GOCITRUS launch day held

BIOVEGEN participated on June 18 in the launch day of the GOCITRUS Operational Group that took place at the CAJAMAR Experience Center in Paiporta (Valencia).

The event was dedicated to publicly presenting the GOCITRUS project, whose objective is to generate molecular markers that help varietal identification and management that will serve as a seed to in the future create a technical unit supported by the Citruseq genomic database. BIOVEGEN participates in the GOCITRUS project in advisory, coordination and dissemination tasks of the consortium's progress.

Program of the day:

10:00 a.m. Reception and welcome

10:15 a.m. Presentation of the innovation proposal of the GOCITRUS Operational Group

• Carlos Baixauli Soria. Agrosustainability Department Manager. Cajamar Experience Center

10:30 a.m. Design of an App for varietal choice advice

• Carlos Baixauli Soria. Agrosustainability Department Manager. Cajamar Experience Center

10:50 a.m. Break/Coffee

11:20 a.m. Current status and problems of molecular markers

• Manolo Talón. Director Genomics Center-IVIA

11:40 a.m. Utility of molecular markers for the identification and management of varieties

• Victoria Ibáñez. Higher Research Technician Applied to Plant Breeding-IVIA

12:00 p.m. The GOCITRUS innovation project

• José Pellicer. President Biovegen and Development Director of Eurosemillas SA

12:30 p.m. Discussion table

• Questions

1:00 p.m. Closure

After the presentation day, the entities that make up the GOCITRUS Operational Group held a new meeting of the consortium, aimed at defining the contents of the report to be presented to the Ministry of Agriculture once the call for the execution of the Groups is published. Operational, as well as to analyze technical, logistical and administrative aspects of the development of the project.