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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 />

CHRONICA HORTICULTURAE •VOL 46 • NUMBER 4 • 2006 • 5

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