Proceedings of the Regional IPI Workshop on "Food security in the WANA region, the essential need for balanced fertilization" (Ed. A.E. Johnston), held in coope-ration with the Ege University at Bornova, Izmir, Turkey, 26-30 May 1997.

The Workshop brought together scientists from 11 countries of the WANA region to report on the K status in the soils and crops of their home country. Another session dealt with the effect of nutrition on crop quality in recognition of the demands of the market. Papers on potassium and stress relief referred to the particular growth conditions that cultivated plants are exposed to in the WANA region.

Proceedings of the Regional IPI-PRII-PAU Workshop on "Balanced fertilization in Punjab agriculture" (Ed. M.S. Brar & S.K. Bansal), held at the Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, India, 15-16 Dec. 1997. Copies are available at the Potash Research Institute of India, Sector 19, Dundahera, Delhi-Gurgaon Road, Gurgaon-122001, Haryana, India.

IPI-Research Topic No. 3: Potassium and plant health, by S. Perrenoud, has been revised and translated into Chinese by X.L. Huang, Anhui Academy of Agric. Sciences, China. It is available i n China in book-shops. ISBN 7-80119-682-1

IPI-Bulletin No. 9: Soya, by D. Fauconnier, has been translated by E. Malavolta into Portuguese.

Three new leaflets in the languages of the CEE and FSU have been issued: Sugarbeet in Hungarian by K. Debreczeni, Cereals in Polish by R. Czuba, and in Russian a leaflet on Crop fertilization in Middle Ural by V. Prokoshev.

Special publications for CEE have been prepared on behalf of IPI by I.Kadar on the "Importance of potassium for Hungary", on "Balanced fertilization on sandy soils in Hungary"-both in Hungarian, and by S.Torma on "Potassium - an important nutrient in soils and plants" in Slovakian.

Pôle d'Aspach-SADEF Recherche has issued the VEGEDIAG Expert System on CD-Rom to identify deficiency symptoms of all macro and trace nutrients for a wide range of temperate and tropical crops. The Expert System is bilingual in English and French and developed for advisors, research staff, farmers, teachers and students. The CD-rom is available from:
Pôle Agro-Environnemental d'Aspach, rue de la Station, F-68700 Aspach-le-Bas, France, Fax +33 3 89 83 12 38, E-mail: bitaudc@sadef.fr