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Sunday, 27th September
17:30h.: Registration 17:30h.: Poster set-up 19:00h.: Hospitality Drink offered by Hotel La Torre Golf Resort 20:00h.: Welcome Cocktail Monday, 28th September
09:00-10:30h.: Opening Symposium - ISHS & ISSS Welcome 10:30-11:00h.: Coffee Break (sponsored by Torre-Pacheco Council) Seed Biology Sessions - Sponsored by ISSS 11:00-13:00h.: Sessions (1) Seed genetics and biotechnology 11:00-11:30h.: Juan Jordano - Genetic improvement of seed longevity: the HSFA9 program 11:30-12:00h.: Hiro Nonogaki - Transcripcional gene regulation during germination and stand establishment 12:00-12:20h.: Ada Linkies - A combined approach with the brassicaceae species Arabidopsis thaliana and Lepidium sativum to identify key genes controlling seed germination 12:20-12:40h.: Mª Isabel Ordiz - Developing new technologies to control gene expression 12:40-13:00h.: Discussion
13:15-15:00h.: Lunch
15:15-17:15h.: Sessions (2) Seed germination and vigor 15:15-15:45h.: Kent Bradford - Genetic and hormonal regulation of lettuce seed germination 15:45-16:15h.: Bill Finch-Savage - Genetic and physiological characterisation of seed vigor 16:15-16:35h.: Hemal Fonseka - Studies on deterioration and germination of bitter gour seed (Momordica charantia L.) upon storage 16:35-16:55h.: Roberval D. Vieira - Controlled deterioration as a vigor test to evaluate scarlet eggplant seeds 16:55-17:15h.: Discussion
17:15-17:30h.: Coffee Break
17:30-18:30h.: Poster Session (A) // Poster Discussion (A) 19:00h.: Departure to Cartagena & Visit of the town 21:00h.: Cocktail offered at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena Tuesday, 29th September 07:30h.: Technical Journey Murcia & Almeria Departure from Hotel 08:00-09:30h.: Visit of Semirec (Murcia) - Seedling company & Transplant machine 09:30h.: Trip to Almería 11:30-12:00h.: Coffee Break 12:00-12:30h.: Fred van Eeuwijk - Smart tools for Prediction and Improvement of Crop Yield 12:30-13:30h.: Visit of Las Palmerillas Experimental Station (Fundación CAJAMAR) 14:00-15:30h.: Lunch
16:00-17:30h.: Visit of Ramiro Arnedo Seed Company
17:30h.: Back to the venue Wednesday, 30th September 09:00-10:30h.: Sessions (3) Germplasm protection 09:00-09:30h.: Jaime Prohens - Enhancement and protection of eggplant germplasm with a protected geographical indication 09:30-09:50h.: Andreas Ebert - Vegetable germplasm conservation and utilization at AVRDC - The world vegetable center 09:50-10:10: Shad D. Nelson - Flowering Native Plants Able to Withstand Elevated Abiotic Salt Stress 10:10-10:30h.: Discussion 10:30-11:00h.: Coffee Break 11:00-12:50h.: Sessions (4) Nursery greenhouse new-technologies 11:00-11:30: Jose A. Pascual - Enriched organic substrates: a real alternative for organic plant production at greenhouse nurseries 11:30-11:50h.: Hideyoshi Toyoda - A new spore precipitator with polarized dielectric insulators for physical control of tomato powdery mildew 11:50-12:10h.: Yoshinori Matsuda - A dielectric dipolar screen with oppositely polarized insulators for tomato seedlings on a nursery hydroponic culture bed from whiteflies 12:10-12:30h.: Sheheli Islam - Electro-kinetic treatmente on germination and early seedling growth of tomato 12:30-12:50h.: Discussion 13:00-15:00h.: Lunch 15:15-16:40h.: Sessions (5) Stand Establishment and field performance 15:15-15:45h.: Daniel Cantliffe - “New Stand Technologies” to mitigate field stresses 15:45-16:05h.: Warley Nascimento - Physiologycal seed quality and stand establishment of hot-pepper (Capsicum baccatum L. Var. Pendulum) under tropical conditionsS 16:05-16:25h.: Ana Botta Catala (Bioiberica) - Overcoming transplantation stress through Inicium(R), initiator of root activity 16:25-16:40h.: Discussion 16:40-17:00h.: Coffee Break 17:00-18:00h.: Poster Session (B) // Poster Discussion (B) 18:00-19:50h.: Sessions (6) Seed and Transplant Production (including organic) 18:00-18:30h.: Silvana Nicola - Issues facing organic transplant production in Europe 18:30-18:50h.: Lise C. Deleuran - Organic leek seed production - securing seed quality 18:50-19:10h.: Leticia Ponce de León - Soil seed bank of two species of cacti from the arid tropical scrub of Oaxaca, México 19:10-19:30h.: Shubin K. Saha - Chlorination rates utilized in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) transplant production in a floatation irrigation system 19:30-19:50h.: Discussion
19:50h.: ISHS Business Meeting 21:00h.: Gala Dinner Thursday, 1st October 09:00-11:00h.: Sessions (7) Abiotic/biotic stress on seedling and transplant 09:00-09:30h.: Daniel I. Leskovar - Can ABA Control Growth and Impart Stress Tolerance of Vegetable Transplants? 09:30-10:00h.: Ian Dodd - Rhizobacteria Mediate Seedling Growth and Stress Responses by Hormonal Mechanisms 10:00-10:20h.: Teruo Nonomura - Protection of nursery stage tomato seedlings from rhizosphere pathogens Ralstonia solanacearum and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici 10:20-10:40h.: Gregorio Barba Espin - Hydrogen peroxide as inductor of seeds germination: effect on antioxidative metabolism and plant hormone contents in pea seedlings 10:40-11:00h.: Discussion
11:00-11:30h.: Coffee Break 11:30-13:30h.: Sessions (8) Grafting and stand establishment 11:30-12:00h.: Benny Aloni - Plant grafting as a mean for enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in vegetables: Involvement of plant growth regulators 12:00-12:30h.: Francisco Camacho - The grafting on Melon and Watermelon in Colima - México as an alternative to Methyl Bromide 12:30-12:50h.: Manuel Díaz Pérez - Effect of dose and kind of compost on the quality of seedling of watermelon grafted onto pumpkin in industrial seedbed 12:50-13:10h.: Alfonso Albacete - Grafting onto wild species-derived rootstocks improves crop salt tolerance in tomato by exploiting root-to-shoot hormonal communication 13:10-13:30h.: Discussion 13:30-15:30h.: Lunch 15:30-17:00h.: Sessions (9) Integrating technologies... 15:30-16:00h.: Gehrard Leubner - 'The virtual Seed' Project: integrating comparative seed biology, biomechanical modeling and functional genomics 16:00-16:30h.: Francisco Pérez-Alfocea - Baptism by osmotic stress to improve water use efficiency 16:30-16:50h.: Matthias Eberius (Lemnatec) - Automated plant stress management and image-based high throughput phenotyping of complete plants and fruits 16:50-17:00h.: Discussion
17:00-17:40h.: General Conclusions and Closing Meeting 17:45h.: Visit at Semilleros El Mirador - Greenhouse nursery Departure from Hotel 20:00h.: Cocktail offered by Semilleros El Mirador
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