The inaugural joint conference of the three leading Australasian and New Zealand Horticultural R&D Societies will be held at Mantra Erskine Beach Resort, Lorne, Victoria from September 18 to 22, 2011, with a focus on attracting and supporting young people in order to build capacity in horticulture. 

The Australasian Postharvest Horticulture Conference Organising Committee (APHC), the Australian Society for Horticultural Science (AuSHS) and the New Zealand Institute of Agriculture and Horticulture Science (NZIAHS) have joined forces in order to create an event of international significance around Horticultural Research, Development, Extension and Training. 

To achieve international relevance and recognition, the conference will have a scientifically and commercially balanced programme including invited world-class speakers relevant to the theme of the conference: “Horticulture for the Future”. 

Session themes will include:

• Climate variability and resource-use efficiency
• Sustainable pre- and post-harvest
• Fruits, vegetables and health
• Growing systems
• Preharvest physiology
• Preharvest bioprotection
• Breeding & applied biotechnology
• Value chain, marketing, and consumers
• Industry extension in horticulture
• Training and capacity building in horticulture
• Horticulture in developing countries
• Metabolomics in horticulture
• Postharvest physiology (including ethylene)
• Postharvest storage (CA, MA, postharvest treatments)
• Market access & quarantine
• Postharvest pathology
• Storage disorders and treatments
• Other

Conference Committee

• Dr Dugald Close
  Australian Society of Horticultural Science
  Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research
  University of Tasmania

• Dr Rod Jones
  Australasian Postharvest Horticulture
  Department of Primary Industries, Victoria

• Jill Stanley
  New Zealand Institute of Agriculture and Horticulture Science
  The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited
  

• Dr Alistair Gracie
  Australian Society of Horticultural Science
  School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania

• Dr David Lewis
  New Zealand Institute of Agriculture and Horticulture Science
  The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited

Latest Information

Promotional Poster
Please help us promote Horticulture for the Future 2011 by downloading the poster and forwarding it to your colleagues or print it and put it on your noticeboard.!

Carbon Workshop
This is scheduled for 3.00 pm on Wednesday 21 September and costs $50. You can book when registering. Click here for details of the workshop.

Sponsors

Conference Partner

Speaker Sponsor

Hosting Organisations

The Australasian Postharvest Horticulture Conference Organising Committee (APHC)

www.aushs.org.au	www.agscience.org.nz

Transfers to/from Lorne

Please see the Travel Page under General Information for details of transfers provided by the conference.

Venue

Lorne is around 70 kilometres south west of Geelong on the Great Ocean Road and situated on a protected bay overlooking Bass Strait. The rich rainforest of the Otways begins in the valleys behind Lorne that are flush with tree ferns, sparkling brooks and waterfalls.

The only beachfront property in Lorne, Mantra Erskine Beach Resort offers wonderful accommodation in one of Australia’s most sought after destinations, the Great Ocean Road. Built around the oldest guesthouse in Victoria, Mantra Erskine Beach Resort is now a part of the rich history of Lorne and the surrounding region.

With the beachfront location and the 12 acres of beautifully landscaped gardens that surround the resort, Mantra Erskine boasts the title of largest residential conference destination in Victoria.