PAA invites submission of papers dealing with all facets of the potato industry. A special grower-oriented session is planned for Monday during the symposium on Phosphorus and at least one of the oral presentation sessions where presentations dealing with PVY will be solicited. Applied research and extension-oriented submissions are encouraged for this half-day session. Graduate students who are PAA members are encouraged to enter the "Frank L Haynes Graduate Student Research Competition". Members are required to submit abstracts for papers they wish to present, whether orally, as a poster, or in the Frank L Haynes Graduate Student Research Competition. Prior to submitting your abstract, please carefully read and follow the formatting guidelines outlined below.

At the annual meeting, all oral paper presentations will be of a uniform 15-minute length. Authors should plan a 12- to 14-minute presentation with the balance of time devoted to questions. Computer projectors will be available for PowerPoint presentations. Please bring your PowerPoint presentation (2007 or earlier version) on a portable USB drive. Display boards (48" x 36") will be provided for the poster papers.

The abstracts for all papers (oral, poster and Graduate Student Competition) presented at the Annual Meeting will be published in a post-meeting issue of the American Journal of Potato Research. Abstracts of papers listed in the meeting program, but not presented, will not be published in the AJPR.

Abstracts will be accepted until March 26, 2012. Submit abstracts as an e-mail attachment to loretta.mikitzel@gnb.ca with "PAA Abstract" as the e-mail subject. You will receive an email acknowledging receipt of the abstract. Abstracts submitted after that date will be returned to the author.

Font: Times New Roman

Font size: 12 pt

Paragraph alignment: Left (do not select justified)

Margins: 1 inch

Title: Bold

Length: Including title, authors, author affiliations and body, maximum of 2000 characters, including spaces. Only the first 2,000 characters will be printed in the program

File type: Microsoft Word or WordPerfect document

Type of presentation -- oral, poster or graduate student competition

Section -- Breeding; Plant Protection; Physiology; Extension, Production and Management; Utilization and Marketing; Certification.

PAA Membership Number -- at least one (1) of the authors must be a PAA member

Graduate Student Competition -- must be a PAA member to enter

Person presenting the paper -- underline the name of the presenting author

Loretta J. Mikitzel

New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries

39 Barker Lanel

Wicklow, NB, Canada E7L 3S4

Telephone: 506-392-51464

Fax: 506-392-5102

loretta.mikitzel@gnb.ca