Provisional programme for 17AWC
Please note that titles for keynote speeches are indicative only, and that this programme may be subject to changes.
The conference will feature a special workshop on Use of sequencing, bar coding and other molecular techniques to study invasive weed taxonomy, systematics and genetics. The workshop will be held during the regular meeting on Monday September 27 and Tuesday September 28 in the afternoons of each day.
Sunday 26 September
| 3.00 - 6.00 pm | Registration, poster setup, social meeting |
Monday 27 September
| Plenary 1 | ||||
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| 8.30 - 9.00 am | Opening (Kaumatua, Chair and Guest) | |||
| 9.00 - 9.45 | Keynote address: Fred Yelverton (Roadside weeds) | |||
| 9.45 - 10.30 | Keynote address: Philip Hulme (Our next major weed – how predictable is it?) | |||
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Morning tea | |||
| Concurrent 1 | Concurrent 2 | Concurrent 3 | Concurrent 4 | |
| 11.00 - 12.40 pm | Weed management (crops) | Management systems (WONS) | Weed management (aquatic) | Weed management (using allelopathy) |
| 12.40 - 1.40 | Lunch | |||
| 1.40 - 3.20 | Weed management (crops) | Management systems (WONS) | Weed management (biocontrol) | Workshop |
| 3.20 - 4.00 | Afternoon tea and poster viewing | |||
| 4.00 - 5.20 | Weed management (crops) | Management systems (WONS) | New threats (eradications) | Workshop |
| 5.20 - 6.00 | Social meeting | |||
Tuesday 28 September
| Plenary 2 | ||||
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| 8.30 - 9.30 am | Symposium – Weeds from mars (When, where and how, our next weed?) Panel of invited speakers | |||
| 9.30 - 10.30 | Discussion | |||
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Morning tea | |||
| Concurrent 1 | Concurrent 2 | Concurrent 3 | Concurrent 4 | |
| 11.00 - 12.40 pm | Weed management (forests) | Weed management (herbicide resistance) | New threats (plant naturalisation and emergence rates) | Management systems (regional) |
| 12.40 - 1.40 | Lunch | |||
| 1.40 - 3.20 | Weed management (forests) | Weed management (herbicide resistance) | New threats (plant naturalisation and emergence rates) | Workshop |
| 3.20 - 4.00 | Afternoon tea and poster viewing | |||
| 4.00 - 5.00 | New ideas | Management systems (regional) | Workshop | |
| 7.00 - 10.00 | CAWS Exec meeting | |||
Wednesday 29 September
| 7.30 am - 5.00 pm | Field trips |
| 7.00 - 12:00 | Conference dinner |
Thursday 30 September
| Plenary 3 | ||||
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| 8.30 - 9.00 | CAWS Oration | |||
| 9.00 - 9.45 | Keynote address: Dr Stephen Moss (Herbicide resistance – avoidance) | |||
| 9.45 - 10.30 | Keynote address: Prof. Tom Brooking (History of weed legislation in NZ) | |||
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Morning tea | |||
| Concurrent 1 | Concurrent 2 | Concurrent 3 | Concurrent 4 | |
| 11.00 - 12.40 pm | Weed management (pasture) | Weed management (environmental) | Management systems (biosecurity) | |
| 12.40 - 1.40 | Lunch | |||
| 1.40 - 2.40 | Weed management (pasture) | Weed management (environmental) | Management systems (biosecurity) | |
| 2.40 - 3.20 | Wrap-up and presentations | |||
Monday 27 September, 11.00 am - 12.40 pm
Concurrent 1: Weed management (crops)
B.S. Chauhan: Opportunities to improve cultural approaches to manage weeds in direct-seeded rice
J. Werth: Species shift and resistance: Challenges for Australian cotton systems
S.L. Lewthwaite: Evaluation of alternative herbicide systems for the sweetpotato crop
T.K. James: Enhanced degradation of atrazine in soils after a long history of repeated use.
H. Najafi: Herbicide application: an important factor in herbicide efficacy
Concurrent 2: Management systems (WONS)
J. Baker: Eliciting stakeholder perceptions to help improve national weed management programs
O. Osunkoya: Population viability analysis models for Lantana camara - a weed of national significance
S. Weller: Shedding and dispersal of the seeds of Nassella neesiana (Chilean needle grass) during hay bale cycle
C. Grech: Slasher covers to minimise roadside weed spread
H. Cherry: Boneseed in Australia: research, management and coordinated action
Concurrent 3: Weed management (aquatic)
R. Wells: Endothall: an eradication tool for submerged weeds
F.J. Ede: Understanding why weeds flourish in riparian zones in managed landscapes
J.H. Moore: Movement of triclopyr, picloram and aminopyralid down a river after blackberry spraying
P. Champion: Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia) control
T.M Dugdale: Herbicide application creates stem fragments capable of dispersal and regeneration in aquatic alligator weed
Concurrent 4: Weed management (using allelopathy)
G.P. Satsangi: Allelopathic response of wheat (Triticum aestivum) straw on germination and growth of selected weed species
H. Wu: Allelopathic potential of eucalyptus species on weeds
T.A. El-Shahawy: Rice straw as allelopathic for controlling weeds and depressing growth of microorganisms
G.P. Satsangi: Allelopathic potential of foliar leachates and extracts of selected weeds upon germination and seedling growth of Parthenium hysterophorus L.
Monday 27 September, 1.40 pm - 3.20 pm
Concurrent 1: Weed management (crops)
C. Borger: Emergence, survival and seed production of curly windmill grass in wheat or pasture systems
C. Borger: Control of windmill grass over the summer fallow increases wheat yield
T. K. James: Broom corn millet (Panicum miliaceum): A new menace for maize and sweetcorn growers in New Zealand
J.R. Moore: The effect of annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum) interference on the growth of four common Australian crop species
K.A. Kirkby: The effect of temperature on germination and plant biomass of annual ryegrass and tall fescue
Concurrent 2: Management systems (WONS)
A. Petroeschevsky: National aquatic weeds program - the journey
J.G. Virtue: Managing the weed risk of cultivated Arundo donax
L.S. Potter: Beating bridal creeper and other Asparagus weeds
K. Dhileepan: New biological control opportunities for prickly acacia: Exploration in India
S.W. Adkins: Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) research in Australia: New management possibilities
Concurrent 3: Weed management (biocontrol)
S. Fowler: Biocontrol of weeds in New Zealand: An overview of nearly 85 years
F.E. Anderson: Investigations into biological control of Nassella neesiana in Australia and New Zealand
P. Tehranchian: In vitro assessment of Stromantinia cepivora as a potential biological control agent for angled onion (Allium triquetrum) in Victoria, Australia
J.K. Scott: Exploration for potential biological control agents of Euphorbia paralias, a major environmental weed of coastal ecosystems in Australia
R. Groenteman: Response of two Chrysolina species to different Hypericum hosts
Concurrent 4: Workshop
Monday 27 September, 4.00 pm - 5.20 pm
Concurrent 1: Weed management (crops)
D. Lemerle: Canola competition for weed suppression
A. Hashem: Weed suppression by crop competition in three crop species
K. Kashe: Effect of tillage on the weed seedbank and weed flora in maize (Zea mays)
J. Moore: Image analysis for the detection of three-horned bedstraw in grain
Concurrent 2: Management systems (WONS)
P.J. Blackmore: Continuing successful eradication of parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus) from New South Wales, Australia.
T.L.T. Nguyen: The reproductive capacity of parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) under different climatic conditions
L. Fiedler: Coordinated control of Parthenium weed in the Maranoa-Balonne catchment
N. Khan: Competitive displacements of parthenium weed with beneficial native and introduced pasture plants in central Queensland, Australia
A. Shabbir: Management of parthenium weed: Enhancing the effectiveness of biological control through competition from beneficial plants
Concurrent 3: New threats (eradications)
P.O. Downey: Do the aims of weed management programs align with the objectives of weed policy?
M.J. Hilton: A review of the marram grass eradication programme (1999-2009), Stewart Island, New Zealand
W. Mead: White bryony (Bryonia cretica subsp. dioica) eradication response in New Zealand
S.G. Lloyd: Mimosa pigra L. – a new incursion into Western Australia
R.J. Adair: Hybridisation within Chrysanthemoides monilifera and implications for the eradication of bitou bush from Victoria, Australia
Concurrent 4: Workshop
Tuesday 28 September, 11.00 am - 12.40 pm
Concurrent 1: Weed management (forests)
C.A. Rolando: An assessment of the impacts of certification on vegetation management for plantation forestry in New Zealand
J.A. Zabkiewicz: Preliminary evaluation of salflufenacil herbicide for New Zealand forestry use
K.C. Harrington: Determining how soon ground covers can be planted in forests after applying metsulfuron
R.E. Gaskin: Use of an organosilicone surfactant to minimise spray application volumes for forestry scrubweed herbicides
W.A. Forster: Characterization of forest weed species and herbicide formulations to predict droplet adhesion and optimise spray retention
Concurrent 2: Weed management (herbicide resistance)
D. Thornby: Risks and RATs: assessing glyphosate resistance risk in paddocks in north-eastern Australia
C. Preston: Managing glyphosate resistant weeds in Australia
J.E. Neilsen: Managing herbicide resistance in Southern Australian farming systems using Roundup Ready® canola
J. Malone: Spread of herbicide resistance alleles in Lolium rigidum Gaid. (annual ryegrass)
M. Widderick: Manipulating the seed-bank to manage herbicide resistant weeds
Concurrent 3: New threats (plant naturalisation and emergence rates)
A.W. Sheppard: Are transformer weeds ecological rule breakers?
C. Clech-Goods: Contrasting the role of resource availability and enemy escape opportunity in the success of invasion.
N. Gross: Predicting invasion success: a basic framework using plant functional traits
A.R. Macanawai: Some factors that may influence the invasiveness of Mikania micrantha Kunth. ex. H.B.K. in Fiji
D. Galloway: Persicaria chinensis – a new alien Asian invader?
Concurrent 4: Management systems (regional)
T.A. Sydes: What weeds? Is the community really interested? Trials and tribulations of a weed mapping, data sharing and community engagement project in Far North Queensland
A.J.A. McDonald: Emerging ecological weeds within Canterbury - current distributions and potential threats
L. Edmunds: Good will and best practice – controlling oleanders in Parachilna Gorge, South Australia
J.H. Moore: The gorse (Ulex europaeus) eradication program in Western Australia.
J. Cooper: Development of strategies for the eradication of gorse (Ulex europaeus L.) at a wind farm construction site in North-East Tasmania
Tuesday 28 September, 1.40 pm - 3.20 pm
Concurrent 1: Weed management (forests)
J. Moore: The tolerance of Acacia species to herbicides
M.S. Watt: Strategic management of the highly invasive Buddleja davidii within New Zealand in a changing climate.
T.M. Withers: Will adult feeding damage to non-target plants rule out introducing a second biological control agent against buddleia into New Zealand?
M.C. Watson: Rate of dispersal a key success factor for weed biocontrol agents within forest plantations
Concurrent 2: Weed management (herbicide resistance)
D.A. McLaren: Serrated tussock resistance to flupropanate in Australia – is the genie out of the bottle?
S. Ramasamy: Heritability of flupropanate resistance in Nassella trichotoma
J. Broster: A survey of southern New South Wales to determine the level of herbicide resistance in brome grass and barley grass populations
P. Boutsalis: New mode of action herbicides to combat herbicide resistant annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum) in Australian cereal production
R. St.John-Sweeting: Genetic diversity among ALS-inhibiting herbicide resistant and susceptible populations of Sonchus oleraceus L. (sowthistle) in Australia
Concurrent 3: New threats (plant naturalisation and emergence rates)
H.T. Murphy: Spatial and temporal patterns of weed recruitment in a cyclone-damaged tropical forest
C. Borger: Colonisation of agricultural regions in Western Australia by Conyza bonariensis
B.M. Sindel: The detection of weeds on Australian farms
P. Caplat: Gone with the wind: high-resolution analysis of pine dispersal in New Zealand mountains
T.M. Konlechner: The significance of seed dispersal and the seed bank in marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) invasion
Concurrent 4: Workshop
Tuesday 28 September, 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Concurrent 1: New ideas
G. Riethmuller: Weed trimming – a successful non-chemical seed-bank reduction technique
R.L. Long: Smoking out the enemy: triggering agricultural weed seeds to germinate with karrikinolide
C.L. Foo: Herbicide tolerance of three ornamental ground cover species: Polygonum capitatum, Sedum mexicana and Soleirolia soleirolii
Concurrent 3: Management systems (regional)
M.A. Hamilton: Reducing the threat of a nationally significant weed to biodiversity: four years of implementation of the NSW Bitou Bush Threat Abatement Plan
D.C Agnew: Working with a significant non-WONS
S.C. Navie: Integrated management of mown vegetation in eastern Australia
Concurrent 4: Workshop
Thursday 30 September, 11.00 am - 12.40 pm
Concurrent 1: Weed management (pasture)
K.N. Tozer: New Zealand dryland pastures:effects of sown pasture species diversity on the ingress of unsown species
G.W. Bourdôt: Current and potential distributions of Nassella neesiana (Chilean needle grass) in Australia and New Zealand
J. Moore: Herbicide tolerance of perennial grasses
A. Pathan: Species specific challenges for improving agrochemical spray performance on ryegrass
R. Stanton: Herbicide control of summer-active perennial weeds in southern Australia
Concurrent 2: Weed management (environmental)
A.M. Thompson: The review of the Department of Conservation's strategic plan for managing invasive weeds
A.M. Wannenburgh: Southern African environmental weed survey
P.J. Turner: Restoration and resilience in weed invaded ecosystems
P.O. Downey: Monitoring protocols to assess the recovery of native plant species following the control of widespread weed species
D.J. Metcalfe: Native species outgrow post-cyclone weeds
Concurrent 3: Management systems (biosecurity)
M. Friedel: How well are we currently dealing with contentious plants?
J. Clarkson: The role of legislation and policy in dealing with contentious plants
P.O. Downey: Strategically using legislation for the containment of key weed species in NSW
K. Ferdinands: Embedding economics in weed risk management to assess contentious plants
A. Grice: Containment as a strategy for tackling contentious plants
Thursday 30 September, 1.40 pm - 2.40 pm
Concurrent 1: Weed management (pasture)
A.F. Zull: Optimising the control of rangeland woody weeds
D. Brazier: Evaluating herbicides for the control of the invasive weed florestina (Florestina tripteris DC. Prod.)
J. Moore: White radish and toad rush control in French serradella pastures
Concurrent 2: Weed management (environmental)
I. Faithfull: Chilean needle grass (Nassella neesiana) in the native grasslands of south-eastern Australia: biodiversity effects, invasion drivers, impact mechanisms
S. M. Timmins: Is garden waste dumping really a problem?
J. McKenzie: Stem injection: a control technique often overlooked for exotic woody weeds
Concurrent 3: Management systems (biosecurity)
J. Knegtmans: National interest pest responses: determining when to respond to established pests of national interest
S.B. Johnson: Evolution, not revolution: Getting stakeholders on board with the roll out of the National Post-Border Weed Risk Management protocols in New South Wales
K. Stephens: The challenge of maintaining a robust on-going weed spotters network in Queensland