Submit your abstract for the world’s premier processing tomato symposium before 31 October 2017
The Organizing Committee would like to invite you to take part in the 15th ISHS Symposium on the Processing Tomato to be held in parallel with the 13th World Congress on Processing Tomato during a cruise between Greek Islands on 11-15 June 2018. This Symposium is the world’s premier event for researchers and institutions involved in the processing tomato production chain.
The Symposium on the Processing Tomato is a unique forum that brings together academics, researchers, students, growers and businessmen working in the processing tomato sector around the world to share the latest knowledge and advances in this globally important industry. It is jointly organized by the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), the CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Department of Horticultural Genetics & Biotechnology and the World Processing Tomato Council (WPTC).
This influential Symposium is a great opportunity to showcase novel and innovative solutions while networking with scientists as well as technical and strategic decision-makers involved in the tomato processing sector.
Since the creation of WPTC in 1998 at Pamplona (Spain), congresses have taken place regularly every two years in a different WPTC member country. This is a unique situation in that the ISHS scientific symposium is held simultaneously with the industry sector Congress on fifteen occasions. Tomato Science and Industry pioneered the creation of an institutional framework for dialogue and exchange that was, back then, called “multi-disciplinary and participative” management. Be part of twenty-nine years of effective and fruitful cooperation between Science and Industry by presenting your work at the 2018 ISHS symposium.
The symposium program will include a full program of oral and poster sessions from Monday 11 to Thursday 14 June 2018. A comprehensive social program will also be organized for attendees and accompanying persons as well as an optional post-congress study tour on the Greek mainland on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 June. The event website www.worldtomatocongress.com will be regularly updated with information on the program for both events, including registration, cabins bookings and practical information.
The Organizing Committee is now accepting abstracts for the Symposium.
Symposium topics
Your abstract should address one or more of the following areas:
Section 1 (S1) Adaptability and resilience in crop production
1. Managing climate change
2. Automation & precision farming
3. Organic cropping
4. Biotechnologies and plant breeding
5. Pest management
Section 2 (S2) The smart tomato factory
1. Efficient use of resources
2. Adding value to by-products
3. New processing technologies
Section 3 (S3) Healthy products for the next generations
1. Health and nutrition labelling
2. New functional foods
3. Attracting new consumers
Abstract Submission Procedure
Abstracts must be submitted online on the ISHS ROSA system at http://www.actahort.org/members/symposiar?nr=645 by Tuesday 31st October 2017. An abstract submission charge is due upon submission and applies to the presenting author only. The submission charge is not part of the symposium registration fees and is charged by ISHS and not by the symposium organisers. The cost for abstract submission is 80 euros for individuals residing outside the European Union. For authors submitting from within the EU zone the abstract submission cost is 95 euros (including VAT). For ISHS individual members, the abstract submission charge is fully waived.
If you are not an ISHS member and are not sure that your abstract fits in the theme of the symposium and will be accepted, you can send it for a pre-screening to the Symposium Secretariat at wptc2018@tomate.org.
All abstracts must be in English and should contain title, authors, affiliation and contact details (postal address and e-mail), a short introduction, material and methods and the main results (200 to 300 words). Graphics, tables, references and acknowledgments should not be included. Overtly commercial and insufficiently informative abstracts will not be accepted for the symposium.
Please indicate your preference for oral or poster presentation at the time of abstract submission. Final decisions on whether a presentation is accepted as oral or poster will be made by the scientific committee on the basis of the abstracts submitted.
Abstract Deadline: Tuesday 31st October 2017
Abstract will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and authors will be informed of their acceptance as a poster or an oral paper by the end of December 2017.
Authors of accepted abstracts will have to register to attend the congress & symposium before 15 March 2018 in order to be included in the symposium program and benefit from the reduced participation fees offered for scientists.
All accepted abstracts will be published in the Abstract Book which will be distributed to all registered participants at the congress & symposium. Following the Symposium and after review by the Scientific Committee, full papers will be published in a special issue of Acta Horticulturae, a copy of which will be sent to the first author of each published paper.
Please note: In submitting an abstract, you are indicating your availability and willingness to attend and present your paper at 15th ISHS Symposium on Processing Tomato 2018, to develop and write a full paper complying with ISHS Author Guidelines and respect all the deadlines.
Travel grants
Information on any travel grants that may become available will be posted on www.worldtomatocongress.com
Scientific Committee
Co-Conveners:
Montaña Cámara, UCM, Madrid (Spain), mcamara@farm.ucm.es
Luca Sandei, SSICA, Parma (Italy), , luca.sandei@ssica.it
Panagiotis Kalaitzis, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute at Chania (Greece), panagiot@maich.gr
Scientific Committee:
Cosme Argerich, INTA, La Consulta (Argentina)
Adriano Battilani, CER, Bologna, (Italy)
Diane Barrett, UC Davis (USA)
Carlos Campillo Torres, CICYTEX (Spain)
Antonio Casana, Solana Spa (Italy)
Liz Mann, APTRC (Australia)
Gene Miyao, UC Davis (US)
Gwen Young, Kagome Inc, Foster City (USA)
Biliaderis Costas, Aristotle University (Greece)
Congress secretariat
Sophie Colvine, WPTC (France), wptc2018@tomate.org
