The 1st Annual Meeting of Root-Benefit will be held in Riga, Latvia on the 23rd -24th of April 2024.
The venue will be at House of Nature (LATVIJAS UNIVERSITĀTES)
The meeting, open to all registered members of the Action, will include selected Oral talks and Poster Session
A tentative programme is available below and further details will be shortly available.
1st Annual Meeting
Tentative Programme
| Tuesday April 23th (Room 106) | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome (poster mounting in Room 106) |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome speech by Prof. Līga Ozoliņa-Molla (University of Latvia ) Introduction (ROOT-BENEFIT objectives) |
| 9:15 – 10:30 | Presentation by MC members |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | Presentation by MC member |
| 12:15 -14:00 | Break – Group photo |
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Plenary presentations related to WG1 Davide Bulgarelli – UK : WG1 objectives – Functional characterization of beneficial microorganism diversity Tetiana Kalachova – Czech Republic: With a little help of my friends: Rhizosphere microbiome dynamics conveys plant resistance to foliar pathogens Juan Ignacio Vílchez – Portugal : Seed microbiota and stress-tolerance enhancing biotreatments Stuart Lucas – Turkey : Metagenomics of soils adapted for wheat cultivation in Türkiye |
| 14:40 – 15:20 | Plenary presentations related to WG2 Juan Antonio Lopez-Raez – Spain: WG2 objectives – Molecular mechanisms associated with beneficial interaction networks Rafael Jorge León Morcillo – Spain : Study of molecular mechanisms associated with microbial biostimulant-mediated growth enhancement and abiotic stress tolerance in plants, paying especial attention to microbial volatile compounds. Naomi Stuer – Belgium : snRNA-seq for studying the tomato-AMF interaction at a high spatiotemporal resolution Tania Ho-Plagaro – Spain : Transcriptional regulation of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza by GRAS transcription factors |
| 15:20 – 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 – 16:40 | Plenary presentations related to WG3 Jan Jansa – Czech Republic: WG3 objectives – Ecological and economical services provided by the root beneficial interaction networks. Sofia Pereira – Portugal : Exploring the Influence of Bioinoculants and Biochar on Grapevine-Associated Soil Microbial communities Agnès Ardanuy – France : Molecular tools to describe AMF-wheat interactions: increase in soil phosphate availability induces shift of AMF community and mycorrhizal nitrogen uptake in wheat Gülden Balci – Turkey : Effect of mycorrhiza on vegetative growth of strawberries subjected to drought stress |
| 16:40 – 17:20 | Plenary presentations related to WG4 Isabel Brito – Portugal : WG4 objectives – Managing and improving beneficial interaction networks under field conditions Anna Maria Pirttilä – Finland : Plant endosymbionts employed for agriculture as biofertilizers and biocontrol agents Mika Tarkka – Germany : Community analyses and cultivation of rhizosphere microorganisms to assess their potential to increase the stress tolerance of plants Judith Van Dingenen – Belgium : Catching rhizobia to introduce high protein containing soybean for a sustainable agriculture in Europe |
| 17:20 – 17:30 | Communication |
| 17:30 – 17:40 | STSM call |
| 17:40 – 18:30 | Drinks/Appetizers – break – poster session – Group photo |
| 19:00 | Dinner in center of Riga |
| Wednesday April 24th | |
| 9:00 -10:30 | Plenary discussions (Room 106) Transversal topics (moderators + 1 slide introduction / topic) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | WG sessions (Rooms 108, 109, 702, and 334) |
| 12:30 -14:00 | Break |
| 14:00 – 17:00 | MC meeting (Room 107) |
Posters :
- Frederik Bak – Austria : Synthetic bacterial community mimics the assembly pattern of a natural community on wheat roots grown in soil
- Christos Papadopoulos – Greece : Assessment of the toxicity of pesticides on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at testing systems with increasing level of complexity
- Amaia Nogales – Spain : ROOTBIOME project: Root traits and microbiome markers for climate change adaptation in a fruit tree production system
- Matias Pasquali – Italy : Exploring the potential applications of streptomycetes in agriculture: from the lab to the field
- Karolina Jarzyniak – Poland : Rapid identification of rhizobia nodulating soybean by a High-Resolution Melting Analysis
- Tetiana Kalachova – Czech Republic : With a little help of my friends: Rhizosphere microbiome dynamics conveys plant resistance to foliar pathogens
- Jelena Ilic – Croatia : Beneficial fungi for plant growth promotion and plant disease protection.
- Sharon Zytynska – UK : Rhizobacteria-induced plant resistance to aphids: genome to field
- Ricardo Aroca Álvarez – Spain : Physiological and molecular mechanisms behind arbuscular mycorrhiza and PGPR induced osmotic stress tolerance in plants
- Burak ALAYLAR – Turkey : Investigation of plant growth promoting properties of endophytic and rhizospheric bacterial strains isolated from Origanum vulgare L. ssp. vulgare naturally grown in Erzurum.
- Pothier Joël – Switzerland: Transcriptional reprogramming of lettuce roots in response to chitin soil amendment, effect on plant growth, rhizobiome composition and disease resistance.
- Angela Koort – Estonia: The effect of of Symbiotic Microfungi on Blueberry (Vaccinium sp.) Plant Growth in Polytunnel.
- Iñigo Zabalgogeazcoa – Spain: A COLLECTION OF FUNGAL ENDOPHYTES
- Manuel Becana – Spain: Regulation of specific gene expression of hemoglobins in nodules of Lotus japonicus.
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