Axel Aumüller: The German beet sugar industry sector

Helmut Bleckwenn: Sugar beet growing in Germany

Botho von Schwarzkopf: Knowledge transfer into practice − sugar beet aspects

Thomas Kirchberg: Science in action – the sugar beet research network

Elke Pawelzik: Public Private Partnership – a driving force for a sustainable development

Georg F. Backhaus: Science for bio-based economy and sustainable intensification − JKI and its tasks

Magda-Viola Hanke: Apple meets sugarbeet: sweet, resistant and productive − a challenge for breeding

Michael Metzger: Characterisation of a new bacterial disease of sugar beet in the Red River Valley production area of North Dakota and Minnesota, USA

Bram Hanse: Stemphylium, a new foliar disease in sugar beet

Heinz-Josef Koch: N use efficiency of current sugar beet cultivars in northwestern Europe

Rémy Duval: Phosphorus and potassium fertilisation of sugar beet parcels

Sven Fischer: Influence of lime on the EUF extractable nutrients in the soil and yield and quality of sugar beets

Bruno Desprez: French research initiative for a sustainable beet improvement: innovative breeding strategies based on allelic variation mining, and novel genomic and phenomic tools

Sébastien Chatre: Integrated crop solutions against Rhizoctonia solani in sugar beet

Viviana Rivera: Characterization of Fusarium secorum, a new species causing Fusarium yellowing decline of sugar beet in north central USA

Kathrin Bornemann: Occurrence of resistance-breaking strains of Beet necrotic yellow vein virus in sugar beet in Northern Europe and the identification of a new variant of the viral pathogenicity factor P25

Hervé Escriou: Rhizomania intra- and inter-field diversity in France – implication for the disease management

Christian Lang: Population dynamics of sugar beet cyst nematodes in topsoil and subsoil given different environments and varieties in Southwest Germany

Marc Richard-Molard: Resistance sustainability in the Heterodera schachtii sugar beet complex

Mike May: Recent and potential future sugar beet weed control problems in Europe

Otto Nielsen: Integrated weed control in sugar beets in strip tilled and ploughed cropping systems

Emilien Quillot: How is it possible to reduce TFI herbicide on sugar beet?

Martin Wegener: The use of Foramsulfuron + Thiencarbazone-

Mark Varrelmann: Development of strategies for the control of Chenopodium album biotypes with reduced metamitron sensitivity in different European countries

Friedrich Kempl: Sensitivity and resistance of Cercospora beticola to different fungicides

Franco Cioni: New strategies in CLS control in Italy and Austria

Mark Stevens: Optimising UK fungicide strategy to maximise disease control, green leaf retention and yield performance

Anna Jacobs: The sugar beet as an energy crop in crop rotations on highly productive sites – an agronomic/economic system analysis

Stephen Kaffka: Advanced technology and modeling support biofuel production from beets in California

Robert Olsson: Long-term storage of sugar beet in North-West Europe

Jurgen Maassen, Paul Bee: Mobile information provision including ‘Apps’ to enable ‘on the spot’ decision making

Matthias Sauer: Future needs for sugar beet cultivation − challenges for science

Bernward Märländer: Sustainable intensification − sugar beet cultivation as a case study

Joachim Rukwied: Social acceptance – a new production factor in agriculture