2.JUNE.2025
| MONDAY 2nd JUNE 2025 | |
| ELECTRA PALACE HOTEL | |
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| 17:00-19:30 | Registrations |
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| 19:30-21:00 | Welcome Cocktail |
| Electra Palace Hotel (Roof Garden) | |
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3.JUNE.2025
| TUESDAY 3rd JUNE 2025 | ||||
| ELECTRA PALACE HOTEL | ||||
| 08:30-09:00 | Registrations | |||
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| 09:00-09:30 | Opening Ceremony | |||
| Greeting from International and Local Authorities | ||||
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| 09:30-11:00 | Session 1, Seedlings production and technology | |||
| Moderators: Xin Zhao & Athanasios Koukounaras | ||||
| 09:30-10:00 | Leskovar Daniel (Keynote Speaker) | |||
| Boosting Resilience in Seedlings and Grafted Vegetable Transplants | ||||
| 10:00-10:30 | Silvana Nicoloa (Invited Speaker) | |||
| Enhancing Plant Nursery Production with Advanced and Ultra-Density Indoor Farming Systems | ||||
| 10:30-10:45 | Georgia Ntatsi | |||
| Precision fertigation management for vegetable crops and seedlings with NutriSense DSS | ||||
| 10:45-11:00 | Mark Tester | |||
| Harnessing synthetic allotetraploid rootstocks to enhance yield and crop resilience | ||||
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | |||
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| 11:30-13:15 | Session 2, Watermelon grafting | |||
| Moderators: Yuan Huang & Filippos Bantis | ||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Damianos Kintzonidis (Invited Speaker) | |||
| Challenges and trends in the production of grafted watermelon seedlings | ||||
| 12:00-12:30 | Zoran Ilic (Invited Speaker) | |||
| Watermelon grafting - Principles, practices, yield and quality | ||||
| 12:30-12:45 | Xin Zhao | |||
| Developing Grafting Research Programs to Advance the Long-term Sustainability of Watermelon Production | ||||
| 12:45-13:00 | Yuan Huang | |||
| Watermelon graft union formation regulated by rootstock cotyledon and light | ||||
| 13:00-13:15 | Amnon Cochavi | |||
| Swelling and rottenness of squash rootstock in grafted watermelon | ||||
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| 13:15-14:30 | Lunch break | |||
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| 14:30-16:15 | Session 3, Seed management and handling | |||
| Moderators: Ferdinando Branca & Christos Dordas | ||||
| 14:30-15:00 | Juan A. Fernandez (Invited Speaker) | |||
| Cutting-edge technological and management innovations in vegetable seedling nurseries | ||||
| 15:00-15:15 | Mohammad Babadoost | |||
| Effective Seed Treatment for Managing Seedling Damping-off of Pumpkin, Caused by Phytophthora capsici | ||||
| 15:15-15:30 | Jan Willem Hoopman | |||
| Real-time seed moisture measurement enables fully automatic seed disinfection and/or priming and intermediate or final drying steps | ||||
| 15:30-15:45, | Hilioti Zoi | |||
| Unleashing the Potential of Tomato Seeds through non-Transgenic Genome Editing of NF-Y Transcription Factors | ||||
| 15:45-16:00 | Stefanos Kostas | |||
| Effect of incubation temperature and gibberellic acid on dormancy breaking and seed germination of the protected plant Lilium martagon L | ||||
| 16:00-16:15 | Athanasios Koukounaras | |||
| Improvement of okra seed germination and seedling growth rate by static magnetic field | ||||
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| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee Break | |||
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| 16:45-17:30 | Poster Session I (Flash Talks and Posters Viewing) | |||
| Moderator: Mohammad Babadoost | ||||
| Seed management and handling I | ||||
| Seed Priming as a promising tool to mitigate drought stress in zucchini seedling (Cucurbita pepo L.) | ||||
| Nicolas Al Achkar | ||||
| Seed germination trials of Greek taxa with Ethnobotanical value at Balkan Botanic Garden of Kroussia | ||||
| Katerina Papanastasi | ||||
| The role of temperature in dormancy breaking and seed germination of the threatened Balkan endemic plant Lilium rhodopaeum Delip | ||||
| Stefanos Hatzilazarou | ||||
| Effect of temperature on the germination of Allium nigrum L. seeds associated with its GIS-derived ecological profile | ||||
| Stefanos Kostas | ||||
| Tomato seeds’ germination under the effect of Ascophyllum nodosum from different extraction methods | ||||
| Eleni Papoui | ||||
| Effect of salinity and light intensity on seed germination of two Salicornia europaea L. Greek native populations | ||||
| Katerina Grigoriadou | ||||
| Effect of temperature on the germination of Sonchus oleraceus | ||||
| Paschalia Mirmigkou | ||||
| Grafting | ||||
| Evaluating grafting and plant spacing effects on Florida’s watermelon farms | ||||
| Tatiana Sanchez-Jones | ||||
| Case study: stress tolerant tomato rootstock development, semi-commercial field results and business case for grafting adoption in processing tomatoes | ||||
| Ryan Lefers | ||||
| Assessing Growers’ Perceptions and Adoption of Vegetable Grafting in the Southeastern United States | ||||
| Xin Zhao | ||||
| Monitoring water balance of grafted tomato seedlings | ||||
| Mai Kita | ||||
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| 18:00-20:30 | City Walking Tour | |||
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4.JUNE.2025
| WEDNESDAY 4th JUNE 2025 | |
| ELECTRA PALACE HOTEL | |
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| 09:00-10:45 | Session 4, Lighting and seedlings production and technology |
| Moderators: Juan A. Fernandez & Hiroyuki Watanabe | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Raphael Quenum (Keynote Speaker) |
| Smart LED lighting to boost crop performance and energy efficiency in propagation | |
| 09:30-09:45 | Filippos Bantis |
| Mechanism of light for the production of grafted watermelon seedlings | |
| 09:45-10:00 | Reza Salehi |
| The LED light quality can influence on seedling quality of cucumber scion before grafting operation | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Anna Gkotzamani |
| Dynamic lighting for growing watermelon scion seedlings in a PFAL | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Hassan Sarikhani |
| The effect of photoperiodic and supplementary lighting on tomato seedlings under short-day conditions | |
| 10:30-10:45 | Konstantinos Koularmanis |
| Optimizing light intensity and salinity on the establishment growth and quality of Salicornia europaea L. and Crithmum maritimum L. under controlled environment agriculture | |
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| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
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| 11:15-13:00 | Session 5, Workshop: Challenges and opportunities for vegetables propagation material. Vital role of nurseries and seed sector |
| Moderators: Daniel Leskovar & Silvana Nicola | |
| 11:15-11:30 | Sotirios Kosmas (Invited Speaker) |
| Legal Framework for the marketing of seeds and propagating material other than seeds of vegetable species in the EU | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Ioannis Karakolis and Vangelis Pelekanis |
| Redefining Greece's Vegetable Market: New Trends & Growth Prospects | |
| 11:50-13:00 | Round table |
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| 13:00-14:15 | Lunch break |
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| 14:15-15:00 | Poster Session ΙI (flash talks and posters viewing) |
| Moderator: Alexios Alexopoulos | |
| Biodiversity and Sustainability | |
| Effect of genotype on the morphometric parameters of grafted cucumbers | |
| Danguole Juskeviciene | |
| Establishing old tomato varieties in a sustainable hydroponic growing system | |
| Afroditi Tsampalla | |
| Evaluating pepper landraces as potential rootstocks for mitigating drought stress | |
| Theodora Ntanasi | |
| Agroecological approaches affect the initial growth of pea in an intercropping system | |
| Christos Dordas | |
| Study of the effect of harvest time on the quality characteristics of two yellow-fleshed kiwifruit cultivars | |
| Athanassios Molassiotis | |
| Optimizing Intercropping Systems Through Cultivar Selection | |
| Christos Dordas | |
| Comparing USDA Energy Content Values for Crops with Adiabatic Calorimetry Measurements | |
| Dimitrios Platis | |
| Scion and rootstock interaction | |
| Effect of rootstock and root biostimulants on tomato scion characteristic | |
| Gvozden Dumicic | |
| Comparative Phytohormone Profiling of Contrasting Tomato Rootstocks, Scions, and Grafted Plants | |
| Xin Zhao | |
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| 15:00-16:00 | Session 6, Addresing abiotic stress in vegetable production |
| Moderators: Charls Melnyk & Ioannis Ipsilantis | |
| 15:00-15:15 | Zoran Ilic |
| Effect of shading on fruit quality of grafted tomato plants grown under salinity stress | |
| 15:15-15:30 | Ioannis Ipsilantis |
| Onion (Allium cepa) inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form sand dunes and desert under salinity | |
| 15:30-15:45 | Mariateresa Cardarelli |
| Enhancing Tomato Drought Tolerance Through Beneficial Bacillus megaterium: An Omics-Based Approach | |
| 15:45-16:00 | Afroditi Tsampalla |
| Grafting to alleviate stress in tomato plants irrigated with treated wastewater; a study at the molecular level | |
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| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
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| 16:30-17:15 | Poster session ΙII (flash talks and posters viewing) |
| Moderator: Zoran Ilic | |
| Seed management and handling II | |
| Does high salinity favor an obligate halophyte in the early stages of germination and growth? An in vitro study on two Greek native Salicornia europaea L. populations | |
| Katerina Grigoriadou | |
| Influence of abiotic factors on carrot (Daucus sativus Röhl.) seed plants development and seed quality | |
| Rasa Karkleliene | |
| GIS-facilitated germination of Linum arboreum L. seeds for conservation and sustainable utilization | |
| Stefanos Hatzilazarou | |
| Unlocking the potential of wild edible Greek taxa: Seed germination trials at the Balkan Botanic Garden of Kroussia | |
| Katerina Papanastasi | |
| On farm mycorrhizal inoculum production for conventionally produced fresh spring onion | |
| Ioannis Ipsilantis | |
| Water management | |
| Adaptation of greenhouse tomato plants in treated wastewater irrigation | |
| Ioanna Chatzigeorgiou | |
| Impact of a soil amendment on the growth of pepper transplants under drought stress | |
| Filippos Bantis | |
| Assessment of irrigation level on the establishment of greenhouse cherry plum tomato | |
| Athanasios Koukounaras | |
| Nutritional quality of cherry tomatoes grown under prolonged water deficit since crop establishment | |
| Anna Gkotzamani | |
| Effect of grafting and irrigation regimes on the yield and fruit quality of tomato grown under greenhouse conditions | |
| Nicolas Al Achka | |
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| 17:15-18:15 | ISHS Meeting |
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| 20:00 | Gala Dinner |
| Kitchen Bar (Warehouse B of the Port, Center, Thessaloniki) | |
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5.JUNE.2025
| THURSDAY 5th JUNE 2025 | |
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| 09:30-10:30 | Session 7, Scion and rootstock interaction |
| Moderators: Mark Tester & Afroditi Tsampalla | |
| 09:30-10:00 | Charles Melnyk (Keynote Speaker) |
| Understanding and enhancing graft formation in plants | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Nicolas Al Achkar |
| Tomato rootstock/scion combinations grown in mediterranean greenhouse conditions for improving yield components and soil microbiome | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Fabiana Ms. Mancuso |
| Combined effects of allied potential rootstocks and Se biofortication on eggplant fruit yield, nutritional and health-promoting compounds | |
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| 10:30-11:15 | Poster session IV (Flash talks and Posters viewing) |
| Moderator: Grigoriadou Katerina | |
| Seedlings production and technology | |
| Role of Selected Biostimulants and Organic Amendments on Artichoke and Pepper Seedling Quality | |
| Daniel Leskovar | |
| Tomato seedlings gas exchange parameters under deficient Mg supply | |
| Gvozden Dumicic | |
| Evaluation of peat-alternative substrates for the production of lettuce seedlings | |
| Juan Fernandez | |
| Effects of red-orange light irradiation on the growth of seedlings of spinach, komatsuna, Swiss chard, cucumber and tomato | |
| Hiroyuki Watanabe | |
| Propagation of horticultural crops | |
| Influence of abiotic factors on the yields of early cultivar rootstock combinations of nectarines (Prunus persica var. nucipersica) | |
| Dimitar Vasilev | |
| Comparative study of vegetative propagation methods of the medicinal plant Origanum scabrum (Boiss. & Heldr.) | |
| Alexios Alexopoulos | |
| Effect of different basal media on micropropagation of the medicinal plant Origanum scabrum (Boiss. & Heldr.) | |
| Alexios Alexopoulos | |
| Optimizing Salicornia Propagation: A Study on Rooting Enhancers | |
| Konstantinos Koularmanis | |
| Nitrogen fertilization strategies for common purslane cultivated under different soilless systems | |
| Ioannis Karavidas | |
| The effects of root zone volume on early bolting in Delphinium and Larkspur | |
| Goto Tanjuro | |
| Study on high yields of potato microtubers formed by long-day conditions using temporary light interruption treatment | |
| Ryohei Kobayashi | |
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| 11:15-11:45 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:45-13:30 | Session 8, Biodiversity and Sustainability |
| Moderators: Georgia Ntatsi & Athanasios Molassiotis | |
| 11:45-12:15 | Konstandinos Mattas (Invited Speaker) |
| Unveiling the power of vegetables in biodiversity and healthy diet | |
| 12:15-12:45 | Ferdinando Branca (Invited Speaker) |
| Exploitation of Wild and Growing Germplasm for the Innovation of Vegetable Production | |
| 12:45-13:00 | Nicola Cinosi |
| Effects of a microbial biostimulant on growth and eco-physiological responses of young potted olive trees | |
| 13:00-13:15 | Mika Kawai |
| Comparison of the effects of root restriction and intermittent low temperature storage on bolting in Delphinium grandiflorum | |
| 13:15-13:30 | Madeleine Tenny - Sotirios Tasioulas |
| Optimizing Biosolid Compost Application for Sustainable Basil (Ocimum basilicum) Cultivation: Impacts on Soil Health and Crop Quality | |
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| 13:30-14:30 | Light Lunch Break |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Closing Ceremony (Awards, Conclusions) |
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6.JUNE.2025
| FRIDAY 6th JUNE 2025 | ||||
| Technical and Cultural Tour Program | ||||
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| 08:30-09:30 | Departure from Aristotelous sq., Travel to Kleidi Imathias | |||
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| 09.30-12.00 |
Hosted tour to AGRIS S.A. Seed disinfection and sowing Self-rooted seedling production Watermelon grafting process Healing chambers with artificial LED lighting Seedling production system for hydroponic cultivation Double-stem plants |
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| 12:00-13:00 | Travel to Litochoro | |||
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| 13:00-14:15 | Cultural tour to the Olympus National Park Information Center | |||
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| 14:15-16:30 | Lunch | |||
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| 16:30-18:00 | Travel to Thessaloniki | |||
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Scientific Topics |
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 Seed quality and production Germination and seedling emergence Seedling production and quality Abiotic and biotic stress on seedling development Light effect on germination and seedling production Fertigation and water management for seedling production Development and applications of vegetable grafting Grafting effect on crop growth and fruit quality Rootstock and scion interaction Omics approaches in vegetable grafting |
Biostimulants for seed/seedling to plant development Management of seedling nutrition Automation and digitisation Climate crisis and establishment of horticultural crops Soilborne disease management Legislation Economic and financial aspects Growing media and seedlings production Transplanting shock |