Wednesday, 20 February 2013 – Session 3


Chairperson: Mr J Gordon (Chairman of Oil and Protein Development Trust)
08h30-09h00

Keynote speaker: Applications – Dr Ken Dashiell (Deputy Director General for Partnerships and Development, IITA)

09h00-09h30

Keynote speaker: Dr Alemu Mengistu (Research Plant Pathologist, USDA-ARS)

09h30-10h00

Keynote speaker: Prof M Karaan (Dean: Faculty of AgriScience, University of Stellenbosch)

10h00-10h15

Sponsor: DuPont Nutrition and Health, Solae

10h15-11h00

Tea

11h00-12h30

Agronomy (D.2)

CHAIRMAN. PROF ED NAFZIGER

PLANT NUTRITION / SOIL SCIENCE

11h00-11h30

Zinc fractions and availability to soybean in representative soils of Northeast China

ZOU W, HAN X, LI X, TANG C
11h30-12h00

Interactive effect of N, P and inoculation on growth, nodulation, N2 fixation and yield components of promiscuous and non-promiscuous soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) genotypes

MUANANAMUALE CAP, USSENE R, BOAHEN S, CHIKOYE D, DAKORA FD —     PDF abstract
12h00-12h30

Interaction between Stimulate® and different levels of potassium and phosphorus on the soybean yield

BRANCALIÃO SR, BÁRBARO IM, CATO SC, LEONEL CL, TICELLI M, MIGUEL FB —     PDF abstract
12h30-13h15

Lunch

13h15-14h00

Poster Session: Categories "B", "C", "E", "F", "G", "H" and "GENERAL" (see poster schedule)

14h00-15h30

Agronomy (D.1)

CHAIRMAN. MR W ENGELBRECHT

PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

14h00-14h30

Improving soybean's yield prediction of late maturity groups with canopy reflectance measurements

14h30-15h00

Genetic diversity of the soybean cultivars bred in Zimbabwe from 1940 to 2010

MUSHORIWA H, DERERA J, SHANAHAN P, NAIDOO R, TICHAGWA J —     PDF abstract
15h00-15h30

Understanding of histone H3 Phosphorylation and Acetylation on enhancement of the soybean tolerance to salinity via proteomic profile

15h30-16h00

Tea

16h00-17h30

Agronomy (D.2)

CHAIRMAN. DR A JARVIE

PLANT NUTRITION / SOIL SCIENCE

16h00-16h30

Soybean yield responses using Sedaxane, a new seed treatment experimental fungicide from Syngenta

PEDERSEN P, WATRIN C
16h30-17h00

Soybean productivity and quality as affected by phosphorus and potassium

17h00-17h30

Spectral characteristics of hydrophilic soils in China

WEI D, ZHANG ZJ, LI Y, CHEN X, MA X, WEI Z, JIN L, ZHAO F
EVENING

Evening Function