Abstract submission deadline is April 5, 2007.

General Information
Please select your preference to present an oral presentation or a poster. Conference organizers will attempt to accommodate your choice, but reserve the right to make changes if needed. The presenting author will be notified of the final form if different from the preferred selection.

Abstracts will be posted on the Plant Canada website and also be given to all conference delegates on a non- interactive CD. Abstracts will not be printed in a hard copy format for distribution to all delegates. Instead, the conference organizers will provide a few reference copies that will be available only at the registration desk.

The official working language of the conference is English. Abstracts and posters may be submitted in either English or French.

Abstracts are to be submitted to Debbie Apfeld at: debbie@mcphersonclarke.com

To register for meeting, contact the Plant Canada Conference Manager at: https://mcphersonclarke.powweb.com/forms/plantcanada/2007conferenceregistration.html

To submit abstracts and register, contact the Plant Canada Conference Manager (website link to be added in February).

For CPS members wishing to publish their abstract in CJPP, submit the $35 CPS abstract fee when completing the registration form.

Poster Presentations

Take note of the long, narrow poster dimensions as only this format can be displayed.
One poster panel will display three presentations, so the poster format for this meeting is tall and narrow.
To fit this format, the poster frame must not exceed 0.8 m wide x 1.0 m tall (30 inches wide by 40 inches tall).
Reserve a 10 cm x 10 cm space in the top left corner of your poster for a number to identify you in the program.

Velcro and pins will be available on site.

Display facilities are in Salon A and E at TCU Place. Set up is Sunday June 10 from 17:00- 19:00 h or Monday June 11 from 7:00-10:00 h. Posters must be removed by 11:00 h on Thursday June 14. Check at registration for possible time changes.

Authors with even numbered posters should be present at their posters on Monday June 11 from 17:00- 18:30 h. Authors with odd numbered posters should be present at their poster on Tuesday June 12 from 17:00-18:30h . A cash bar and snacks will be provided in the area.

Oral Presentation

Only LCD projectors will be used in all oral sessions. All slide presentations must be formatted for Power Point display.

Contributed paper sessions and student presentations will be 12 minutes with 3 minutes for questions.

All presenters are required to submit their Power Point presentation to the session moderator the day before presenting. The session moderator will contact presenters to make arrangements for transferring and preloading.

Formatting Abstracts for Submission to Plant Canada 2007

Please refer to the sample abstract that follows the detailed instructions.

Word processor: 

• Microsoft Word (preferred) or WordPerfect.

Font: 

• Times New Roman, 12 point; use single spaced, left-justified text throughout.

Title: 

• bold font; scientific names in bold and italicized.
• the first word of the title, proper names, and scientific names have the first letter capitalized.

Author names:

• normal font (no bold, no italics).
• initial(s) first, followed by surname (e.g., A.B. Smith and C.B. Jones); use periods after initials and no spaces between initials.

Affiliations:

• in italics; must include complete postal address and postal code (no abbreviations except for province or state names).
• first affiliation should be that of the first author; if other authors have different affiliations, those affiliations should start with the author's initials in brackets, e.g., (C.B.J.).

Body of abstract: (250 word maximum)

• in normal font with scientific names italicized.
• scientific authorities must be given for all Latin names the first time they appear in the body of the abstract.
• abbreviations must be spelled out in full the first time they are mentioned in the body of the abstract.
• cultivar names are to have single quotation marks around them every time they are mentioned.
• start body of abstract in a new paragraph; do not indent; sentences are separated by a single space.
• the abstract should contain a description of the problem, results and a concluding statement; it should be concise with just enough information to introduce the subject and generate interest.
• the entire abstract, including the title, author names, affiliations and body, should be no more than 250 words.

Below the abstract, clearly indicate the following:

• the name of the person presenting the abstract, their telephone number and/or email address.
• the names of two people (other than the authors) who have critically read the abstract.
• whether the abstract is for an oral presentation or a poster.
• the category under which the abstract best fits:

a) Pest Management
b) Plant Development and Improvement
c) Plant Responses to Environment

• whether the abstract is to be considered for the student oral presentation or poster award; students must also indicate to which Society they belong.

Submit completed abstracts via the Registration and Abstract Submission link on the Plant Canada website: http://www.plantcanada.ca.
The abstract submission deadline is 05 April 2007. No abstracts will be accepted after that date.
* No editing for clarity, typos or grammar will be done by the compilers.

 Sample abstract:

Assessment of partial resistance to mycosphaerella blight in pea. B.D. Gossen, M.R. McDonald, and S.F. Hwang. Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X2, Canada; (M.R.M.) Department of Plant Agriculture, Crop Science Building, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; and (S.F.H.) Alberta Research Council, P.O. Box 4000, Vegreville, AB T9C 1T4, Canada.
Mycosphaerella blight, caused by Mycosphaerella pinodes (Berk. & Blox.) Vestergr, is an important disease of dry and processing pea (Pisum sativum L.) in Canada. An earlier study reported a correlation in disease reaction to M. pinodes among field, laboratory, and detached-leaf assessments across many field-pea lines; this association was much stronger for the most resistant and susceptible lines than for intermediate lines. The objective of the current study was to assess this relationship at other sites. Pisum sativum 'Miami', 'Montana', and 'Express' were selected to represent cultivars most susceptible to mycosphaerella blight, while 'Carneval' and 'Radley' were selected as partially resistant. Some or all of these cultivars, together with processing-pea cultivars, were grown at three locations in 2004 (Saskatoon (Saskatchewan), Bradford (Ontario), and Prince Edward County (Ontario)), in a randomized complete block design with four replicates. Plots were rated for foliar disease severity (0-9 scale) up to four times during pod set, and area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC) values was calculated. Mycosphaerella blight was consistently more severe on processing-pea than on field-pea lines. Also, blight was more severe on susceptible than resistant field-pea lines at Saskatoon, which was the only site with high levels of disease.

Presenter: B.D. Gossen
Phone: (306) 956-7259
E-mail: gossenb@agr.gc.ca

Reviewed by:
1. John Q. Public
2. Homer J. Simpson

Oral presentation
Category: Pest Management
Student presentation for CPS