Chronica - Acta Horticulturae
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theme! Promotions included: construction and<br />
operation of the Congress website<br />
(www.ihc2006.org); publication and active distribution<br />
of newsletters, both in English and in<br />
Korean; early printing and generous distribution<br />
of pamphlets, announcements, logo,<br />
emblems, posters, letterheads, envelopes, buttons,<br />
mouse pads, and book markers; establishment<br />
of Headquarter Office and employment<br />
of staff members for IHC activities; active<br />
invitation of prominent scientists as invited plenary<br />
lecturers to many KSHS meetings; dispatch<br />
of Korean delegates to the annual horticultural<br />
meetings of some neighbor countries; active<br />
promotion of IHC2006 during general assembly<br />
meetings (Japan, China, Taiwan) or operation<br />
of a booth at various meetings (USA, Thailand,<br />
Japan); the extension of abstract submission<br />
deadline for one month (effective!); and furnishing<br />
precise information on various tours.<br />
EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING<br />
We attempted to hold as many ISHS symposia<br />
in Korea as possible to accumulate experience<br />
in hosting international symposia and meetings.<br />
Examples included Horticulture in<br />
Northeast Asia (1993), Lily symposium (1994),<br />
Vegetable Quality (1997), Bioregulators in Fruit<br />
Production (2001), the ISHS Executive<br />
Committee meeting (2003), Persimmons<br />
(2003), and Brassica Crops (2003). In addition,<br />
Koreans actively organized workshops and/or<br />
symposia held in other countries including the<br />
Korean Horticulture Workshop in Hawaii (the<br />
1992 ASHS meeting), and Asian Plant<br />
Symposium at Toronto (IHC2002).<br />
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM<br />
Since the overall framework of IHC2002 in<br />
Canada was judged to be very efficient and<br />
productive, a similar framework was used for<br />
IHC2006. We ended up with 16 multi-day symposia<br />
as compared to 24 multi-day symposia<br />
held in Canada. Twelve symposium topics were<br />
finalized based upon proposals from Executive<br />
Committee and Council members of ISHS.<br />
Some of the proposals were bundled together<br />
in order to make the title broad and general<br />
enough to handle the many abstracts submitted<br />
- a total of 2824 abstracts were submitted<br />
from 87 countries (Table 2). As a result, some of<br />
the symposium proposals had to be transformed<br />
to workshops and several symposia<br />
were extended from 2 days to 4 days. Twentyone<br />
workshops were held, all during the evening<br />
hours from 6 to 9 PM. A special FAO-MAF<br />
(Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Korea)<br />
workshop entitled “Fruit and Vegetables for<br />
Health” was held for a full day on August 15.<br />
All the workshops were very well attended. In<br />
addition to 16 symposia, 6 colloquia were finalized<br />
each with 3-5 prominent speakers.<br />
Financial support for the scientific program<br />
was: $5,000 per 2-day symposium, $6,000 per<br />
Poster presentation hall equipped with generous Internet connections, resting tables, ISHS<br />
booth, and booths for Portugal-Spain and KSHS.<br />
4-day symposium, and $6,000 per colloquium.<br />
The number of abstracts received from the 10<br />
top countries/states was Korea (613), China<br />
(349), Japan (300), Iran (167), USA (159),<br />
Taiwan (105), Brazil (37), Thailand (34),<br />
Australia (33), and Romania (30).<br />
REGISTRATION<br />
The total number of registrations, from 91<br />
countries, was 2,030. “No-shows” were kept<br />
low, only about 5% (mean value of both oral<br />
and posters). Countries with significant participants<br />
included Korea (560), Japan (345), China<br />
(238), USA (131), Taiwan (109), Iran (54), Israel<br />
(37), South Africa (35), Australia (33), Thailand<br />
(30), Italy (30), Romania (25), and The<br />
Netherlands (21). There were 382 participants<br />
from other countries. Even though the total<br />
income from the registration exceeded<br />
US$750,000, invalid card payments and<br />
Table 2. Number of abstracts submitted to each symposium.<br />
requests for refunds were also higher than<br />
expected. Each registrant received a bag containing<br />
Abstracts, Program, ISHS folder with<br />
<strong>Chronica</strong> 46(1), 2 CDs on Korean Horticulture,<br />
and various other documents.<br />
POSTER PRESENTATION AND<br />
COMPETITION<br />
Posters were presented in an early session<br />
(August 14 and 15) and a late session (August<br />
17 and 18) in a large and comfortable facility.<br />
Tables with Internet connections were located<br />
throughout the room. The ISHS, Portugal-Spain,<br />
and KSHS booths were located in the poster<br />
presentation room whereas most other country<br />
and governmental booths were located in the<br />
Exhibition Hall. The poster competition was<br />
held at a designated time. The judges, led by Dr.<br />
E. Fallahi of the USA, selected 11 posters for<br />
recognition, which included a certificate and a<br />
Symposium Title Oral Oral or Poster Poster Total<br />
1 Genetic Resources (4-day) 67 82 105 254<br />
2 Asian Plants 46 74 67 187<br />
3 Plants as Food and Medicine 30 34 67 131<br />
4 Fruit Production in a Global Economy 55 29 56 140<br />
5 Ornamentals, Now! (4-day) 29 56 101 186<br />
6 Automation & Protected Cultivation (4-day) 66 103 218 387<br />
7 Genomics of Horticultural Plants 36 56 109 201<br />
8 Post-harvest Technology (4-day) 45 63 115 223<br />
9 Plant Bioregulators 27 46 68 141<br />
10 Plant Biotechnology (Tissue Culture) 47 86 131 264<br />
11 Sustainability through Horticulture 65 53 73 191<br />
12 Horticultural Practices 24 31 53 108<br />
13 Seed and Seedling Production 21 32 46 99<br />
14 Turf-grass 17 12 15 44<br />
15 Urban Horticulture 20 13 21 54<br />
16 Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Crops 50 67 97 214<br />
Total 645 837 1342 2824<br />
Total of 2824 abstracts from 87 countries were submitted.<br />
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