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12th Annual ICABR Conference Approaches

Lauren Jackson

1/28/08

The 12th annual International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR) Conference will take place in Ravello, Italy from June 12-14, 2008. This year's conference is entitled "The Future of Agricultural Biotechnology: Creative Destruction, Adoption, or Irrelevance?" and is held in honor of long-time organizer Vittorio Santaniello.

The call for papers has now been posted here.

EMAC is a conference organizer of this event.

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