2021 Orchard Systems | ISHS Symposium

	Before and on April 30^th, 2021 Apr 30, 21	From May 1^st, 2021 May 1, 21
ISHS Members	500	600
Non-ISHS Members	600	700
Student/Postdoc	150	150

Keynote speakers

Stuart Tustin

The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd.

Luca Corelli Grappadelli

Professor
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences
University of Bologna - Italy

Luca Corelli Grappadelli has spent his career at Unibo, after studying there as well as at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. Luca's international experience also includes research periods at Cornell University (twice) and the Tatura Res. Station, for a total of 3.5 years. His research focuses on tree efficiency, fruit growth, precision orchard management.
In 30 years, his lab has hosted a number of colleagues/friends and international as well as Italian students, about 50 of which have completed their MS or PhD under his guidance. He has served as deputy Dept. Head for a total of 10 years. He has coordinated/participated in a number of EU or other international research projects totaling about €25 million, in addition to a number of competitive grants from Italian granting agencies. His research has provided physiological groundings to sustainable and precise orchard management, including light conditioning, irrigation aimed at exploiting the vascular flow physiology of different crops, forecasting fruit growth during the season. These studies have led to current projects focusing on innovative orchard designs that couple light relations physiology to electrical generation, automated mechanization and implementation of AI algorithms.
Throughout his career Luca has enjoyed the many facets of research, including the design and construction of scientific equipment, such as the 'Bologna Balloons' for whole canopy gas exchanges and the fruit gauges that have made fruit vascular flow studies affordable. He has co-founded a start-up company that offers low-cost, accurate fruit growth forecasting to growers worldwide.

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Theodore DeJong

Distinguished Professor & Pomologist Emeritus
Department of Plant Sciences
University of California, Davis - USA

Prof. Ted DeJong is an emeritus professor who worked as a fruit tree crop physiologist in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis, from 1981 to 2016. He had a split appointment in teaching, fundamental and application oriented research and extension.
His research program mainly focused on understanding tree physiology and orchard management factors that control the carbon balance/budgets and productivity of fruit and nut trees. He has co-authored ~300 scientific papers, taught fundamental pomology courses and mentored numerous graduate students, post-docs and visiting international scientists.
He received the title of Distinguished Professor at UC Davis in recognition of his academic achievements and service. Dr. DeJong is a Fellow of ASHS and ISHS is Chair of the ISHS Temperate Tree Crops Division of ISHS. His focus at this meeting will be on research conducted to understand the mechanisms involved in rootstock limitations on tree vigor.

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Gennaro Fazio

Adjunct Associate Professor
School of Integrative Plant Science – Horticulture Section
Cornell University - USA

Dr. Gennaro Fazio is a plant breeder, research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit and Adjunct Associate Professor with Cornell University in the School of Integrative Plant Science – Horticulture Section in Geneva, NY.
His research focuses on the development of new apple rootstocks for the Geneva^® breeding program which features apple rootstocks that are more productive than current commercially available varieties and are resistant to devastating diseases like fire blight (caused by Erwinia amylovora) and replant disease.
Dr. Fazio has co-released 13 apple rootstocks and is a big proponent of diversification in the rootstock world. He coined the term “designer rootstocks” to describe rootstock applications customized to the interactions with soil, climate, scion variety and management style. Part of his research focus is directed toward developing marker assisted breeding protocols for the breeding program and conducts basic and applied research on apple genetics, particularly in the area of disease resistance, root and tree architecture, rootstock mediated plant nutrition, rootstock mediated hormone modulation in apple scions and dwarfing mechanisms of apple rootstocks. He has produced the first genetic map detailing rootstock mediated inheritance of nutrients in grafted scions and is leveraging aeroponics to make useful discoveries in rootstock research.
Dr. Fazio has co-authored over 70 peer reviewed publications and has won several technology transfer awards including the prestigious U.S. Federal Lab Consortium Award in 2015.

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Terence Lee Robinson

Professor of Pomology
Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science
Cornell University - USA

Terence Robinson is a Research and Extension Professor of Horticulture at Cornell University located at the Cornell AgriTech Campus in Geneva, New York State.
His research program is aimed at developing advanced orchard management practices to improve yield, fruit quality and profitability of apple, cherry, peach and pear orchards. His areas of specialization are light interception and utilization, orchard planting systems, rootstocks, economics of high density orchards, pruning and training, precision crop load management, and fertigation. He is the co-leader of Cornell's apple rootstock program. He received his BS degree in Agronomy and Horticulture from Brigham Young University in 1978 and his MS and PhD degrees in Horticulture from Washington State University in 1982 and 1984 and has been at Cornell for 35 years.
He has published 200 scientific publications, given 230 presentations at scientific conferences and published 370 articles for fruit growers and given more than 1000 presentations to fruit grower groups. He has contributed his expertise in fruit production in more than 20 countries.

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Lailiang Cheng

Professor
School of Integrative Plant Science - Horticulture Section
Cornell University - USA

Lailiang Cheng is a professor of fruit crop physiology in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in horticulture from Oregon State University in 1999.
His research spans from very applied work on tree nutrition, orchard nutrient management and rootstocks to physiology, biochemistry and molecular mechanisms of photosynthesis, carbohydrate/malate metabolism and accumulation, and sugar (alcohol) signaling in flower development/pollen tube growth of apple and its interactions with microbes.
His recent work on the role of sorbitol in apple flower development and pollen tube growth can be found at: www.plantcell.org and nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Stuart Tustin

Principal Scientist
The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd.
New Zealand

Dr. Stuart Tustin is a Principal Scientist and formerly Science Group Leader for the Fruit Crops Physiology and Pollination Group within The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd. He is located at the Hawke’s Bay Research Centre since 1984 and has wide research interests in the pomology, crop physiology, fruit growth, development, fruit quality and production systems of deciduous fruits, specialising in pome fruit.
His research interests include the physiology of orchard systems, to improve orchard design to increase both productivity and crop fruit quality, including understanding of the regulation of growth allocation and orchard canopy functions regulating crop development. His current research direction with his team has been the NZ Govt. contestably-funded programme 'Future Orchard Planting Systems – the next green revolution in Fruit Crops'.
The six-year, $9M programme enabled establishment of studies of radical new narrow-row planting systems concepts for temperate fruit orchard systems, designed from physiological principles to achieve seasonal light utilisation sufficient to enable a two-fold increase in orchard productivity of more uniform high quality fruit. The programme has integrated education and implementation with fruit industry organisations who contributed a further $2.4M of co-funding.
Other core research interests have included rootstock control of tree development and understanding the mechanisms of rootstock dwarfing in apple and pear in collaboration with molecular geneticists and modellers. In the course of these interests, he has bred and selected a series of vigour controlling apple rootstocks with multiple pest and disease resistances.
He is a former Chair of the ISHS Fruit Section, Orchard and Plantation Systems Working Group and is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Science Inc.

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Lav R. Khot

Assistant Professor
Centre for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems
Washington State University - USA

Dr. Lav R. Khot is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University (WSU). He is one of the core faculty members of WSU's Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural System (CPAAS). He received his M. Engg. at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; MS from Iowa State University; and PhD from North Dakota State University. He spent 4 years at University of Florida’s Citrus Research and Education Center as Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to WSU in 2013.
He works in the Agricultural Automation Engineering research emphasis area of the department and his research and extension program focuses on “Sensing and automation technologies for site specific and precision management of production agriculture”. He has published 75 peer-reviewed papers in this area and 300+ combined national and international conference talks, extension/outreach workshops and short courses. He currently serves as the Associate Editor for American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Transactions and chairs the 'Mechanization, Digitization, Sensing and Robotics Workgroup' of International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS).

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Committees

Thanks to all people involved in the organization of the event.

Convener

Stefano Musacchi

WSU

Scientific committee

Michael Blanke

Germany

Dugald Close

Australia

Luca Corelli Grappadelli

Italy

Evelyne Costes

France

Ted DeJong

USA

Todd Einhorn

USA

Gennaro Fazio

USA

Paolo Inglese

Italy

Luis Asin

Spain

Lee Kalcsits

USA

Greg Lang

USA

Pierre-Eric Lauri

France

James Mattheis

USA

Terence Robinson

USA

Sara Serra

USA

Wiehann Steyn

South Africa

Massimo Tagliavini

Italy

Karen Theron

South Africa

Stuart Tustin

New Zealand

Ben van Hooijdonk

New Zealand

Jef Vercammen

Belgium

Matt Whiting

USA

Jaume Lordan

Spain

Lav Khot

USA

Esmaeil Fallahi

USA

Chiara Pastore

Italy

Organizing committee

Stefano Musacchi

WSU

Sara Serra

WSU

Karen Lewis

WSU Extension

Gwen Hoheisel

WSU Extension

Tory Schmidt

WTFRC

Mike Willet

Former WTFRC Manager

Bob Gix

Chair of the Fresh and
Processed Pear Committees'
research subcommittee

	ISHS Members	Non-ISHS Members	Student/Postdoc
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Copy of the conference proceedings, published as a volume of Acta Horticulturae

Important dates

Please remember the following dates

April 6th, 2020 - November 1st, 2020

Abstract submission

December 1st, 2020

Abstract acceptance

April 5th, 2020 - June 14th, 2021

Paper submission

March 15th, 2020 - April 30th, 2021

“Early bird” registration

May 1st, 2021

Regular registration open

June 1st, 2021

Speakers registration deadline

June 14th, 2021

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July 12th, 2021

Regular registration deadline

July 26th - 30th, 2021

Symposium online

April 30th, 2022

Paper modification deadline

Fees

Below the fees for each type of registration. Please refer to the notes for details about the included services.

ISHS Research Groups Involved

Every four years the ISHS working groups listed below organize a worldwide symposium at which advances in a range of research topics are presented and analyzed

Rootstock Breeding and Evaluation Workgroup

Orchard and Plantation Systems Workgroup

Environmental Physiology and Developmental Biology Workgroup

Topics

The symposium will focus on the following topics, in order of priority within each tier

Primary endorser

ISHS Division Physiology and Plant-Environment Interactions of Horticultural Crops in Field Systems (DPHY)

Secondary supporter

ISHS Division Precision Horticulture and Engineering (DENG)

Keynote speakers

Lailiang Cheng

Luca Corelli

Ted DeJong

Gennaro Fazio

Lav Khot

Stuart Tustin

Terence Robinson

Schedule

The Symposium will consist of five full-day scientific sessions, organized by research topic, with international speakers and one virtual field tour * All times indicated are Pacific Time (PDT)

Abstracts

Certificate of attendance

Committees

Thanks to all people involved in the organization of the event.

Convener

Stefano Musacchi

Scientific committee

Michael Blanke

Dugald Close

Luca Corelli Grappadelli

Evelyne Costes

Ted DeJong

Todd Einhorn

Gennaro Fazio

Paolo Inglese

Luis Asin

Lee Kalcsits

Greg Lang

Pierre-Eric Lauri

James Mattheis

Terence Robinson

Sara Serra

Wiehann Steyn

Massimo Tagliavini

Karen Theron

Stuart Tustin

Ben van Hooijdonk

Jef Vercammen

Matt Whiting

Jaume Lordan

Lav Khot

Esmaeil Fallahi

Chiara Pastore

Organizing committee

Stefano Musacchi

April 6^th, 2020 - November 1^st, 2020

December 1^st, 2020

April 5^th, 2020 - June 14^th, 2021

March 15^th, 2020 - April 30^th, 2021

May 1^st, 2021

June 1^st, 2021

June 14^th, 2021

July 12^th, 2021

July 26^th - 30^th, 2021

April 30^th, 2022

The Symposium will consist of five full-day scientific sessions, organized by research topic, with international speakers and one virtual field tour
^* All times indicated are Pacific Time (PDT)

Thank you to all our sponsors! Their financial contribution is what made this event possible.
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