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XXIII ALAP Congress 2008 - Mar del Plata, Argentina
The XXIII Congress of the ALAP was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina from November 30 to December 6, 2008. It was framed within the events that took place during 2008, declared by the United Nations as the International Year of the Potato (AIP) with the objective of highlighting the importance of the potato as a crop and food product, emphasizing its biological and nutritional attributes, and thus promoting its production, processing, consumption and commercialization. The XXIII Congress of the ALAP had the following objectives:
- Spread current research and technological innovations.
- Integrate the different levels of official and private activity related to the product, from a view of demand as food.
- Establish commercial links and joint new projects between companies and institutions.
- Strengthen the concept of rational and integrated management, taking in care the quality of the product and considering it as food.
- Promote a rational management of the environment.
- Promote work among groups of professionals and producers.
- Prepare projects and establish recommendations for monitoring the established conclusions.
Within the Congress several topics were developed such as the protection, control and integrated management of pests and diseases, phytopathology, physiology, fertilization, breeding and genetic resources, biotechnology, seed production, extension, economy and commercialization and quality and industrialization.
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POTATO NEMATODES |
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Expositor | Topic |
Javier Franco. PROINPA, Bolivia | ![]() |
Marcelo Doucet. Instituto de Zoología Aplicada, Argentina | ![]() |
Eliseo Chaves. EEA INTA, Balcarce, Argentina | ![]() |
PLAGUE INSECTS INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT |
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Expositor | Topic |
Yvan Pelletier. Agriculture Canada, Canadá. | ![]() |
Juan Manuel Alvarez. University of Idaho, USA | ![]() |
Douglas Landis. MSU, USA | ![]() |
Dora Carmona. EEA INTA Balcarce- FCA, UNMdP | ![]() |
POTATO LATE BLIGHT |
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Expositor | Topic |
Huub Schepers. Wageningen University Research, Holanda | ![]() |
Jorge Andrade Piedra. CIP, Ecuador | ![]() |
Eduardo Mizubuti. Universidad Federal de Viçosa, Brasil | ![]() |
LAT-SOL: III Symposium of the latin american network of Solanaceae |
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Expositor | Topic |
De Jong W, Jung CS, Zhang Y, Cheng S, De Jong D, Griffiths H | ![]() |
M. Ghislain, J. Nuñez, M.R. Herrera, D.M. Spooner | ![]() |
Sagredo, B. | ![]() |
Feingold SE, Melo P, Sagredo B, Kalazich J, Orjeda G. | ![]() |
Jorge A. Rojas Beltrán, Iris Vargas, Silene Veramendi, Fidel Cortez, Antonio Gandarillas < | ![]() |
Barreiro L, Portantier M, Massa GA, Conte M, Bassi S, Carrari F y SE Feingold | ![]() |
Paulo Eduardo de Melo; Arione da S Pereira; Caroline M Castro; Carlos Alberto Lopes; Antônio Carlos de Ávila; César B Gomes; Carlos Reisser Jr; Alice Maria Quezado-Duval | O melhoramento de germoplasma parental de batata na embrapa: Prioridades e Desafios |
Adriana E. Alvarez; Freddy Tjallingii; Marcel Dicke; Ben Vosman | Interaction between Solanum sp. y Myzus persicae: Acceptance or resistance? |
VI SEMINAR IN MARKETING AND USE OF POTATO |
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Expositor | Topic |
Monica Mateos FCA, UNMdP, Argentina | ![]() |
Andre Deveaux – CIP Peru | ![]() |
Jean Paul Sirvente – Germicopa, Francia | ![]() |
Fernando Ezeta – CIP Perú | ![]() |
Arjan Brower – Holanda | Industrial processing of potatoes: opportunities for dehydrated mashed potatoes in South America and the rest of the world |
Hans Peeten | ![]() |