Preliminary program
Book of abstracts
Thursday, October 6
9h00 – 12h30 Registration and poster setup
14h00 - 14h15 Welcome address and Introduction to the COST Action FA1106 Hernâni Geros (Local Organizer) Mondher Bouzayen (Chair) - Mario Pezzotti (Vice-Chair
SESSION 1: “Fruit Development and Ripening” Chairs: Kalliopi Angelakis Roubelakis & Hernani Geros
14h15-14h40 Zhengguo Li (Chonquing University,Chongqing, Chine) Functional characterization of SlTIR1/AFBs auxin receptor family uncovers distinctive roles in regulating growth and development in tomato
14h40-15h05 Hernani Geros (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Molecular, biochemical and biotechnological impacts of copper in grape berry (Vitis
vinifera L.)
15h05-15h30 Livio Trainotti (University of Padova, Italy) A ROOT GROWTH FACTOR/GOLVEN peptide hormone is involved in a regulatory circuit with auxin and ethylene to regulate peach ripening
15h30-15h45 Guojian Hu ESR (INRA-INP, Toulouse, France) Epigenetic changes underlying the genome-wide transcriptomic reprogramming of the flower-to-fruit transition in tomato
15h45-16h05 Coffee Break
SESSION 1: “Fruit Development and Ripening” continued Chairs: Sara Amancio & Antonio Granell
16h05-16h30 Panos Kalaitzis (Maich, Chania, Greece) A tomato prolyl 4 hydroxylase is involved in fruit development and abscission
16h30-16h55 Giovanni Battista Tornielli (University of Verona, Italy) Functional characterization of a TTG2-like transcription factor involved in the regulation of vacuolar transport and flavonoid biosynthesis in grapevine
16h55-17h20 Arnaud Bovy (PRI- Wageningen University, The Netherlands) Large scale phenotyping of aroma in a tomato core collection
17h20-17h35 Luisa Carvalho ( ISA, University of Lisbon, Lisbon) Gene selection for a qPCR array to analyse the response to abiotic stress in grapevine leaves
17h35-17h50 Neda Anicic ESR (University of Belgrade, Serbia) COST STSM Chemical and trancriptomic analyses revealed the phenylpropanoid biosynthesis during development of Cistus creticus subsp. Creticus fruit
17h50 -19h45 Poster Sessio
20h30 Gala Dinner
Friday, October 7
SESSION 2: “Environment factors determining fruit yield”Chairs: Sladjana Savic & Angelos Kanellis
9h00-9h25 Ana Margarida Fortes (Universidade do Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal) Structural and Functional Analyses of the GRAS and LOB Gene Family in Grapevine Indicate a Role of GRAS and LOB Proteins in the Control of Grape Ripening and Stress Responses
9h25-9h50 Rebecca Stevens (INRA, Avignon, France) A systems biology study in tomato fruit reveals signaling from the ascorbate pool and links with translation and the heat-shock response
9h50-10h15 Claudio Bonghi (Padova, Italy) Impact of rootstock and vineyard practices on the grape berry development and composition
10h15-10h30 Artur Conde (Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal) Kaolin foliar application has a stimulatory effect on phenylpropanoid and flavonoid pathways in grape berries
10h30-10h50 Coffee Break
SESSION 3: “Fleshy Fruit Metabolism and quality” Chairs: Gabriella Rapeanu & Jean-Marc Routaboul
10h50-11h15 Paul Fraser (Royal Holloway University of London, London, UK) Expression of a Bacterial Carotene Desaturase/Isomerase in Tomato Mutants Reveals Feed-Forward Regulation Resulting in b-carotene Accumulation
11h15-11h40 Martine Lemaire-Chamley ( INRA-Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France) Identification of a C2H2 transcription factor implicated in locular tissue differentiation in tomato
11h40-11h55 Jose Tomas Matus Picero (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain) Genome-wide studies pave the way for the characterization of secondary metabolism regulators in the grapevine berry: the journey of a decade
11h55-12h10 Baowen Huang ESR (INRA-INP, Toulouse, France)Tomato class-D MADS-box genes impact both seed and fruit development
12h10-12h25 Juliana Almeida, ESR (Royal Holloway University of London, London, UK) Down-regulation of tomato PHYTOL KINASE strongly impairs tocopherol biosynthesis and affects prenyllipid metabolism in an organ-specific manner
12h30-14h00 Lunch
SESSION 4: “Resources, tools and methodologies for fleshy fruit research” Chairs: Marilu Chiusano & Mohamed Zouine
14h00-14h25 Pietro Tonutti (Pisa, Italy) Maintaining postharvest apple quality under extreme oxygen concentrations: molecular responses and metabolic reset
14h25-14h50 Bart Nicolai (KU Luwen, Belgium)Metabolomics and metabolic flux analysis of tomato fruit under hypoxia
14h50-15h15 Asaph Aharoni (The Weizmann Institute of Science CITY, Rehovot, Israel) Regulation of Suberin Polyester Biosynthesis: From Russeting Apples to Tomato Seed Coats
15h15-15h40 Giovanni Giuliano (ENEA, Rome, Italy)The eggplant genome reveals key events in Solanaceae evolution
15h40-16h05 Elie Masa (INRA-INP, Toulouse, France)TomExpress17b: the last version of the tomato transcriptomic platform
16h05-16h20 June Shin ESR (INRA-INP, Toulouse, France) New insight on the regulation of fruit ripening: the link between auxin signaling and RIN developmental factor
16h20- 16h40 Coffee Break
16h40- 17h40 General Discussion (WG leaders)
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Friday, October 7
MC meeting
17h40-19h00 (attendance restricted to Management Committee Members)
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