GOCITRUS WEBINAR: Promoting innovation in the citrus sector

February 18, 2021

Citriculture is a strategic sector in Spain, which is world leader in production and exports. The sector faces important challenges in terms of economic, social and environmental sustainability. Citrus identification, as well as verified and updated information on patterns and varieties, is the main basis of varietal management and planning, and constitutes one of the greatest demands of the citrus industry.

He GOCITRUS Operational Group, a consortium of companies and research centers supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, develops tools based on R&D&I to respond to these demands. GOCITRUS promotes a varietal authentication system based on genomic data and associates it with the development of a decision support tool for appropriate varietal choice. These tools constitute a great opportunity for the innovative and sustainable development of the citrus sector.

In this context, the next February 18, 2021 the online seminar will be held GOCITRUS: promoting innovation in the citrus sector, which will have the participation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and relevant entities in the sector. The event will be dedicated to showing the technological advances of this project, and the importance of its applications in the business sector.

Program of the day

11:00 a.m. Welcome

Alfredo Pollan Hermida. Head of Service. SG of Innovation and Digitalization. MAP.

11:00 a.m. GOCITRUS project: presentation and corporate video

Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna. BIOVEGEN Manager

11:15 a.m. Importance of the application of molecular markers in the citrus sector

Moderator: Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna. BIOVEGEN Manager

1. Vision of the Ministry: José Antonio Sobrino. SG of Agricultural Production Means and Spanish Office of Plant Varieties. MAP

2. Legal vision: Maribel Montero. AM LEGAL GROUP

3. Business vision:

Francisco Llatser. Former Technical Director AVASA
José Pellicer. Development Director EUROSEEDS

4. Implementation of markers in the sector. Rodolfo Canet. IVIA Director

12:05 p.m. APP presentation for decision making of citrus varieties

Carlos Baixauli. Director Paiporta Experiences Center. CAJAMAR

12:15 p.m. – Questions and discussion

12:30 p.m. Conclusions and closing

The GOCITRUS Operational Group was born in 2018 in the context of the Call for the Creation of Supra-autonomous Operational Groups in relation to the European Association for Innovation in agricultural productivity and sustainability. In its first phase (corresponding to measure 16.1 of the Call) the project had as its objective the formation of a group of experts to work on the identification and appropriate selection of citrus varieties as a basis for correct varietal and production management and planning. . Currently, the GOCITRUS Operational Group faces its second phase (corresponding to measure 16.2 of the Call) whose objective is to re-organize and define the varietal bases on which to establish the citrus revolution towards which our productive and export sectors are heading due to imperatives. and demands of the new relationships between markets. More information.