Programme Plenary Sessions XVI Eucarpia Meeting:
Working group Tomato 2008

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