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Topic: “Everything under the sun” regarding the Styrian pumpkin. This will include its history, taxonomy, breeding, cultivation, pests and diseases, production, oil extraction, composition, and usage. |
Cucurbitologists will cross paths in eastern Austria during the week of 9–13 August 1999 for the International Oil Pumpkin Conference, the first of its kind devoted to this crop plant. This will take place during the last total solar eclipse of the millennium. |
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| Purpose: “Shed some light” on the Styrian pumpkin. The scientific, industrial, farming, and culinary communities will gather together to exchange and disseminate new information and advancements in hull-less seeded pumpkin production and usage and ultimately propose guidelines for future research priorities and marketing strategies. |
The conference will start out in Graz, Austria, which is the provincial capital of Styria. This scenic region is the center for Styrian pumpkinseed oil production and consumption (known locally as “kürbiskernöl” or “ölkürbis”), an ideal location for this meeting (and for viewing the rare cosmic event of a total solar eclipse). After the eclipse, a day will be spent at the center for virus-research in Tulln, just up river from Vienna on the Danube in Lower Austria. The conference will wind up in Retz, the home of the fastest-growing pumpkin festival in Europe.
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| Results of the conference will be summarized and presented for publication at Cucurbitaceae 2000, to be held in Israel, 19–23 March 2000. | ||||
Sponsored by: Society of Styrian Pumpkinseed Oil Producers Invitation: If you are interested in following the trail of the Styrian pumpkin through eastern Austria this summer, please send in the registration form and/or contact: |
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Penny S. Lichtenecker
Schindlergasse 45 Vienna 1180, Austria peslicht@klis.vhs.at, igor.gansula@austriaone.at Thomas C. Andres Timothy J Ng |
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