This conference is held every two years and has traditionally enjoyed participation from government, university, and industrial scientists. The past conferences have been dominated by the science of crop protection, i.e., pest control, disease control, and weed control.
Participation is sought for oral presentations, poster presentations, and discussion leaders.
This theme should be taken in the context of exploring diversity in organisms, genetics, chemistry, and in approaches to address agricultural problems. Modification of the genetics of crops has been the major method of increasing crop yield and quality. Yet the advent of plant transformation has resulted in new questioning of the safety and wisdom of this approach. While much attention has focused on new approaches, agricultural chemicals remain the basis for crop protection. Modern chemistry has generated an unprecedented chemical diversity for exploration.