Developing crops that are more resilient to rapidly changing and harsher environments will be crucial for tomorrow’s food production. Green biotechnology offers solutions to maintain high food productivity while preserving the earth’s valuable ecosystems.

This VIB conference ‘Translational Research in Crops’ aims at reviewing how crops cope with stress, how to improve crops through plant architecture, how to produce healthier crops, and the beneficial interactions of the soil microbiome.

Twenty leaders in plant biotechnology will present their latest insights in the following sessions:

• Healthier crops
• Improving crops through plant architecture
• How do crops cope with biotic stress?
• How do crops adapt to abiotic stress
• Beneficial interactions of soil microbiome
• Centuries of crop breeding

Besides an inspiring scientific program, conference participants will have ample networking opportunities during the poster sessions and networking moments.

Travel grants
We offer 4 travel grants to international PhD students, which will reimburse travel costs up to 400 Euros. The deadline to participate was 30 March 2023. The organizing committee notified the grant winners.

Poster information
The format for your poster should be: A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 in), portrait orientation. All accepted poster submissions will have a chance to win the JXB Poster Prize offered by Journal of Experimental Botany!

Register before the EB deadline to have your abstract recorded in the program book.

Host City: Ghent
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