10:30 -
Registration Desk open

12:30 - 12:45
Opening RemarksxOpening Remarks(Hiroshi Ezura)

12:45 - 3:00
Session I - Social Implementation of Research Achievements

12:45 - 1:15

INVITED SPEAKER
Gregg A. Howe (Michigan State University, USA)
“Multi-layered mechanisms of insect resistance in tomato.”

1:15 - 1:35

Soon Ju Park (Gyeongsang National University, South Korea)
“Advancing Crop Improvement through Polyploid Genome Engineering.”

1:35 - 1:55

Marietheres Kleuter (Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands)
“Beyond the fruits: tomato leaves as a future source of proteins.”

1:55 - 2:10

Yoshihiro Okabe (NIPPN CORPORATION, Japan) “Isolation of a new Pectate Lyase mutant allele and its application to processing tomato breeding
for improving fruit shelf-life.”

2:10 - 2:25

Short coffee break

2:25 - 2:40

Toon Suzuki (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
“Characterization of a genome-edited high-GABA tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) for fruit quality and yield under salt stress cultivation.”

2:40 - 3:00

Hiroshi Ezura (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
“High GABA CRISPR-tomato: Journy from lab to table.”

3:00 - 4:00
Session II – Biotechnologies
Chair : Kristina Gruden & Aureliano Bombarely

3:00 - 3:20

Jae-Yean Kim (Gyeongsang National University, South Korea)
“Precise Genome Editing: Innovations in Gene Targeting and Prime Editing in Tomato.”

3:20 - 3:40

Hisashi Udagawa (Japan Tobacco INC.)
“Construction of a mutation database by whole genome sequencing for 2,019 ethyl methanesulfonate mutant lines developed from the Japanese tobacco cultivar ‘Tsukuba 1’.”

3:40 - 4:00

Kristina Gruden (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY, Slovenia)
“Stress Knowledge Map: A knowledge graph resource for improved understanding of plant responses to environment.”

4:00 - 4:15

Short coffee break

4:15 - 6:15
Session III – Biodiversity and Evolution
(Chair: Aureliano Bombarely & Kristina Gruden)

4:15 - 4:55

INVITED SPEAKER
Pieter van't Hof (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador)
“Exploring the rhizosphere microbiome of wild tomato species in their center of origin in the Andes and at the Galapagos Islands.”

4:55 - 5:15

Laura Shannon (University of Minnesota, USA)
“How the potato genome was shaped by autotetraploidy: high diversity, many paralogs and low recombination.”

5:15 - 5:35

Giovanni Giuliano (ENEA, Italy)
“Association analyses reveal both anthropic and environmental selective events during eggplant domestication.”

5:35 - 5:55

Luiz Augusto Cauz-Santos (University of Vienna, Austria)
“Genomic insights into drought adaptation in the wild allopolyploid tobaccos (Nicotiana sect.
Suaveolentes).”

5:55 - 6:15

Aureliano Bombarely (Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP), Spain)
“Understanding the evolution of the Suaveolentes polyploid clade through the study of the Nicotiana africana genome”

6:15 -

Poster Viewing I with Welcome reception (light snacks & alcohols)
Open until 8:30 p.m.

9:30 - 12:00
Session IV - Solanaceae Research in Emerging Countries
(Chair: Seung Won Kang)

9:30 - 9:45

Seung Won Kang (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
“SOLANACEAE family for sustainable production in Emergin Countries”

9:45 - 10:25

INVITED SPEAKER
Ya-Ping Ling (World Vegetable Center, Taiwan)
“The Strategies of Tropical Tomato Breeding in the World Vegetable Center.”

10:25 - 10:45

Yellamaraju Sreelakshmi (University of Hyderabad, India)
“Introgression of a dominant phototropin1 mutant enhances carotenoids and boosts flavour-related volatiles in genome-edited tomato RIN mutants.”

10:45 - 11:00

Short coffee break

11:00 - 11:20

Perla N. de Oliveira (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
“SAMBA, a plant-specific APC/C regulator, is involved in development and fruit metabolites in tomato.”

11:20 - 11:40

Pengxiang Fan (Zhejiang University, China)
“Recruitment of an Acyl-CoA Synthase into Branched-Chain Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Drives Metabolic Diversity of Tomato Defensive Acylsugars.”

11:40 - 12:00

Rahul Kumar (University of Hyderabad, India)
“SlMIPS2, a myoinositol phosphate synthase gene, regulates phosphate homeostasis by influencing the SPX-PHR regulatory circuit in tomato seedlings.”

12:00 - 1:30

LUNCH

1:30 - 2:50
Session V – Postharvest Biology and Cultivation Technology
(Chair: Mondher Bouzayen)

1:30 - 1:50

Jieun Seo (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
“Indole-3-acetic acid is a potential hormone involved in seed browning in pepper fruit under chilling temperatures.”

1:50 - 2:10

Paula Teper-Bamnolker (Volcani Aro, Islael)
“Utilizing Vacuolar Invertase Mutants in Potato as a Platform for Advanced Genome Editing.”

2:10 - 2:30

Michitaka Notaguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
“Study on molecular mechanism of Nicotiana benthamiana interfamily grafting.”

2:30 - 2:50

Group Photo

2:50 - 4:20

Poster Viewing II with coffee break

4:20 -6:35
Session VI – Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
(Chair: Lukas Mueller & Mara Ercolano)

4:20 - 2:40

Dennis Psaroudakis (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)
“Identification of core, conditional and crosstalk components of tomato heat stress response using integrative transcriptomics and orthology.”

4:40 - 5:00

Leila Asadyar (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
“Genetic Basis of Divergent Drought Strategies in Nicotiana benthamiana Ecotypes.”

5:00 - 5:20

Dani Eshel (ARO, The Volcani Institute, Islael)
“Characterization of an ABA-Independent Drought Tolerance Pathway in Potato.”

5:20 - 5:35

Short coffee break

5:35 - 5:55

Xin Yan (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
“The comparative genomics analysis of tobacco NLRs unveiled complex dynamics that underlie non-host resistance.”

5:55 - 6:15

Hanna McCoy (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
“Bulking Up for Battle: Bulked Segregant Analysis of Colorado Potato Beetle Resistant Solanum okadae.”

6:15 - 6:35

Francisco Vázquez Prol (IBMCP (UPV-CSIC), Spain)
“Exploring novel plant-to-plant intercommunication pathways in combined biotic and abiotic stresses”
Announcement from SGN and Breedbase

6:35 - 7:00

Lukas Mueller (Boyce Thompson Institute, USA)
“SGN update”

9:30 - 12:00
Session VII – Metabolism, Quality and Nutrition
(Chair: Yellamaraju Sreelakshmi & Giovanni Giuliano)

9:30 - 10:00

INVITED SPEAKER
Yoshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
“Research of vanillin aminotransferase (VAMT), a key enzyme in the capsaicin biosynthesis pathway in chili pepper.”

10:00 - 10:20

Maria Ercolano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
“Integrative analysis of sensory attributes, VOC profile and genetic data for enhancing tomato quality.”

10:20 - 10:40

Esteban Burbano Erazo (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Spain)
“Specific geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase and phytoene synthase combinations control the production of carotenoids and ABA in different tomato tissues.”

10:40 - 11:00

Short coffee break

11:00 - 11:20

Jacopo Menconi (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
“Anthocyanin synthesis in tomato fruit is regulated by a multiprotein network composed of BBX and COP1 proteins converging on HY5.”

11:20 - 11:40

Hiroki Ikeda (Utsunomiya University, Japan)
“Characterization of Tomato Introgression Line IL5 - 4: A Valuable Resource for High-Brix Breeding and Investigation of Blossom-End Rot Mechanisms.”

11:40 - 12:00

Charles Goulet (Université Laval, Canada)
“Structural Variations in the Phytoene Synthase I Gene: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Color Diversity in Tomato Fruits.”

12:00 -

LUNCH pickup

Afternoon
Excursion bus tour

Night
Banquet at Hotel Nikko

9:30 - 12:00
Session VIII – Vegetative and Reproductive Growth & Development
(Chair: Esther van der Knaap & Zhengguo Li)

9:30 - 10:05

INVITED SPEAKER
Lazaro Peres (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
“Key Steps to Developing Insect-Resistant Tomatoes with natural and induced variations.”

10:05 - 10:25

Esther van der Knaap (University of Georgia, USA)
“Common mechanisms controlling fruit shapes may be mediated by changes in cell wall properties.”

10:25 - 10:45

Julien Pirrello (INP-Toulouse, France)
“ERF.E1, a hypoxia regulated genes triggering ripening.”

10:45 - 11:00

Short coffee break

11:00 - 11:20

Alexander Goldshmidt (ARO Volcani, Islael)
“SlKNOXII and SlBLH1-like Genes Control the Coordination Between Fruit Pigmentation and Softening During Ripening.”

11:20 - 11:40

Zhengguo Li (Chongqing University, China)
“GRAS transcription factors regulate fruit development and ripening in tomato.”

11:40 - 12:00

Silvia Manrique (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
“Unraveling the molecular crosstalk between reproduction and stress in eggplant, a model for andromonoecious Solanaceae.”

12:00 - 1:30

LUNCH

1:30 - 3:30
Session IX – Genomics, Genetics and Breeding
(Chair: Helen Tai & Byoung-Cheorl Kang)

1:30 - 1:50

Ido Nir (ARO - Volcani Institute, Islael)
“Tomato stomatal development: Diverse mechanisms of adaptive flexibility revealed by multi-species analysis.”

1:50 - 2:10

Marcela Martinez-Sanchez (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
“SmuMYB113 is the determinant of fruit color in pepino (Solanum muricatum).”

2:10 - 2:30

Kenta Shirasawa (Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Japan)
“Genome and phenotype variations in a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cultivar Micro-Tom.”

2:30 - 2:50

Zahra Zangishei (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
“Unraveling the Epipangenome of Solanum pennellii: Insights into the Genetic Variation and Abiotic Stress Responses for Crop Improvement.”

2:50 - 3:10

Peter Waterhouse (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
“The next step: building a unified Nicotiana benthamiana genomic resource.”

3:10 - 3:30

Fumiya Kondo (Kyoto University, Japan)
“Availability of phenotypic simulation for fruit-related traits in crossing progenies of chili peppers (Capsicum annuum) using genomic prediction based solely on parental information.”

3:30 -
Closing Remarks(Hiroshi Ezura)