23rd EUCARPIA SYMPOSIUM - Section Ornamentals

“Colourful Breeding and Genetics”

PROGRAMME

 

Monday 31 August

 

 ü     Welcome reception and registration

o        16.00-20.00 Registration

o        18.00-20.00 Welcome reception

 

 Tuesday 1 September

 

    o      7.30-12.00 Registration

o       8.30-8.35 Opening by Jaap van Tuyl

 

ü     Introduction and Biodiversity and Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD)treaty                                                                Chair: Dik de Vries

     o      8.35-9.00 Doeke Faber (Chairman, Dutch Flower Auctions Association, NL) Ornamental horticulture: where  

                  does it end?

o       9.00-9.30 Orlando de Ponti (President International Seed Federation, ISF)  Access to Biodiversity: New Rules of the Game

o       9.30-9.50 Birte Lorenzen: Access and benefit-sharing under the CBD - what consequences might an international regime have for the horticultural sector?

o       9.50-10.10 Leila Samiei: In search of genetic variation in Rosa foetida Hermann in Iran

o       10.10-1030 Qinglin Liu: Biodiversity and ornamental plant breeding in China

 

o       10.30-11.00 Coffee/tea break

 

ü     Flower colour                                                  Chair: Alain Cadic

      o    11.00-11.30 Yoshikazu Tanaka: The long, winding genetic modification path to more colourful flowers; blue,       

                   red  and  yellow

            o     11.30-11.50 Ellen De Keyser: Flower colour as a model in azalea for integration of phenotype,

                   genotype and  gene expression

o       11.50-12.10 Virginia Gitonga: Inheritance of determinants of flower colour in tetraploid roses

o      12.10-12.20 Rob Bogers: International Society for Horticultural Science - Introduction

 

o       12.20-13.30 Lunch

 

ü     Interspecific hybridization and polyploidy     Chair: Jaap van Tuyl

 

o       13.30-14.00 Masahiro Mii: Breeding of ornamental plants through interspecific hybridization using  advanced  techniques with a special focus on Dianthus, Primula, Cosmos and Kalanchoe

o       14.00-14.20 Mark Bridgen: Interspecific hybridization of Alstroemeria for the development of new, ornamental plants

o       14.20-14.40 Tom Eeckhaut: morphological and anatomical characterisation of chemically induced polyploids in Spathiphyllum wallisii

o       14.40-15.00 Gildas Gâteblé: Advances in Oxera Breeding

o       15.00-15.20 Valéry Malécot: Polymorphic ITS as a tool to identify hybrids and their parents in cultivated Genisteae (Fabaceae)

o       15.20-15.40 Ed Morgan: Generating and delivering novelty in ornamental crops through interspecific hybridization: some examples

 

o       15.40-16.10 Coffee/tea break

 

ü  Short presentations                                    Chair: Antonio Mercuri

o    16.10-16.15 Rodrigo Barba-Gonzalez:  Chromosome identification on the genus Lilium  using comparative genomic in situ hybridization (CGISH)

o       16.15-16.20 Matteo Caser: Discriminating capacity of nucleotide binding site (NBS) and MYB gene profiling for genetic analysis of Campanula ecotypes

o       16.20-16.25 Malgorzata Czernicka: Verification of the hybrid character of interspecific Rhododendron progeny by molecular tools

o       16.25-16.30 Emmy Dhooghe: Production and characterization of intergeneric hybrids between Anemone coronaria and Ranunculus asiaticus

o       16.30-1635 Marisé Borja: Breeding system of Glandularia species native to Argentina

o       16.35-16.40 Yoon-Jung Hwang: Library construction from micro dissection of chromosome #1 in lily (L. lancifolium)

o       16.40-16.45 Agnieszka Marasek: Introgression breeding in genus Tulipa analysed by GISH

o       16.45-16.50 Jiten Sharma: Morphological and molecular characterization of intergeneric hybrids between the orchid genera Renanthera and Vanda

o       16.50-16.55 Anta Sparinska: Diversity in Rosa rugosa x Rosa hybrida interspecific varietie

o       16.55-17.00 Werachai Tera-arisiri: Breeding for resistance and biocontrol of wilt disease in Curcuma alismatifolia Gagnep. by Bacillus spp.

 

o    17.00-17.15 Meeting of EUCARPIA board and members

 

 

Wednesday 2 September

 

ü     Resistance breeding                              Chair: Teresa Orlikowska

 

o       8.30-9.00 Thomas Debener: Current strategies and future prospects of resistance breeding in ornamentals

o       9.00-9.20 Arwa Shahin: Conversion of molecular markers  linked to Fusarium and virus resistance in Asiatic hybrid lilies

o       9.20-9.40 Carole Koning- Boucoiran: Specific mapping of disease resistance genes in tetraploid cut roses

o       9.40-10.00 Antra Balode: Breeding for resistance against Botrytis in lily

o       10.00-10.20 Kullanart Obsuwan: A dysfunctional CymMV movement protein gene confers resistance to CymMV in Dendrobium orchid

  

o       10.30-10.50 Coffee/tea break

   

 

ü     Plant Breeder’s Rights                         Chair:  Lidwien Dubois

 

o       10.50-11.20 Judith Blokland: Can we still take the breeder’s exemption for granted?

o       11.20-11.40 Ben Vosman: Essentially derived varieties in ornamentals

o       11.40-12.00 René Smulders: Analysis of a database of DNA profiles of 734 hybrid tea rose varieties

o       12.00-12.30 Discussion panel with Judith Blokland, Ben Vosman, René Smulders and Lidwien Dubois

 

o       12.10-13.30 Lunch

 

 

ü     Breeding and Genetics                       Chair: Johan Van Huylenbroeck

 

o       13.30-14.00 Riana Kleynhans  Back to basics for new crop development

o       14.00-14.20 Neil Anderson: Development of colored, non-vernalization-requiring seed propagated lilies

o       14.20-14.40 Dik de Vries: Growth and development of cut rose clones;  indirect selection for yield

o       14.40-15.00 Kell Kristiansen: In vitro mutagenesis of Aster novi-belgii cultivars

o       15.00-15.20 Lazaro Peres: Breeding the tomato micro-tom model system for ornamental value

o       15.20-15.40 Leen Leus: Flow cytometry for plant breeding

 

o       15.40-16.10 Coffee/tea break

 

 

ü     Short presentations                         Chair: Sjoukje Heimovaara

 

o    16.10-16.15 Pejman Azadi: A protocol for high rate Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Lilium

o       16.15-16.20 Renate Müller: Transformation with rol-genes of Agrobacterium rhizogenes as a strategy to breed compact ornamental plants with improved postharvest quality

o       16.20-16.25 Antonio Mercuri: New genotypes of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis through classical breeding and genetic transformation

o       16.25-16.30 Tae-Ho Han: Investigation of the factors affecting cross-fertilization rate in rose

o       16.30-16.35 Supuk Mahattanapuk: Cloning of the ACC synthase gene from Curcuma alismatifolia Gagnep and its use in transformation studies

o       16.35-16.40 Mohsen Mardi: Assessing Rosa persica genetic diversity using amplified fragment length polymorphisms analysis

o       16.40-16.45 Norihiro Ohtsubo: Redesigning floral architecture: Efficient modification of agronomic traits by CRES-T

o       16.45-16.50 Cristina Borghi: Kalanchoe x houghtonii: SSH and microarray analysis to screen genes involved in vivipary

o       16.50-16.55 Luca Pipino: Pollen characteristics affect seed production of rose cultivars

o       16.55-17.00 Hanneke Witsenboer: Application of crops® technology in a wide range of vegetable and field crops

 

ü     Symposium dinner 18.30-21.30

 

 

Thursday 3 September: Excursion day

 

ü     Visits to auctions and at least 2 breeding companies (5 different tours)

  

Departure: Leiden Stadsgehoorzaal at 5.45 !

 

                                            Tour 1 Aalsmeer region

                                                         Auction Aalsmeer

                                                         Hilverda De Boer (cash&carry)

                                                         Hilverda Kooij (Alstroemeria & Dianthus)

                                                         Florist De Kwakel (Gerbera)

 

                                             Tour 2/3 Westland region

                                                         Auction Naaldwijk

                                                         Fides (Chrysanthemum & pot and bedding plants)

                                                         Beekenkamp Ornamentals (Pot and bedding plants)

                                                         NAKTuinbouw (Plant Diagnostics & Plant Breeders' Rights)

  

                                              Tour 4 Syngenta, North Holland region

                                                         Auction Aalsmeer

                                                         Syngenta Flower (Bedding plants)

                                                         Syngenta Seed (Vegetables)

 

                                             Tour 5 Research, Wageningen region

                                                        Auction Naaldwijk

                                                        Plant Science Group (Wageningen University and Research Centre)

                                                        Keygene (Molecular Markers)

 

 

Friday 4 September

 

ü     Marketing                                     Chair: Thijs Simons

 

o       8.30-9.00 Susanne LuxCooperative marketing – a way to stimulate sales and consumption of a plant?

o       9.00-9.30 Paul Roetenberg: The brand: Frederique’s Choice

 

o       9.30-10.10 Coffee/tea break

 

 

     Molecular Breeding                        Chair: Thomas Debener

 

o       10.10-10.30 Olga Shulga: Early-flowering transgenic Chrysanthemum plants

o       10.30-10.50 Phopgao Buddharak: Isolation and  transformation of DFR genes in Curcuma  alismatifolia and Clitoria  ternatea via Agrobacterium tumefaciens 

o       10.50-11.10 Frans Krens: Oriental lily hybrids engineered to resist aphid attack

o       11.10-11.30 Supatida Sirisawat: DMMADS4, a DEF-like gene from Dendrobium is required for floral organ identity and flower longevity of orchid 

o       11.30-11.50 Marina Laura: Over-expression and silencing of KXHKN5 gene in Kalanchoe x houghtonii 

o       11.50-12.10 Marisé Borja: Expression of an Arabidopsis aspartic protease in Pelargonium

 

o        12.10-13.30 Lunch

 

 

ü     Workshop: molecular markers and their use in ornamentals

 

o       13.30-13.50 Jan De Riek: Overview of present use of molecular markers in ornamental Breeding

o       13.50-14.10 Paul Arens: How to develop markers that can be used for identification of ornamental crops

o       14.10-14.30 Sjaak van Heusden: What do all the new developments in marker- and sequence  technology mean for the use of markers in ornamentals?

o       14.30-14.40 Hanneke Witsenboer: The potential role of Marker Assisted Selection in breeding varieties

 

o    14.40-15.10 Coffee/tea break

 

o      15.10-15.40 Round table discussion with all presenters of workshop

 

o      15.40-15.50 Closure by Alain Cadic

 

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