Final Symposium Program —

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Opening ceremony
Prof Shimon Lavee – In memoriam


Germplasm, Genomics & Breeding

Chairperson: Angjelina Belaj & Bouchaib Khadari

Invited lecture
Germplasm, genomics & breeding
— Luciana Baldoni

Domestication and diversification of Mediterranean
olive tree: towards innovative breeding
for sustainable oliviculture
— Bouchaib Khadari, Ahmed El Bakkali

Current status of conservation and identification
of olive cultivars from the World Olive Collection
of IFAPA Córdoba, Spain
— Angjelina Belaj, Juan José González-Plaza,
Roberto Mariotti, Carmen R. Beuzón, Luciana Baldoni,
Raúl de la Rosa

Preliminary results on flowering phenology of
the world olive germplasm bank of Marrakech
— Hayat Zaher, Abdelmajid Moukhli, M Khayat,
Boutzankad Tfarah, Ali Mhais, Fatima Gaboun,
Lhassane Sikaoui, Aissam Salama, Ahmed Tadlaoui-Ouafi,
Cherkaoui El Modafar, Bouchaib Khadari

Lebanese olive germplasm at the heart of the Eastern Mediterranean gene pool pointing out the importance
to characterize and conserve the ancient olive tree
— Lamis Chalak, Hisham Haouane, Laila Essalouh,
Bariaa Hamadeh, Milad El Riachy, Bouchaib Khadari

Coffee break

Chairperson: Luciana Baldoni & Raul De la Rosa

The preservation and characterization of Apulian olive germplasm biodiversity
— Valentina di Rienzo, Monica Marilena Miazzi,
Valentina Fanelli, Wilma Sabetta, Cinzia Montemurro

Original olive genotypes found in Uruguay identified
by morphological and molecular markers
— Jorge Pereira, Jennifer Bernal, Leandro Martinelli,
Paula Conde, Juan José Villamil

New insight on olive domestication in Turkey
— Melek Gurbuz Veral, Ahmet El Bakkali, Laila Essalouh,
Christine Tollon, Mehmet Hakan, Mehmet Ulas,
Burhan Ulas, Sylvain Santoni, Bouchaib Khadari

Variability and heritability of fruit
traits of Mediterranean olive tree
— Ali Mhais, Abdelmajid Moukhli, Hayat Zaher,
Aissam Salama, Ahmed Tadlaoui-Ouafi, Boutzankad
Tfarah, Bensalah Imane, Cherkaoui El Modafar,
Bouchaib Khadari

Lunch

Gene ecological study of wild olives in Iran
— Masoud Sheidaei

Somaclonal variation in tissue culture regenerated
olive plants (Olea europaea cv. Koroneiki)
— Zahra Nourmohammadi, Masoud Sheidai,
Farah Farahani

New olive cultivars and selections in Spain:
results after 25 years of breeding
— Luis Rallo Romero, Diego Barranco,
Raul De la Rosa, Lorenzo León

Cross breeding for Verticillium wilt resistance in olive
— Lorenzo Leon, Rocío Arias-Calderón, Angjelina Belaj,
Juan Cano, Raúl de la Rosa, José Bejarano-Alcázar,
Dolores Rodríguez-Jurado

Coffee break and POSTER session:
Germplasm, Genomics & Breeding
(Conference hall)


Biology & Physiology*
Dedicated to Prof. Shimon Lavee (1931-2016)

Chairperson: Luca Sebastiani & Facundo Vita Serman

Invited lecture
Abiotic stress in olive:
physiological and molecular mechanisms
— Luca Sebastiani

Importance of very fine roots in deep soil layers
for the survival of rainfed olive trees
— Nuno Conceição, Sonia Lourenço, Luca Tezza,
Luis Boteta, Melanie Hausler, Carlos Pacheco,
Maria-Isabel Ferreira

Water deficit and acclimation to low temperatures
improves supercooling in leaves of
Olea europaea L. cultivars
— Nadia Soledad Arias, Sandra Janet Bucci,
Fabián Gustavo Scholz, Guillermo Goldstein

Role of water stress on the resistance to freezing damage in young olive plants and its relation with cold acclimation
— Facundo Vita Serman, Elias Ferares Castiel,
Omar-García-Tejera

Effects of extreme drought on the vegetative
and productive behaviour of olive cultivar 'Istrska belica'
— Maja Podgornik, Dunja Bandelj, Milena Bučar Miklavčič, Matjaž Hladnik, Erika Bester, Vasilij Valenčič, Tea Knap,
Ana Miklavčič Višnjevec, Alenka Baruca Arbeiter,
Vesna Zupanc, Marina Pintar, Bojan Butinar

Impact of weather conditions and drought stress
on primary and secondary metabolites of olives
from Slovenian Istria
— Ana Miklavčič Višnjevec, Vasilij Valenčič, Teja Hladnik,
Maja Podgornik, Dunja Bandelj, Alenka Baruca Arbeiter,
Milena Bučar Miklavčič, Erika Bester, Saša Volk,
Marina Pintar, Bojan Butinar, Matjaž Hladnik

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HALL 1
Continuation of the Biology & Physiology

Chairperson: Luis Rallo Romero & Monji Msallem

Effect of deficit irrigation during oil synthesis period
on carbohydrates content on different organs
of hedgerow olive trees ('Arbequina')
— Antonio Hueso, Constantino Ruiz, Alejandro Perez-Pastor, JM de la Rosa, Maria Gomez del Campo

Effects of phenolic compounds on differentiation
circumstance of cambium and tracheal elements
in graft union of olive cultivars (Olea europaea L.)
— Mücahit Taha Özkaya, Mahmoud Azimi,
Hatice Colgecen, Hatice Nurhan Buyukkartal

Study of morphological traits changes in the In vitro
plantlets of three olive cultivars domesticated ('Dezful
Baghmalek', 'Dezful Safiabad' and 'Roughani') in Iran
— Farah Farahani, Reza Yari, Zahra Noormohammadi,
Masoud Sheidai

Somatic embryogenesis expression from mature
explants of Moroccan olive cultivar (Olea europaea L.),
'Moroccan Picholine'
— Sara Oulbi, Ilham Belkoura, Kenza Loutfi

Integrated overview of olive reproductive
bud dormancy and biennial bearing
— Luis Rallo Romero, António S Ramos,
Guillermo Rubio-Valdés, Hava F. Rapoport

Alternate Bearing in 'Manzanillo' Olive
— Yi-Yun Chao, Elizabeth J. Fichtner, Carol J. Lovatt

Olive inflorescence and flower development as affected
by irradiance received in different positions
of an East-West hedgerow
— Inmaculada Moreno-Alías, Eduardo R Trentacoste,
María Gómez-del-Campo, Victor Beyá Marshall,
Hava F. Rapoport

Molecular characterization of cold winter
flower induction in olives
— Amnon Haberm, Ortal Baksh, Chen Adler,
Giora Ben Ari, Sergio Cerezo Medina, Jose Angel
Mercado Carmona, Fernando Pliego-Alfaro,
Shimon Lavee, Alon Samach

Coffee break and POSTER session:
Biology & Physiology
(Conference hall)

Chairperson: Hava F. Rapoport & Georgios Koubouris

Determination of the compatibility relationships between
olive cultivars: An overview of available methods
— Gabriela Vuletin Selak, Julian Cuevas Gonzalez,
Smiljana Goreta Ban, Slavko Perica

Do bees like olive? A preliminary analysis of honey bee behaviour on flowers of the wind-pollinated species
Olea europea L
— Manuela Giovanetti

Anatomical and molecular differences between the olive
fruit and leaf abscission zone enable development
of a selective abscission compound
— Shiri Goldental-Cohen, Iris Biton, Yair Mani,
Benjamin Avidan, Shimon Lavee, Giora Ben-Ari

Cell wall metabolism of 'Arbequina' olive fruit
picked at diferent maturity stages
— Isabel Lara, Rosa Albrecht, Eva Comabella,
Markus Riederer, Jordi Graell


Nursery, Orchard Management
& Use of By-products*

Chairperson: Kostas Chartzoulakis & Arnon Dag

Invited lecture
Trends in olive nutrition
— Ricardo Fernandez-Escobar

Invited lecture
New approaches for precise irrigation in olive
— José Enrique Fernandez

Effects of irrigation and fertigation applied during
a long-period on tree growth, yield and oil quality
responses of olive trees
— Mouna Ayachi Mezghani, Mohamed Ayadi,
Faouzi Attia, Imen Zouari, Foued Labidi, Latifa Attia

Regulated deficit irrigation efficiency
under different olive plantation systems
— Juan F. Hermoso, Abdelaziz Boudebouz,
Josep Rufat, Amadeu Arbonés, Agustí Romero Aroca

Lunch

Chairperson: Ricardo Fernandez-Escobar &
José Enrique Fernandez

Effect of deficit irrigation on olive tree
performance, yield and oil quality
— Sireen Naoum, Salam Ayoub, Ibrahim Amayreh,
Mai Diab, Mohamed Alomoush, Botros Kawalit, Loai Daoud

Scheduling a deficit irrigation strategy
in olive from leaf turgor measurements:
impact on water status, gas exchange and oil yield
— Carmen Maria Padilla Diaz, Celia Modesta Rodriguez-
Dominguez, Alfonso Perez-Martin, Antonio Montero,
José María García, José Enrique Fernández

Assessment of pruning intensity from 3-D olive-tree
models generated with UAV technology
— José M Peña, Francisco Jiménez,-Brenes,
Jorge Torres-Sánchez, Francisca López-Granados,
Ana I. de Castro, Nicolás Serrano

Effect of rejuvenation pruning on the olive yield
of different varieties, in a super high density olive orchard
— Antonio Fernando Bento Dias, M. Figueira,
A. Pinheiro, J. Peça

Effects of girdling and of fruit thinning
on the vegetative growth and the pomological
characteristics of olive cultivars 'Koroneiki' and 'Chetoui'
— Annabi Khouloud, Mouna Ayachi, Ibtissem Laaribi,
Foued Labidi, Ashraf Bouazza, Hassouna Gouta,
Latifa Attia, Imen Zouari

Coffee break

Chairperson: Tiziano Caruso & Juan Caballero

High planting density trial on 'Arbequina' olive cultivar
— Joan Tous Martí

Horticultural performance of 23 Sicilian
cultivars/accesions in a superintensive olive grove
— Tiziano Caruso, Giuseppe Campisi, Vito Armando
Laudicina, Laura Macaluso, Annalisa Marchese,
Francesco Paolo Marra, Diego Planeta, Placido Volo

Establishment of an olive oil industry in the Sonoran Desert
— Glenn C. Wright

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Field excursion
Olive orchards in Dalmatia*

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HALL 1
Continuation of the Nursery, Orchard
Management & Use of By-products

Chairperson: Louise Ferguson & Salam Ayoub

Invited lecture
Alternative technologies for olive mill wastewater (OMW)
management with emphasis on land application
— Kostas Chartzoulakis, Nicolas Kalogerakis,
George Psarras, Francesca Santori

Land Spreading of Olive Mill Wastewater:
Effects on soil chemical properties,
microbial activity and weed biodiversity
— Salam Ayoub, Ibrahim Bashabsheh,
Kdaled Abulaila, Sonia Damer, Zein Khreisat,
Iqbal Obeidat, Suha Al-Jazazzi, Ziad Naser,
Samar Quddoumi, Ahmad Abudalo

Potential for enrichment of soil with mineral
nutrients by recycling pruning residue in olive
— Georgios Koubouris, Georgios Psarras,
Georgios Doupis, Androniki Papafilippak

The agro-ecosystemic benefits of sustainable
management in an Italian olive grove
— Cristos Xiloyannis, Assunta Maria Palese,
Adriano Sofo, Alba Nicoletta Mininni, Egidio Lardo

A novel method of land zonation
to improve olive farming and oil quality
— Claudio Cantini, Tomaso Ceccarelli

Improvement of trunk shaker harvesting efficiency
through sucker removal before olive harvesting
— Sergio Tombesi, Daniela Farinelli

Olive harvesting efficiency and fruit quality
as affected by mechanical harvesting
— Raid Lutfi

Coffee break and POSTER session:
Nursery, Orchard Management & Use of By-products
(Conference hall)

Mechanical harvesting of table olives:
Harvest efficiency and fruit quality
— Arnon Dag, Isaac Zipori

Mecaolivar outcomes: testing newly developed harvesters
in traditional and intensive olive orchards
— Rafael R. Sola-Guirado, Francisco J. Castillo-Ruiz,
Gregorio L. Blanco-Roldán, Sergio Castro-García,
Jose Colmenero-Martínez, Jesús A. Gil-Ribes


Pest management and Xyllela fastidiosa*

Chairperson: Giovanni Paolo Martelli
& Robert Spooner-Hart

Invited lecture
Xylella fastidiosa emergence:
a new phytosanitary threat for the olive crops
— Maria Saponari, Donato Boscia, Giovanni Paolo Martelli

Differential expression profiles of two olive cultivars
to Xylella fastidiosa strain CoDiRO infection
— Annalisa Giampetruzzi, Massimiliano Morelli,
Maria Saponari, Giuliana Loconsole, Michela Chiumenti, Donato Boscia, Vito Nicola Savino, Giovanni Paolo Martelli, Pasquale Saldarelli

Integrated control of aerial fungal diseases of olive
— Franco Nigro, Ilaria Antelmi, Valentina Sion

Mecaolivar outcomes: testing newly developed airblast
sprayers for pesticide application in traditional
and intensive olive orchards
— Antonio Miranda-Fuentes, Antonio Rodríguez-Lizana,
Emilio González-Sanchez, Andrés Cuenca, Gregorio L.
Blanco-Roldán, Jesús A. Gil-Ribes


Table Olives, Oil technology, Quality
& Health Promoting Properties

Chairperson: Agnese Taticchi & Mücahit Taha Özkaya

Invited lecture
Extravirgin olive oil and its co-products:
technologies for facing new sector challenges
— Maurizio Servili, Sonia Esposto, Agnese Taticchi,
Stefania Urbani, Gianluca Veneziani, Beatrice Sordini,
Ilona Di Maio, Roberto Selvaggini

Chemical characterization of 'Arbequina' extra-virgin olive oils produced in different growing areas of Spain
— Joan Tous Martí, Victorino Vega

Attributes of oil quality of 'Mari' and 'Shengeh' cultivars
as influenced by environment and SAD2 gene
— Mehdi Sharifani, Shima Mahmoudi,
Ahad Yamchi, Mahdi Alizadeh

Lunch

Effect of row spacing on olive oil quality within
N-S oriented hedgerows ('Arbequina')
— Eduardo R Trentacoste, David J Connor,
Antonio Hueso, Maria Gomez del Campo

The effect of nitrogen availability on olive oil quality
— Arnon Dag, Ran Erel, Zohar Kerem, Alon Ben-Gal,
Nerya Stern, Amnon Bustan, Isaac Zipori, Uri Yermiyahu

Olive oil characteristics of 'Chemlali' trees
subjected to simple and combined fertilizers
— Imen Zouari, Mouna Ayachi Mezgani, Beligh Mechri,
Faouzi Attia, Foued Labidi, Khouloud Annabi,
Mohamed Hammami

Influence of irrigation and harvesting time
on the composition of olive oil from two cultivars
growing in Lebanon
— Milad El Riachy, Amany Haber, Salwa Abou Daya,
Ghina Jebbawi, Abdelkader El Hajj

Influence of the irrigation treatments on the yield
and quality of 'Istrska belica' olive oil
— Vasilij Valenčič, Maja Podgornik, Milena Bučar
Miklavčič, Erika Bester, Ana Miklavčič Višnjevec,
Dunja Bandelj, Alenka Baruca Arbeiter, Matjaž
Hladnik, Marina Pintar, Bojan Butinar

Coffee break and POSTER session:
Table Olives, Oil Technology, Quality
& Health Promoting Properties
(Conference hall)

Chairperson: Isaac Zipori & Karolina Brkic Bubola

An advanced approach for the optimization
of harvest timing in modern olive orchards
— Isaac Zipori, Amnon Bustan, Zohar Kerem, Arnon Dag

Influence of olive fruit colour characteristics
on virgin olive oil colour and pigments
— Marin Krapac, Karolina Brkić Bubola, Goran Fruk,
Jerko Gunjača, Barbara Sladonja, Đani Benčić

Effects of storage time and filtration
on volatile profiles of extra virgin olive oils (EVOO)
— Mücahit Taha Özkaya, Esmaeil Ghanbarishendi,
Didar Ucuncuoglu, Feyza Ustunel, Dilek Sivri Özay

New developments on table olives debittering
— Manuel Brenes, Eva Ramírez, Pedro García,
Eduardo Medina, Antonio De Castro,
Concepción Romero

Olive oil, fruits and leaves use and benefits' a Review
— Vera Sergeeva

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Continuation Table Olives, Oil Technology,
Quality & Health Promoting Properties

Chairperson: Joan Tous Martí & Claudio Cantini

Invited lecture
Virgin olive oil: genetic variability
for the senses and health
—  Gabriel Beltrán, Angjelina Belaj,
Maria P. Aguilera, Antonio Jiménez

The Sensory and aromatic profile
of the 'Koroneiki' variety in Messinia, Greece
— Vasilios Demopoulos, Anna Milionis,
Thomas Amorgianiotis, Manolis Salivaras

Influence of olive fruit fly attack on quality
and composition of 'Rosinjola' virgin olive oil
— Karolina Brkic Bubola, Marin Krapac, Barbara Sladonja

Comparative assessment of olive oil quality of foreign
and autochthonous cultivar towards effect
of olive flies infections
— Fatmira Allmuca, Fatbardha Lamce, Krenar Gozhdari, Tatjana Klepo, Onejda Kycyk

Front-face and right-angle fluorescence
spectroscopy for monitoring EVOO evolution
— Pilar Barreiro Elorza, Natalia Hernández-Sánchez,
Lourdes Lleó, Belén Diezma, Faten Ammari,
Teresa Cuadrado, Jean Michel Roger

Coffee break

Chairperson: Agustí Romero Aroca
& International Olive Council delegate

BIOFOS: Micro-ring resonator-based biophotonic
system for food analysis. Olive oil application for contaminants detection
— Agustí Romero Aroca, Antonia Ninot, Juan F. Hermoso, Ioanna Zerguioti, Maria Massaouti, Christos Kouloumentas, Hercules Avramopoulos, Henk Leeuwis, Erik Schreuder, Siegfried Graf, Helmut Knapp, Lise Barthelmebs,
Thierry Noguer, Giorgios Tsekanis, Luc Scheres,
Maarten Smulders, Han Zuilhof, Gerard Heesink,
Lucía Reguillo, Jose Rísquez

The insecticide degradation potential of two Lactobacillus plantarum strains isolated from fermented table olives
— Aysegul Yildirim Kumral, Nabi Alper Kumral

Invited lecture
World olive oil market
— International Olive Council

Olive oil sector challenges
— International Olive Council

Olive oil value chain dynamics:
Turkish olive oil industry case
— Büsra Atamer Balkan, Sedef Meral

Closing remarks and next symposium