Detailed program

Section 1: Breeding – New/old breeding goals and challenges
Moderators: Dragan Škorić and Vladimir Miklič

Section 1: Felicity Vear (France): Old and new breeding goals and challenges

Moderators: Sylvie Dauguet and Nada Grahovac

1. Sylvie Dauguet: A multi-year survey on sunflower meal quality produced in France
2. Sylvie Dauguet: Improvement of the nutritional value of sunflower meal by sifting technology
3. Marko Ilić: A Novel Method of Determination of Individual Oil Content in Sunflower and Flaxseed Oil Blends
4. Nada Grahovac: Fatty acid characterization of sunflower breeding materials at the IFVC

Section 2: Q&A

1. Jelena Ovuka: Sunflower seed oil content depending on the seedling type
2. Christine Fintz: Time Domain-NMR with chemometric analysis: An alternative tool for determination protein content in sunflower seeds

Section 2: Q&A

Section 3: Confectionery sunflower – Emerging crop
Section 4: Genetic resources – Investment for the future
Moderator: Leonardo Velasco

Section 3: Chao-Chien Jan (China): Confectionery sunflower as an emerging crop

Section 4: Sreten Terzić (IFVCNS, Serbia): Sunflower genetic resources – From conservation to introgression breeding

Moderators: Sreten Terzić and M. Y. Dudhe

1. M.Y. Dudhe: Current status of sunflower genetic resources in India
2. Marie-Claude Boniface: The French sunflower genebank
3. Nicolas Langlade: Genomic prediction of yield tolerance to drought in sunflower genetic resources
4. Mireille Chabaud: Resistances to Orobanche cumana by exploiting Helianthus genetic diversity

Section 4: Q&A

1. Jelena Jocković: Secretory tissues of discs flowers in wild Helianthus L. species
2. Maria Petrova: Study of the reaction of Helianthus debilis accessions to Phomopsis/ Diaporthe helianthi Munt.-Cvet.
3. Yalcin Kaya: Flow cytometrical characterization in sunflower genus
4. Min Chang: Resistance of wild helianthus species to the prevailing Chinese broomrape (Orobanche cumana L.) races

Section 4: Q&A

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Section 5 Biotic stress resistance – New and emerging pests and diseases
Section 6 Crop production and modelling – Yield stability in changing environment
Moderator: David Gouache

Section 5: Leire Molinero Ruiz (CISC, Spain): Biological control agents against sunflower pathogens

Section 6: Philippe Debaeke (INRAE, France): New cropping systems and growing environments for sunflower: Consequences on target traits and ideotypes

Moderators: Philippe Debaeke and Jovan Crnobarac

1. Maria Salas: Viballa™: A new effective herbicide for broadleaf weed control in sunflower crops
2. Branislav Pejak: Sunflower yield prediction based on high resolution satellite imagery
3. Victor Olowe: Organic foliar fertilization of sunflower enhanced sunflower yield attributes and seed yield in the humid tropics
4. Celia Seassau: Assessment of the biofumigation potential of Brassica species against sunflower Verticillium Wilt (Verticillium dahliae): A field-experiment approach

Section 6: Q&A

1. Milan Jocković: New approaches in phenotype prediction – Machine learning techniques
2. Hudaverdi Gurkan: Assessment of Climate Change on Sunflower Production Using the Aquacrop Model in the Konya Basin of Türkiye
3. Brankica Babec: The effect of legumes and sunflower intercropping on soil compaction

Section 6: Q&A

Section 7 Abiotic stress resistance – Challenges of changing environment
Section 8 Economy and market – Trends and prospects
Moderator: Fernando Castano

Section 7: Nicolas Langlade (INRAE, France): Prediction of sunflower tolerance to drought using quantitative genetics and crop modelling

Section 8: Etienne Pilorgé (Terres Inovia, France): Sunflower in the global vegetable oil system: situation, specificities and perspectives

Moderators: Etienne Pilorge and Necmi Beser

1. Gilles Gree: Commercial launch of A.I.R.™, a new herbicide-tolerant production system for Sunflower from Syngenta
2. Christophe Sausse: Sunflower bird damage: Is the research up to the challenges?
3. David Gouache: Applied research & development for French sunflower priorities to contribute to France’s national protein strategy
4. Vincent Lecomte: Cultural practices of sunflower in France: analysis and rooms for progress

Section 8: Q&A

1. Igor Balalić: Feasibility of double cropping system with camelina and sunflower in Serbia
2. Branislav Pejak: Mapping sunflower areas using high resolution Sentinel-2 images
3. Jasna Savić: Types of sunflower hybrids registered in Serbia
4. Yalcin Kaya: Stability in seed yield over years in confectionery sunflower

Section 8: Q&A

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Section 9 Broomrape – Constant challenge
Section 10 Bees and seeds – Exploring new venues for increased yield and seed production
Moderator: Maria Pacueranu

Section 9: Stéphane Muños (INRAE, France): Resistance to Orobanche cumana: “We will keep on fighting until the end”

Section 10: Nicole Creux (FABI, South Africa): The delicate balancing act of climate control during flowering, pollination and seed development in sunflower

Moderators: Nicole Creux and Aleksandra Radanović

1. Nicoli Angelique: Insect pollination is necessary to achieve maximum seed yield and oil content in sunflower, but a low bee density is enough
2. Aleksandra Radanović: Association studies and marker development for the fertility restorer gene Rf1 in sunflower
3. Vladimir Miklič: Towards new solutions for the chemical desiccation of sunflower
4. Željko Milovac: Bee vectoring of biologicals in sunflowers as a crop protection tool

Section 10: Q&A

1. Phrasia Mapfumo: Planting date and environments affect sunflower development, yield and Sclerotinia head rot progression
2. Jelena Ovuka: The different invigoration techniques for sunflower seeds
3. Miloš Krstić: Seed size and substrate effect on seed germination of inbred sunflower lines
4. Nina Nenova: Study on important indices in the seeds of some sunflower hybrids and their correlation

Section 10: Q&A

Moderator: Dragana Miladinović

Participants:
Felicity Vear
Fernando Castano
Leire Molinero Ruiz
Nicolas Langlade
Vladimir Miklič

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Gala Dinner
Pustavoit Award Presentation Ceremony
IFVCNS Best Poster Award Presentation