Programme

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th

13:00 – 14:30Registration
14:30 - 14:50Opening ceremony
Chairpersons: Filippone E., Ricciardi L., Lotti C.
Welcome addresses by Institutional and Local Authorities
14:50 - 15:00Communication from EIT-FOOD Projectmanager at UNIBA
De Ruggeri B.
EIT Food: Innovation for a healthy and sustainable food system
15:00 - 16:45Session 1 - Omics to study and use genetic resources in plant breeding
Chairpersons: Ambrosone A., Mazzucotelli E.
15:00 – 15:30Invited Lecture
Iorizzo M.
Omics approach to uncover the origin of high carotenoid orange carrots
15:30 – 15:45Forestan C., Bozzoli M., Maccaferri M., Tuberosa R., Mazzucotelli E., Desiderio F., Faccioli P., Cattivelli L., Ens J., Sharpe A., Pozniak C., Chawla H., Walkowiak S., Pirona R., Ceriotti A., Morgante M., Masci S., Sestili F., Giuliano G., Gadaleta A., Pè M.E., Pecchioni N., Bassi F.M., Distelfeld A., Rusholme-Pilcher R., Hall A., Swarbreck D., Spannagl M., Navratilova P., Šimková H., Silvestri M., Zastrow-Hayes G., Llaca V., Fengler K., The Svevo Platinum Consortium, The Tetraploid Wheat Pangenome Consortium
Upgrading the Durum wheat Genomic Resources: from the Platinum-quality Svevo genome assembly and annotation to the tetraploid wheat pangenome
15:45 – 16:00Miculan M., Zuccolo A., Fabbian L., Zhou Y., Rivera L.F., Copetti D., Talag J.D., McNally K., Henry A., Wing R.A.
Disentangling the genome wide contribute of structural variations to drought stress resistance in the model species Oryza sativa
16:00 – 16:15Gabelli G., Palumbo F., Boni A.G., Ferrari G., Beretta M., Barcaccia G.
Deciphering the recombination spots scenario in a MAGIC population of cultivated and wild tomato
16:15 – 16:30Tripodi P., Beretta M., Peltier D., Kalfas I., Vasilikiotis C., Laidet A., Briand G., Aichholz C., Zollinger T., van Treuren R., Scaglione D., Goritschnig S.
Development and application of single primer enrichment technology (SPET) SNP assay for population genomics analysis and candidate gene discovery in lettuce
16:30 – 16:45Gaccione L., Toppino L., Sulli M., Tumino G., Alonso D., Aprea G., Tassone M.R., Boyaci H.F., Lin Y., Lanteri S., Prohens J., Portis E., Rotino G.L., Giuliano G., Barchi L.
Genome-wide association study for agronomically relevant traits and fruit quality-related metabolites in a worldwide eggplant core collection
16:45 – 17:15Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
17:15 – 18:45Session 1 - (cont.)
17:15 – 17:30Americo S., Ferrari G., Desiderio F., Guerra D., Beretta M., Lo Piero A.R., Sicilia A., Morelli G., Cattivelli L., D'Orso F.
Unveiling the position and effects on salt stress resilience of wild S. pennellii genome in S. pennellii x S. lycopersicum introgression lines through integrated DNA and RNA sequencing approach
17:30 – 17:45Tafuri A., Pirona R., Fricano A., Mazzucotelli E., Cagliani L.R., Gasser M., Giordano M., Zuccaro M., Ravaglia S., Consonni R., Thomas A., Gilardi F., Ceriotti A., Baldoni E.
Metabolite characterization of durum wheat grain for association studies: exploring the natural variation of free asparagine content
17:45 – 18:00Delvento C., Arcieri F., Marcotrigiano A.R., Guerriero M., Fanelli V., Dellino M., Curci P.L., Bouwmeester H., Lotti C., Ricciardi L., Pavan S.
High-density linkage mapping and genetic dissection of resistance to broomrape (Orobanche crenata Forsk.) in pea (Pisum sativum L.)
18:00 – 18:15Bono G.A., Giaume F., Vicentini G., Mineri L., Betagnon G., Fornara F., Brambilla V.
Molecular control of flowering at the rice shoot apex
18:15 – 18:30Foresti C., Amato A., Fattorini C., D'Incà E., Vitulo N., Zenoni S.
NACs intra-family hierarchical regulatory network orchestrating grape berry ripening
18:30 – 18:45General Discussion
19:00 - 20:30Welcome Cocktail

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th

09:00 – 10:45Session 2 – Breeding for resilience: addressing climate change in plant genetics
Organized by Next Generation SIGA
Chairpersons: Broccanello C., Di Marsico M.


09:00 – 09:30Invited Lecture
Dixon L.
Adapting cereal development to changing climates
09:30 – 09:45Persello A., Rotasperti L., Torricella V., Ballabio F., Betti A., Tadini L., Camilloni C., Hansson M., Rossini L., Horner S.D., Salvi S., Pesaresi P.
Pale-green crops for a new sustainable agriculture
09:45 – 10:00Bubici G., Batelli G., Cellini F., Costa A., De Palma M., Grillo S., Melillo M.T., Petrozza A., Prigigallo M.I., Ruocco M., Sportelli G., Stavolone L., Summerer S., Veronico P., Cillo F.
A phenomics approach to drought and pathogen responses in a tomato genotype collection
10:00 – 10:15De Sario F., Liu C., Bozzoli M., Forestan C., Ratti C., Bruschi M., Novi J.B., Campana M., Sciara G., Ormanbekova D., Corneti S., Confortini A., Viviani A., Stefanelli S., Giulini A., Bardelli T., Novarina E., Gadaleta A., Mazzucotelli E., Desiderio F., Viola P., Invernizzi C., Oliveri F., Mastrangelo A.M., Marone D., Roncallo P., Bassi F., Perovic D., Cattivelli L., Tuberosa R., Maccaferri M.
The Global Durum Genomic Resource in use: a collaborative genomics initiative to leverage genetic resources for increasing and characterizing the breeding value of durum varieties
10:15 – 10:30Colanero S., Martignago D., Loukili I., Sutti A., Landoni B., Cioffi S., Bosc A., Tonelli C., Galbiati M., Conti L.
Engineering water use in tomato by generating SlMyb60 mutants using a CRISPR-Cas9- based approach
10:30 – 10:45General Discussion
10:45 – 11:15Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
11:15 – 13:15Session 3 - Innovative methods and tools in plant genetics and breeding
Chairpersons: Lotti C., Pavan S.
11:15 – 11:45Invited Lecture
Bai Y.
Impaired plant susceptibility genes in resistance breeding: from concept to cultivars
11:45 – 12:00Bettinelli P., Bianco L., Fontana P., Moser M., Pindo M., Nicolini D., Costantini L., Stefanini M., Hausmann L., Vezzulli S.
Black rot resistance of grapevine: from organ-specific QTL mapping to the sequencing of the donor towards candidate gene identification
12:00 – 12:15Li R., Cui L., Martina M., Moglia A., Bracuto V., Meijer-Dekens F., Wolters A.A., Bai Y., Acquadro A.
Less is more: CRISPR/Cas9-based mutations in DND1 gene enhance tomato resistance to powdery mildew with low fitness costs
12:15 – 12:30Caproni L., Altman T., Ferguson J., Heuermann M., Kromdijk J., Pè M.E., Dell’Acqua M.
Combining phenomics approaches from pot to plot to identify candidate genes for photosynthesis improvement in the multi parent MAGIC maize population
12:30 – 12:45Bozzoli M., Bruschi M., Fanelli Carvalho H., Isidro y Sánchez J., Ruggeri M., Meriggi D., Manstretta V., Bartoccetti E., Sgrelli S., Meriggi P., Tuberosa R., Maccaferri M.
INNOVAR project: developing high-throughput phenotyping and genetic methods and technologies to improve accuracy in agriculture and in wheat varietal registration protocols
12:45 – 13:00Michelotti V., Rossi R., Crosatti C., Mica E., Guerra D., Colombo M., Masiero S., Radchuk V., Cattivelli L., Battaglia R.
Sporophytic control of male fertility, the role of the SWEET4 gene in barley
13:00 – 13:15General Discussion
13:15 – 13:30EUCARPIA: current progressive future opportunity for plant breeding
Ercolano M.R.
13:30 – 14:30Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:45Session 4 - Underground genetics: roots and their interactions
In memory of Marina Tucci
Chairpersons: Beretta M., Salvi S.
14:30 – 15:00Invited Lecture
Laplaze L.
Targeting root traits to improve tolerance to vegetative drought episodes in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.)
15:00 – 15:15Puglisi D., Carletti G., Delbono S., Cattivelli L., Fricano A.
Shovelomics and clear pot analyses highlight extensive natural genetic variation for root system architecture in barley
15:15 – 15:30Daddiego L., Bianco L., Alagna F., Lopez L., Panara F., Fantini E., Facella P.
Differential expression patterns of cryptochrome and circadian clock genes between roots and leaves in Medicago truncatula
15:30 – 15:45Scintu D., Shtin M., Svolacchia N., Sabatini S., Dello Ioio R., Di Mambro R.
Exploring root programmed cell death as a mechanism for heat stress resilience
15:45 – 16:15Invited Lecture
Pieterse C.M.J.
The root microbiome and plant immunity
16:15 – 16:30General Discussion
16:30 – 17:00SIGA Young Research Award 2023
Dedicated to Francesco D’Amato and Gian Tommaso Scarascia Mugnozza
Chairpersons: Filippone E., Rosellini D.
Rotasperti L.
The barley mutant happy under the sun 1 (hus1): An additional contribution to pale green crops
Iohannes S.D.
Data-driven, participatory characterization of farmer varieties discloses teff breeding potential under current and future climates
Award ceremony
17:00 – 17:45Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
17:45 – 19:30SIGA General Assembly

 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th

09:00 – 10:15Session 5 - Exploring the plant epigenomes
Chairpersons: Comino C., Varotto S.
09:00 – 09:30Invited Lecture
Zilberman D.
Long-term epigenetic inheritance and phenotypic diversity in natural populations
09:30 – 09:45Bevilacqua I., Moffa L., Varotto S., Chitarra W., Nerva L.
Harnessing genome editing to elucidate the role of histone variant H2A.Z in grapevine
09:45 – 10:00Liva M., Magris G., Di Gaspero G., Schwope R., Catacchio C.R., Daponte A., Ventura M., Morgante M.
Analysis of genetic and epigenetic structure and variability of grapevine centromeres through the use of long read sequencing and T2T assemblies
10:00 – 10:15General Discussion
10:15 – 11:30Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
11:30 – 12:30Session 6 – Fruit and forest trees genomics, genetics and breeding
Chairpersons: Giannino D., Montemurro C.
11:30 – 12:00Invited Lecture
Gonzalez Martinez S.
Population vulnerability of a keystone Mediterranean tree under future climate – an ecological genomics approach
12:00 – 12:15Garosi C., Vettori C., Bajc M., Kraigher H., Westergren M., Dovč N., Damjanić R., Sever K., Breznikar A., Gregoric A., Lanšćak M., Ivankovic M., Bogunović S., Paffetti D.
Genome-wide SNP association analysis reveals genomic signature of local adaptation in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)
12:15 – 12:30Alicandri E., Sebastiani B., Paolacci A.R., Sorgonà A., Manti F., Bosignore C.P., Badiani M., Ciaffi M.
Terpenoids and the expression of terpene synthase genes are coherently and selectively modulated in Calabrian pine (Pinus nigra subs. laricio) in response to pine processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) infestation
13:00 – 14:30Lunch Break
14:30 – 17:15Session 6 - (cont.)
14:30 – 15:00Invited Lecture
Decroocq V.
Genetic diversity and use of stone fruit tree wild relatives for a more sustainable fruit production
15:00 – 15:15Cominelli E., Beritognolo I., Cardoni S., Forti C., Cherubini M., Leonardi L., Leone P.A., Sparvoli F., Biffani S., Stella A., Toschi I., Cesari V., Chiozzotto R., Cirilli M., Pozzi C., Mattioni C.
Chestnut cultivation development in Lombardy: leveraging native genetic resources in two pilot areas
15:15 – 15:30Costa F., Busatto N., Sayantan P., Vittani L., Populin F., Khomenko I., Biasioli F., Vrhovsek U., Aharoni A., Zanella A.
System genetics approach disclosed the genetic architecture of the chilling injury disorder superficial scald in apple
15:30 – 15:45Simoni S., Castellacci M., Usai G., Giordani T., Natali L., Cavallini A., Besnard G., Mascagni F.
Genomic dynamics of olive trees in the Mediterranean basin: insights from the repetitive component evolution
15:45 – 16:00Bonghi C., Canton M., Joseph J., Marconi G., Forestan C., Varotto S.
The bud peach dormancy dilemma
16:00 – 16:15da Silva Linge C., Baccichet I., Chiozzotto R., Gasic K., Fu W., Byrne D., Rawandoozi Z., Worthington M., Bassi D., Cirilli M., Hardner C., Rossini L.
Unlocking genetic diversity for peach fruit acidity through global GWAs and genomic prediction-based selection
16:15 – 16:30Michelotti V., Gentile A., Scortichini M., Lucioli S., Caboni E., Tacconi G.
Applyication of a CRISPR/CAS9 vector in A. chinensis var. chinensis to induce Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae resistance/tolerance
16:30 – 16:45Sicilia A., Villano C., Di Serio E., Aversano R., Ferlito F., Nicolosi E., Lo Piero Angela R.
Transcriptome analysis reveals plasticity of gene expression in wine grape cultivars grown at different latitudes in southern Italy
16:45 – 17:00Bolognesi G., Crespan M., Broccanello C., Delfino P., Mora R., Marini M., Gardiman M., Giust M., Tomasi D., Bellin D.
Genome wide association analysis of phenology related traits in Vitis vinifera L.
17:00 – 17:15General Discussion
17:15 – 17:45Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
17:45 – 19:45Parallel Poster Sessions
20:30Social Event (Sala Zonno, Molo S. Nicola 3, Bari)

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th

09:30 – 12:15Session 7 - Updates and upgrades in genome editing
Chairpersons: Lanubile A., Nigro D.
09:30 - 10:00Invited Lecture
Cereseto A.
Expanding the genome editing toolbox by unlocking RNA guided nucleases using massive metagenomic data
10:00 - 10:15Vicentini G., Bertagnon G., Giaume F., Fornara F., Brambilla V.
Controls of stem elongation by the flowering pathway in rice
10:15 - 10:30Vaccino P., Sansoni F., Volante A., Zampieri E., Salvi S., Camerlengo F., Pierbattista S., Valè G., Crosatti C., Toppino L., Bono G.A., Fornara F., Pecchioni N.
A new rice plant ideotype through genome editing: the SUSRICE project
10:30 - 10:45Maioli A., De Marchi F., Valentino D., Gianoglio S., Patono D., Miloro F., Bai Y., Comino C., Lanteri S., Lovisolo C., Acquadro A., Moglia A.
New insights on the role of SlDMR6-1 in drought avoidance in tomato
10:45 - 11:00Nicolia A., D'Agostino N., Tamburino R., Festa G., Sannino L., Aufiero G., Paparo R., Arimura S., Scotti N., Cardi T.
Molecular and phenotypic characterization of potato plants edited in the mitochondrial genome by mitoTALEN and mitoTALECD approaches
11:00 - 11:15Salvagnin U., Giacomelli L., Scintilla S., Rouppe van der Voort J., Zeilmaker T., Moser C.
Reduced susceptibility to downy mildew of DMR6 gene-edited grapevine plants and development of DNA-free edited mutants
11:15 - 11:30Moffa L., Bevilacqua I., Pagliarani C., Gambino G., Perrone I., Velasco R., Lovisolo C., Nerva L., Chitarra W.
Improving grape resilience to drought exploiting the CRISPR/Cas technology: functional characterization of the target gene through Spray Induced Gene Silencing (SIGS)
11:30 – 12:00Invited Lecture
Granell A.
Genome editing for better, healthier tomatoes
12:00 – 12:15General Discussion
12:15 – 12:30Closing Ceremony
Chairpersons: Filippone E., Salvi S.