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)
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
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).
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.