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S05 | HORTGEN: GM horticultural crops, from the lab to the field
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WELCOME
The HortGen Symposium will take place during the 28th International Horticultural Congress, to be held at Lisbon, 2010.
In this Symposium the state of the art in the use of biotechnological tools in breeding of horticultural crops will be covered. A significant effort is currently focused on genomic studies, thereby allowing the identification of genes that are important in the regulation of agronomic traits. Linkage of in vitro regeneration techniques, gene isolation and transformation technologies have allowed the production of a number of GM horticultural crops. Although the cultivated area of GM crops is currently increasing, this is mostly due to the traditional first generation of crops, e.g., corn, soybean, cotton and canola. Very few horticultural crops are reaching the marketplace, and virus resistant papaya and plum are promising exceptions. GM horticultural crops must be part of a strategy to increase productivity and feed many parts of the world and to develop tailor-made crops that have been enriched in specific ingredients (functional foods) required by discerning consumers of the West. This symposium will also address commercialization of horticultural transgenic crops, including costs, regulations and public perception.
The IHC2010 HortGen Symposium will be a follow up of those held in Norway during 2007 "Genetic Transformation - Challenges and Possibilities for Horticulture of the World" and Dresden 2008 "Biotechnology of Fruit Tree Species".
We take this opportunity to invite you to Lisbon in August, 2010 and exchange knowledge and opinions with colleagues from around the world.
Richard E. Litz and Fernando Pliego Alfaro
Conveners IHC2010 HortGen Symposium
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THEME & SCIENTIFIC TOPICS
SYMPOSIUM THEME
Production of GM horticultural crops for marginal environments and with enhanced nutritional value.
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS
The S05 Symposium will provide a venue for discussion of the following topics:
- IN VITRO CULTURE: biotechnological tools for conventional breeding programmes.
- GM TECHNOLOGIES: uses, benefits, risks and safety regulations for GM horticultural crops.
Participants are invited to submit abstracts for the following topics:
- Non GM Biotechnological Approaches for Improving Horticultural Crops.
- New Strategies for Genetic Manipulation.
- GMOs in Horticultural Field Crops: Current achievements and future prospects.
- GMOs in Tree Crops: Current achievements and future prospects.
- GMO Regulations in Horticulture.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
CONVENERS
Richard E. Litz, Tropical Research Education Centre, University of Florida, USA
Fernando Pliego Alfaro, University of Málaga, Spain
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Margarida Oliveira, ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Frank Krens, Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, The Netherlands
Robert Drew, Centre for Forestry and Horticulture Research, Griffith University, Australia
Ralph Scorza, USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station, USA
J.I. Hormaza, CSIC, E.E. "La Mayora", Málaga, Spain
Samuel Edudzi Timpo, Biotechnology & Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Ghana
Rajbir Singh Sangwan, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France
Leandro Peña, IVIA, Valencia, Spain
Viola Hanke, Julius Kühn Institute, Dresden, Germany
Keizo Yonemori, Kyoto University, Japan
Violeta Villegas, Syngenta Philippines Inc., Taguig City, Philippines
Dennis Gray, University of Florida, Apopka, USA
Herb Aldwinckle, Cornell University, Geneva, USA
Abhaya Dandekar, University of California, Davis, USA
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