COST Meeting FA 1104 - Plovdiv, May 2014












Conference COST ACTION FA1104, 26th - 27th May 2014, Plovdiv.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF HIGH-QUALITY CHERRIES FOR THE EUROPEAN MARKET.
Phenotyping protocols for tolerance to cherry pests and diseases and other important agronomic traits.
DND TRAVEL have an office near the reception of the hotel. Please go there to get your receipt and to pay any bill.
DRAFT PROGRAM
26.05.2014 (Monday)
08:30
Registration: Please sign the attendance list
The registration desk will be in front of the meeting room.
9:00-9:10
Welcome speech
Stefan Gandev – Director of Fruitgrowing Institute Plovdiv
9:10-9:30
Welcome; Status of the Action; Last events
José Quero Garcia – Chair of COST Action FA1104
Oral presentations
MORNING SESSION
Chair: Joanna Pulawska
09:30-10:00
Mirko Schuster (Germany)
Studies on cherry leaf spot at Dresden-Pillnitz
10:00 - 10:30
Daina Feldmane (Latvia)
Field evaluation of cherry leaf spot for sour cherry cultivars in Latvia
10:30 - 11:00
Brankica Tanovic (Serbia)
Monilinia fruticola - potential threat for sweet and sour cherry production in Serbia'
11:00 -11:30
Coffee break
11:30 -12:00
Hatice OZAKTAN (Turkey)
Screening for the suceptibility of some sweet cherry cultivars to bacterial canker using immature fruitlet test
12:00 - 12:30
Monika Kaluzna (Poland)
Bacterial canker and methods of susceptibility testing
12:30 -13:00
Joanna Pulawska (Poland)
Crown gall: why is it difficult to breed resistant rootstocks
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION
Chair: Jorunn Børve
14:00 - 14:30
Jiri Sedlak (Czech Republic)
Methods and results of virus sanitation in Czech Republic
14:30 - 15:00
Snejana Milusheva (Bulgaria)
Viruses of sweet cherry cultivars and elites in Plovdiv region of Bulgaria
15:00 - 15:30
Aleš Vokurka (Croatia)
Prospects of organic production of cherries in Croatia
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break and Discussion on posters
Poster preSentation
1.Sergiu Budan (Romania)
Breeding sour cherry for leaf spot resistance
2. Michael Getaz (Switzerland)
Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens
3. Sándor Szügyi (Hungary)
Breeding and evaluation of Hungarian bred Monilia laxa resistant sour cherry genotypes
4. Thomas Sotiropoulos (Greece)
Results of a 3-year trial using plastic covers against fruit cracking of sweet cherries in Greece
5. Michelle Hulin (United Kingdom)
Comparing methods to screen sweet cherry cultivars for susceptibility to bacterial canker'
16:00-18:00
Visit to the Old Town of Plovdiv
20:00
Dinner in Restaurant “Na megdana”
27.05.2014 (Tuesday)
MORNING SESSION
Chair: Martin Jensen
08:30
Registration: Please sign the attendance list
9:00-9:30
Michela Ruinelli (Switzerland)
Diagnostic and epidemiological tools for cherry pathogenic bacteria based on genomics and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
09:30 - 10:00
Jorunn Børve (Norway)
Diseases on sweet cherry trees- results from a survey in young orchards in Norway
10:00 - 10:30
Martin Jensen (Denmark)
Aspects of freezing tolerance in sour cherry
10:30 - 11:00
José Quero Garcia (France)
Screening of sweet cherry hybrids for rain-induced cracking tolerance
11:00 -11:30
Coffee break
11:30 -12:00
Svetoslav Malchev (Bulgaria)
Sweet cherry breeding program in Fruitgrowing Institute - Plovdiv
12:00 -12:30
Petya Gercheva (Bulgaria)
In vitro methods in breeding programs of Fruitgrowing Institute - Plovdiv
12:30 - 13:00
Free time for discussion and interaction
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00
Visit to the Fruitgrowing institute – Plovdiv
14:30 -14:45
Valentina Bozhkowa (Bulgaria)
Welcome to the Fruitgrowing institute – Plovdiv
14:45 -15:00
Kouman Koumanov (Bulgaria)
Intensive sweet cherry production: research objectives and approaches at the Fruitgrowing Institute - Plovdiv
15:00-16:30
Visit to the experimental fields and laboratories at the Fruitgrowing institute – Plovdiv
16:30-17:00
Coffee break and Discussion
17:00-19:00
Visit to Bachkovo Monastery