COST ACTION FA 1104 ‘Sustainable production of of high-quality cherries for the
European market’ https://www.bordeaux.inra.fr/cherry/index.html
Progress and prospects
Chair: José Quero Garcia
2nd International Workshop on Bacterial diseases of Stone Fruits and Nuts, 21-24 April 2015, Izmir, Turkey
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Scientific context and objectives Background: Cherries are highly appreciated fruits. Europe is
the main world producer. However, cherry producers face difficulties due to high labor costs and recent evolutions of the European agronomic sector
Objectives: Develop innovative strategies to safeguard European cherry production through active networking by:
The adaptation of cherry cultivation to climate change
The implementation of new cultivation practices aimed at promoting sustainable agriculture
The promotion of high-quality fruits
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Scientific context and objectives
Research directions:
Coordinated, holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to face global challenges in cherry production
Integration of all stakeholders involved in cherry production, commercialization and consumption
Integration of multiple data (genetic, genomic, agronomic, socio-economic…) in prediction models concerning the adaptation of cherry cultivation to the new European context
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Working groups
WG 1 Genetic resources and breeding, Genetics and
Genomics
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Socio
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dissem
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Crop Protection WG 2 Crop
Production
Adaptation to climate change
Sustainable production
High-quality fruits
Classical breeding
MAS and genomics
Varieties evalution
Agronomy and physiology
Post-harvest technology
Phytopathology
Entomology
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
FYRM
Turaky
United Kingdom
Non-COST countries that joined in: Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Russia, Azerbaidjan, Belarus, Morocco Non-COST countries about to join in: Albania, Ukraine
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Results vs. Objectives Success in sharing data and experimental protocols as a first step of
collaboration:
List of local sweet cherry landraces for a European diversity analysis (WG1)
Exchange of data on pollination and germination methods (WG1)
Exchange of data concerning MAS strategies used in breeding programmes
(WG1)
Protocols for the characterisation of double fruits (WG2)
Technical paper in preparation on the characterization of sweet cherry quality
(WG2)
Exchange of a set of PCR and real-time PCR primer pairs for the detection of
20 viruses infecting sweet and sour cherry within 8 COST countries (WG3)
Socio-economic questionnaire for calculation of gross margin budgets (WG4)
Exchange of a questionnaire in order to find the ‘perfect cherry’ for each
country (WG4)
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Significant Highlights in Science or Networking
Phenological data sent by colleagues from all over Europe
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Significant Highlights in Science or Networking
Construction of a linkage map using the cherry 6k SNP
array and identification of a novel locus controlling flesh
colour. STSMs: Emma Skipper (England to Italy) and
Gregorio Lopez-Ortega (Spain to England)
Colney x C210-7 (Lapins x Sweet September) : 337
seedlings.
138 individuals genotyped
Evaluated in 2013 for fruit quality traits.
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Significant Highlights in Science or Networking (1/2)
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Implementation of multi-site GxE trials with mapping populations:
France, Slovenia, Spain, UK, Italy
Bordeaux,
France
Murcia, Spain
Maribor,
Slovenia
Bordeaux,
France
Significant Highlights in Science or Networking
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Significant Highlights in Science or Networking
New project for the sequencing of the sweet cherry genome
out of a double-haploid callus derived from the ‘Regina’ variety
Tissue-culture conducted in February-March by Goran Barac
(Serbia)
Check-up of ploidy level on-going
Consortium: Italy (Dan Sergeant), England (Felicidad
Fernandez), USA (Amy Iezzoni), France (Elisabeth
Dirlewanger)
Meetings-Training Schools
First reporting period (1st July 2012-30th June 2013)
Belgium, Brussels, 16-18_04_2012: 1st MC Meeting (Kick-off meeting)
Italy, Trento, 01_10_2012: WG1 Meeting: ‘Application of genomic approaches to breeding cherries’ (RGC6)
Italy, Palermo, 20-23_11_2012: 2nd MC and all WG meeting
Switzerland, Zurich, 26-27_03_2013: WG3 Meeting: ‘Advances and prospects on monitoring and modelling of Drosophila suzukii in Europe’
Greece, Chania, 29-30_04_2013: EC Meeting
Spain, Plasencia, 26_06_2013: All WG Meeting (VII Cherry Symposium)
Meetings-Training Schools
Second reporting period (1st July 2013-30th June 2014)
Czech Republic, Olomouc, 02_09_2013: WG3 Meeting: ‘Detection of virus and virus-like pathogens in cherry and sour cherry’
Romania, Pitesti, 15-17_10_2013: 3rd MC and all WG meeting
Poland, Skierniewice, 28_10_2013: WG1 Meeting: ‘Methodology of cherry gene resources management in ex situ collections, accounting problems of viruses’
Hungary, Budapest, 3-5_03_2014: WG1 Meeting: ‘Use of molecular markers for diversity studies’
Meetings-Training Schools
Second reporting period (1st July 2013-30th June 2014)
Poland, Warsaw, 2-3_04_2014: WG3 Meeting: ‘On-farm behaviour of Rhagoletis cerasi and Drosophila suzukii and its modelling for enhancement of IPM’
Norway, Ullensvang, 28-29_04_2014: WG2 Meeting: ‘Phenology and modelling’
Portugal, Evora, 13-16_05_2014: WG2 Training School: ‘Sensory evaluation’
Bulgaria, Plovdiv, 26-27_05_2014: WG1-WG3 Meeting: ‘Phenotyping protocols for tolerance to cherry pests and diseases and other important agronomic traits’
Cyprus, Larnaca, 13_06_2014: WG2 Meeting: ‘Post-harvest physiological and technological aspects of cherry fruit’ (V Post-harvest Unlimited Conference)
Meetings-Training Schools Third reporting period (1st July 2014-30 June 2015)
Greece, Volos, 1-5_09_2014: WG3 Training Shool: ‘Managing cherry pests in space and time’
Serbia, Novi Sad, 15-17_09_2014: WG1 Meeting: ‘Sour cherry breeding’
France, Bordeaux, 13-15_10_2014: 4th MC and all WG meeting
Germany, Ravensburg, 9-10_12_2014: Technology-transfer Meeting
Meetings-Training Schools
Third reporting period (1st July 2014-30 June 2015)
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trebinje, February 2015: WG2 Meeting: ‘Rootstocks and training systems’
Italy, Firenze, March 2015: WG1 Meeting: ‘Long-term preservation of woody species by cryo techniques’
Turkey, Izmir, May 2015: WG3 Meeting: Small meeting jointly with the 2nd ISHS conference on bacterial diseases of stone fruits and nuts
Cyprus, Volos, 07-10_06_2015: WG2 Training School: ‘Qualitative, physicochemical and biochemical indicators of cherry fruit quality’
Meetings-Training Schools
Fourth reporting period (1st July 2015-16 April 2016)
Germany, Dresden, July 2016: WG1 Meeting: ‘Sour cherry breeding’
Switzerland, Zurich, September 2016: WG3 Training School: ‘Molecular diagnostics of bacterial diseases’
Croatia, Zagreb, February 2016: WG4 Meeting: ‘Cherry socio-economics’
France, Balandran, February-March 2016, WG2 Training School: ‘Training systems and pruning’
Greece, Naoussa, April 2016, Final Action Conference
THANKS TO ALL MEETING ORGANISERS!!!!!!!!!
Dan Sergeant, Francesco Marra, Joerg Samietz, Manuel Serradilla, Joseph Spak, Sergiu Budan, Elzbieta Rozpara, Ildiko Balla, Slawomir Lux, Mekjell Meland, Ana Cristina Santos, Petja Gercheva, Nikos Papadopoulos, Vladislav
Ognjanov and many others!!!
PALERMO
TRENTO
ZURICH
CHANIA
OLOMOUC
Joerg Samietz
PLASENCIA
SKIERNIEWICE
PITESTI PITESTI
BUDAPEST
ULLENSVANG EVORA
WARSAW
PLOVDIV
CYPRUS
Petya Gercheva
NOVI SAD
VOLOS
BORDEAUX
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
FYRM
Turaky
United Kingdom
Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM)
Origin Nb Destination Nb
Austria 1 Austria 1
Bulgaria 4 Azerbaijan 1
Croatia 1 Bulgaria 1
Cyprus 3 Cyprus 2
Germany 1 Germany 1
Greece 1 Greece 1
Hungary 3 France 4
Poland 1 Hungary 2
Spain 2 Italy 1
United Kingdom 2 Poland 1
Switzerland 1
United Kingdom 3
TOTAL 19 19
14 involved countries
5 countries particularly active, with 4 or more STSM
(either as ‘sender’ or ‘receiver’)
THE CHERRY BOOK
Deadline: 2016
Editors: Amy Iezzoni, Joanna Pulawska, Greg Land and José Quero Garcia
Chapter outline set up
Invitation letters sent to lead authors who must detail their chapter contents and contact co-authors/contributors
THE CHERRY BOOK
I. Genetic Resources and Improvement
1 – Introduction and Importance of Cherries Worlwide
2 – Flowering, Fruit Set and Development
3 – Biodiversity, Germplasm Resources and Breeding Methods
4 – Sweet cherry varieties and Improvement
5 – Sour cherry varieties and Improvement
6 – Rootstocks and Improvement
THE CHERRY BOOK
II. Ecophysiology and Production
7 – Climatic Limiting Factors: Precipitation
8 – Climatic Limiting Factors: Temperature
9 – Environmental Limiting Factors
10 – Site Preparation and Orchard Infrastructure
11 – Orchard Climatic Modification
12 – Canopy Morphology, Training, and Cropping Physiology
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III. Protection
13 – Invertebrate and Vertebrate Pests: Biology and Management
14 – Fungal Diseases: Biology and Management
15 – Bacterial Diseases: Biology and Management
16 – Viruses, Viroids, Phytoplasmas and Genetic Disorders
IV. Utilization
12 – Fruit Chemistry, Nutritional Benefits, and Socio-Economics
13 – Fruit Harvest Methods and Technologies
14 – Post-harvest Biology and Handling for Fresh Markets
15 – Processing for Industrial Uses
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!!!
