IHC Lisboa 2010

	S05 \| HORTGEN: GM horticultural crops, from the lab to the field Welcome \| Scientific Committee \| General Information Download final programme WELCOME The HortGen Symposium will take place during the 28^thInternational 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

	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

	GENERAL INFORMATION The Symposium will be held at the Lisboa Congress Centre as part of the 28th International Horticulture Congress, a world conference on horticultural sciences. Symposium participants must register to the Congress and will have full access to the Congress activities and scientific programme. Contacts IHC Lisboa 2010 Secretariat for Scientific Programme 28th International Horticulture Congress Instituto Superior de Agronomia Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal Tel. +351 961 068 237 / Fax. +351 214 411 797 Email: info@ihc2010.org / Web: www.ihc2010.org