1. Ingeniería

The Monselise and Bar-Akiva International Workshop
on “Alternate Bearing and Control of Flowering in Fruit
Trees”
On Wednesday-Thursday, January 28-29, 2015
At the Ziman and Etrog Auditoriums
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The R.H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and
Environment, Rehovot, Israel
Invitation
Wednesday, January 28 - Ziman Auditorium
Opening session:
08:30
Alon Samach, HUJI, Rehovot, Opening
08:35
Prof. Shmuel (Shmulik) Wolf, Dean, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of
Agriculture, Food and Environment, HUJI, Rehovot, Welcome
08:40
Prof. Yoram Kapulnik, Director, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO),
Volcani Center, Greetings
08:45
Raffi Goren, HUJI, Rehovot, Notes in memory of Monselise and Bar-Akiva
08:55
Fumie Nishikawa, NIFTS, Kuchinotsu, Japan, Memorial lecture: Regulation of
floral induction in citrus
Session 1: Historic perspectives of the control of flowering and alternate bearing
Chair:
Raffi Goren
09:45
Eliezer Goldschmidt, HUJI, Rehovot: The roots of irregular bearing: a
perspective
10:05
Yair Erner, ARO, Bet Dagan: Evaluation of the major component affecting
alternate bearing in citrus
10:25
Shimon Lavee, ARO/ HUJI, Bet Dagan/ Rehovot: Alternate bearing in olive Abiotic induction of biotic response
10:45- 11:15 Coffee Break
Session 2: Citrus
Chair:
Turgay Unver
11:15
Avi Sadka, ARO, Bet Dagan: Regulatory pathways associated with the effect
of fruit load on flowering in Citrus
11:50
Liron Shalom, ARO/ HUJI, Bet Dagan/ Rehovot: The expression of SPL
transcription factor and microRNAs precursors are affected by fruit load in
Citrus
12:15
Jakkie Stander, Univ. Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa: Suggestion of
flower induction inhibition as an important factor pertaining to alternate
bearing in Mandarin (Citrus reticulata)
12:40- 15:10 Lunch Break
Session 3: Olives
Chair:
Evelyne Costes
15:10
Turgay Unver, Cankiri Karatekin Univ. Turkey: Genes and regulatory
pathways involved in alternate bearing of olive
16:00
Bouchaib Khadari, INRA, Montpellier, France: TBA
16:50- 17:10 Coffee Break
17:10
17:35
Alon Samach, HUJI, Rehovot: A candidate mediator of alternate bearing in
olives
Arnon Dag, ARO, Gilat: Biennial bearing in olive – physiological background
and control
Thursday, January 29 - Ziman and Etrog Auditoriums
Session 4: Avocado, Etrog Auditorium
Chair:
Fumie Nishikawa
09:00
Vered Irihimovitch, ARO, Bet Dagan: To flower or not to flower? Exploring
the effects of fruit load on floral induction in alternate bearing 'Hass'
avocado trees
09:30
Grant Thorp, PFR, Brisbane, Australia: Avocado alternate bearing research
in New Zealand – an update
09:55
Rodrigo Iturrieta Espinoza, UC Riverside, Riverside CA, USA: TBA
10:20- 10:50 Coffee Break
Session 5: Mango and Arabidopsis, Etrog Auditorium
Chair:
Smadar Harpaz-Saad
10:50
Ricardo Magallanes Cedeño, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Mexico: A
regional approach to analyze alternate bearing of mango in Chiapas,
México.
11:15
Harley Smith, CSIRO, Adelaide, Australia: Insights into the inhibition of shoot
growth and meristem activity by fruit load using Arabidopsis as a model
system.
Session 6: Apple, Etrog Auditorium
Chair:
Bouchaib Khadari
11:40
Evelyne Costes, INRA, Montpellier, France: Genes differentially expressed in
SAM of "on" and "off" apple trees
12:30- 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 6: Apple, continuing in Ziman Auditorium
Chair:
Bouchaib Khadari
14:00
Raffie Stern, NR&D, Kiryat Shmona: Thinning ‘Golden Delicious’ apple with
the photosynthetic inhibitor metamitron – a different approach
14:25
Moshe Flaishman, ARO, Bet Dagan: The role of FT and TFL1 genes in the
transition from juvenile to the adult phase in pear (Pyrus communis L.)
14:50
Amnon Haberman, HUJI, Rehovot: Studying the effect of fruit load on flower
induction in apple
15:15- 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45- 18:00 Open Discussions, Chair: Avi Sadka
This workshop was funded by:

 The Monselise and Bar-Akiva Memorial Foundation
The Research Center for Plant Science in Agriculture, R.H. Smith Faculty of
Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 The Hofshi Foundation (avocadosource.com)
 The Agricultural Research Organization
Establishment of the Monselise and Bar-Akiva Memorial Foundation
was made possible by donations from:

The Citrus Marketing Board (currently, the Citrus Division, The Plants Production
and Marketing Board) with the Citrus Products Board
 Pri-Or, Ltd (currently, Mehadrin, Ltd)
 The International Society of Citriculture
 Haifa Chemicals, Ltd
Contact details of Meeting Academic Committee:
Vered Irihimovitch ([email protected]), Smadar Harpaz-Saad
([email protected]), Avi Sadka
([email protected]) and Alon Samach
([email protected])
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