International Strawberry Symposium 2020, topics andspeakers officially announced

(Rome, 11 December2019) The panel of speakersand the topics of the 9th edition of the International Strawberry Symposium,scheduled to take place in Rimini from 2 to 6 May 2020 and organized byUniversit Politecnica delle Marche and the Italian Council for agricultural researchand analysis of the agricultural economy (CREA), in association with theInternational Society for Horticulture Science (ISHS), have recently been finalized.

Over the course of thefive-days event, a total of 15 speakerswill discuss four topics: genetics, agronomy, certification/defence/physiology,and human health.

From a genetic perspective, Aaron Liston Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University willretrace and revisit the origin of the octoploid strawberry. Steven J.Knapp Professor and Director of the strawberry cultivation program atthe University of California will speak about Traditional and Genome-InformedBreeding Strategies for Delivering the Next Generation of StrawberryCultivars. Qing-Hua Gao Senior Professor at the ShanghaiAcademy of Agricultural Sciences will focus on Interactions of strawberrywith fungus pathology and new germplasms enhanced with disease resistance. BatriceDenoyes Senior Researcher at the National Institute for AgriculturalResearch in Bordeaux will address the topic of Breeding for fruit anddaughter plants yield.

At the agronomic level, YiannisAmpatzidis Professor at the University of Floridas Department ofAgricultural and Biological Engineering, will introduce the topic ofAutomation, artificial intelligence, and robotics in strawberry production. AnitaSnsteby Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of BioeconomyResearch will discuss Flowering and dormancy relations of strawberry andeffects of management and a changing climate for production. Peter Melis Researcher at Proefcentrum Hoogstraten in Belgium will consider how modern substratecultivation offers possibilities for a minimum of residues on strawberry. Zhang Yuntao Director of the Strawberry Program atBeijing Academy of Forestry and Pomology Sciences and China National GermplasmRepository of Strawberry in Beijing, and Chairman of Strawberry Section of ChineseSociety for Horticulture Science will report on the great impact ofthe 7th ISS on Strawberry Research and Industry in China.

The topics of plant certification, pest and diseasecontrol and post-harvest physiology will be discussed in an additional session of the Symposium. In particular, IoannisTzanetakis Professor of Plant Virology at the University of Arkansas will introduce the Strawberry plant certification in the 21st century: from grafting to bioinformatics and beyond. Juan Carlos DazRicci Senior Professor at the Argentine National Research Council(CONICET) and at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumn will discuss theIntroduction and suppression of the defence response mediated by fungalpathogenes in strawberry plants, while Sonia Osorio Algar Professor at the University of Malaga in charge of the fruit biotechnologylaboratory will focus on Network regulatory analysis of strawberry fruitspost-harvest physiology revealed by metabolomics profiling.

Finally, the effects of strawberries on humanhealth will also be part of a specific discussion by variousexperts. Stefano Predieri Head of the CNRs BioeconomyInstitute, Bologna Research Unit will speak about What can we learn fromconsumers perception of strawberry quality?. Francisco A.Toms-Barbern Professor at the Consejo Superior de InvestigacionesCientficas in Murcia will present the Role of ellagitannins in strawberryhuman health effects. Britt Burton-Freeman Chair of the Departmentof Food Science and Nutrition at the Illinois Institute of Technology willfocus on Strawberries and their polyphenolic metabolites in glucoregulationand vascular health. Daniele Del Rio Associate Professor ofHuman Nutrition at the University of Parma and Head of the University ofParmas Faculty of Advanced Food and Nutrition Studies will finally discussstrawberry polyphenols: metabolism in humans and putative biologicalactivities.

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