ASIC 2021

Session 1: Plant science

Virtual Room 1

Chairs: Thierry Leroy & Christophe Montagnon

•    S1-PO-11 - Coffee Genetic Resources in Yemen, Diversity and Importance for Arabica Coffee Improvement
  Amin Al-Hakimi (Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sana'a Universit, Sana'a, Yemen)
•    S1-PO-12 - From the herbarium back to the forest: a successful collection of wild Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) in Guinea
  Jean-Pierre Labouisse (UMR AGAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France)
•    S1-PO-13 - A contribution to the future of Robusta coffee by investing in the INERA coffee collection in Yangambi (the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  Piet Stoffelen (Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium)
•    S1-PO-14 - Coffea spp. Membrane Responses to Superimposed Elevated [CO₂] and Drought in View of Higher Acclimation Ability
  Paula Scotti-Campos (UIBRG - Plant Physiology Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P., Oeiras, Portugal)
•    S1-PO-15 - Targeted and untargeted metabolomics for the valorisation of Coffea anthonyi
  Andrea Montis (RD3 Unit of Pharmacognosy, Bioanalysis and Drug Discovery, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, Brussels, Belgium)

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•    S1-PO-16 - Safeguarding the diversity of species of the genus Coffea in Réunion Island
  Thierry Joët (DIADE, IRD, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
•    S1-PO-17 - Functional characterization of caffeine synthase genes from wild coffee, and discussion of those molecular evolutions
  Kouichi Mizuno (Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan)
•    S1-PO-18 - Studies of the Baracoffea: Malagasy coffee trees growing on the West Coast of Madagascar
  Sylvie Sabatier (UMR AMAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France)
•    S1-PO-19 - Chromosome-level assembly of allotetraploid Coffea arabica reveals the complex history of a recent allopolyploid
  Jarkko Salojärvi (School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore)
•    S1-PO-20 - The transcriptomic basis for understanding the mitigation of heat impact by elevated [CO₂] in the photosynthetic response of Coffea arabica and C. canephora
  Isabel Marques (Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon, Portugal)

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Session 1: Plant science

Virtual Room 1

Chair: Benoît Bertrand

•  S1-KN - Genomics of Coffee Quality
  Prof. Robert Henry (Director of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) - University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia)

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Session 8: Coffee chemistry & sensory sciences

Chair: Valérie Leloup

•  S8-KN - The molecular code of coffee aroma and taste
  Prof. Imre Blank (Coffee Excellence Center - ZHAW, Zürich, Switzerland)

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Session 1: Plant science

Session 2: Plant pathology & protection

Virtual Room 1

Chairs: Thierry Joët & Diana Fernandez

•  S1-O-03 - A single polyploidization event at the origin of the tetraploid genome of Coffea arabica is responsible for extremely low genetic variation in wild & cultivated germplasm
  Michele Morgante (Istituto di Genomica Applicata, Udine, Italy)
•  S2-O-05 - The quest for sustainable management of coffee leaf rust with endophyte bodyguards from coffee and mycoparasites of Hemileia vastatrix
  Robert Barreto (Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil)
•  S1-O-04 - Comparative analyses between Coffea canephora and C. humblotiana, a caffeine-free species, provide insight to determine the origin of the absence of caffeine synthesis
  Romain Guyot (IRD, Montpellier, France / Universidad autonoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia)

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•  S2-O-06 - Is the incidence of fungal diseases on Arabica coffee in it’s native range related to genetic variation in coffee?
  Beyene Zewdie Hailu (Deparment of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
•  S2-O-07 - The mycobiome of wild Rubiaceae to improve the health of coffee plants
  Priscila Chaverri (CIPRONA, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, San Jose, Costa Rica)

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