Call for Papers
**ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 18**
At this Symposium, rather than focusing on one fruit crop in great detail, we will examine a range of fruit crops produced under organic management. We will explore what is working well across a range of crops and environments. How might success in one location be applied to a different crop in another location? Are there gaps in our collective research portfolio that need to be filled? The Symposium welcomes submissions on any organic fruit or nut crop with the following topics identified as likely foci for individual sessions. (Final session topics will be determined after considering all of the abstracts that are submitted.)
Fruit production methods: soils and nutrition, cover crops and mulches, weed control, crop load and plant growth management, training and pruning
Genetics and breeding: improving productivity and fruit quality,; increasing pest, disease and environmental stress tolerance
Controlling pests and diseases in the field
Post-harvest management: physiology and storage, control of diseases and disorders
Impacts of organic fruit production on the environment, society and health
Marketing of organic fruit products: present and future
Economics and policies: effects on organic fruit enterprises
Other topics of interest
Call for Papers
Participants interested in presenting either an oral or poster presentation are invited to submit an abstract. Accepted contributions presented at the Conference will be published as full papers in the proceedings of Acta Horticulturae (see Acta Hort No. 873 for the publication from the 1st symposium). A copy of the Acta will be sent to those participants who register for the three days of the Symposium and pay the full registration fee.
Submission of Abstracts
All oral and poster presenters are requested to submit abstracts of their papers by e-mail attachment to Preston Andrews, andrewsp@wsu.edu, and copied to David Granatstein, granats@wsu.edu, no later than January 18, 2012. Abstracts can only be submitted via email. Please indicate in which topic of the conference you would like your submission to be presented. The Scientific Committee will make all decisions regarding acceptance of papers and assignment to topics and modes of presentation. Contributors will be notified of the acceptance of their submissions and any changes recommended by the Scientific Committee by mid-February 2012.
Oral or poster presenters must register for the symposium prior to the close of early registration on March 31, 2012.
Instructions to Authors
Abstracts, limited to 200-300 words, should be submitted in English and prepared in Microsoft Word format. Except for the title, which should be in 14-point Times New Roman font, the rest of the abstract should be in 12-point Times New Roman font. The first line of the submission must be the title in boldface font, using upper case letters for the first letter of the first word and each subsequent principal word, except for articles ("a" and "the"), prepositions ("of," "in," "on," "during," and "between"), and conjunctions ("and" and "but"), which should begin with lower case letters. The second line must include the author(s) name(s), with the presenter's name indicated by an asterisk. The third line must include the authors’ professional affiliation(s) and address(es), with numerical superscripts to indicate differences in the affiliations of the authors. The 200-300 word abstract, following one blank line, should contain a concise but comprehensive statement of the problem or experiment and its results. Following the abstract, authors must indicate whether they prefer an oral or poster presentation.
IMPORTANT: The presenting author must register in full for the Conference no later than May 1, 2012 or their presentation will be excluded from the final program. It is the authors’ responsibility to submit an accurate abstract, because any errors in spelling, grammar or scientific fact will be reproduced as submitted by the authors. Authors are requested to submit their full and final proceedings manuscript on CD, following the ISHS Authors Guide (www.ishs.org/wri/pap1.htm), together with a hard copy on A4 size paper at the Conference Reception Desk.
Oral Sessions
Oral presentations in the concurrent sessions will be 10 minutes plus 2 minutes of clarifying questions. Each session will have about 20 minutes of overall group discussion at the end. Presentations must be prepared using Microsoft Office PowerPoint software.
Poster Session
Details will be forthcoming.
