The International Plant Nutrition Colloquium is the major international plant

nutrition conference, held every four years. This year the 16th IPNC, entitled

“Healthy Plants, Healthy Planet” was held in Sacramento, California and was

attended by people from 45 different countries. As a part of the session

“Nutrient acquisition, homeostasis and source-sink relations” the paper

Nitrogen allocation in high yielding Bollgard II ® cotton was presented as a

poster, with the corresponding paper published in the conference

proceedings. The information presented at the conference and also gained

through informal discussions with other conference participants will greatly

enhance the experimental techniques, methodologies used and analysis of the

results in my PhD. The exposure to a wider international research community

and the chance to meet and talk with these scientists was something which

could only have been possible in the context of a major international

conference like this one, and was a great opportunity for a young PhD

student!