08:00

Registration

08:30

Openning Session

09:00

Technical session 1: BREEDING PROGRAMS
Chairman: Prof. S Sansavini

09:00 Keynote speech: Recent results in the non-melting peach breeding of Embrapa, in Southern Brazil. M. do C Bassols (Brazil)

09:25 French peach genetic improvement program: news and perspectives for the resistance to the pests and diseases. T Pascal (France)

09:45 Peach breeding in Spain. G Llácer (Spain)

10:00 Advances in Peach and Nectarine Breeding at the Agricultural Research Council of South Africa. WM Pieterse (Republic of South Africa)

10:15 Genetic Diversity of Low and Mid-Chill Peach Cultivars Developed in the Southeastern United States. JX Chaparro (USA)

10:30 Breeding Low-Chill Peaches in Subtropical Queensland. B Topp (Australia)

10:45 Peach Breeding for New Fruit Types. L Conte (Italy)

11:00 The IRTA-ASF peach scion breeding programme: aiming for high fruit quality. I Batlle (Spain)

11:15

Coffee break

11:45

Technical session 2: ROOTSTOCKS
Chairman: Prof. T Caruso

11:45 Response of low and medium vigour rootstocks for peach to biotic and abiotic stresses. J Pinochet (Spain)

12:00 Horticultural and eco-physiological evaluation of four peach x almond hybrids clonal rootstocks recently released in Italy in a high density planting system. F Marra (Italy)

12:15 Dwarfing Peach Rootstocks Generate Scion Water Stress. AM Weibel (Argentina)

12:30 Effect of almond x peach hybrid rootstocks on fruit quality parameters and yield characteristics of peach cultivars. C Font (Spain)

12:45 Rootstock effect on agronomical performance and fruit quality of 'Elegant Lady®' peach cultivar. I Iglesias (Spain)

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Technical session 3: FRUIT AND TREE DEVELOPMENT
Chairman: Dr TL Robinson

14:30 Keynote speech: Using Concepts of Shoot Growth and Architecture to Understand and Predict Responses of Peach Trees to Pruning. TM DeJong (USA)

14:55 Average dates and accumulated thermal requirements for different phenophases of peach as influenced by climate. C Miranda (Spain)

15:10 Incidence of Blind Nodes in Prunus Interspecific Hybrids in a Subtropical Climate. O Carrillo-Mendoza (USA)

15:25 Climatic probability of winter and spring frost occurrence in the main Hungarian peach cultivation areas. L Lakatos (Poland)

15:40 Relationship between fruit growth and flower bud phenology in peach trees. B Basile (Italy)

16:00

Poster sessions: 1,2,3 & 4

17.30

Technical session 4: PEST AND DISEASES
Chairman: Dr. Luis Asín

17:30 Keynote speech: Area wide management of mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata). JM Avilla (Spain)

17:55 Biological control of oriental fruit moth, Cydia molesta Busck. in a peach orchard in Bulgaria, preliminary results. H. Kutinkova (Bulgary)

18:10 Monitoring conidial density of Monilinia spp on peach surface in relation to brown rot development in orchards. A de Cal (Spain)

18:25 The development of range of peach cultivars and breeding for resistance to powdery mildew in Bulgaria. V Dzhuvinov (Bulgary)

18:40 Epidemiology of Monilinia fructicola on peach and nectarine in Uruguay. P Mondino (Uruguay)

20:00

Welcome at “La Seu Vella”

FIELD TRIP

08:00

Technical session 5: BIOTECHNOLOGY
Chairman: Dr. P Arús

08:00 Keynote speech: Peach fruit quality: Candidate genes or map-based cloning strategy?. 
E Dirlewanger (France)

08:25 Analysis of a Prunus persica [(L.) Batsch] x (P. persica x P. davidiana) progeny for the identification of major genes conferring resistance to Plum Pox Virus – PPV. S Micali (Italy)

08:45 Genetic control and location of QTLs involved in antioxidant capacity and fruit quality traits in peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch]. W Abidi (Spain)

09:00 Mapping a large set of candidate genes related with fruit quality in peach. W Howad (Spain)

09:15 Peach Dormancy Associated MADS-box Gene Expression during Natural Chilling Accumulation. 
S Jiménez (USA)

09:30 DRUPOMICS: the Italian contribution to the international initiative for sequencing the peach genome. I Verde (Italy)

09:45 Transcriptome analysis reveals new insight on the role of ethylene during ripening of peach fruit. 
C Bonghi (Italy)

10:00

Coffee break

10:30

OPEN technical session
Chairman: Dr. J. Girona

10:30 Fruit growth and development as it relates to thinning and crop load and global climate change. 
TM DeJong (USA)

10:55 The Role of Orchard Factors on Peach Quality. CH Crisosto (USA)

11:20 Marker-Assisted Breeding in Peach: Challenges and Prospects. P Arús (Spain)

11:45 Wholesalers' reactions towards PDO Calanda peaches. LM Albisu (Spain)

12:10 Present and future trends in peach rootstock breeding worldwide. MJ Rubio-Cabetas (Spain)

12:25 Agronomical performance, fruit quality and sensory attributes of several flat peach and flat nectarine cultivars.  I Iglesias (Spain)

12:40 Water and nitrogen management interaction on peaches for processing. J Rufat (Spain)

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Technical session 6: IRRIGATION & FERTILIZATION
Chairman: Prof. H Behboudian

14:30 Keynote speech: Deficit Irrigation Strategies for Peach Orchards. E Fereres (Spain)

14:55 Effect of mineral and organic fertilization on peach root growth. E Baldi (Italy)

15.10 Long term (8 years) effect of mineral and organic fertilizations on soil fertility and peach tree nutritional status.    M Toselli (Italy)

15:25 Effects of Severe Water Stress during Stage III of Peach Fruit Development on Fruit Quality. G López (Spain)

15:40 Remote Sensing in Peach Orchards: Monitoring from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). P Zarco-Tejada (Spain)

16:00

Poster sessions: 5, 6, 7 & 8

17:30

Technical session 7: ORCHARD SYSTEMS
Chairman: Prof. T DeJong

17:30 Keynote speech: Horticultural efficiency of peach planting systems in south Italy. T Caruso (Italy)

17:55 The influence of the tree form and crop load on peach tree growth, beginning of cropping and fruit quality. D Djurovic (Serbia)

18:10 Variations in the orchard environmental conditions affect growth, vascular and transpiration flows to/from peach fruit. B. Morandi (Italy)

18:25 Yield and fruit size independent of crop load of 6 peach planting systems. TL Robinson (USA)

18:40 A Long-term peach training system trial. S Alegre (Spain)

21:00

Philermonic Orchestra “Julià Carbonell”

22:15

Gala Dinner

09:00

Technical session 8: POSTHARVEST & FRUIT QUALITY
Chairman: Dr. C. Crisosto

09:00 Keynote speech: Comparative transcriptomics between cold-tolerant and cold-sensitive peach siblings reveals the participation of both preformed and induced mechanisms in tolerance to CI mealiness. A Granell (Spain)

09:25 Evaluation of food additives and low-toxicity compounds as nonpolluting means to control the main postharvest diseases of California peaches. L Palou (Spain)

09:45 The influence of storage period and temperature on consumer acceptance and sensory properties of 'Big Top®' nectarines. G Echeverria (Spain)

10:00 Instrumental and sensory evaluation of eating quality of peaches and nectarines. P Inglese (Italy)

10:15 Preliminary characterisation of "vitrescent dark spot": a peach physiological disorder of increasing occurrence in late-ripening cultivars. V Fernández (Spain)

10:30 Multispectral images of peach related to firmness and maturity at harvest. A Herrero (Spain)

10:45 Combination of several postharvest treatments to control brown rot in peaches and nectarines. 
C Casals (Spain)

11:00 Integrating pre and post harvest nil fungicide residue treatments for control of brown rot of stonefruits caused by Monilinia fructicola. PAG Elmer (New Zealand)

11:15

Coffee break

11:45

Conclussions

12:30

ISHS Peach Group Bussines Meeting

13:30

Lunch