9th International Mango Symposium is scheduled to take place during 8-12th April, 2010 in Sanya, Hainan Province, China.

Conference Venue: The venue of the symposium is located at Nantian Conference Centre at the outskirt of Sanya and about 30 km away from Sanya Fenghuang International Airport.

Hotels: Hotels reserved for the IX International Mango Symposium are at around 3-10 minutes walking distance from the Conference Centre. Details of the hotels about facility and room rates are shown under the Accommodation section of the symposium website www.mango2010.cn.

Scientific program: A broad scientific programme embracing oral presentations, poster presentations and field visits are the major activities of the symposium in association with exhibitions. From the abstracts received, oral and poster presentations are grouped into thematic sessions as listed below. Acceptances of the abstracts to the symposium have been e-mailed to respective authors, either for oral or poster presentations. Time allocation to each oral presentation can be found in the Preliminarily Programme on the website.

Only Power Point presentation is accepted for the oral presentations. Instruction to speakers will be available shortly on the website. Instructions to the poster presentations will also be available shortly.

The oral presentation sessions include：

· Session 1: World Production

· Session 2-3: Horticultural Practices

· Session 4 and 6: Diseases and Pest control

· Session 5: Physiology and Reproductive Biology

· Session 7: Fruit Processing and commercialization

· Session 8 and 10: Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology

· Session 9 and 11: Postharvest Physiology and Technology

The oral sessions will be kicked off by two plenary keynote presentations focusing on mango production and consumption of the world and particularly of China. In total, 11 oral sessions have been planned with 3 plenary sessions and 8 parallel sessions. Within the framework of the11 oral sessions, one keynote presentation will initiate each session. A noted feature of the Preliminarily Programme of the IX International Mango Symposium is the allocation of two and a half hours for poster presentations to maximize benefits of the symposium to all participants.

Book of Abstracts: It is a pre-requisite to all authors to finalise their registration before the deadline to secure their abstracts to be included in the Book of Abstracts, and keep respective time-slot in the Preliminarily Program for oral presentations. Information concerning registration and Registration Form are available under the Registration Section at www.mango2010.cn.

Field visits: For the purposes of maximal exposure of mango-related technical aspects in Hainan Island, a symposium field visit and a post-symposium tour have been proposed. For the post-symposium tour information will be available soon on the website.

Apart from the above, all information regarding the symposium will be available on the website http://www.mango2010.cn

For any further questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at the following e-mail address: mango_nantian@yahoo.com.cn

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Sanya, China