
Congressi SIGA

- Book of abstract
- Scientific Programme
- Session 1 - Next Generation Sequencing for next generation agriculture and breeding
- Session 2 - Genomic Resources for evolutionary studies and crop breeding
- Session 3 - Genomics and breeding for food security and safety
- Session 4 - Plant nutrition
- Session 5 - Genetics and breeding of plant resistance to pests and pathogens
- Session 6 - Genetics and Biotechnology
- Symposium - New technologies for genetic modifications
- EUCARPIA Keynote Lecture
- Authors Index
- Keywords Index
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Scientific Programme
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th
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13:00 – 14:30 | Registration and poster display | |
14:30 – 14:45 |
Opening ceremony Welcome address by Institutional and Local Authorities |
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14:45 – 15:00 |
Official Opening Veronesi F., President of Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics |
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15:00 – 19:30 |
Session 1 – Next Generation Sequencing for next generation agriculture and breeding Chairpersons: Delledonne M., Valè G. |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Invited Lecture Next generation barley genomics – Impact on future barley breeding |
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15:30 – 15:45 |
Scaglione D., Cattonaro F., Morgante M., Reforgiato G., Valle G., Vitulo N., Licciardello C., Caruso M., Catara A.F. Nucleotide and structural variation in Citrus genomes: resequencing and de novo approaches |
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15:45 – 16:00 |
Troggio M., Bianco L., Cestaro A., Di Guardo M., Micheletti D., Banchi E., Costa F., Gardner K., Sargent D.J., Myles S., Van de Weg E., Velasco R. SNP discovery and high-throughput genotying in heterozygous fruit crops |
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16:00 – 16:15 |
Barabaschi d., Magni f., Volante a., Prazzoli m.l., Bagnaresi p., lacrima k., michelotti v., Desiderio f., orrù l., Cattivelli l., Stanca a.m., Simkova h., Dolezel j., Cattonaro f., Scalabrin s., Morgante M., Francia e., Fricano a., Mastrangelo a.m., Gadaleta a., Blanco a., Tononi p., Delledonne m., Vitulo n., Valè g. An integrated approach for the physical mapping of chromosome 5A in bread wheat |
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16:15 – 16:30 |
Zenoni S., Massonnet M., Tornielli G.B., Altieri M., Dal Santo S., Fasoli M., Delledonne M., Pezzotti M. Berry transcriptome comparison of ten Italian grapevine varieties |
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16:30 – 16:45 |
Acquadro A., Scaglione D., Portis E., Tirone M., Mauro R., Lo Monaco A., Mauromicale G., Froenicke L., Reyes Chin Wo S., Michelmore R., Lanteri S. The globe artichoke genome sequence |
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16:45 – 17:00 |
D'Esposito D., Diretto G., Barone A., Ferriello F., Sacco A., Dal Molin A., Giuliano G.,Venturini L., Ferrarini A., Delledonne M., Frusciante L., Ercolano M.R. Environment drives tomato transcriptional and metabolomic changes affecting organoleptic quality |
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17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee break | |
17:30 – 17:45 |
Facella P., Bianco L., Carbone F., Daddiego L., Lopez L., Perrotta G. NGS and proteomic approaches to identify microbial enzymes potentially involved in decomposition of reeds |
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17:45 – 18:00 |
Contaldi F., Aversano R., Aiese Cigliano R., Bradeen J.M., Buson G., Dal Molin A., Delledonne M., Ercolano M.R., Ferrarini A., Frusciante L., Iorizzo M., Sanseverino W., Venturini L., Zamperin G., Carputo D. The draft genome sequence of Solanum commersonii Dun., a valuable source of resistant genes for potato breeding |
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18:00 – 18:15 |
Bertolini E., Mingrino A., Horner D.S., Inzè D., Pè M.E., Mica E. Molecular networks controlling cell differentiation along the proximo-distal axis during drought stress in Brachypodium distachyon |
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18:15 – 18:30 |
Sanseverino W., Henaff E., Pinosio S., Vives Cobo C., Ramos Onsins S., Morgante M., Casacuberta J., Garcia-Mas J. Genetic variability in melon resequenced varieties |
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18:30 – 18:45 |
Di Giacomo E., Testone g., Arnesi g., Schiappa a., Biancari T., Desplanches C., Roobeek I., de Boer G.J., Giannino d., Mele g., Frugis g. Tale transcription factors and flowering time: from model species to leafy crops |
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18:45 – 19:00 |
Michelotti V., Lamontanara A., Buriani G., Cellini A., Donati I., Vanneste J., Cattivelli L., Orrù L., Spinelli F., Tacconi G. RNAseq analysis of the molecular interaction between Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (PSA) and the kiwifruit |
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19:00 – 19:30 | General discussion | |
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th
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08:30 – 12:30 |
Session 2 – Genomic resources for evolutionary studies and crop breeding Chairpersons: Attene G., Porceddu A. |
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08:30 – 09:00 |
Invited Lecture Giovannoni J. Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening: genes to genome to epigenome |
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09:00 – 09:15 |
Scintu A., Rodriguez M., Rau D., Giovannoni J.J., Attene G. Characterization of a wide collection of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) for morpho-phenological, quality and resistance traits |
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09:15 – 09:30 |
Dell’Acqua M., Gatti D.M., Pea G., Cattonaro F., Coppens F., Magris G., Hlaing A.Y., Aung H.H., Baute J., Frascaroli E., Churchill G.A., Inzé D., Morgante M., Pè M.E. The advanced recombinant maize population: a new tool for gene-level QTL dissection in maize |
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09:30 – 09:45 |
Laidò G., Papa R., Marone D., Russo M.A., Mastrangelo A.M., Blanco A., Gadaleta A., De Vita P. Population structure, linkage disequilibrium and genome wide association mapping in a tetraploid wheat collection |
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09:45 – 10:00 |
Maccaferri M., Ricci A., Salvi S., Ammar K., Akhunov E., Blanco A., Cattivelli L., Distelfeld A., Dubcovsky J., Dvorak J., Fahima T., Korol A.B., Massi A., Morgante M., Papa R., Pozniak C., Xu S.S., Faris J., Tuberosa R. A gene-based, high-density SNP consensus map specific for tetraploid wheat |
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10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break | |
10:30 – 11:45 |
Poster presentation and discussion (Session 1 and Session 3) |
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11:45 – 12:00 |
Milia G., Camiolo S., Melito S., Porceddu A. The dynamic of intron gain/loss during Brassicaceae evolution |
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12:00 – 12:15 |
Bellucci E., Bitocchi E., Ferrarini A., Benazzo A., Biagetti E., Rau D., Rodriguez M., Attene G., Jackson S.A., Nanni L., Fernie A.R., Nikoloski Z., Bertorelle G., Delledonne M., Papa R. Decreased nucleotide and expression diversity and modified co-expression patterns characterize domestication in the common bean |
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12:15 – 12:30 | General discussion | |
12:30 – 13:00 |
EUCARPIA Keynote Lecture Boller B. Breeding of forages: more art than science? |
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13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch break | |
15:00 – 17:00 |
Session 3 – Genomics and breeding for food security and safety Chairpersons: Barcaccia G., Masci S. |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Invited Lecture Langridge P. Role of genomics in boosting crop yields |
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15:30 – 15:45 |
Sciacca F., Allegra M., Brambilla M., Leonardi A., Licciardello S., Pesce A., Puleo A., Roccuzzo G., Romano E., Torrisi B., Virzì N., Palumbo M. Bran and semolina of Sicilian durum wheat landraces: study of micronutrient concentration |
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15:45 – 16:00 |
Frusciante S., Diretto G., Bruno M., Ferrante P., Pietrella M., Prado-Cabrero A., Rubio-Moraga A., Beyer P., Gomez-Gomez L., Al-Babili S., Giuliano G. A novel carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase catalyzes the first dedicated step in saffron crocin biosynthesis |
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16:00 – 16:15 |
Mengistu K.D., Kidane Y., Catellani M., Dell’Acqua M., Mancini C., Fadda C., Pè M.E. Characterization of a novel collection of Ethiopian wheat: association mapping through diversity |
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16:15 – 16:30 |
Testone G., Mele G., Nicolodi C., Gonnella M., Serio F., Renna M., Santamaria P., Sobolev A., Capitani D., Mannina L., Di Giacomo E., Frugis G., Iannelli A., Giannino D. Valorisation and traceability of made in Italy products: transcriptome assembly and marker development of 'puntarelle' - chicory stems |
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16:30 – 16:45 | Assosementi Presentation | |
16:45 – 17:00 | General discussion | |
17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee break | |
17:30 – 18:30 |
Poster presentation and discussion (Session 2) |
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18:30 – 20:00 | SIGA General Assembly | |
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th |
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08:30 – 10:15 |
Session 4 – Plant nutrition (in collaboration with SICA) Chairpersons: Morgante M., Pinton R. |
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08:30 – 09:00 |
Invited Lecture Hawkesford M. Genetic diversity of nutrient use efficiency in wheat |
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09:00 – 09:15 |
Zamboni A., Astolfi S., Zuchi S., Pii Y., Guardini K., Tononi P., Varanini Z. Nitrate induction triggers different transcriptional changes in a high and a low nitrogen use efficiency inbred line |
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09:15 – 09:30 |
Nigro D., Fortunato S., De Pinto M.C., paradiso a., Giove S.L., Anderson O.D., Blanco a., Gadaleta A. Glutamine synthetase and glutamate synthase gene expression and enzyme activity in durum wheat genotypes under three nitrogen regimes |
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09:30 – 09:45 |
Ruiu F., Chiaiese P., Ruotolo G., De Biasi M.G., Palomba F., Di Salvatore M., Salluzzo A., Rimauro J., Filippone E. |
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09:45 – 10:00 |
Albertini E., Pezzolla D., Turchetti B., Marconi G., Benucci G.M.N., Onofri A., Agnelli A., Zadra C., Gigliotti G., Veronesi F., Buzzini P. Influence of exogenous organic matter on prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiota in an agricultural soil |
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10:00 – 10:15 | General discussion | |
10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee break | |
10:45 – 12:00 |
Poster presentation and discussion (Session 4, Session 5 and Session 6) |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
SIGA Awards Chairpersons: Veronesi F., Filippone E. |
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"M. Devreux" Award for Plant Breeding Kuzmanovic L. Structural-functional dissection and characterization of yield-contributing traits originating from a group 7 chromosome of the wheatgrass species Thinopyrum ponticum after transfer into durum wheat |
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"D. Mariotti" Award for Agricultural Genetics Dal Santo S. The plasticity of the grapevine berry transcriptome |
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13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch break | |
15:00 – 17:30 |
Session 5 – Genetics and breeding of plant resistance to pests and pathogens (in collaboration with SIPaV) Chairpersons: Gallitelli D., Mastrangelo A.M. |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
SIGA Invited Lecture Parker J. Reprogramming of cells for defence in plant immunity |
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15:30 – 15:45 |
urso s., biselli c., desiderio f., bagnaresi p., crispino l., Piffanelli P., abbruscato p., assenza F., guarnieri g., cattivelli l., valè g. Integration of genetic mapping and RNA-seq analysis allowed dissection of a durable blast resistance in rice |
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15:45 – 16:00 |
Villano C., Aversano r., carputo d., dry i. What’s on in a grapevine epidermal cell after powdery mildew infection? |
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16:00 – 16:15 |
Finetti-Sialer M.M., Catalano D., De Paola D., Tecce T., Cillo F. Two Potato virus Y isolates have different effects on expression of RNA silencing genes and small RNA profiles in Solanum lycopersicum |
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16:15 – 16:30 |
Giancaspro A., Giove S.L., Zito D., Lionetti V., Zacheo S.A., Ravaglia S., Blanco A., Bellincampi D., Gadaleta A. Identification of QTL and candidate genes for Fusarium head blight resistence in durum wheat |
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16:30 – 16:45 |
Bagnaresi P., Bertazzon N., Cattivelli L., Crespan M., Filippin L., Forte V., Mazzucotelli E., Angelini E. Comparison between Vitis vinifera varieties susceptible and tolerant to flavescence dorèe by means of RNA-sequencing analysis |
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16:45 – 17:15 |
SIPaV Invited Lecture Gallitelli D. The newly discovered replication of plant viruses in filamentous fungi: implications in the genetics of plant-fungi interactions |
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17:15 – 17:30 | General discussion | |
17:30 – 18:00 | Coffee break | |
20:00 | Social event and Poster SIGA Awards | |
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th |
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09:00 – 12:00 |
Symposium "New technologies for genetic modifications" Chairpersons: Morgante M., Veronesi F. |
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Invited Lectures | ||
09:00 – 09:45 |
Puchta H. Double strand break induced genome engineering in plants |
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09:45 – 10:30 |
D'Halluin K. Directed genome engineering: technologies and applications |
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10:30 – 11:15 |
Cigan M. Double strand break technologies to advance trait development and yield potential in crop plants |
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11:15 – 12:00 |
Morgante M. Utilizing naturally occurring genetic modifications: Breeding with rare defective alleles |
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Closing ceremony Veronesi F., President of Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics |