortpress