Saturday, the 17th of November 2012 - News from Research and Breeding

Topic of the day: News from Research and Breeding

Chairman: Michael Oberhuber, Director Laimburg Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (I)

09.00 - 09.30     Durable Multigene Resistance for New Apple Varieties
                      through Cisgenesis

                      Ton den Nijs, Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, University and
                      Research Center (NL)

09.30 - 10.00     The Red Fleshed Apple

                      Walter Guerra, Laimburg Research Centre for Agriculture and
                      Forestry, Laives (I)
                      Markus Bradlwarter, SK Südtirol – ASouth Tyrol Variety Innovation
                      Consortium, Terlano (I)

10.00 - 10.30     FruitBreed-omics – New Methods in Fruit Breeding

                      Francois Laurens, INRA, Genetics and Fruit Breeding, Angers (F)

10.30 - 11.00     Coffee break

11.00 - 11.30     The Apple and its Components in the Prevention of Cancer

                      Eva Negri, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan (I)

11.30 - 12.00     Fire Blight-resistant Rootstocks

                      Terence Robinson, Cornell University, Geneva (USA)