IX International Peach Symposium

July 2-6, 2017

București - ROMANIA

Oral Presentations

O 1. Genetic Resources and Breeding

O 1.1. Florin Stănică, Liana Melania Dumitru, Antonia Ivascu - Overview of Romanian peach breeding

O 1.2. Daniela Giovannini, Daniele Bassi, Marcello Cutuli, Pavlina Drogoudi, Stefano Foschi, Christian Hilaire, Ignasi Iglesias, Alessandro Liverani, Julien Ruesch - Evaluation of novel peach cultivars in the European Union: the EUFRIN Peach and Apricot Working Group initiative

O 1.3. Lirong Wang - Peach Genomics and Breeding Programs at Zhengzhou

O 1.4. Jesús Garcia Brunton, Maria L Badenes Catala - Selections of peach for low and very low chilling conditions

O 1.5. Margaret Worthington, John Clark - Peach breeding at the University of Arkansas

O 1.6. Chunxian Chen – Peach cultivar releases and fruit trait distribution in the USDA-ARS Byron program

O 1.7. Jesús Garcia Brunton, Jose Francisco Romeu Santacreu - Origin and traits of traditional Spanish peach varieties preserved in the BAGERIM

O 2. Genomics, Biotechnology and Physiology

O 2.1. Pere Arús, Iban Eduardo, Simó Alegre, María José Aranzana, Werner Howa - New whole genome-based strategies for peach breeding

O 2.2. Thierry Pascal - Recent advances on resistance to pests and diseases, fruit quality and ornamental traits resulting from INRA's peach breeding program

O 2.3. Bénédicte Quilot-Turion, Elsa Desnoues, Valentina Baldazzi, Michel Génard, Véronique Signoret, Patrick Lambert, Carole Confolent, Laure Heurtevin - Deciphering regulation levels of sugar metabolism during peach fruit development through metabolic, enzymatic, genetic analyses and kinetic modeling

O 2.4. Maria Luisa Badenes, Jesus Garcia Brunton, Alba Lloret, Pedro Diaz, Jose Hernandez, Nuria Alburquerque, Lorenzo Burgos, Gabino Rios - Molecular, physiology and histology studies on adaptability of peach to warm winters

O 2.5. Hui Zhou, Yuepeng Han - Wuhan Botanical Garden, China - Identification of a negative MYB regulator of anthocyanin biosynthesis in peach fruit

O 2.6. Ksenija Gasic, Sook Jung, Chun-Huai Cheng, Taein Lee, Jing Yu, Jodi Humann, Kate Evans, Cameron Peace, Lisa Wasko DeVetter, Jim Mcferson, Michael Coe, Dorrie Main - Resources in the genome dabase for Rosaceae for peach research

O 2.7. Chunxian Chen –Genotyping variability of computationally categorized peach microsatellite markers

O 2.8. Verónica Guajardo¸ Simón Solis, Ksenija Gasic, Christopher Saski, Carolina Font i Forcada, Maria Angeles Moreno - Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) for SNP-based linkage map construction for two Prunus rootstocks from a peach rootstock breeding program

O 3. Rootstocks and Orchard management

O 3.1. Ignasi Iglesias - Overview of peach industry in the European Union, with special reference to Spain: from production to consumption

O 3.2. Piet Stassen - Rootstocks for peach and nectarine trees in different South African soils

O 3.3. Ayzin Küden, Burhanettin Imrak, Songül Comlekcioglu, Kadir Sarier, Ali Küden - Peach growing and future of peaches in Turkey

O 3.4. Bruce Topp, Edward Howell, Dougal Russell, Jennifer Cobon, Zeynep Ozdemir Eroglu, Mobashwer Alam - Characterisation of a population of plum x peach hybrids for use as low-chill rootstocks

O 3.5. Melike Cetinbas, Sinan Butar, Hakki Kocal, Halil Guner Seferoglu - Graft compatibility between peach cultivars and Rootpac series rootstocks

O 3.6. Giuseppe Montanaro, Bartolomeo Dichio, Alba N. Mininni, Teodoro Berloco, Cristos Xiloyannis - Managing carbon fluxes in a peach orchard

O 3.7. Davide Neri, Michele Bravetti, Giorgia Nardini, Giorgio Murri, Massimo Paroncini - Light spectrum modifications under photo-selective hail-nets

O 3.8. Ted M. DeJong, Katherine Fyhrie, Maria Teresa Prats-Llinas, Gerado Lopez - Comparison of fruit set on proleptic and epicormic/sylleptic shoots across four peach cultivars

O 3.9. Pasquale Losciale, Liliana Gaeta, Antonio Maria Amendolagine, Domenico Di Gennaro, Alejandra Navarro, Luigi Tarricone, Pasquale Campi - Managing orchard floor for saving water in peach: physiological and yield responses of a late ripening cultivar

O 3.10. Jun Liu, Bruno Casamali, Marc van Iersel, Orville Lindstrom, Dario Chavez - The effect of fertilization and irrigation treatments on cold hardiness of young peach plants

O 3.11. Bruno Casamali, Marc van Iersel, Dario Chavez - Sub-optimal irrigation conditions and excessive fertilization decreases growth of young peach plants

O 4. Eco Physiology, Pests and Diseases

O 4.1. Gregory L. Reighard, Juan Carlos Melgar, Trey Burrell, Filipe Bittencourt de Souza, Ksenija Gasic - Peach cultivar growing degree day requirements to reach fruit maturity in South Carolina

O 4.2. Elina Coneva, Andrej Svyantek, J. Raymond Kessler, Edgar Vinson, James Pitts - Effect of PGRs on yield, fruit quality and morphology of `Fireprince´ peaches

O 4.3. Maria Jose Rubio Cabetas, Beatriz Bielsa, Jesus Garcia Brunton - Response of peach cultivars throughout drought and re-watering period in a warm and arid region

O 4.4. Ioannis Minas, David Sterle, Horst Caspari - Understanding the environmental bases for cold hardiness and cold damage in peach floral buds using differential thermal analysis

O 4.5. Jun Liu, Orville Lindstrom, Anish Malladi, Carol Robacker, Dario Chavez - Low temperature damage of peach floral buds as assessed by vital staining

O 4.6. Ligia Kowata-Dresch, Lilian Amorim, Louise Larissa May De Mio - Peach rust progress and its interference with vegetative plant growth and yield in two production systems in Brazil

O 4.7. Gregory L. Reighard, Guido Schnabel, Juan Carlos Melgar - What we know and do not know about a peach skin bronzing disorder

O 4.8. Silvia Scariotto, Maximiliano Dini, Maria Bassols Raseira, Juliano dos Santos - Genetic parameters estimates for brown rot resistance in Prunus persica

O 4.9. Henri Duval, Cyril Van Ghelder, Guillaume Roch, Daniel Esmenjaud - Advances in pyramiding resistance genes to root-knot nematodes in Prunus rootstocks

O 5. Fruit quality, Postharvest and Marketing

O 5.1. George Manganaris, Ariel Vicente, Pedro Martinez, Carlos Crisosto - Chilling related disorders in peach and nectarine fruit: recent progress on its biological basis and control strategies

O 5.2. Ioannis Minas, Fernando Blanco Cipollone - Non-destructive assessment of the effect of crop load and canopy position on peach fruit harvest maturity and internal quality using near infrared spectroscopy

O 5.3. Dario Chavez, Catherine Belisle, Koushik Adhikari - Understanding the variation in volatile compounds among commercial peach varieties

O 5.5. Chiedza Tsvakirai - An innovation market approach to analyzing the impact of policy changes to South Africa's peach cultivar market