The global demographic development and climate change pose a threat on crop production in many areas. There is a need to intensify agricultural production in a sustainable manner and to find solutions to combat abiotic stress, pathogens and pests. Plants are associated with complex microbiota, which are known to promote plant growth and stress tolerance, support plant nutrition and antagonize plant pathogens. The integration of beneficial plant-microbe and microbial interactions might represent a promising solution to improve agricultural production.

The symposium "Microbe-assisted crop production - opportunities, challenges and needs" (miCROPe 2017) will encompass aspects ranging from basic understanding of plant-microbe interactions to commercial application of microbial products in crop production. It is our aim to bring together participants from academia, industry as well as from the public and farming sector to discuss together the latest developments and future opportunities in this field.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

Abstract submission deadline:
June 30th, 2017
 

MAIN TOPICS

Successful microbial products

Microorganisms for rural development

New mechanisms involved in beneficial plant-microbe interactions

Plant understanding and improvement of beneficial interactions with microbes

Phytobiomes Alliance

The holobiont plant: multitrophic interactions

The holobiont plant: microbiome understanding

Application technologies and formulations

Future of microbial products and regulatory issues

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Esperanza Martínez-Romero, National Autonomous University of Mexico, MX
Jürgen Köhl, Wageningen University, NL
Ian Sanders, University of Lausanne, CH
Alia Rodriguez, National University Colombia, CO
Paola Bonfante, University of Turin, IT
Janet K. Jansson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US
Laure Weisskopf, University of Fribourg, CH
Barbara Reinhold-Hurek, University of Bremen, DE
Corné Pieterse, Utrecht University, NL
Leo van Overbeek, Wageningen University, NL
Gabriele Berg, Graz University of Technology, AT
Yvn Moenne-Loccoza, University of Lyon, FR
Devin Coleman-Derr, USDA / UC Berkeley, US
Birgit Mitter, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT
Anant Patel, University of Bielefeld, DE
Claudia Preininger, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT
Willem Ravensberg, Koppert & IBMA, NL
Kellye Eversole, Eversole Associates, US

Satellite Events

ADVANCED MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES FOR

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTION ANALYSIS, Vienna / Tulln (Austria),

Nov 27th - Dec 2nd 2017

The miCROPe 2017 conference journal is Phytobiomes

This was miCROPe 2015

more info: http://www.micrope.org/index.php