IRAC International held their 46^th meeting in the CropLife International offices in Brussels on 28^th – 31^st March 2011. This was our biggest ever meeting with 46 participants, including visitors from the European resistance action groups as well as IRAC representatives from around the world. The meeting consisted of a mixture of concurrent IRAC working group sessions, a meeting of the Executive Committee and an International review day. There was an excellent exchange of information with around 40 presentations made during the course of the 4 days. The existing elected officers, including Ralf Nauen as the IRAC Chairman were unanimously re-elected for a further year.

This major international conference, the sixth in an ongoing series, will review new 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 continuing and 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, and transgenic crops. To register an interest in presenting or attending, click here.