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<tr”> Session 2Plant growth substancesChair:
| Tuesday 2ndJuly AH2 | ||
| 10:00 – 10:40 | Registration/morning tea infoyer | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Mihi whakatau and Opening address | Takuta Ferris |
| Session 1 | Opening session | Chair: Richard MacKnight |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Opening Address | Juliet Gerrard, Chief Science Advisor to PM |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | New breeding technologies for fruit trees | Andy Allan |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Molecular characterisation of a supergene in hybrid kiwifruit | John McCallum |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Keynote Cytokinin: a hormone with many roles |
Paula Jameson |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Overexpression of transporter genes in pea leads to increased protein content, yield and changed cytokinin regulation | Jan Grant |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Plant hormones and branching in Zantedeschiaand Acer | Sarina Manandhar |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | How hormonal interplay controls plant organ longevity | Donald Hunter |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Afternoon Tea | |
| Session 3 | Workshop and Oral Posters | |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Early Career Researchers: what do you want from a scientific society? | Jill Stanley |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | 3 min Poster Presentations | Huub Kerckhoffs |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Poster sessionwith drinks and nibbles | |
| 18:00 – | Free time (NZSPB: dinner in town) | |
| Wednesday 3rd July NB Parallel Sessions in AH2 and AH3 | ||
| Session 4 | AH2 Cell Walls | Chair: |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Annals of Botany Speaker
Cellulose synthesis in land plants |
Staffan Persson |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Differential processing of pectic galactans and arabinans in cell types at the apple fruit surface during development | David Brummell |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Developmental changes to xyloglucan in the skin of growing apples | Erin O’Donoghue |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Micropore distribution in cell walls of softwood and hardwood xylem | Lloyd Donaldson |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning tea | |
| Session 5 | AH3 New Technologies (parallel) | Chair: |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Detecting feeding injury of brown marmorated stink bugs (Halyomorpha halys) for Sungold™ kiwifruit using optical coherence tomography imaging | Mo Li |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Real-time, non-destructive, fruit-softening measurement using piezo trays | Robert Schaffer |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Genetic transformation of Solanum muricatum as a model crop for testing anthocyanin regulatory constructs in fruit | Murray Boase |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning tea | |
| Session 6 | AH2 Plant Development | Chair: |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Translating classical physiological knowledge to discover molecular control of bulbing in onion (Allium cepa L.) | Richard MacKnight |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | NZSPB Michael McManus Award for Best Student Paper
Differential regulation of anthocyanin profile in purple kiwifruit (Actinidia species) |
Yongyang Peng |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | The fine regulation of anthocyanin pigment production alters floral colour patterning in Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon) | Sarah Moss |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Phytochrome light signalling controls the circadian clock and photoperiodic flowering in Medicago truncatula | Soledad Perez-Santangelo |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Systemic and local signals converge to regulate nitrogen demand signalling and nodule formation in Medicago truncatula | Nijat Imin |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Session 7 | AH3 Cell Walls II and Metabolism (Parallel session) | Chair: |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Marchantia: a simple model system to study cell wall biosynthesis | Ed Lampugnani |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Impact of overexpression of a gene for polygalacturonase on apple fruit phenotypes and cell wall composition | Ian Hallett |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Novel polysaccharide structures in the mucilage of Arabidopsis seeds visualised by AFM | Bill Williams |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Non-structural carbohydrates in the physiology of Avicennia marina subsp. australasica | Sridevi Ravi |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | A study of amino acid metabolism in grapevine (Vitis vinifera) | Scott Gregan |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Delivering high-quality apples: a multi-omics profiling for identification of potential perfect storage life predictors | Laurie Favre |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Session 8 | AH2 Postharvest | Chair: Andrew East |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Keynote speaker
Breaking the mould with cold plasma |
Kirsty Bayliss |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | A review of current approaches in modelling ethylene effects on postharvest firmness progression of fruit | Jeritah Tongonya |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Evaluation of efficacy of washing treatment for extending the post-harvest shelf-life of banana (Musa acuminata) | Champathi Gunathilake |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Effect of fruit calcium content and harvest maturity on instrumental texture parameters of ´Rahi´ blueberries | Sebastian Rivera Smith |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Afternoon tea | |
| Session 9 | AH3 Nectaries and Pollination (parallel session) | Chair: |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Nectary photosynthesis contributes to the production of mānuka (Leptospermum scoparium) floral nectar | Stevie Noe |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Optimising best practices for stonefruit pollination | Max Buxton |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Watermelon pollination in Queensland, Australia | Theo van Noort |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Afternoon tea | |
| Session 10 | AH2 Pre- to Postharvest Physiology | Chair: |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Yield and morpho-physiological response of potato cultivars to abiotic stress associated with climate change in New Zealand | Allan Siano |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Skin topography of kiwifruit from different growing conditions | Leo Lai |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Which foliar potassium fertiliser improves fruit growth and quality of Gold3 kiwifruit at harvest? | Maria Hashmatt |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Characteristics of apple (Malus domestica) fruit at harvest are affected by altering early season light environment | Daya Dayatilake |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Understanding the physiological effects of aminoethoxyvinylglycine (AVG) on ’Prem009’ pears | Jess Byrne |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Seasonal variations in the source and use of water by three dominant vegetation species in desert steppe, Ningxia, China | Haiyung Hu |
| Session 11 | AH3 Germplasm (parallel session) | Chair: |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Cryopreservation of Syzygium maire (Swamp maire, waiwaka), a critically endangered tree species from New Zealand | Karin van der Walt |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Description on biological characteristics of ten varieties of kiwi berry (Actinidia arguta) germplasm resources from northeast of China | Ying Wang |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Development of a protocol for cryopreservation of kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) germplasm through droplet vitrification | Liya Mathew |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Towards developing a core collection of New Zealand hop (Humulus lupulus) genetic resources for cryobanking | Claudia Wiedow |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Effect of preconditioning donor plantlets and manipulating recovery media on potato (Solanum spp.) regeneration after cryopreservation by droplet vitrification | Ranjith Pathirana |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Pollen development and 2n pollen induction using nitrous oxide in Limonium sinuatum | Rian Siregar |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | AH2 AGM for NZSPB | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | AH3 AGM for NZIAHS | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | AH5 AGM for IAPB(NZ) | |
| 19:00 – | Conference Dinner, Russell Room, Wharerata |
| Thursday 4th July AH2 | |||
| Session 12 | Plant Phenotyping | Chair: | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Keynote Speaker Fast Phenotyping – linking growth patterns, stress responses and plant genetics |
Bettina Berger | |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Fruit feature detection using LIDAR mapping of kiwiberry orchards | Peter McAtee | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | GBS for detection of SNP loci under selection in white clover (Trifolium repens L.) | Sofie Pearson | |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Utilising high throughput brewing to phenotype hops with novel flavour and aroma characteristics | Kerry Templeton | |
| 10.30 – 11.00 am | Morning tea | ||
| Session 13 | Plant Physiology | Chair: | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Light interception of sweet cherry trees grown as a planar cordon orchard system design and the relationship to fruit quality | Claire Scofield | |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Establishment of planar sweet cherry canopies using physiological principles | Jill Stanley | |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Understanding the relationship between crop load, yield and fruit quality in apple planar cordon orchard systems | Jack Wilson | |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Modelling grape growth in relation to whole-plant carbon and water fluxes | Junqi Zhu | |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Bridging stress physiology experiment and modelling: an example of representing the differential drought sensitivities of leaf gas exchange | Shuangxi Zhou | |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Investigation of seed dormancy in 13 Actinidia species | Azadeh Esfandiari | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| Session 14
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Plant diseases and Conference close | Chair: | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Improving tomato diseases management using micro-ecosystem | Aoxue Wang | |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Resistance and susceptibility of Camellia plants to petal blight disease are defined by the timing of defence responses | Nikolai Kondratev | |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Living off the bioeconomy: what does the future hold for New Zealand? | Julian Heyes | |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Student awards for best oral presentation and best poster
Closing remarks |
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