Monday, May 12th
19.00 – 21.00: Registration
Tuesday, May 13th
08.00 – 09.00: Registration
09.00 - 09.05: Opening by Sjaak van Heusden
09.05 - 09.15: General opening by Ton den Nijs
09.20 - 12.30: Session 1: Virus Resistance, Chair: Prof. dr. Henrik Czosneck
09.20 - 10.30: Invited speakers
09.20 - 09.50: Dr. Henrik Czosnek, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Insect vector endosymbiotic chaperonins: their role in virus transmission to
plants and how to use them to protect plants from virus infection
09.50 - 10.20: Dr. Enrique Moriones, CSIC (Spain)
Tomato yellow leaf curl disease epidemics: an ever changing problem?
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee/tea break
11.00 - 12.30: Selected speakers
11.00 - 11.20: Dr. Diego Miguel Tomás,
Estación Experimental (Spain)
Resistance to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus in two
accessions of
Solanum habrochaites
11.20 - 11.40: Dr. Paul Maris, De Ruiter Seeds (The Netherlands)
Resistance to Tomato torrado Virus (ToTV) and Tomato
marchitez virus (ToMarV)
11.40 - 12.00: Prof. Dr. Pranab Hazra,
Department of Vegetable Crops
(India)
Inheritance of Host Resistance for tomato leaf curl virus
12.00 - 12.10: small break
12.10 - 12.30: Dr. R. van der Vlugt, Plant Research International (The
Netherlands)
Pepino mosaic virus:
epidemiology, economic impact and pest risk analysis (pepeira)
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 18.00:
Session 2: Resistance and parthenocarpy
Chair: Dr. Yuling Bai
14.00 - 17.40: Invited Speakers (30 min + 5 min discussion)
14.00 - 14.30: Dr. Majid Foolad, Penn State institute of energy en the environment (USA)
Genetics and Breeding of late blight and early blight resistance in tomato
14.30
- 15.00: Dr. Yuling Bai, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Monogenic vs polygenic resistance
15.00 - 15.30: Coffee/tea break
15.30 - 15.50: Prof. dr. Liliana Stamova,
California Tomato Research
Institute (USA)
Resistance to Meloidogyne
Incognita Strains overcoming Mi-1 gene
15.50
- 16.10: Dr. Ben Vosman, Plant Research International (The Netherlands)
Whitefly Resistance in Tomato
16.10
- 16.30: Dr. Richard Finkers, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Resistance to
Botrytis Cinerea
(Grey Mould) in a set of
Solanum Habrochaites
LYC4 Introgression lines
16.30 - 16.40: small break
16.40
- 17.00: Stefano Pavan, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Exploitation of recessive mlo-mutants
for durable powdery mildew resistance in vegetable crops
17.00
- 17.30: Dr. Benoit Gorguet, De Ruiter Seeds (The Netherlands)
Parthenocarpy and functional
sterility in Tomato
Wednesday, May 14th
09.00 - 13.00: Session 3: Breeding for Tomato Quality, Chair Dr. Mathilde Causse
09.00 - 11.00: Invited speakers
09.00 - 09.30: Dr. Mathilde Causse, INRA (France)
Genetic, genomic and ecophysiological dissection of fruit
size and sugar content in tomato
09.30 - 10.00: prof dr ir MAJS van Boekel, Wageningen University (The
Netherlands)
Health promoting components
in vegetables
10.00 - 10.30: Coffee/Tea
10.30 - 11.00: Prof. dr. Ernst Woltering, Wageningen University (The
Netherlands)
Healthy innovations: how to
increase fruit and vegetable consumption?
11.00 - 13.00: Selected speakers
11.00
- 11.20: Dr. Nicolas Schauer, De Ruiter Seeds (The Netherlands)
Comprehensive metabolite
profiling for tomato fruit quality
11.20
- 11.40: Dr. Majid Foolad,
Penn State institute of energy
en the environment (USA)
Breeding High Lycopene Tomatoes
11.40 - 11.50: Small break
11.50 - 12.10: Prof. dr. Bistra Atanassova, Institute of Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, (Bulgaria)
Study of the content of compounds related to nutritive quality in anthocyaninless tomato mutants
12.10 - 12.30: Dr. Arnaud Bovy
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 16.30: Session 4: Genomics and Breeding, Chair Dr. Pim Lindhout
14.00 - 15.20: Invited speakers
14.00
- 14.35: Dr. Pim Lindhout, De Ruiter Seeds (The Netherlands)
Breeding in the Era of Genomics
14.35 - 15.10: Dr. Rob Dirks, Rijkzwaan (The Netherlands)
Reverse Breeding: a new view for plant breeding
15.10 - 15.20: Small break
15.20 - 16.30: Selected speakers
15.20 - 15.40: Dr. Martin Ganal, TraitGenetics GmbH (Germany)
SNP marker identification and validation in tomato
15.40 - 16.00: Antoine Gady
TILLING for tomato breeding and biology
16.00
- 16.20: Prof. dr. Pranab Hazra,
Department of Vegetable Crops
(India)
Identification of heat tolerant lines of tomato and gene
action for floral and fruit
set traits at high temperature stress
16.20 - 16.30: Small break
16.30 - 18.00: Session 5: General aspects, Chair Dr. Heleen Bos, Rijk Zwaan
16.30 - 18.00: Invited speakers
16.30 -
17.00: Dr. Heleen Bos, Rijk Zwaan (The Netherlands)
Corporate Social Responsibility at Rijk Zwaan
17.00 -
17.30: Dr. Huib Ghijsen, Bayer BioScience N.V. (Belgium)
Intellectual Property Rights and Access Rules: Benefit or
Straitjacket?
17.30 -
18.00: Dr Sjaak van Heusden, Wageningen UR (The Netherlands)
General closure of tomato workshop
19.00 - 22.00: Congress dinner at Kasteel Doorwerth
Thursday, May 15th
Excursion to Greenhouse at Bleiswijk. Rotterdam Harbour Boat trip, Official opening new complex and dinner at The Ruiter Seeds