Conference "Trends of genetic improvement in fruit and vegetable production"

CTAEX, CAJAMAR and BIOVEGEN organize the Conference "Trends in genetic improvement in fruit and vegetable production"

March 9, 2017. Don Benito (Badajoz)

The development of technologies from plant biology, such as genetic improvement, is of vital interest for improving the competitiveness of the fruit and vegetable sector. Spain has great scientific and technological potential in this sense, and increasingly has greater support thanks to the work developed by the BIOVEGEN Platform and the public-private collaboration initiatives that are being carried out.

This conference will show the new technological trends in plant biology and its possibilities, the added value that research brings to the economic activity of the private sector of plant production and how this can stimulate the private sector to undertake R&D activities and collaborations. with public research centers. Financing tools and help in the development of R&D projects will also be shown.

Bilateral meetings: In order to offer tools for developing R&D proposals during the Conference, attendees will be offered the possibility of:

Bilateral proposal review meetings with CDTI expert: to review and polish proposals that may receive public funding
Prior mobilization of technological offers and demands: to search for common interests and organization of bilateral meetings between proponents and interested parties

Program of the day

10:00 a.m. Welcome

José Luis Llerena Ruiz. Director of CTAEX
Manuel Gomez Parejo. General Director of FEVAL
José Luis Iglesias Quirós. Director of the Cajamar Caja Rural office in Mérida
Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna Gutiérrez. BIOVEGEN Platform Coordinator

Block I FINANCING

10:15 a.m. BIOVEGEN as a catalyst for R&D projects

Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna Gutiérrez. BIOVEGEN Coordinator

10:35 a.m. CDTI financing opportunities for companies in the plant production sector

Carlos Franco Alonso. Department of Health, Bioeconomy, Climate and Natural Resources. CDTI

Block II APPLIED SCIENCE

10:50 a.m. Genetic improvement programs in crops in the Jerte Valley

Margarita Lopez Corrales. Project coordinator in the fruit growing area. CICYTEX

11:20 a.m. R&D tools: Application of genetic improvement in the production of tomato, tobacco, almond trees and stevia

Inocencio Blanco Martín. Responsible for R&D projects in the agriculture area. CTAEX
Lorena Zajara Serrano. Responsible for R&D projects in the agriculture area. CTAEX

11:45 a.m. Rest

Block III COMPANY

12:00 p.m. Examples of public-private collaboration in genetics and plant improvement

R&D in citrus fruits: CITRUSEQ-CITRUSGENN project. Carlos Baixauli. Cajamar Experience Center
TANY NATURE. Mario Horrillo. R&D Department. Tany Nature
FRUIT. Andrew Stewart. R&D Department. fruitarian

1:00 p.m. Colloquium

1:30 p.m. Conclusions and closing

In parallel, the bilateral meetings:
– With CDTI expert
– Between attending entities with common interests technological supply-demand