Resistance 2011 will be held at Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire. AL5 2JQ, UK 5-7 September, 2011. This major international conference, the sixth in an ongoing series, will review the latest research on the origins, nature, development and prevention of resistance to insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. It will provide a forum for researchers, consultants, regulators and industrialists to present and discuss approaches to overcoming this increasingly important constraint to effective crop protection. Themes will include:
» The current status of resistance to pesticides » Resistance mechanisms » Population biology and modelling » Applications of genomics » Risk assessment and regulation » Transgenic crops