Important note:

Keynote lectures have a duration of 30 minutes including a short discussion of about 5 minutes.

Regular oral presentations have a duration of 15 minutes including a short discussion of about 2 minutes.

Poster presentations should be A0 in size portrait.

Program

11.09.2023 (MONDAY)

18:00 – 19:00

Registration

19:00 – 21:00

Welcome Reception

Entrance hall of the University of Applied Science Dresden (Pillnitzer Platz 1, 01326 Dresden)

12.09.2023 (TUESDAY)

08:00 – 08:45

Registration

Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (Söbrigener Straße 3A, 01326 Dresden)

08:45 – 10:00

Welcome, Opening Addresses (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon, President of the Julius Kühn Institut (JKI) – Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Dr. Falk Hohmann, Vice President of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG)
Prof. Dr. Marina Vogel, Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the, University of Applied Science Dresden (HTW)
Dr. Francois Laurens, President of International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
Prof. Dr. Henryk Flachowsky, head of the JKI’s Institute for Breeding Research on Fruit Crops Dresden-Pillnitz, symposium convener

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 13:00

Session 1 – Genetic Resources (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Matthew Ordidge

Exploration of new sources of sweet cherry genetic diversity prospected in Azerbaijan, Caucasus, supposed center of origin of Prunus avium

Marie Brault, Teresa Barreneche, Mehraj Abbasov, Mirko Schuster, Gregorio Lopez-Ortega, José Quero Garcia

Genetic resources, a source of traits for pome fruit breeding

Anna Dalbosco, Simone Bühlmann-Schütz, Luzia Lussi, Bettina Hänni, Jakob Schierscher, Markus Kellerhals, Andrea Patocchi

Leveraging the Swiss Apple Core Collection for future apple breeding

Giovanni A. L. Broggini, Luiza Lussi, Simone Bühlmann-Schütz, Bruno Studer

Pomological and molecular characterization of apple cultivars of the German Fruit Genebank

Lea Broschewitz, Monika Höfer

The conservation of fruit germplasm in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gordana Djuric, Nikola Micic

Microsatellite fingerprinting of the ARC peach collection

Werner-Marcel Pieterse, Lawrence Kwalimba, Kenneth Tobutt

Optimization of a genetic traceability protocol for safeguarding chestnut production

Daniela Torello Marinoni, Vera Pavese, Paola Ruffa, Lorenzo Antonio Marino, Alberto Acquadro, Lorenzo Barchi, Nadia Valentini, Roberto Botta

Analysis of fruit samples with different ploidy levels using molecular markers

Joerg Plieske, Andreas Peil, Dora Pinczinger, Monika Höfer, Henryk Flachowsky, Dagmar Kulosa, Thomas Gross, Eva Grafahrend-Belau, Andreas Polley, Martin Ganal, Heike Gnad

Proposition of a SNP set to replace SSRs for standardized cultivar identification in apple

Hélène Muranty, Caroline Denancé, Aurélien Petiteau, Nicholas P. Howard, Diego Micheletti, Beatriz García-Gómez, Maria José Aranzana, Carole Confolent, Charles Poncet, Stijn Vanderzande, Matthew Ordidge, Cameron Peace, Charles-Eric Durel

Different mechanisms of 2n gamete formation as route for sexual polyploidization in apple (Malus x domestica)

Nico De Storme, Han Palmers

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Session 2 – Resistance evaluation and QTL detection (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Felicidad Fernandez Fernandez

Can the choice of rootstock reduce damages caused by European Canker in apple orchards?

Larisa Gustavsson, Jonas Skytte af Sätra, Oksana Korniienko, Marina Kuzmenkova, Darius Kviklys

Phenotypic variability and plasticity of stem and leaf-based traits in olive cultivars to drought resilience

Siham Wakib, Ahmed El Bakkali, Hayat Zaher, Abdelilah Meddich, Cherkaoui El Modafar, Karim Barkaoui, Eric Garnier

Identification of apple cultivars less susceptible to apple blotch disease

Sophie Richter, Monika Höfer, Anne Bohr, Sascha Buchleither, Henryk Flachowsky, Thomas Wöhner

Investigation on apple blotch resistance of Malus baccata 'Jackii'

Matthias Pfeifer, Sophie Richter, Thomas Wöhner, Andreas Peil, Moritz Knoche, Henryk Flachowsky

Preliminary identification of QTLs associated with fire blight resistance in pear

Francesco Pacini, Lorenzo Bergonzoni, Luca Dondini, Roberto Gregori, Assunta Bertaccini , Stefano Tartarini

QTL mapping for fire blight resistance in F2 generation of Malus fusca MAL0045

Ofere Francis Emeriewen, Henryk Flachowsky, Andreas Peil

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:45

Session 3 – Genome wide association studies and genomic prediction (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Maria José Aranzana

Genome-wide association study of flowering date in olive tree to understand the adaptation to climate change

Laila Aqbouch, Bouchaib Khadari, Philippe Cubry, Omar Abou-Saaid, Gautier Sarah, Hayat Zaher, El Bakkali Ahmed, Pierre Mournet, Lison Zunino, Evelyne Costes

Increasing multi-pest and disease resistance in stone fruit trees through genome-wide association studies using two apricot and peach core collections

Marie Serrie, Alain Blanc, Laurent Brun, Freddy Combe, Amandine Fleury, Freddy Gavanon, Frédéric Gilles, Mathilde Le-Pan, Béatrice Monnet, Véronique Signoret, Sabrina Viret, Jean-Marc Audergon, Bénédicte Quilot-Turion, Morgane Roth

Unraveling the genetics of resistance to airborne and soil-borne fungal diseases in cultivated strawberries using the genome-wide association study

Amparo Monfort, Gehad Rabie, Konstantinos Alexiou, Pedro Dominguez, Mourad Mnejja

GWAS analysis of sweet cherry for MAS

Katerina Holusova, Jana Cmejlova, Pavol Suran, Ivona Zdarska, Radek Cmejla, Jirí Sedlák, Lubor Zeleny, Jan Bartos

GWAS analysis of a germplasm collection of almond unravels the genetic regulation of aroma in fresh and roasted kernels

Mario Di Guardo, Brian Farneti, Iuliia Khomenko, Leonardo Luca, Giuseppe Cannizzaro, Francesco Sottile, Stefania Bennici, Stefano La Malfa, Alessandra Gentile, Franco Biasioli, Gaetano Distefano

Fine-tuning genomic prediction in peach using additive and non-additive genetic effects for phenology and disease tolerance

Morgane Roth, Marie Serrie, Octave Cabel, David Ray, Jean-Marc Audergon, Bénédicte Quilot-Turion

Modeling genotype by environment interactions using genomic and environmental data in apple

Michaela Jung, Hélène Muranty, Walter Guerra, Beatriz Ester García-Gómez, Marijn Rymenants, Bruno Studer, Giovanni Broggini, Andrea Patocchi

18:00 – 19:30

Poster Session (Entrance hall of the University of Applied Science Dresden)

18:00 – 19:30

Workshop 1: "Coordination of IBD-related needs and opportunities"
Stijn Vanderzande (WUR, Wageningen, The Netherlands)
Workshop room: P1 013, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Pillnitzer Platz 1

13.09.2023 (WEDNESDAY)

08:30 – 10:15

Session 4 – The use of pedigree information in breeding research (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Hélène Muranty

Keynote: Kai Voss-Fels

Genetic algorithm-guided allele stacking to develop high yielding, resistant varieties

Kai Voss-Fels

Apple ground color QTL discovery and characterization in a multi-family population via an IBD approach

Stijn Vanderzande, Dr. Eric van de Weg

Tracing traits to ancestral origins: streamlined pedigree visualization for efficient crop breeding

Nicole Pradas, Federico Jurado-Ruiz, Carles Onielfa, Pere Arús, Maria José Aranzana

Deciphering the genetic control of the tolerance to mal secco in lemon through a multi-parental QTL approach

Mario Di Guardo, Chiara Catalano, Giuseppe Cannizzaro, Giulio Dimaria, Sebastiano Seminara, Martina Cortese, Riccardo Russo, Carmen Arlotta, Michela Troggio, Vittoria Catara, Silvia di Silvestro, Donata Pietro Paolo, Giuseppe Russo, Marco Caruso, Gaetano Distefano, Luca Bianco, Stefano La Malfa, Alessandra Gentile

Finding the way in the apple genome - A systematic evaluation of the map problem resulting in a standardized virtual linkage map

Jonas Skytte af Sätra, Bjarne Larsen, Nicholas P Howard, Larisa Garkava-Gustavsson, Eric van de Weg

Opportunities for the use of Identity-By-Descent information in fruit crops

Stijn Vanderzande, Nick Howard, Luca Bianco, Diego Micheletti, Michela Troggio, Eric van de Weg

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 13:00

Session 5 – Fruit breeding (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Simone Bühlmann-Schütz

Keynote: Jean-Marc Audergon

Innovative Organic Fruit Breeding and uses" InnOBreed - A targeted approach for maximizing technological, environmental, and social innovation impacts through all over the fruit chain

Jean-Marc Audergon, Khaled Djelouah, Danilo Christen, Mariagiulia Marini, Marc Lateur

Breeding for fruit quality of highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) at the National Institute of Horticultural Research, Skierniewice, Poland

Stanislaw Pluta, Sylwia Keler-Przybylkowicz, Lukasz Seliga, Agnieszka Walencik

Phenotype and crossability of synthetic bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) autotetraploids with highbush blueberry (V. corymbosum L.)

Malgorzata Podwyszynska, Katarzyna Mynett, Monika Markiewicz, Stanislaw Pluta, Agnieszka Marasek-Ciolakowska, Monika Mieszczakowska-Frac

Genetic analysis and Breeding of new Passion Fruit Cultivars

Alon Samach, Noam Chayut, Michal Ackerman- Lavert, Shiri Sobol, David Jolles, Michael Inlender, Martin Gitonga, Avital Fraenkel- Beery, Hector Candela Anton

Pomological evaluation of newly bred and market-established apple varieties

Jiri Sedlák, Boris Krska

Recent progress in apple breeding at NARO in Morioka, Japan

Shigeki Moriya, Taku Shimizu, Ayato Hori, Yutaka Sawamura, Hirohisa Nesumi

Rubus breeding and supporting research at NIAB East Malling – from public funding to industry consortium

Felicidad Fernández Fernández

N.N.

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Session 6 – QTL mapping and molecular markers (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Janne Lempe

Development and validation of a molecular marker for red-flesh early selection in pear (Pyrus communis)

Lorenzo Bergonzoni, Giuseppina Caracciolo, Marco Pietrella, Sara Montanari, Lester Brewer, Sara Alessandri, Cecilia Domenichini, Luca Dondini, Richard V. Espley, Andrew C. Allan, Gianluca Baruzzi, Stefano Tartarini

Marker-assisted breeding in the IRTA peach and almond scion breeding programs

Iban Eduardo, Felipe Pérez de los Cobos, Ioannis Kandylas, Nathalia Zaracho, Ignasi Batlle, Gemma Reig, Luís Asín, Simó Alegre, Werner Howad, Maria José Aranzana, Pere Arús

Development of SNP markers for the powdery mildew resistance gene Pl1 in apple

Beatriz E. García-Gómez, Simone Buehlmann-Schuetz, Marius Hodel, Andrea Patocchi, Maria José Aranzana

Development of SNP molecular markers targeting the major apple scab resistance gene Rvi14

Aurélien Petiteau, Hélène Muranty, Bernard Petit, Caroline Denancé, Maryline Cournol, François Lebreton, Charles-eric Durel, François Laurens

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:00

Session 7 – Fruit quality traits (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Stefano Tartarini

Recent advancements on the cyanogenic glucoside pathway and variability of the bHLH1-5 gene expression in almond

Raquel Sánchez-Pérez, Mr. Jesús Guillamón Guillamón, Maria Rosa Pete, Maria Buitrago, Manuel Piero, Alexandra B. Maimann, Federico Dicenta, Birger L. Moller

Deciphering the molecular mechanisms of enzymatic browning of apple pulp

Francisco Javier Bielsa-González, Jerome Grimplet, Patricia Irisarri, Pilar Errea, Ana Pina

Crosstalk between ovate family proteins and brassinosteroid hormones controlling fruit shape

Veredas Coleto-Alcudia, Beatriz E. García-Gómez, Christian Dujak, Arnau Fiol, Maria José Aranzana

Selection of Vaccinium oxycoccos genotypes based on the amounts of biologically active compounds

Remigijus Daubaras, Laima Cesoniene

Marker-trait association approaches unravel the genetic determinism of fruit quality traits in a collection of blood oranges

Mario Di Guardo, Sebastiano Seminara, Stefania Bennici, Chiara Catalano, Alessio Giuffrida, Giuseppina Las Casas, Martina Cortese, Biagio Torrisi, Gaetano Distefano, Filippo Ferlito, Stefano La Malfa, Alessandra Gentile

High-throughput genotyping and SNP-trait association of phenology, fruit quality, and physiological traits in apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) by using GBS

Juan Salazar, María Nicolas-Almansa, German Ortuño-Hernández, Pedro Martínez-Gómez, David Ruiz

17:15 – 19:45

Dresden City Tour with the Red Double Decker Bus
Start at Busparkplatz (Bus station) Schloss Pillnitz, Otto Schindler
Str., contact person: Monika Höfer (JKI, Dresden, Germany)

14.09.2023 (THURSDAY)

09:00 – 10:30

Session 8 – Flowering time and dormancy control (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Jonas Skytte af Sätra

Genetic analyses of flowering time and disease resistance in sour cherry using the cherry 6+9K SNP array

Ofere Francis Emeriewen, Thomas Wolfgang Wöhner, Mirko Schuster, Andreas Peil, Henryk Flachowsky

Candidate biomarkers for endodormancy release in Prunus species

Jesús Guillamón, Federico Dicenta, David Ruiz, Jesús Lopez-Alcolea, Raquel Sánchez-Pérez

Differential expression of miRNAs between juvenile and adult olive trees highlights their potential use as early selection markers for short juvenility period

Paola Romero Rodriguez, Ana Gordon, Teresa Garcia Lopez, Esteban Meca Alvarez, Juan Moral, Concepcion Muñoz Diez

Functional characterization of the Dormancy-Associated MADS-box gene 4 in Malus domestica

Janne Lempe, Mirko Moser, Azeddine Si Ammour, Henryk Flachowsky

Early epigenetic changes are involved in bud dormancy release in grapevine

Valeria De Rosa, Rachele Falchi, Giannina Vizzotto, Emanuele De Paoli

In vitro dormant bud break and leaf-based regeneration for efficient pear micropropagation and novel breeding strategies

Cecilia Domenichini, Lorenzo Bergonzoni, Sara Alessandri, Stefano Tartarini, Luca Dondini

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session 9 – Digitalization and phenotyping (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Andreas Peil

Keynote: Uli Schurr

Plant phenotyping - technologies and targets

Federico Jurado-Ruiz, Carles Onielfa, Maria José Aranzana

UAV-based digital phenotyping of European pear rust in genetic resources

Stefanie Reim, Virginia Mass, Pendar Alirezazadeh, Johannes Seidl-Schulz, Matthias Leipnitz, Eric Fritzsche, Martin Geyer, Michael Pflanz

Comparison between field and greenhouse phenotyping to identify sources of resistance to mal secco in lemon hybrids

Martina Cortese, Carmen Arlotta, Angelo Ciacciulli, Donata Pietro Paolo, Riccardo Russo, Grazia Licciardello, Concetta Licciardello, Silvia Di Silvestro, Marco Caruso

N.N.

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch

13:30 – 15:30

Field trip to the orchard (JKI, LfULG)
Mirko Schuster, Monika Höfer, Martin Maag (JKI, Dresden, Germany) and Christian Kröling (LfULG, Dresden, Germany)

16:00 – 18:00

Workshop 2: "Cherry breeding and breeding research"
Mirko Schuster (JKI, Dresden, Germany) and José Quero Garcia (INRAE, Bordeaux, France)
Workshop room: Schurichtbau, Lohmener Strasse 12

Workshop 3: "Plant transformation techniques, genome editing and functional genomics"
Susan Schröpfer (JKI, Dresden, Germany) and Giovanni Broggini (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
Workshop room: P1 013, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Pillnitzer Platz 1

20:00 – 24:00

Conference dinner
Hotel: Pillnitzer Elbblick, Söbrigener Str. 2

15.09.2023 (FRIDAY)

09:00 – 10:45

Session 10 – New Breeding Technologies and whole genome sequencing (Conference hall of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology)

Session chair: Giovanni Broggini

Sequencing of the sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) 'Schattenmorelle' genome

Thomas Wöhner, Ofere Emeriewen, Alexander Wittenberg, Koen Nijbroek, Rui Peng Wang, Evert-Jan Blom, Jens Keilwagen, Thomas Berner, Katharina Hoff, Lars Gabriel, Hannah Thierfeld, Omar Almolla, Harrie Schneiders, Lorenzo Barchi, Mirko Schuster, Janne Lempe, Andreas Peil, Henryk Flachowsky

Next-generation sequencing technologies and genome editing to investigate the genetic bases of self-incompatibility in citrus

Stefania Bennici, Lara Poles, Mario Di Guardo, Lawrence Percival-Alwyn, Concetta Licciardello, Fabrizio Salonia, Mario Caccamo, Alessandra Gentile, Gaetano Distefano, Stefano La Malfa

Challenges faced in editing the apple genome using CRISPR/Cas

Susan Schröpfer, Dr. Henryk Flachowsky

Development of new biotechnological tools to accelerate breeding in woody species

Vera Pavese, Andrea Moglia, Anna Maria Milani, Elena Corredoira, Maria Teresa Martínez, Daniela Torello Marinoni, Roberto Botta

DNA-editing for enhanced resistance against apple tree pathogens

Cecilia Domenichini, Lorenzo Bergonzoni, Sara Alessandri, Marco Defrancesco, Leonardo Ferrari, Paola Negri, Mickael Arnaud Malnoy, Luca Dondini, Stefano Tartarini

The Italian experience on the New Breeding Technologies in citrus: advanced and marker-free approaches to improve fruit quality and resistance to plant diseases

Angelo Ciacciulli, Fabrizio Salonia, Helena Domenica Pappalardo, Lara Poles, Massimo Pindo, Stefano Piazza, Mickael Malnoy, Marco Caruso, Alessandra Gentile, Stefano La Malfa, Concetta Licciardello

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:15

Business Meeting and closing of the symposium

16.09.2023 (SAT)

Social tour

Meeting point: Parking place Reitbahnstraße behind the Hotel IBIS Dresden at 9:00 a.m.

9:45-11:45

Vist of the Strawberry breeding company of the Hansabred GmbH & Co. KG, Weixdorf, Germany

11:45

Bus trip to Moritzburg

12:15 - 13:15

Ride in a horse-drawn carriage, lunch packages are provided during the tour

13:30 - 15:00

Visit of the Moritzburg Castle

15:00

Bus trip to Radebeul, Spitzhaus

15:30

Walk from the Spitzhaus to the restaurant Lösnitztalschänke (Vine and small dishes will be served)

17:30

Bus trip back to the IBIS Hotel Dresden