Recording Session S2 & Session S1
* Board members
Keynote lecturer & Oral presentations
- A chromosome-level genome resource for studying virulence mechanisms and evolution of the coffee rust pathogen Hemileia vastatrix
Tobias Peri (The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia) - Climate change and its impact on economically important coffee diseases in India
Sudha Muniswami (Central Coffee Research Institute, Plant Pathology Division, Coffee Board of India, Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka, India) - Can commercial bioinoculants available on the market in Vietnam protect coffee seedlings from Meloidogyne incognita infestation under controlled conditions?
Nguyen Van Long (School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Session 2: Plant Pathology & Protection
Chairs: Alvaro Gaitàn & Tobias Peri
- Integrative transcriptomic and metabolomic approaches to unravel the resistance profile of Kawisari coffee against Hemileia vastatrix
Silva Maria do Céu (CIFC - Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro, Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Oeiras, Portugal) - Diversity and Antagonistic Potential of Mycoparasites on Coffee Leaf Rust Hemileia vastatrix in Ethiopia
Bekele Kifle Belachew (Plant Protection Department of Coffee Pathology Section, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Jimma Agricultural Research Center, Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia)
- First report of a genome sequence resource of Colletotrichum kahawae, the causal agent of coffee berry disease
Azinheira Helena (Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon, Portugal) - Potential association of HCF164, a chloroplast nuclear-encoded thioredoxin-like protein, with Coffea SH9 resistance factor against Hemileia vastatrix
Guerra-Guimarães Leonor (CIFC - Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal)
Keynote lecturer & Oral presentations
Session 1: Coffee plant science
Chairs: Benoit Bertrand* & Lemi Waya
- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) Associations of Robusta Coffee (Coffea canephora) across a Management Intensity Gradient in the DR Congo using Illumina Sequencing
Broeckhoven Ieben (Dep. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium) - Selection for high yield, cup-quality and bean composition in coffee using Multi-trait Genotype-Ideotype Distance Index
Aberkane Hafid (Nestle Institute for agricultural sciences, Plant science unit, Notre-Dame-d’Oé, France ) - Transcriptional control of the endosperm maturation program and galactomannan cell wall deposition in Coffea species
Joët Thierry (DIADE, IRD, Montpellier, France) - Genetic diversity and structure of Coffea arabica and Coffea racemosa in Mozambique
Tapaça Inocência da Piedade Ernesto (Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon, Portugal, Lisbon)
- Leaf sugar metabolomic profiling reveals differences between Coffea arabica cultivars in two locations of Cerrado Mineiro (Brazil)
Campos Carréra Jéfyne (Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil) - Genome-wide association study identified SNPs and genes related to Meloidogyne paranaensis resistance in Coffea arabica
Pereira Luiz Filipe (Plant Biotechnology Lab, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Rural do Paraná, Londrina, PR, Brazil) - The Innovea Global Coffee Breeding Network
Humphrey Tania (World Coffee Research, Portland, Oregon, USA) - Genetic diversity of Coffea arabica: significant update for its conservation and optimal use for breeding
Montagnon Christophe (RD2 Vision, Valflaunes, France)
- Heterosis in F1 Arabica hybrids and its use under different agronomic conditions
Bertrand Benoît (DIADE/COFFEEADAPT/BIOS, CIRAD, Matagalpa, Nicaragua) - Heterosis Breeding: A prospective strategy for Arabica coffee improvement in India
Das Divya Kallingapuram (Plant Breeding and Genetics, Central Coffee Research Institute, Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka, India)