PLANT BREEDING AND ACCLIMATIZATION INSTITUTE

On behalf of the Organizing Committee I take pleasure to cordially invite you to attend and participate in the 5^th International Triticale Symposium which will be held at the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR) in Radzików on June 30 - July 5, 2002.

The Organizing Committee and the entire community of Polish triticale researchers and breeders are undertaking every effort to make the forthcoming symposium an interesting and attractive scientific international event and to make your visit to Poland and your stay with us enjoyable and pleasant one.

On the following pages you will find names of distinguished institutions which have, up to this date, agreed to support the Organizing Committee in organization of the symposium.

All efforts are being made to focus the Scientific Program of the symposium on important and recent developments in all aspects of triticale research and breeding.

In order to keep the participation costs in the symposium at a level affordable by participants from all regions where triticale is grown, it has been decided to use facilities of the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute for our convening.

Miros?aw Pojmaj - field demonstrations at the DANKO Plant Breeding Co./Da?ków/Laski

Andrzej Szo?kowski - field demonstrations at the DANKO Plant Breeding Co./Chory?

Józef Bojarczuk - field demonstrations at the SMOLICE Plant Breeding Co./Smolice

Zofia Banaszak, Helena Grzesik, Andrzej Czaplicki, Jerzy H. Czembor, Pawe? C. Czembor, Marek Czuba, Tomasz Góral, Teresa Oracka, Roman Osi?ski, S?awomir Sowa, Maria W?dzony, Mariusz Wiewióra, and Henryk Wo?

The International Triticale Symposia are held at 4 years intervals since 1986, when the first symposium was organized in Sydney, Australia. The next symposia were organized in Passo Fundo, Brazil, 1990; Lisbon, Portugal, 1994; Red Deer, Canada, 1998. At the last triticale symposium in Canada the executive board of the International Triticale Association accepted an offer of Edward Arseniuk made on behalf of the Polish community of triticale researchers and breeders to hold the forthcoming 5th International Triticale Symposium in Poland. Finally, a decision was reached that the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR) at Radzików, Poland, will be responsible for hosting and organization of the symposium in the first week of July, 2002.

The Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute was founded on January 1, 1951, as a scientific unit designed for research in breeding and seed production of major field crops. The Institute is under the direction of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute's programs are conducted in the Research Center in Radzików and in Bonin, Bydgoszcz, Jadwisin, Kraków, M?ochów and Pozna? divisions. Three IHAR commercial breeding companies of SMOLICE, STRZELCE and ZAMARTE on the basis of nine IHAR Experimental Breeding Stations have recently been established. Another nine IHAR Experimental Breeding Stations preserved their former status and still serve in different regions of Poland as experimental sites for IHAR research staff. The Institute's headquarters are located in Radzików.

The Institute's mission is to do research and experimental breeding of field crops and to provide information of top quality and value to the domestic and international communities of breeders and researchers, farmers, governmental authorities and the agricultural industry.

IHAR headquarters are located 30 km west of Warsaw in the midst of Mazovian plain. Six km to the north spreads a Kampinos primeval forest, an oasis of fresh air and a quiet. On the ouskirts of the forest there are historical musea, castles and places of remembrance of historical events. Nearby in Pilaszków there is a Ko?ciuszko Museum. Twenty kilometers west of Radzików is located ?elazowa Wola with a manor house - the birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin - surrounded by a beautiful park. On the way to ?elazowa Wola there is a Franciscan Monastery at Niepokalanów founded by father Maxymilian Maria Kolbe. Niepokalanów is a place of many local and international pilgrimages and excursions.

The weather at the symposium time is usually mild, temperature 20 - 25^oC, not much rain and wind.

The official language of the symposium will be English. No simultaneous translation will be made.

The symposium aims to bring together scientists and breeders involved in XTriticosecale development to review critically recent advances in the field. The goals of the symposium are to expand the global vision of triticale development at the onset of the new century and millennium. Participants by debating current issues should identify the major scientific challenges to be faced in achieving these goals and recommend key research and breeding objectives to pursue for a successful future and a continuous development of the crop.

The symposium sessions on specific themes will be open with keynote addresses delivered by experts on the current status of the specific aspect of triticale research and/or breeding.

Keynote addresses will be limited to 30 minutes and general oral presentations to 15 minutes/ presentation including 2-3 minutes (up to the author) for a discussion. In a case the Scientific Program Committee would decide to extend the length of a presentation, authors will be contacted. All the customary audiovisual aids, i.e. slide (5 x 5 cm, standard frames), overhead (21 x 21 cm) projectors and a computerized display (IBM, MS Power Point) for slides will be available. If other facilities would be required, please notify us in advance, so perhaps we will be able to assist you with our help.

Posters will be at a high priority and they will be on the display over all symposium oral sessions, i.e. June 30 - July 4. There will be a formal poster viewing after each oral session followed by a discussion. The poster discussion sessions, similarly to the oral ones, will be arranged thematically around the main symposium themes. Each poster discussion session will be guided by an invited Discussion Leader, who will give a short introduction followed by a brief overview (2-3 minutes) of each poster by its author(-s). Then, an open discussion of posters should follow.

Proceedings (B-5 size sheet, 17.6 cm x 25 cm, 2.5 cm margins, portrait layout) will be edited and available at the symposium. All oral and poster presentations will be published in the proceedings. Exact guidelines and a deadline to submit manuscripts will be specified in the INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS mailed to you with the second announcement.

Field demonstrations of winter and spring triticale nurseries are planned. Also ITYN and FWTCL nurseries of CIMMYT will be presented. We encourage participants of the symposium to send to the Organizing Committee their triticale materials. Up to 10 entries/participant of both habits we are ready to accept. 300 g seed/entry will be required. Phytosanitary certificates please attach to the seed samples. Deadlines for seed arrival in IHAR Radzików are August 31, 2001, and March 15, 2002 for winter and spring types, respectively.

Accommodation of a standard class and full board to all participants is offered in a hotel at the symposium site, i.e. the Training Center of IHAR Radzików or its vicinity. Apartments and rooms with 1,2,3-beds, equipped in standard facilities (a bathroom, radio, tv set) will be available, respectively, at 60.0, 40.0 & 30.0 USD/person/night, including breakfast. An option is provided to book an ***IBIS hotel in Warsaw at prices USD 85.0/night/room for one person (one king size bed) and USD 95.0/night/room for 2 persons (also only one king size bed) including breakfast and transportation to Radzików (25 km) and back to Warsaw. The symposium program will take your time from 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. or later. A minibus shuttle between the IBIS hotel and the IHAR symposium site will be available for transportation during the convention hours.

Such a program will be offered by a Mazurkas Travel Agency. This will include shopping, visits to musea, painting galleries, displays and gardens of historically important castles/places, sightseeing tour to Warsaw and vicinities. A daily ticket for attendance of such a program will cost about USD 25.0 - 50.0. Accompanying persons will not be required to pay the full registration fee but will be able to purchase tickets to all social events organized for the symposium participants. For details see the Mazurkas Travel Agency information on the program following this announcement.

2. Piano Concert at Chopin's birthplace (supper); Mo., July 1, 18:30 hrs., USD 30.-

4 Technical tour to DANKO Stations Laski/Danków (supper) - We., July 3, 12:00 hrs., USD 15.-

For details see the Mazurkas Travel Agency information on the program following this announcement.

An optional pre-symposium technical and sightseeing tour by comfortable coaches to DANKO Plant Breeding Co. at Chory?, STRZELCE Plant Breeding Co. at Malyszyn and the city of Pozna? is offered on Friday - Sunday, 28 - 30 June. The cost of the tour will be USD 280.-.

An optional post-symposium technical and sightseeing tour by comfortable coaches to SMOLICE Plant Breeding Co. (West Poland), Wroclaw, Cracow, and Salt Mine Museum in Wieliczka - nearby Cracow, is planned on Friday - Sunday, July 5 - 7. The cost of the tour will be USD 298.0.

If there will not be at least 20 participants/tour such a tour will be cancelled. For details see the Mazurkas Travel Agency information on the tours following this announcement.

The Organizing Committee will assist you with transportation, which will be provided on 27-30 June, 5 & 6 July (Thursday afternoon and Friday morning). After arrival at the Warsaw's airport "OK?CIE" or at the CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION in Warsaw you are advised to look for a desk or people with a label "INTERNATIONAL TRITICALE SYMPOSIUM". In addition to the above car rental options are provided directly at the airport in Warsaw.

The full registration fee is 380.0 USD and entitles everyone to participation in all symposium events except the optional pre/post-symposium tours. Within the registration fee participants will receive a copy of proceedings, coffee and tea during coffee breaks, full board, i.e. lunches/dinners and suppers, and transportation. As it was suggested at the last International Triticale Symposium in Red Deer, Canada, the International Triticale Association membership fee is included in the present symposium registration fee.

The Symposium fees DO NOT include provisions for the insurance of participants against personal injuries, sickness, theft or property damage. This also applies to pre- and post-symposium tours or any event held during the symposium period. Participants and accompanying persons are advised to take whatever insurance they consider necessary.

August 31,2001/March 15,2002 Deadlines to mail triticale seed for field demonstrations

January 6, 2002 Deadline for a submission of the final titles for all kinds of presentations. If no response will be received the titles submitted in the preliminary registration forms will be considered to be official presentation titles.

February 1, 2002 Participants will receive final information about the type of their presentations (keynote, address, general oral, poster).

March 1, 2002 Deadline to submit manuscripts for all presentation types. Late submissions may not be included into proceedings.

March 1, 2002 Deadline to return your final registration form, which you will receive in the fall of 2001after your response to this announcement.

The second circular will receive those who respond to this announcement or upon request. It will be distributed in the fall of 2001, and it will contain a list of respondents to this announcement, further details of the symposium programs, final registration form, instructions to authors, further details of the accompanying persons program. Please, feel free to circulate and distribute this announcement among your colleagues.

NOTICE: This announcement is available at IHAR home page: http://www.ihar.edu.pl

Mazurkas Travel will be most happy to give you more information about Warsaw and Poland, book tour tickets, and make restaurant reservations or assist you in any other way during your stay in Warsaw. If you have any other questions regarding the social programme, do not hesitate to contact us and we will assist you throughout the forthcoming 5^th International Triticale Symposium. Beneath, please, find information on programs, symposium tours and other events organized or co-organized by the Agency with the Organizing Committee of the symposium.

Participation in the social programme is possible for participants registered for the Meeting either as an accompanying persons. Participation should be indicated in registration form.

June 30^th 2002, Sunday 19:30

Welcome Cocktail and Dinner at the IHAR in Radzików

July 1^st 2002, Monday 18:30

Sightseeing and Concert at the Chopin's birthplace in ?elazowa Wola with Dinner

?elazowa Wola - birthplace of Poland's most famous composer Frederic Chopin. The manor house was rebuilt and furnished in the original 19^th-century manner. It assembled a collection of memorabilia associated with the composer to form the museum's exhibits. The surrounding park was planted with a wide range of trees and shrubs, donated by various Polish regions. Event includes: sightseeing of Manor House, Park as well as Piano Concert.

Sightseeing of Warsaw and Royal Castle with Barbecue

Warsaw's Old Town - one of the most historic and fascinating parts of Warsaw. It was established at the end of the 13^th century, around what is now the Royal Castle. The heart of the area is the Old Town Market Square surrounded by feature historic architecture, such as the City Walls, the Barbican, the Castle Square, figure of the king from Zygmunt's Column and St. John's Cathedral.

Royal Castle - the former residence of Polish monarchs since 1569. It was also the seat of the Senate, Seymand supreme crown offices and during the period of the Second Republic - the residence of the President of Poland. Destroyed during the Second World War by Nazis. After rebuilding - carried out with the assistance of the whole community and Poles from abroad, now is the treasury of the most precious works of arts and relicts of the past.

Enjoy the great opportunity to get acquainted with the most important collections of Polish painting and other arts at the National Museum.

Royal Route - starts by Castle Square and runs along Krakowskie Przedmie?cie and Nowy ?wiat The route features many aristocratic residences, famous statues and historic churches from the 17^th and 18^th centuries.

Barbecue at a local restaurant

Technical tour to DANKO Laski/ Danków cereal breeding stations. Visit includes supper - barbecue.

Sightseeing and Wilanów Palace visit

Wilanów Palace: visit to the baroque residence of King John III Sobieski, the famous conqueror of the Turks at the battle of Vienna in 1683. Now, the branch of National Museum presenting the interiors from époque of King John III Sobieski and Polish Paintings Gallery - portraits from the 16^th to 19^th century.

Frederic Chopin tour

A tour on the footsteps of Frederic Chopin in Warsaw starts with a stop by the Holy Cross Church where the heart of Chopin, brought from Paris, is placed. A visit to: - the Chopin Drawing Room where Chopin performed his etudes, polonaises and mazurkas for the first time

- the Chopin museum located in the Ostrogski Palace - the Frederic Chopin Society.

Price per person: USD 25 /option with lunch: USD 45/

An exciting tour along charming villages and farms, aristocratic palaces and manor houses. After a departure from Warsaw, a short visit to ?elazowa Wola, next ?owicz - a small town famous for its folk traditions in music, dress embroidery and paper cut-outs. We continue to Nieborów, a gorgeous Radziwi?? family residence, where we shall encounter the famous Niobe, an antique sculpture. Lunch en route.

July 3^rd 2002, Wednesday 9:30-13:00

Sightseeing with National Museum visit and Galleries, shopping

Originally established in 1862 as the Fine Art Museum, this became the National Museum in 1916. The museum's present Modernist building, the collections include archaeological artefacts, medieval art and Polish paintings, while the east wing houses the Polish Military Museum. There you can find: Madonna and Child, The Battle of Grunwald, Polish Hamlet, Fresco of St. Peter and Bishop Petros and others.

Price per person: USD 25 /option with lunch USD 45/

Jewish Heritage tour

During the sightseeing you will get to know the Ghetto; there are a number of monuments, including the memorial to the Ghetto Heroes. There used to be three major temples. Only the No?yk Synagogue, serving the small community to this day, remains. The Jewish Historical Institute and Museum contains rare Jewish documentation including mementoes of the Holocaust. Your Jewish interest tour State Theatre and the Genscher Cemetery, one of the oldest Jewish historic monuments in Warsaw.

Price per person: USD 25 /option with lunch USD 45/

July 4th 2002, Thursday 9:30 - 14:00

Royal ?azienki complex visit

The Royal ?azienki Palace and Park are one of the greatest attractions in Warsaw. This is historic complex, full of monuments of architecture, paintings, sculpture and art handicraft, fascinating with its harmony and beauty, was inspired by Polish last king Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski. An easy stroll yields an opportunity to see the famous Palace on the Water, the Amphitheatre with a stage set among the ruins of the temples of Baalback, the Old Orangery with the beautiful, unique Royal Private Theatre, the monument of Polish greatest composer F. Chopin and the My?lewicki Palace.

Price per person: USD 25 /option with lunch USD 45/

June 28^th - 30th 2002, Friday - Sunday 3 days

3 days tour to Chory?, Pozna?

Both Companies and, especially, their breeding stations in Chory? and Ma?yszyn are internationally known for extensive breeding and certified seed production of winter triticale. Spring triticale is also being bred in Ma?yszyn. There will also be a possibility to see breeding fields of other crops, like wheat, rye and oilseed rape.

Pozna?: A city both historic and modern, Pozna? boasts a striking Gothic, Renaissance Town Hall, Gothic and Baroque churches and neo-classical palaces that you will see on your tour. Take a walk to the Market Square, which houses display elaborate workmanship. A special attraction is the Town Hall clock; every day at noon, two goats slide out from it and runs their heads 12 times. Close to Pozna? you pass through Gniezno, Poland's ancient capital, with the 14^th century Gothic Cathedral that houses valuable art. Treasures.

July 5^th - 7^th 2002 , Friday - Sunday 3 days

Smolice - Wroc?aw - Cracow

Smolice Breeding Co. is highly successful in breeding of maize, wheat, triticale, barley and both hybrid and population rye. Smolice is well known for its cultivars in Poland and abroad. There will also be possible to be acquainted with the certified seed production technology of the above mentioned crops as well as to see the beautiful region.

Wroc?aw: A fascinating medieval city. Wroc?aw has many historical monuments and buildings situated on the banks of the Odra river in the middle of Lower Silesia. In the charming Market Square see the Town Hall, one of the most magnificent in the Central Europe. Another attraction of Wroc?aw is the Panorama Rac?awicka, a unique three dimensional painting of Poland's victory over Russia at Rac?awice in 1794. Near Wroc?aw see the beautiful town of Ksi??, with the largest castle in Lower Silesia.

Cracow - the cultural capital of Europe of the year 2000. A city over one thousand years old, located in the upper course of the Vistula River, a city called "little Rome" and the "cradle of European Culture". Cracow is rich in history, outstanding works of art and architecture. The city is the location of the Jagiellonian University (founded in 1364), of the Royal Castle - Wawel, with its mythical Wawel Cathedral, of the largest and most beautiful town square in Europe. Cracow is a city complex unlike most others in Europe.

Wieliczka Salt Mine - the oldest salt mine in Europe, an impressive underground world of salt lakes, chambers, galleries and a unique Salt Works Museum created by many generations of Polish miners. A part of the mine has been opened to the public as a museum, and is a fascinating journey through the labyrinth of tunnels and levels.

SYMPOSIUM PREREGISTRATION FORM

THE 5-TH INTERNATIONAL TRITICALE SYMPOSIUM:

JUNE 30 - JULY 5, 2002, IHAR Radzików, Poland

I. PARTICIPANT

Family name.......................................................................First name......................... ...............................

Title..............?.............................................................................................................................................

Sex: (Ms/Mr.) - please indicate as appropriate: .....................................

Postal address:...........................................................................................................................................

..........................................................?..............................................................................................?......

Country.....................................................................Telephone:..?............................................................

Telefax:.....................................................................E-mail:........................................................................

REGISTRATION FEE

The registration fee will amount to about 350.- USD per participant and it will be paid with a bank transfer before 30 April 2002, or by a check before 31 March 2002

III. Preliminary title of:

Oral presentation:........................................................................................................................................

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Poster presentation......................................................................................................................................

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Subjest area (See Agenda for the list of topics) .....................................................................?.................

IV. I am going to attend the pre-symposium optional tour (yes/no) ..........................

V. I am going to attend the post-symposium optional tour (yes/no) .........................

VI. I am going to send seed samples for field comparisons:

(please indicate the number of entries):

Entries of winter triticale; #..........??????????????..............

Entries of spring triticale; #........?.?????????????..............

VII. Number of accompanying persons wishing to be registered into:

1. Accompanying Persons Program .....................2. Social Program ......................

3. Pre-symposium optional tour .....................4. Post-symposium optional tour..................?

VIII. Accommodation required: 1. single bedroom; 2. double bedroom

Hotel in Radzików 1........??............... 2 ....??.................

Hotel in Warsaw (***IBIS) 1....??................... 2 ..??.?...............

Note: Both single and double bedrooms of ***IBIS hotel in Warsaw are equipped in king size beds, 1 bed/room, only

Please complete, sign and return this form before July 31, 2001, to:

Janusz Zimny or Edward Arseniuk, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Radzików,

05 - 870 B?onie, POLAND

E-mail: j.zimny@ihar.edu.pl; e.arseniuk@ihar.edu.pl; Fax: (48-22) 731-96-17; (48-22) 725-47-14

NOTICE: This preregistration form is available at IHAR home page: http://www.ihar.edu.pl

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Date Signature

June 30th 2002, Sunday 19:30

Welcome Cocktail and Dinner at the IHAR in Radzików

July 1st 2002, Monday 18:30

Sightseeing and Concert at the Chopin's birthplace in ?elazowa Wola with Dinner

Sightseeing of Warsaw and Royal Castle with Barbecue

Barbecue at a local restaurant

Sightseeing and Wilanów Palace visit

Frederic Chopin tour

Price per person: USD 25 /option with lunch: USD 45/

July 3rd 2002, Wednesday 9:30-13:00

Sightseeing with National Museum visit and Galleries, shopping

Price per person: USD 25 /option with lunch USD 45/

Jewish Heritage tour

Price per person: USD 25 /option with lunch USD 45/

July 4th 2002, Thursday 9:30 - 14:00

Royal ?azienki complex visit

Price per person: USD 25 /option with lunch USD 45/

June 28th - 30th 2002, Friday - Sunday 3 days

3 days tour to Chory?, Pozna?

July 5th - 7th 2002 , Friday - Sunday 3 days

Smolice - Wroc?aw - Cracow

June 30^th 2002, Sunday 19:30

July 1^st 2002, Monday 18:30

July 3^rd 2002, Wednesday 9:30-13:00

June 28^th - 30th 2002, Friday - Sunday 3 days

July 5^th - 7^th 2002 , Friday - Sunday 3 days