BeNeLuxSHS 2016 Symposium: Biostimulants and their use in horticulture

ICC Ghent, Belgium. April 28, 2016

Biostimulants include diverse formulations of compounds, substances and micro-organisms that are applied to plants or soils to improve crop vigour, yields, quality and tolerance of abiotic stresses. Recently we see an increased interest in the application of plant biostimulants as they open new possibilities for a durable and resilient crop production. In this symposium research results of the use of biostimulants in horticulture are presented.

This symposium is organized by the Benelux Society for Horticultural Science (BeNeLuxSHS).

Programme for April 28, 2016:

  • 8:45 Registration – coffee
  • 9:30    Welcome and introduction to the theme of the symposium
  • 9:45     Patrick du Jardin – Université de Liège: “Plant biostimulants: about the concept and why it is useful”
  • 10:15    Monica Höfte – Universiteit Gent: Plant responses to biostimulants
  • 10:45    Haïssam. Jijakli – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, ULg: “The use of yeast’s to increase pome fruit conservation”
  • 11:15     Coffee break
  • 11:35     Hilde Schoofs and Tom Deckers – PC Fruit: “The application of biostimulants in the control strategy of fire blight on apple and pear”
  • 12:05    Jane Debode – Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO): “Biostimulation of lettuce and strawberry by adding chitin or biochar to the growing medium”
  • 12:35    Maaike Perneel– Universiteit Gent: “A new Ghent University consortium for the valorization of biostimulants and biocontrol agents”
  • 12:55    Introduction to Floralies
  • 13:15     Lunch

14:15     Free visit to the Floralies 2016. Discover a new, vibrant city festival in Ghent’s Arts Quarter. Be surprised by an enchanting world, teeming with flowers and plants, fascinating inspirational gardens and breathtaking art installations.

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Registration:
Registration fee: €55 (€40 for members BeNeLuxSHS). This includes participation in the scientific program, lunch, coffee-breaks and a free entrance-ticket to the Floralies 2016.
Click here for the registration form
For more information on Floralies see www.floralien.be

Check out the symposium details on the ILVO web pages

UPDATE: Extended deadline for registration:
April 15, 2016 April 20, 2016. Payment must be done before April 20th April 22nd!

Payment of the fee can take place by money transfer to our bank account (KBC Bank):
IBAN: BE06 7364 0230 3322
BIC: KREDBEBB
Benelux Vereniging voor Tuinbouwwetenschap
mentioning: symposium 2016 BeNeLuxSHS + your name

Venue:
The symposium will take place in the International Convention Centre Gent ICC located in Citadel Park. The venue can be easily reached by train. The Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station is within 10-minute walk from Gent ICC.
There is public underground parking beneath Sint-Pietersplein and at Sint-Pietersstation. Both parkings are within a 10-minute walk from Gent ICC. We recommend this modern public parking to come over to events to the Ghent ICC (see map). A more detailed road description can be found here.

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Organizing Committee:
Marie-Christine Van Labeke, Johan Van Huylenbroeck, Monique Bodson, Jozef Van Assche, Olaf van Kooten, Hector Willocx, Leon Wietor

Contact:
johan.vanhuylenbroeck@ilvo.vlaanderen.be

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BeNeLuxSHS 2015 Symposium: 130 registrations so far – registration deadline extended

So far 130 210 participants have already registered for the annual BeNeLuxSHS 2015 Symposium: “Plant control by LED light” 15 October 2015 in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Because of the huge interest the organizing committee decided to extend the registration deadline until October 9, 2015.

Those of you who did not yet register may still do so until the above date. Scroll down for more details and to download the registration form.

The symposium will be taking place at the Forum building, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Room C0222 (on the Second Floor)

Info about the building: https://www.wageningenur.nl/en/location/Forum-building-number-102.htm

LEDs provide exciting new possibilities to modulate spectrum and direction of light, to control instantaneously light intensity, and to decouple lighting from heating. This allows not only to control growth, development and yield of plants, but also to control quality, disease resistance and last but not least to save energy.

The 2015 annual symposium of the Benelux Society for Horticultural Science will include presentations from several researchers active in the Benelux. They will present the latest insights on control of plant production by LED light. There will also be an extensive discussion on city farm and the use of LEDs therein.

The symposium is organised by Wageningen University (Chair Group Horticulture and Product Physiology) and the Campus of Wageningen UR is the location for this meeting.
We expect many people to participate, while the number of symposium participants has limits. So don’t wait too long with registration. The registration fee is 30 euro for students and members of BeNeLux SHS; for others the fee is 45 euro. Lunch is included in the fee.

Programme

  • 9:00 Registration (coffee or tea)
  • 10:00 Opening
  • 10:10 Ronald Pierik (Utrecht University); Plant growth at high densities: how light signals control plant architecture.
  • 10:40 Tom van Delm (PCH, Research Centre Hoogstraten); LED lighting in strawberry
  • 11:10 Wim van Ieperen (Wageningen University); Light beyond the comfort zone of plants
  • 11:40 Pavlos Kalaitzoglou (Wageningen University); Response of growth and development of tomato plants to red, blue and far-red light
  • 12:10 Lunch
  • 13:15 Ellen de Keyser (ILVO, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research); Different shades of colour painted by light quality variations
  • 13:45 Nikos Ntagkas (Wageningen University); LED lighting improves the vitamin C content of tomato fruit
  • 14.15 Marie-Christine van Labeke (Ghent University); Tailored light quality systems for young plants – case study pot chrysanthemum
  • 14.45 Coffee/tea
  • 15.10 Tom Dueck (Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture); Spectral opportunities to improve plant growth and quality
  • 15:40 Panel discussion about city farming with: Meiny Prins (CEO, Priva); Gus van der Feltz (Global director city farming, Philips Horticulture); Marc Kreuger (Technical Lead PlantLab Program, Syngenta Seeds)
  • 16.30 Drinks, snacks

Contact: Leo Marcelis (leo.marcelis@wur.nl); convener of the symposium and head of the chair group Horticulture and Product Physiology at Wageningen university

Download the Registration form here and return this form not later than September 30, 2015 October 9, 2015 to the convener at leo.marcelis@wur.nl

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BeNeLuxSHS 2015 Symposium: Plant control by LED light

Annual Symposium: Thursday 15 October, 2015
Forum building, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen, The Netherlands

LEDs provide exciting new possibilities to modulate spectrum and direction of light, to control instantaneously light intensity, and to decouple lighting from heating. This allows not only to control growth, development and yield of plants, but also to control quality, disease resistance and last but not least to save energy.

Several growers have already installed LEDs in their greenhouses and it is assumed that the coming years the use of LEDs in greenhouses will increase exponentially. Different forms of city farming such as  plant factories or vertical farming attract a lot of attention. Many city farm initiatives pop up around the world. All these systems have in common that they want a full control of the production of horticultural crops by the use of LED lighting.

The 2015 annual symposium of the Benelux Society for Horticultural Science will include presentations from several researchers active in the Benelux. They will present the latest insights on control of plant production by LED light. There will also be an extensive discussion on city farm and the use of LEDs therein.

This symposium is open to everyone who is interested in the use of LED lighting for production of plants in horticulture. We expect that a nice mix of researchers, advisors  and private companies will participate.

The symposium is organised by Wageningen University (Chair Group Horticulture and Product Physiology) and the Campus of Wageningen UR is the location for this meeting.
We expect many people to participate, while the number of symposium participants has limits. So don’t wait too long with registration. The registration fee is 30 euro for students and members of BeNeLux SHS; for others the fee is 45 euro. Lunch is included in the fee.

Programme

  • 9:00 Registration (coffee or tea)
  • 10:00 Opening
  • 10:10 Ronald Pierik (Utrecht University); Plant growth at high densities: how light signals control plant architecture.
  • 10:40 Tom van Delm (PCH, Research Centre Hoogstraten); LED lighting in strawberry
  • 11:10 Wim van Ieperen (Wageningen University); Light beyond the comfort zone of plants
  • 11:40 Pavlos Kalaitzoglou (Wageningen University); Response of growth and development of tomato plants to red, blue and far-red light
  • 12:10 Lunch
  • 13:15 Ellen de Keyser (ILVO, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research); Different shades of colour painted by light quality variations
  • 13:45 Nikos Ntagkas (Wageningen University); LED lighting improves the vitamin C content of tomato fruit
  • 14.15 Marie-Christine van Labeke (Ghent University); Tailored light quality systems for young plants – case study pot chrysanthemum
  • 14.45 Coffee/tea
  • 15.10 Tom Dueck (Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture); Spectral opportunities to improve plant growth and quality
  • 15:40 Panel discussion about city farming with: Meiny Prins (CEO, Priva); Gus van der Feltz (Global director city farming, Philips Horticulture); Marc Kreuger  (Technical Lead PlantLab Program, Syngenta Seeds)
  • 16.30 Drinks, snacks

Contact: Leo Marcelis (leo.marcelis@wur.nl); convener of the symposium and head of the chair group Horticulture and Product Physiology at Wageningen university

Download the Registration form here and  return this form not later than September 30, 2015 October 9, 2015 to the convener at leo.marcelis@wur.nl

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2014 Symposium Presentations: Horticulture – Steering plants and connecting them to people

Annual symposium: Steering plants and connecting them to people.
Hogeschool Inholland – Delft, The Netherlands, 31 October 2014

Convener: Olaf van Kooten.

Presentation downloads:

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BeNeLuxSHS 2014 Symposium: Horticulture – Steering plants and connecting them to people

Annual symposium: Steering plants and connecting them to people.
Hogeschool Inholland – Delft, The Netherlands, 31 October 2014

This year the annual symposium of the BeNeLux Society for Horticultural Science (BNL SHS) will be entitled: Horticulture – Steering plants and connecting them to people. It will be held on Friday, 31 October 2014 at Hogeschool Inholland, Rotterdamseweg 141, 2628 AL Delft, The Netherlands. Convener is Olaf van Kooten.

This symposium is meant for both scientists and professionals in horticulture; the language will be English.

Programme:

09:00 – 10:00 Registration (coffee or tea)
10:00 – 10:10 Opening
10:10 – 10:50 Leo Marcelis (Wageningen University): Greenhouse Crop Growth Modelling – the State of the Art
10:50 – 11:30 Kathy Steppe (Universiteit Gent): TomTalk: tale of a tomato plant about energy-efficient greenhouse conditions
11:30 – 12:10 Peter Kamp (Priva BV): Steering the crop through water management
12:10 – 12:30 Plenary discussion
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch and BNL-SHS General Assembly
13:30 – 14:05 Olaf van Kooten (Hogeschool Inholland and Wageningen University): Green eyes, connecting grower and scientist
14:10 – 14:40 Marcel van der Hoeven (Van Dijk Flora BV): Connecting growers with retailers
14:40 – 15:00 Tea break
15:00 – 15:35 Eric Egberts (Bloomy Creations BV): Bloomy Creations, connecting consumers with trade
15:35 – 16:10 Robert de Jong (Looije Tomaten BV): Marketing high-quality vegetables
16:10 – 16:30 Plenary Discussion
16:30 – 17:00 Drinks

If you are interested in attending the symposium please register by sending the registration form for the 2014 BeNeluxSHS Symposium to evenementen@inholland.nl
not later than 17 October 2014.

We hope we may have the pleasure of welcoming you on 31 October in Delft.

BeNeLux Society for Horticultural Science

Robert J. Bogers – President
Monique Bodson – Secretary
Hector Willocx – Treasurer
Johan Van Huylenbroeck – Board Member
Leon Wietor – Board Member
Olaf Van Kooten – Convener

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2013 BeNeLuxSHS Annual Meeting: Presentations

All presentations for the 2013 meeting Ghent, Belgium March 7, 2013 are available online:

Some pictures: Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3

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Integrated Pest Management in horticulture: research for practice: Ghent, Belgium March 7, 2013

The European Union has adopted a directive that all EU countries will convert to the use of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) in agricultural production by 2014. That basically means that the use of chemicals should be reduced / adjusted as necessary and that growers should use alternative methods. In this symposium we look how recent research can help horticulture to reach this goal.

This symposium is organized by the Benelux Society for Horticultural Science (BNL-SHS)

Programme

Registration – coffee (9:00)

10:00 Welcome and introduction to the theme of the symposium
10:15 Karel Bolckmans – Koppert and representative of IBMA – NL“Promising directions in Integrated Pest & Disease Management that require further research”
10:45 Rob Moerkens – Proefcentrum Hoogstraten – B“Challenges in IPM for greenhouse crops: the importance of economic thresholds of both pest and beneficial”
11:15 X
11:35 Anneleen Volckaert – Proefcentrum Kruishoutem – B”Integrated pest management in leek and cabbage, a practical view”
11:55 Gil Luypaert – Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO) – B“Towards integrated pest management in azalea to control broad mite”

Lunch (12:15)

Short visit to the new greenhouse research facilities at ILVO

13:45 Bart Heijne – Wageningen UR – NL“Innovative IPM in pome fruit and strategies for implementation in practice”
14:15 Daniel Molitor – Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann – Lux”Crop cultural measures to control bunch rot in integrated viticulture”
14:35 Tim Beliën – pcfruit vzw- B“Integrated pest management in pip fruit orchards and the challenge to control stink bugs (Pentatomidae)”

Coffee break (14:55)

15:30 Joeke Postma – Wageningen UR – NL“Suppression of soil-borne plant pathogens in horticultural systems through microbial interactions”
16:00 Jane Debode – Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO) – B“The effect of biochar and compost on plant pathogens and the microbial community in soil”
16:20 Closing remarks

Reception (16:30)

Registration

Registration fee: €30 (€20 for members BNL-SHS). This includes participation in the scientific programme, lunch and coffee-breaks.

Please register for this symposium  before 25 February 2013 by filling in the registration form.

Payment of the fee can take place by money transfer to our bank account (KBC Bank):

  • IBAN: BE06 7364 0230 3322
  • BIC: KREDBEBB
  • Benelux Vereniging voor Tuinbouwwetenschap

mentioning: symposium 2013 BeNeLuxSHS + your name

Venue

Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO)
Plant Sciences Unit
Caritasstraat 21
9090 Melle
Belgium

Get directions to the institute

Organizing committee

Johan Van Huylenbroeck, Monique Bodson, Rob Bogers, Jozef Van Assche, Olaf van Kooten, Hector Willocx

Contact

BNLSHS2013@ilvo.vlaanderen.be

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2011 BeNeLuxSHS symposium Presentations

2011 Annual Symposium of the BeNeLux SHS: Intellectual Property Rights in Horticulture. Download the symposium presentations (.pptx format – file size approx. 17Mb and 10Mb respectively): Morning Session or Afternoon Session

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2011 Annual Symposium of the BeNeLux SHS: Intellectual Property Rights in Horticulture

This year the annual symposium of the BeNeLux Society for Horticultural Science (BNL SHS) will be devoted to Intellectual Property Rights in Horticulture. It will be held on 26 May 2011 in the Scelta Institute in Venlo, in the south-east of the Netherlands.

Convener is Dr. Niels Louwaars (Wageningen UR).

The morning session will focus on breeder’s rights in international perspective; speakers will be Bart Kiewiet, President of the Community Plant Variety Office, Angers; Jaap Kras, editor of FloraCulture International, Amsterdam; and  ArndJan van Wijk, senior project manager, Variety-Testing Department, Naktuinbouw, Roelofarendsveen.

The afternoon session will concentrate on breeder’s rights versus patent rights with presentations by Niels Louwaars, biopolicies specialist of the Centre for Genetic Resources The Netherlands, Wageningen University and Research Centre; Anke van den Hurk, Plantum.nl; and Joep Lambalk, managing director of Enza Seeds Research and Development.

Orlando de Ponti, immediate past-president of the International Seed Federation, will chair the symposium.

Following the symposium a visit by bus and chair lift to the grounds of Floriade 2012 will be possible. Paul Beck, director of Floriade, will give an introduction to this visit. Floriade is the World Horticultural Expo staged once every ten years in the Netherlands. During the period from April until mid-October 2012, the sixth edition of Floriade will be held in Venlo. The Visitor Centre will open on 19 May 2011.

Download the Symposium Programme
Download a route description to the Scelta Institute

The cost of the symposium will be € 30 for members of the BeNeLux SHS and students and € 50 for non-members, lunch included. In addition, the visit to the Floriade will cost € 10.

If you are interested in attending the symposium we kindly request you to register by downloading and filling out the Registration Form and sending it to the secretary of the BeNeLux SHS, Prof. Monique Bodson, at monique.bodson@ulg.ac.be, not later than 2 May 2011.

We hope we may have the pleasure of welcoming you on 26 May in Venlo.

Robert J. Bogers
President
rjbogers.ishs@kpnplanet.nl

Monique Bodson
Secretary
monique.bodson@ulg.ac.be

Hector Willocx
Treasurer
Hector.Willocx@lv.vlaanderen.be

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Registration details for the 2010 Symposium

Make sure to register for the 2010 Symposium, Challenges in Northern Wine Regions  !

Please register at horticulture@asta.etat.lu and make the bank transfer before 24 March

Since the number of places in the conference room is limited, the registration will be done on a first come, first served basis. The registration fee, which includes lunch, amounts to € 30.-, without lunch € 20. Members of the BeNeLux-SHS will be granted a € 5.- discount. For students, the fee including lunch is € 20.-, or € 5.- without lunch. Please transfer the money to the Post bank account of the SNAH in Luxembourg, IBAN LU35 1111 0119 9968 0000, the BIC/SWIFT code is CCPLLULL. The address of the Post bank is P&T Cheques Postaux, L-1090, Luxembourg.

See the Symposium announcement and registration form at www.beneluxshs.eu for more info.

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