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Grains for feeding the world


Grains for feeding the worldJoint ICC/AISTEC Conference at the World Expo Milan 2015 1-3 July 2015 - University of Milan, ItalyCALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Italian Association for Cereal Science and Technology (AISTEC) and the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC) will co-organize an international conference on “Grains for feeding the world” on the occasion of the EXPO 2015 in Milan (Italy).The Scientific Committees, made up by well-known scientists and experts worldwide, will shape up a rich and interesting program touching on innovative aspects concerning all cereals, pseudocereals and other grains. A poster session will complement oral presentations together with a Table Top Exhibition. We would like to invite submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations online before 20 January 2015. Find guidelines in the Conference website (https://expo2015.icc.or.at/abstract_submission).In particular, we welcome abstracts concerning the following areas:§  Security (productivity, population, policy, land, different meaning in different parts of the world)§  Sustainability (genetic resources, grain omics, waste, monoculture, rotations, organic agriculture, low input fertilization, climate change, carbon and water footprint, etc.)§  Safety (biotech, postharvest diseases and pest management, toxins, controls, pollution, etc.)§  Traceability and authenticity (developments in grains and products testing, labels, traditional products, etc.)§  Processing (strategies to improve quality and safety, improvers and additives, innovations in milling, new approaches for lowering sugars, fats, salt content, etc.)§  Health and nutrition (whole and refined grains, role of dietary grains in the modulation of microbiota composition, diseases, allergies and intollerances, phytochemicals, etc.)§  Economics and trading (finances, markets, import-export, infrastructures, collaborations, consumers, etc.)