Industrial crops and products

The fourth European symposium on industrial crops and products, to be held in conjunction with the sixth symposium on renewable resources for the chemical industry, will be held in Bonn, Germany, from 23 to 25 March 1999.

The symposium will address several aspects of research and development for industrial crops and products. These will include agronomy, breeding, policy and economics, industrial processing and utilization, and environmental impact. The symposium will focus on existing and new potential industrial crops, such as oil and fibre crops, and crops for the production of carbohydrates or proteins. Crops producing other special compounds for industrial applications will also be discussed.

Abstracts of papers for presentation during the symposium are invited - in the fields of oils, carbohydrates, fibres, and proteins for industrial markets - on the following topics:

- Policy, economics and markets, including production chains;
- Primary production, including cultivation and breeding;
- Processing of crops to industrial raw materials;
- Non-food products based on renewable resources, such as biopolymers, surfactants, biofuels, etc.;
- Renewable resource-based products with biological activities, such as pharmaceutics, biocides, etc.;
- Microbial conversion of renewable resources to added value non-food products;
- Structure-function relationships in non-food use of agro-materials.
For further information, please contact:

Elsevier Science Ltd
Fourth European Symposium on Industrial Crops and Products
Ms. Sarah Wilkinson
The Boulevard
Langford Lane, Kidlington
Oxford OX5 1GB
Tel. +44-1865-843691; Fax +44-1865-843958
E-mail: sm.wilkinson@elsevier.co.uk
URL: http://www.elsevier.nl:80/homepage/sag/icp99/(opens in new window)