Septiembre 29 - Octubre 3 2023

XIII INTERNATIONAL MANGO SYMPOSIUM

MALAGA, SPAIN

XIII INTERNATIONAL MANGO SYMPOSIUM

2023

Friday, September 29th

17:00  Registration (the technical secretariat will remain open throughout the congress)

18:00 - 19:00  Opening 

19:00  Welcome cocktail (held at the NH Malaga 4* Hotel, venue of the congress)

 

Saturday, September 30th

09:00 - 09:30  Welcome session - Iñaki Hormaza. Mango production under subtropical and Mediterranean climates.

09:30 - 11:00  Session 1A - Markets and production

09:30 - 10:00  Víctor Galán Sauco. World Mango Production and Trade

10-00 - 10:15  Alec Zuo. Wholesale mango price dynamics in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic

10:15 - 10:30  Malaiporn Wongkaew. Assessment of techno-economic and characteristics of pectin from peels of Thai mango varieties

10:30 - 10:45  Sarana Sommano.    Bio-circular recovery of highly active functional ingredients fromby-products of Thai mango industry

11:00 - 11:30  Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30  Session 1B - Markets and production

11:30 - 12:00  Leonardo Ortega. The U.S. Mango Market Trends and the National Mango Board

12:00 - 12:15  Dario Scuderi. The climate of mango producing areas: a case study on three islands

12:15 - 12:30  Yuval Cohen. Development of out-of-season mango production under the extreme desert conditions of the Israeli Dead Sea and Arava regions

12:30 - 12:45  Sergio R. Marquez-Berber. Mango cultivars evolution in Mexico

13:30 - 15:00  Lunch

15:00 - 16:30  Session 2A - Crop management

15:00 - 15:30  Ian Bally. Rethinking Mango Production Systems, Towards Intensive High Density Orchards

15-30 - 15:45  Muhammad Asad Ullah. Crop load affects mango fruit mineral status and susceptibility to internal disorders

15:45 - 16:00  Norman Munyengwa. Increased accuracy of genomic predictions for tree vigour in mango (Mangifera indica L.) by utilizing preselected variants from a genome-wide association study using sequence data

16:00 - 16:15  Ian Bally. Facilitating industry adoption of intensive mango practices and the use of agri-technologies in Australia

16:30 - 17:00  Coffee break.

17:00 - 18:30  Session 2B - Crop management

17:00 - 17:30  Frédéric Normand. Vegetative growth and development of the mango tree canopy: understanding and practical applications

17:30 - 17:45  Julien Sarron. Assessing mango phenological asynchronisms at the tree scale using time-lapse imagery

17:45 - 18:00  Isabelle Grechi. V-Mango, a functional–structural plant model of mango tree growth, development and fruit production: from model design to applications

18:00 - 18:15  Frédéric Normand. MangoViz, an open-source interactive web interface to view and explore data of long-term agronomic experiments on mango

19:30 -  Guided visit to the city of Malaga (starting on walking distance from the NH Malaga 4* hotel)

 

Sunday, October 1st

09:00 - 11:00  Session 3 - Breeding

09:00 - 09:30  Yuval Cohen. Mango breeding for quality traits

09:30 - 09:45  Ian Bally. The Australian Mango Breeding program

09:45 - 10:00  Navot Galpaz. Mango rootstock breeding project in Israel

10:00 - 10:15  Noris Ledesma. Mango production in Saudi Arabia

10:15 - 10:30  Bal Krishna. How to Increase Efficiency of Mango Hybridisation and Breeding -an Experience

10:30 - 10:45  Yair Aron. Crossbreeding the diverse Mangifera genetic pool to create the mangoes of the future

11:00 - 11:30  Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30  Session 4 - Germplasm and diversity

11:30 - 12:00  Noris Ledesma. Grafting and breeding Mangifera species and their Potential for the future of mango cultivation

12:00 - 12:15  Jean Mathias Koffi. The Lataha mango tree collection: 128 cultivars grown since 1985 in Côte d'Ivoire

12:15 - 12:30  Xinhua He. Genetic diversity analysis of mango using molecular markers

12:30 - 12:45  Margarita Martich Sosa. Potencial de los Recursos Genéticos de Mangos Locales en la República Dominicana

12:45 - 13:00  Emily Warschefsky. Updates on the mango's wild relatives: Taxonomy, phylogeny, hybridization, and field explorations

13:00 - 13:15  Cándida Batista. Characteristics and compatibility of rootstocks and grafts on native mango cultivars, Frutales Experimental Station, Peravia, DominicanRepublic

13:30 - 15:00  Lunch

15:00 - 16:30  Session 5 - Genomics

15:00 - 15:15  Noe Fernandez-Pozo. MangoBase: bioinformatics tools for mango research

15:15 - 15:30  Tatsuyoshi Takagi. Identifying key genes controlling flesh colour in mangoes using genome-wide association studies (GWAS)

15:30 - 15:45  Vidhu A. Sane. Downregulation of a ripening specific Phosphomevalonate kinase reroutes terpenes flux in mango fruit

15:45 - 16:00  Natalie Dillon. Genetics of Mango Sensory Preferences

16:00 - 16:15  Amir Sherman. Identification of the gene that causes polyembryony in mango

16:30 - 17:00  Coffee break

17:00 - 17:30  Session 6 - Biotic stress.

17: 00 - 17:30  Stanley Freeman. Mango malformation: epidemiology, host-pathogen interaction and management of disease

17:30 - 18:30  Posters

 

Monday, October 2nd

09:00 - 11:00  Session 7 - Flowering and fruit set and abscission

09:00 - 09:30  Maria Hilda Perez Barraza. Recent advancements in flower induction, fruit set and development in mangoes.

09:30 - 09:45  Miguel Barcelo-Anguiano. Anatomical differences in floral organs between diploids and autotetraploids of Kensigton Pride mango

09:45 - 10:00  Yuanwen Teng. Effects of flower thinning treatments on fruit set and fruit quality of ‘Tainong No.1’ mango

10:00 - 10:15  Bal Krishna. Genes associated with regulation of flowering in mango

10:15 - 10:30  Vered Irihimovitch. Molecular Events Involved in Fruitlet Abscission in Mango

11:00 - 11:30  Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30  Session 8A - Harvest, postharvest and stress

11:30 - 12:00  Ítalo Herbert Lucena Cavalcante. Role of bioestimulants in fertilization of mangoes

12:00 - 12:15  Cameron Mc Cochie. Development of postharvest treatments for export of Keo Romeat mangoes

12:15 - 12:30  Yuval Cohen. Morphological and molecular characterization of fibrousness in mangoes

12:30 - 12:45  Lyda Chin. Interaction of mango cultivar, ripening stage and processing techniques on sugar and organic acids

12:45 - 13:00 Jean-Christophe Meile. Mango Microbiota: From the Orchard to the Plate

13:00 - 13:15 Jorge Alberto Osuna-García. La madurez a cosecha y el acondicionamiento con etileno facilitan el proceso de mango para cachetes congelados

13:30 - 15:00  Lunch

15:00 - 16:30  Session 8B - Harvest, postharvest and stress

15:00 - 15:30  Ping Lu. Advances in Orchard Irrigation Technology and Theory and Its Application in Mango Orchard

15:30 - 15:45  Amit Khanal. Postharvest storage duration and temperature influence flesh browning in vapour heat treated ‘B74’ mango fruit

15:45 - 16:00  Ciara O’Brien. The effect of cold storage on the biochemistry and physiology in mango (Mangifera indica) fruit ripening

16:00 - 16:15  Tamar Azoulay-Shemer. Induction of stomatal opening following night-chilling event rescue mango trees from physiological damage

16:30 - 17:00  Coffee break.

17:00 - 18:30  Session 9 - ISHS Business Meeting

20:30 - Farewell dinner at the El Balneario restaurant (departure by bus from the NH Malaga 4* hotel at 20:15hrs. After dinner, we will have bus back to the NH hotel).

 

Tuesday, October 3rd

09:00 - 18:30 Field trip (Departure by bus from the NH Malaga 4* hotel at 08:15hrs. Estimated time of return will be approximately 18:30hrs to the NH hotel).

 

 

You can download the PDF version of the programme here.

 

You can download the poster list here.