Set up registration desk
Bus to collect delegates from airport, train, buses

Welcome reception and Registration Gallery, Joyes Hall
buses to town

MONDAY 22nd August 2005

0745
0815

buses from town
Registration
Announcements

Plenary session  CONGRESS OPENING
Joyes Hall

0900

Jim Pratley, Chair, Congress Organising Committee: Welcome

0910

Official Opening

0920

Azim Mallik (Canada), President, International Allelopathy Society : Allelopathy: advances, challenges and opportunities

1000

Morning Tea - Convention Centre

Plenary session: ECOLOGY
Joyes Hall

1030

Margaret McCully (Australia) – Keynote address: The rhizosphere: a key functional unit in crop/soil interactions

1100

Ragan Callaway (USA) – Keynote Address: Invasion of plants into native communities using the underground information superhighway

1130

Ahmad Hegazy (Egypt) – Invited paper: Spatial pattern and mulching effect on some desert plants

1150

Kathir Kathiresan - Invited paper: evaluation of allelopathic plant materials for aquatic weed control

1210

Announcements

1215

LUNCH -  Atkins Hall  + poster review opportunity

Concurrent Session: ECOLOGY
Convention Centre

Concurrent Session:  BREEDING and GENETICS
Convention Centre

1330

Juan Carlos Alias: Determination of the allelopathic activity of diterpenes of the exudate of Cistus ladanifer 

Natividad Chaves:  Oxocativic acid: the diterpene possible responsible for the allelopathic activity of Cistus ladanife 

1345

Chen Xin: Allelopathic effects of Solidago canadensis on local plants 

Jamal Qasem: Allelopathic effects of squash Cucurbita pepo L cv Scarlette on certain common weeds in Jordan

1400

Azim Mallik: Destabilizing black spruce-Kalmia community in eastern Canada

Ravi Kumar Sivanuri: Review on root exudates and sorghum hypothetical model 

1415

Supama Mandel: Algal allelopathy 

Fariba Maighany: Effect of extracts of Persian and Berseem clovers 

1430

Meihua Mo: Allelopathic potentials of aqueous extracts of Lactarius hatsudake on several crops and barnyardgrass

Ibrahim Alsaadawi: Allelopathi potentials of Sorghum bicolor L. (Moench) against weeds

1445

Batoul Samedani: Use of allelopathic cover crops for weed management in orchards 

Leslie Weston: History and Current Trends in the Use of Allelopathy for Weed Management

1500

Poster reviews: Bamidele, Djurdejevic, Edalatifard, Garcia-Galindo, Hadi.

Poster reviews: Morimoto, Chavasiri, Astaraei, Leflaive, Yongquan

1515      

Afternoon Tea - Convention Centre

Concurrent Session: ECOLOGY
Convention Centre

Concurrent Session:  NATURAL HERBICIDES
Convention Centre

1545

Daniel Kean Yuen Tan: Allelopathic effects of lippia (Phyla canescens) on germinating seeds 

An Min: Application of a residue allelopathy model in the field management of Vulpia phytotoxity

1600

Forough Abbassi: Allelopathic effects of saffron corms on germination of field crops and vegetable seeds 

Xuan Tran Dang: Herbicidal lead compound mimosine and its degradation enzyme 

1615

Tehmina Anjum: Allelopathic effect of Imperata cylindrica on Parthenium hysterophorus 

Francisco Macias: Rational development of herbicide models from guaianolides

1630

Kulvir Bangarwa: Allelopathic effects of poplar

Liu De Li: Curve-fitting allelochemical response data 

1645

Sereen Bataineh: Screening for potential phytotoxin producing Streptomycetes isolated from soils in Jordan

1700

Renata Bogatek: Allelochemicals mode of action during seed germination

Wang Jianwu: MeJA may be used as an inducer of weed control agent

1715

Poster reviews: Kong, Leflaive, Nissanka, Torres, Uchino, Yongquan

Poster reviews: Garcia-Galindo, Iqbal, Nissanka, Uchino

2230             

Bush Dance (traditional Australian folk music and dancing)
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TUESDAY 23rd August 2005

0745
&
0815

Buses from town
Registration
Announcements

Plenary session: CHEMISTRY
Joyes Hall

0900

Yoshiharu Fujii (Japan) – Keynote Address: A critical survey of allelochemicals in action

0930

Francisco Macias (Spain) – Keynote Address: Allelopathic phenomenon – a dynamic process

1000  

Morning Tea - Convention Centre

Plenary session: CHEMISTRY continued

1030

José Molinillo (Spain) – Invited paper: Benzoxazinoids from wheat: preparation and structure-activity relationships

1050

Diego Castellano  (Spain) – Invited paper: Degradation studies on wheat hydroxamic acids

1110

Johann Fritz (Austria) – Invited paper: Structure-depending activities of wheat allelochemicals on target and non-target organisms

1130

Announcements

Symposium: NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS (Mallik)
Convention Centre

Concurrent Session:  CHEMISTRY
Convention Centre

1130

Jeffrey Weidenhamer: Measurement of allelochemical dynamics in the rhizosphere

Diego Sampietro: Effect of sugarcane straw and its phytochemicals on plant growth 

1145

Despina Vokou: Rich vs poor species in leaf secondary metabolites and bacterial colonization of their phyllosphere

R. N. Yadava: Novel biologically active flavonoidal constituent from Smithia conferta Sm 

1200

Young-Goo Park: Allelopathic suppression of turf grass under trees in golf courses

Hisashi Kato-Noguchi: Action mechanism of 6-methoxy-2-benzoxazolinone on the inhibition of plant germination 

1215

Leslie Weston: Use of weed suppressive groundcovers to suppress roadside weed growth over time: allelopathy or competition?

Shobha Sondhia: Isolation, structural elucidation and chemistry of allelopathic compound from a medicinal plant 

1230

LUNCH Atkins Hall + poster review opportunity

Symposium: NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS continued
Convention Centre

Concurrent Session: CHEMISTRY
Convention Centre

1345

Inderjit: Allelopathic property of wheat straw

Alicja Zobel Different roles of phenolic compounds on the surface and in the interior of plants

1400

Azim Mallik: Contradictory results of lab, greenhouse and field experiments on ectomycorrhizal role in overcoming Kalmia growth inhibition in black spruce

Juan Carlos Galindo:  Structure activity studies SAR on phototoxic breviane derivatives

1415

Zahid Cheema: Use of allelopathy in field crops in Pakistan

Wang Jianwu: Herbivore-induced plant volatiles may serve as allelopathic agents

1430

Ana Louisa Anaya: Antogonism between endophytic fungi of allelopathic plants

Poster Reviews: Kato, Tanaka, Xian, Borghetti, Torres, Fujii (a), Fujii (b)

1445

Symposium review

1500

Buses to town

1530

Public Event  Wagga Wagga City Civic Theatre

• The Molisch Award for outstanding academic achievement and/or service relating to the field of allelopathy.
• The Molisch Oration
• The Grodzinsky Award for the best single publication or book relating to allelopathy.
• The Grodzinsky Oration

1700

Civic Reception  (wine & cheese)  Civic Theatre
Art glass gallery and museum display
On-the-town personal choice restaurant dinner

WEDNESDAY 24th August 2005

0745
&
0815

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Registration
Announcements 

Plenary session: NOVEL APPROACHES
Joyes Hall

0900

Stephen Duke (USA) – Keynote address: Genomic approaches to understanding allelochemical modes of action and defenses against allelochemicals

0930

Robert Hoagland (USA)  – Invited paper:  Microbial herbicides – application of allelopathy or bioherbicides: research and risks

0950

John Pickett (UK) – Invited paper: cis-Jasmone as a powerful allelopathic agent by plant defence induction

1010 

Morning Tea -  Convention Centre

Plenary session: NOVEL APPROACHES continued

1040

Despina Vokou (Greece) – Invited paper: Essential oils as allelochemicals

1100

An Min (Australia) – Invited paper: The use of mathematical modelling in allelopathy

1120

Shiming Luo (China) - Invited paper: Allelopathy in South China agroecosystems

1140

Announcements

Symposium: MANAGED ECOSYSTEMS (Inderjit)
Convention Centre

Concurrent Session: NATURAL HERBICIDES
Convention Centre

1140

Shibu Jose: Walnut allelopathy: current state of the science

Sally Allan: Searching for a natural herbicide: the role of medicinal plants 

1155

Ana-Louisa Anaya: Allelopathic cover crops and green manures: prototypes for the ecological agriculture of the future

Tim Haig: Use of allelopathy for developing natural herbicides against annual ryegrass

1210

Leslie Weston: The ecology and chemistry of novel allelochemicals in graminaceous root exudates and their potential utilization as bioherbicides

Derek Cornes: Callisto - A very successful maize herbicide inspired by allelochemistry 

1225

Jeffrey Weidenhamer:  Evaluation of the allelopathic potential of a mustard cover crop

Tehmina Anjun: Allelopathic potential of Helianthus annuus L as natural herbicide 

1240

Azim Mallik: Ecological impossibility of sustainable crop production under complete weed control: Does allelopathy have a role to play?

An Min: Searching native Australian plants for natural herbicides: A case study.

1255

LUNCH  - Atkins Hall  + poster review opportunity

1330

Field Tours

• Charles Sturt University farm, campus, winery and research facilities
• Wagga Wagga City, Botanic Gardens and zoo 

Afternoon tea at Botanic Gardens

1700

Buses return delegates to motels

1800

Buses to CSU

1830

Congress Banquet – Convention Centre Jazz band

THURSDAY 25th August 2005

0745
&
0815

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Registration
Announcements

Plenary session: ALLELOPATHY IN RICE
Joyes Hall

0900

David Gealy (USA) – Keynote address: Evaluation and improvement of allelopathic rice germplasm at Stuttgart, Arkansas

0930

Alexa Seal (Australia) – Invited paper: Evaluation of rice varieties for allelopathic effects on Australian rice weeds

0950

Lin Wen Xiong (China) – Invited paper: Use of ISSR molecular marker approach to estimate genetic diversity in rice and barley allelopathy

1010

Morning Tea Convention Centre

Plenary session: RICE continued     Joyes Hall

1040

Franck Dayan (USA) – Invited paper: Manipulating the lipid resorcinols pathway to enhance allelopathy in rice

1100

Hisashi Kato-Noguchi (Japan) – Invited paper: Review of progress in the chemistry of rice allelopathy

Announcements

Concurrent Session:  RICE ALLELOPATHY
Convention Centre

Concurrent Session:  NOVEL APPROACHES
Convention Centre

1130

Jun Xiong: Analysis on allelopathic effect and resource competition between barnyardgrass rice accessions expos

Roshchina Victory: Proazulenes azulene and colchicine as fluorescent dyes to study of cellular interactions in allelopathy

1145

Lee Sang-Bok: QTLs and molecular markers associated with rice allelopathy

An Min: Wholerange assessment and inhibition index a method for analysing allelopathy data

1200

Francisco Macias: Bioactive compounds from Oryza sativa cv. Puntal

Kaori Tomita-Yokotani: Response of allelochemicals under pseudomicrogravity 

1215

Yu Liuqing: Relationship of POD and EST with rice allelopathy

Morteza Ghorbany: Application of plant products to control some soilborne fungal pathogens

1230

He Hai Bin: The differential analysis on allelochemicals extracted from rice root exudates

Tehmina Anjum: Evaluation of antifungal activity of Cicer arietinum L

1245

LUNCH -  Atkins Hall  + poster  review opportunity

Concurrent Session: RICE ALLELOPATHY
Convention Centre

Concurrent Session:  ECOLOGY
Convention Centre

1400

Francisco Macias: Structure-activity relationships of benzoxazinoids on Echinochloa crus galli L

Gniazdowska: Ethylene and ABA production in germinating seeds during allelopathy stress 

1415

Hisashi Kato-Noguchi: Allelochemical momilactone B from rice plants 

Sirkka Jaakkola: Use of white mustard in weed control

1430

Daya Pandey: Hydroquinone phytotoxicity to submerged aquatic weed coontail and rice 

Liang Wenju: Screening of allelopathic wheat varieties from Chinese germplasm collection

1445

Aamer Irshad: Comparative efficacy of sorghum allelopathy for controlling barnyardgrass in rice

Habib Nasir: Plant growth promoting activity of Stevia rebaudiana Hemsl. 

1500

Xuan Tran Dang: Utilization of plant allelopathy for biological control of weeds and plant pathogens in rice

Jakakumar Muthukrishnan: Allelopathic potential of Acacia leucopholea on groundnut and sorghum

1515

Poster review: Abeysekara

Satoshi Nakai: Allelochemicals accounting for allelopathic effects of Myriophyllum spicatum

1530

Afternoon Tea -  Convention Centre

1600

International Allelopathy Society Business Meeting
Joyes Hall

2030

Buses to town

FRIDAY 26th August 2005

7.45
&
8.15

Buses from town
Registration
Announcements

Plenary session: BREEDING and GENETICS
Joyes Hall

0900

Scott Baerson (USA) – Keynote address: The use of functional genomics to advance allelopathic science - investigating sorgoleone biosynthesis as an example

0930

Dylan Gwynn-Jones (Wales) – Invited paper: Advancing our understanding of allelopathy through metabolomics

0950

Hanwen Wu (Australia) – Invited paper:  Molecular approaches in improving wheat allelopathy

1010

Morning Tea -  Convention Centre

Plenary session: BREEDING and GENETICS continued

1040

Nils-Ove Bertholdsson (Sweden)  – Invited paper: Varietal variation in allelopathic activity in wheat and barley

1100

Reuben Peters (USA) – Invited paper: Elucidating biosynthesis of the rice allelochemical phytoalexin momilactone B

1120

Panel discussion: What is the future for allelopathy?

1210

The Rice Award for best student presentation at the Congress

1215

Concluding remarks: Jim Pratley;  Azim Mallik

Announcements

1230

LUNCH - Atkins Hall  + poster removal

Delegates depart
Buses to town & airport

POSTERS

Breeding and Genetics

Masanori Morimoto: Insect antifeedant in Rubiaceae 

Chemistry

Jose Luis Garcia-Galindo:  First total synthesis of helibisabonol B 

Takako Kato: Allelopathy of seeds 

Xian Qiming: Allelopathic activity and nutrients competition between Ceratophyllum demersum and Microcystis aerug 

Yukitoshi Tanaka: Allelopathic substances of Citrus junos fruit waste from food processing industry 

Zahida Iqbal: Allelopathic potential of buckwheat as ground cover crop 

Ecology

Alabi Bamidele: Allelopathic effect of siam weed on some weed and crop species 

Ali Reza Astaraei: Allelopathic effect of almond on cress and Fenugreek trigonel 

Ascension Torres: Natural biocides as insecticide and / or fungicide from citrus waste in new wood preservatives 

Chengrong Nie: Allelopathic potentials of Wedelia trilobata L on some crops in South China

Fabian Borghetti: Allelopathic properties of Cerrado species in Central Brazil

Hiroshi Uchino: Weed control by cover crops under organic farming of maize soybean and potato 

Jose Luis Garcia Galindo: Heliespirones CE new spiroterpenes from Helianthus annuus 

Josephine Leflaive: Epilithics biofilms role of allelopathy in community structuration and maturation 

Kong Chuihua: Allelopathy in China 

Lola Djurdjevic: Allelopathic investigations of Q conferta and Q cerris 

Leila Edalatifard: Evaluation of allelopathic effects of chickpea root extracts on germination and early growth of sorghum

Masoomeh Younesabadi: Allelopathic interference of rapeseed on germination and growth

Mohammad Hadj Seyed Hadi: Biological control of Orobanch aegyptiaca in tomato 

Sarath Nissanka: Allelopathic influences of Pinus caribea on vegetation regeneration and soil biodiversity 

Warinthorn Chavasiri: Allelochemicals from Hydrocotyle umbellata Linn

Zheng Yongquan: Allelopathic effects of wheat and its secondary metabolite DIMBOA on weeds 

Novel Approaches

Anuruddika Abeysekara: Allelopathic potential of goose weed (Spehenoclea zelanica) on rice weeds in Sri Lanka

Yoshiharu Fujii: Rhizosphere soil method - A new bioassay to evaluation allelopathy in the field&;

Fabian Borghetti: Solanum lycocarpum leaf extract effects on protein synthesis in sesame seedlings