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Group picture taken at the Hotel del Lago, place of the event. see the vast diversity of horticulture as we traveled through the climatic zones, and were able to compare small fields owned and managed by individual growers with fields owned by the larger companies Hortifrut, Vitalberry and Comfrut. Also, we visited several processing plants where the berries were frozen for shipping to Europe and North America. The meeting in Pucon started on December 5 with a general overview of the berry industry in Chile, which has grown 12% annually in the last 8 years, and now has over 10,000 ha of raspberries, 400 ha of blackberries and about 50 ha of Ribes. Then the main breeding programs around the world were summarized. This highlighted an increasing tendency for varieties to be patented and produced by private companies. For the first time in blackberries, there were two presentations on the physiological and cultural Visit to a ‘Meeker’ raspberry field in Loncoche. Red and white currant growing in Angol. aspects of the primocane fruiting cultivars Prime-Jim and Prime-Jan. One presentation reported a new virus attacking raspberries and blackberries and there were several talks that described intensive tunnel and long cane production. Hortifrut raspberry field in Nogales. The mineral nutrition of Rubus was reviewed and for the first time a Chilean researcher reported on the antioxidant content of Chilean berries. We had a wonderful group of people and we really enjoyed hosting such a distinguished group of scientists from around the globe. The next meeting of the Rubus and Ribes Symposium will take place in Serbia, probably in July 2010. Good luck and my best wishes to the “10th Rubus and Ribes Symposium” organizing committee. Pilar Bañados CONTACT Prof. Pilar Bañados, Dpto. Fruticultura y Enologia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Casilla 306-22, Santiago, Chile, email: pbanados@uc.cl ISHS • 44
Commission Horticultural Engineering Int’l Symposium on Greenhouse Cooling: Methods, Technologies, and Plant Response Participants of the Symposium. From 24 to 27 April 2006, 185 research scientists, industry representatives, technical advisors, growers and students from 28 countries met in Aguadulce, Almería, Spain, to discuss the state-of-the-art on greenhouse cooling. The Intense interest in a poster explanation. symposium was organised by the Estación Experimental de Cajamar “Las Palmerillas” under the auspices of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), and was convened by Drs. Jerónimo Pérez Parra, Juan Ignacio Montero and Bernard Bailey. Over recent years there has been a large increase in the area of protected crops grown in countries at low latitudes. These have the benefit of high insolation year-round, but also suffer from the concurrent disadvantage of high day temperatures. As a consequence greenhouse cooling has become increasingly important and this was reflected by the attendance at this first international meeting on the subject. During two days there were 82 poster and oral presentations on the six symposium themes of natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation and other cooling methods, air movement and climate uniformity in cooled greenhouses, evaporative cooling and shading, plant responses to greenhouse cooling, and insect exclusion techniques. Each theme was introduced by a key- note lecture. There were also technical visits to local greenhouses producing vegetables and ornamental plants, the Estación Experimental de Cajamar “Las Palmerillas”, and an ecologically friendly pesticide container cleaning and recycling facility. A quiet moment to consider the posters. CHRONICA HORTICULTURAE •VOL 46 • NUMBER 2 • 2006 • 45
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