02 — CONFERENCE

ACA 39 — Seeds of Resilience.

Four days of plenary lectures, parallel paper sessions, poster exhibitions, and field tours across the Klang valley research stations. Hosted with Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Dates 14 — 17 Sep 2026

Venue Kuala Lumpur · MY

Expected attendees 1,400

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Programme at a glance.

Four days. Three plenaries, eight parallel tracks, two poster sessions, and three optional field tours. The full programme is published 1 August.

	SUN · 14	MON · 15	TUE · 16	WED · 17
09:00	Opening plenary · Phongphaichit	Plenary · Rahman	Plenary · Suzuki	Closing plenary
11:00	Rice track	Maize track	Soil track	Field tour A
14:00	Soil & Water track	Genomics track	Climate track	Field tour B
16:00	Poster session 1	Awards ceremony	Poster session 2	Field tour C
19:00	Welcome reception	Cultural night	Conference dinner	Farewell

Venue

MITEC, Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur. Five minutes from the LRT and twenty-five from the airport.

Hosted by

Universiti Putra Malaysia, with support from the Malaysian Society of Crop Sciences and FAO regional office.

Proceedings

Full-paper proceedings published in Vol. 39 Issue 1 of the Journal. Abstract-only papers go in the supplement.