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Plant diseases represent a major challenge to agriculture and food production globally and specifically in the Mediterranean area, accounting for an estimated 10% of crop yield loss each year. The outcome of plant-pathogen interactions is dictated by the genotypes of host and pathogen, as well as environmental conditions, and these factors determine whether a plant survives or succumbs to disease.
Climate change increases the incidence of extreme weather events that may affect plant-pathogen interaction and disease appearance.
Agenda
09
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09
20
Opening Welcome and Introduction
Abdussalam Azem•Alessandra Gentile09
20
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10
20
10
20
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10
50
10
50
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12
10
Morning Session 2
Alessandra Gentile•Stefania Maria Bennici•Ziv Spiegelman•Marco CarusoSources and mechanisms of desease resistance
Chairs: Alessandra Gentile & Ziv Spiegelman
12
10
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13
10
13
10
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14
30
Afternoon Session 1
Vittoria Catara•Dor Salomon•Omri Finkel•Yael HelmanPlant health and the environment
14
30
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14
50
14
50
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16
10
Afternoon Session 2
Tal Pupko•Maya Bar•Doron Teper•Saul BurdmanMicrobial pathogenicity and plant immunity
Chairs: Maya Bar & Saul Burdman
Opening Welcome and Introduction
Speakers
Abdussalam Azem
Dean of the G. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University09:00 - 09:10
Alessandra Gentile
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania09:10 - 09:20
Morning Session 1
Seeking solutions for newly emergent diseases
Speakers
Domenico Bosco
Dept. of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences at University of Torino and CNR-IPSP, Torino, Italy09:20 - 09:40
Insect vectors and epidemiology of Xylella fastidiosa in Europe, with emphasis on the Olive Quick Decline Syndrome in Apulia (Italy)
Ofir Bahar
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center09:40 - 10:00
The outbreak of Xylella fastidiosa in Israel and developing means to control it
Amir Sharon
School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University10:00 - 10:20
A single NLR gene from wheat wild relatives confers resistance to both leaf and stripe rust in wheat
Morning Session 2
Sources and mechanisms of desease resistance Chairs: Alessandra Gentile & Ziv Spiegelman
Speakers
Alessandra Gentile
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania10:50 - 11:10
Unravelling the genetic determinism of mal secco disease tolerance in lemon: the contribution of de novo genome sequencing for novel molecular breeding approaches
Stefania Maria Bennici
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania11:10 - 11:30
Development of efficient regeneration and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing protocols for citrus breeding
Ziv Spiegelman
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center11:30 - 11:50
An emerging tomato virus reveals a crossroad between viral movement and plant immunity
Marco Caruso
Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, Acireale at CREA11:50 - 12:10
Breeding for resistance to biotic stresses in citrus.
Afternoon Session 1
Plant health and the environment
Speakers
Vittoria Catara
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania13:10 - 13:30
Microbiome and plant health: beneficial communities in tomato and citrus
Dor Salomon
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv university13:30 - 13:50
T6SS, an adaptable antimicrobial weapon in bacteria
Omri Finkel
Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem13:50 - 14:10
Deconstructing the microbiome, the plant's first line of defense
Yael Helman
The Faculty of Agriculture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot14:10 - 14:30
The effect of interspecies microbial interactions on plant disease
Afternoon Session 2
Microbial pathogenicity and plant immunity Chairs: Maya Bar & Saul Burdman
Speakers
Tal Pupko
The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University14:50 - 15:10
Harnessing Al to identify effectors in pathogenic bacteria
Maya Bar
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center15:10 - 15:30
Tapping into immunity priming by genome editing towards disease resistant crops
Doron Teper
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center15:30 - 15:50
Secreted serine protease effectors as host-specificity determinants of the plant pathogenic bacteria Clavibacter michiganensis
Saul Burdman
The Faculty of Agriculture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem15:50 - 16:10
Acidovorax citrulli: the arsenal of type III secreted effectors and its connection with host preference
Speakers
Domenico Bosco
Dept. of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences at University of Torino and CNR-IPSP, Torino, Italy
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Alessandra Gentile
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania
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Ofir Bahar
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center
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Amir Sharon
School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University
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Alessandra Gentile
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania
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Stefania Maria Bennici
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania
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Ziv Spiegelman
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center
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Omri Finkel
Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Yael Helman
The Faculty of Agriculture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot
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Tal Pupko
The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University
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Maya Bar
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center
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Doron Teper
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center
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Abdussalam
Azem
Dean of the G. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University
https://en-lifesci.tau.ac.il/09:00 - 09:10
Domenico
Bosco
Dept. of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences at University of Torino and CNR-IPSP, Torino, Italy
https://en.disafa.unito.it/do/home.pl09:20 - 09:40
Insect vectors and epidemiology of Xylella fastidiosa in Europe, with emphasis on the Olive Quick Decline Syndrome in Apulia (Italy)
Alessandra
Gentile
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania
https://www.di3a.unict.it/en09:10 - 09:20
Ofir Bahar
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center
https://www.agri.gov.il/en/units/institutes/5.aspx09:40 - 10:00
The outbreak of Xylella fastidiosa in Israel and developing means to control it
Amir Sharon
School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University
https://en-lifesci.tau.ac.il/10:00 - 10:20
A single NLR gene from wheat wild relatives confers resistance to both leaf and stripe rust in wheat
Alessandra
Gentile
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania
https://www.di3a.unict.it/faculty/alessandra.gentile10:50 - 11:10
Unravelling the genetic determinism of mal secco disease tolerance in lemon: the contribution of de novo genome sequencing for novel molecular breeding approaches
Stefania Maria
Bennici
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania
https://www.di3a.unict.it/it11:10 - 11:30
Development of efficient regeneration and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing protocols for citrus breeding
Ziv
Spiegelman
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center
https://www.agri.gov.il/en/units/institutes/5.aspx11:30 - 11:50
An emerging tomato virus reveals a crossroad between viral movement and plant immunity
Marco Caruso
Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, Acireale at CREA
https://www.crea.gov.it/en/web/olivicoltura-frutticoltura-e-agrumicoltura11:50 - 12:10
Breeding for resistance to biotic stresses in citrus.
Vittoria
Catara
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Environment at University of Catania
https://www.di3a.unict.it/it13:10 - 13:30
Microbiome and plant health: beneficial communities in tomato and citrus
Dor Salomon
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv university
13:30 - 13:50
T6SS, an adaptable antimicrobial weapon in bacteria
Omri Finkel
Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://www.bio.huji.ac.il/en/content/plant-environmental-sciences13:50 - 14:10
Deconstructing the microbiome, the plant's first line of defense
Yael Helman
The Faculty of Agriculture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot
https://en.hafakulta.agri.huji.ac.il/14:10 - 14:30
The effect of interspecies microbial interactions on plant disease
Tal Pupko
The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University
https://en-lifesci.tau.ac.il/sbcr14:50 - 15:10
Harnessing Al to identify effectors in pathogenic bacteria
Maya Bar
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center
https://www.agri.gov.il/en/units/institutes/5.aspx15:10 - 15:30
Tapping into immunity priming by genome editing towards disease resistant crops
Doron Teper
Dept. of Plant Protection, Plant Pathology and Weed Research at The Volcani Center
https://www.agri.gov.il/en/units/institutes/5.aspx15:30 - 15:50
Secreted serine protease effectors as host-specificity determinants of the plant pathogenic bacteria Clavibacter michiganensis
Saul Burdman
The Faculty of Agriculture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://en.hafakulta.agri.huji.ac.il/15:50 - 16:10
Acidovorax citrulli: the arsenal of type III secreted effectors and its connection with host preference