Organic apple Breeding in Europe Methodologies- Testing protocols- Varieties and rootstocks- legislation

1. LIVESEED Apple task Workshop- BIOFACH 2019
Organic apple breeding in Europe- Common strategy and networking to face
organic sector challenges and market opportunities
15th
of February 2019, 9.00 to 13.00
Nuremberg Convention Center, NCC Mite, room Lissabon
Final Program
08.30 -09.00 Registration
Organic apple Breeding in Europe
Methodologies- Testing protocols- Varieties and rootstocks- legislation
09.00 – 09.15 Introductions- welcoming – On
line survey
LIVESEED apple task – Kostas
Koutis
09.15- 09.30 Organic apple Breeding in Europe
- State of Art –EGON project
Francois Warlop, GRAB, France
09.30- 09.45 Apple cultivar testing under
organic and market introducion in
Switzerland
Dr. Monika Messmer
Plant Breeding & Variety Testing
Department of Crop Sciences
Research Institute of Organic
Agriculture (FiBL)
Switzerland
09.45-10.00 “NOVAFRUITS : an apple & pear
trans-border organic participative
breeding program based on robust
and disease tolerant old local
cultivars”
Dr Marc Lateur, Dep Living
Sciences, Unit Biodiversity & Plant
Breeding, CRA-W, Belgium
Chairman ECPGR Malus/Pyrus
Working Group
10.00-10.15 Crowd-breeding” of Danish apple
cultivars
Dr. Maren Korsgaard, Dep. Of
Plant and Environmental Sciences,
unit of Crop Sciences, University
of Copenhagen. Denmark.
10.15-10.30 Breeding apples with broad genetic
basis
Dr Markus Kellerhals,
Group leader Fruit Breeding and
Genetic Resources
Agroscope, Switzerland
10.30 – 11.15 Discussion : tools for networking
11.15- 11.30 Break
Meeting farmers and end users needs
11.30- 11.45 Breeding for cider-apple cultivars
in Spain
Dr. Enrique Dapena de la Fuente.
Fruit Research Unit,
SERIDA, Spain
11.45- 12.00 Launching new apple varieties Niklaus Bolliger, Breeder- farmer.

2. under the label of BIOVERITA" Poma Culta, Switzerland
12.00- 12.15 Organic apple in Greece Sevi Liouza, Organic apple farmer,
AEGILOPS heritage variety nursery
– BioFru, Greece
12.15- 13.00 Discussion - conclusions