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The 1st International Electronic Conference on Agronomy

Part of the International Electronic Conference on Agronomy series
3–17 May 2021

Food Quality and Safey, Postharvest Technology, Enviromental Impact on Agriculture, Agricultural Resources Renewable and Reutilization, Biofortification and Biostimulants, Grafting and Hydroponics, Plant Genolmics, Weed Biology and Management, Pest Management for Agronomic Crops
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Welcome from the Chairs

Dear colleagues,

The world’s agricultural systems face a great balancing act between two challenges: (1) raise the production of high quality and safe food on the available farmland to feed the global population expected to increase to more than 9.3 billion by 2050, and (2) reduce agriculture’s impact on the environment. Balancing these two challenges presents the major focus for scientists, extension specialists and producers, which mandates an intelligent use of resources in agriculture production. Agricultural production depends to a large extent on limited, non-renewable, and strategic resources: soil, water, nutrients and energy.

The global pandemic has forced us to restrain traveling and to reflect on our ability to endow future generations with substantial scientific advances. Reduced mobility stimulates us to maintain connections with the scientific network using the available technologies. This conference is an opportunity to communicate our shared passion for agronomy.

The conference will include seven special sections which embrace the most important research opportunities in Agronomy. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Application of New Breeding Technologies to Crop Improvement
2. Sustainable Management Practices for Soil Health and Food Security
3. Agronomic Innovations for Sustainable Intensification of Horticultural Production Systems
4. Challenges in Grassland Agro-Ecology in a Global Change Context
5. Weed Invasion, Biology and Management in Agricultural Settings
6. Sustainable and Resilient Farming Systems
7. Precision and Digital Agriculture

While our virtual conference will be a different experience from the traditional gatherings we all know and love, this virtual conference will allow us to connect in new ways while keeping our carbon footprints low and maintaining social distancing. Your presentation will be accessible to hundreds of researchers around the world. Hopefully, it will be a more inclusive and sustainable way of meeting because of the absence of registration fees and travel costs.

We warmly invite our colleagues from across the world to be part of this exciting event.

Prof. Dr. Youssef Rouphael

Chair of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Agronomy

Keywords for This Conference

food quality and safety; post-harvest technology; environmental impact on agriculture; renewable agricultural resources' reutilization; biofortification; biostimulants; vegetable grafting; plant stress; circular economy; hydroponics; sustainable agriculture; plant genomics; biochar; nitrogen management; food and agribusiness supply chains; Weed Biology and Management; Pest Management for Agronomic Crops

Conference Secretariat

Ms. Alicia Ren
Ms. Leda Xuan
Ms. Gris Guo

Important Dates

  • Abstract Deadline: 15 February 2021

  • Abstract Acceptance Notification Deadline: 28 February 2021

  • Full Paper Submission Deadline: 15 April 2021

  • Conference Awards Announcement: 20 June 2021



List of accepted submissions (125)

Id Title Authors Presentation Video Poster PDF
sciforum-043731 Monitoring of a calcium biofortification workflow for tubers of Solanum Tuberosum L. cv. Picasso using smart farming technology , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , N/A Poster PDF Show Abstract
sciforum-043732 Monitoring a calcium biofortification workflow in an orchard of Pyrus communis var. Rocha applying precision agriculture technology , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , N/A Poster PDF Show Abstract
sciforum-043735 Can precision agriculture be used in the management of a Fe and Zn biofortification workflow in organic tomatoes (Lycopersicum esculentum L.)? , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , N/A Poster PDF Show Abstract
sciforum-043739 A case study about the use of precision agriculture technology applied to a Zn biofortification workflow for grapevine Vitis Vinifera cv Moscatel , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , N/A Poster PDF Show Abstract
sciforum-043743 Application of anti-transpirant based on di-1-p-menthene to improve the growth of young olive trees



Submitted: 12 Feb 2021

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IECAG 2021 Live Sessions Programme

Date & Time Chair Session Title
Registration

10 May 2021

10:00-12:00 AM (CEST)

Dr. Giandomenico Corrado

Dr. Nunzio D’Agostino

New Methods and Tools for Plant Genetics and Breeding

10 May 2021

2:00-4:00 PM (CEST)

Dr. Youssef Rouphael

Dr. Giuseppe Colla

Use of Protein-HydrOlysatesas BiOstimulantsof vegetable crops: elucidating their mode of action and optimizing their effectiveness through a multidisciplinary approach – PHOBOS

11 May 2021

10:00-12:30 AM (CEST)

Dr. Youssef Rouphael

Dr. Giuseppe Colla

Biostimulants for sustainable crop production

14 May 2021

9:00-11:00 AM (CEST)

Dr. Gianni Bellocchi

Challenges in Grassland Agro-Ecology in A Global Change Context

Live Sessions on May 10

Live Session 1

Title: New Methods and Tools for Plant Genetics and Breeding

Date: May 10 10:00-12:00 AM (CEST)

Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/8416183187098/WN_clxUopJTSGaSWrIk6nvFAA

Time Speaker & Talk
10:00-10:05 AM Introduction of this live session
10:05-10:30 AM Annalisa Polverari: New Breeding Technologies for Resistance to Downy and Powdery Mildew in Grapevine
10:30-11:00 AM Gianfranco Diretto: Genome Editing-Based Improvement of Tomato Nutritional Attributes
11:00-11:30 AM Ezio Portis: An Improved Genome Assembly and Resequencing of Accessions of Eggplant (Solanum melongena) and Relatives Reveal Key Events in Eggplant Evolution and Breeding
11:30-12:00 AM Alessandro Nicolia: CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Mutagenesis as a Strategy to Develop Resistant Tomato Plants against Parasitic Weeds

Live Session 2

Title: Use of Protein-HydrOlysates as Biostimulants of vegetable crops: elucidating their mode of action and optimizing their effectiveness through a multidisciplinary approach – PHOBOS

Date: May 10 2:00-4:00 PM (CEST)

Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6316183188391/WN_5ZDx-_8iRQu_oHwM_s24jg

Time Speaker & Talk
2:00-2:10 PM Giuseppe Colla: general overview of PHOBOS
2:10-2:30 PM Mirella Sorrentino: Potential of high throughput automated phenotyping platforms in the development of new commercial biostimulants
2:30-2:50 PM Mariateresa Cardarelli: Identification of the most efficient bioassays in assessing the hormone-like activity of plant biostimulants
2:50-3:10 PM Youry Pii: Transcriptomic analysis for a better understanding of biostimulants-induced biological processes
3:10-3:30 PM Luigi Lucini: Metabolomics approaches to shed light on the mode of action of plant biostimulants
3:30-4:00 PM Q&A

Chairs and Speakers Information

Prof. Dr. Ezio Portis

Affiliation: DISAFA, Plant Genetics, and Breeding, University of Torino, Italy

Ezio Portis is a Full Professor of Plant Genetics. At present, he is in charge of the following courses at the School of Agriculture Science and Veterinary Medicine, University of Torino: Genetics, Genomic Selection, and Seed Genetics. He was previously in charge the courses Plant Breeding, Plant Biotechnology, Functional Genomics, Genetics Applied to Food Production, and Bioinformatics courses. His main research topics are: (i)plant genetics: development and application of molecular markers, construction of molecular-linkage maps, QTL and GWAS analysis, and marker-assisted selection (MAS); (ii) genomics and transcriptomics analyses of horticultural crops through the application of NGS technologies and related bioinformatics; (iii) characterization and management of plant genetic resources; (iv) studies of the biosynthetic pathway of secondary metabolites in plants; and (v) seed genetics. He has published about 170 articles (104 and 110 records are available in both the Web of Science and Scopus databases, respectively, and 51 records in the NCBI PubMed database).

Prof. Dr. Annalisa Polverari

Affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Italy

Annalisa Polverari is an Associate Professor of Plant Pathology with the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Verona.

After graduating in Agricultural Sciences, she worked in the industrial field in the phytosanitary sector before becoming a researcher at the University of Perugia in 1991. In 1999, she moved to the University of Verona, where she is currently vice-director of the Department of Biotechnology. Her scientific activity is focused on plant–pathogen interactions, both in basic and applied research, in particular dealing with ultrastructural and molecular aspects of resistance, functional characterization of resistance-associated genes, biotechnological approaches for grapevine resistance to Plasmopara viticola, and, more recently, with the characterization of biovar virulence in Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae and the identification of natural compounds capable of inhibiting bacterial pathogenicity. She has authored 34 articles indexed in Scopus, with an H-index of 14.

Dr. Gianfranco Diretto

Affiliation: Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Development, Casaccia Research Centre, Italy

Dr. Diretto obtained a degree in Plant Biotechnology with full marks in 2002 at the University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of L’Aquila, and spent 2.5 years as a visiting scientist at the BTI (USA), University of Freiburg (Germany), NIB (Slovenia), the IBMCP (Spain), and the INRA-INP Research Unit (France), learning plant transcriptomics and metabolomics techniques. His main interests are genetics and metabolic engineering, by heterologous overexpression or CRISPR-Cas9 KO technology, of carotenoids and apocarotenoids (ABA, crocins, picrocrocin,n and zaxinone), curcuminoids, and anthocyanins in agricultural plants, with particular emphasis on potato and tomato. After 2009, these interests extended to plant and microalgae metabolomics, particularly to nutritional (glycoalkaloids) and antinutritional secondary metabolites, and to systems biology and bioinformatics to identify relevant biological elements (genes and metabolites) associated to a specific phenotype or genetic trait.

Dr. Alessandro Nicolia

Affiliation: CREA - Research Centre for vegetable and ornamental plants

Alessandro Nicolia graduated in Science and Technology in Agriculture at th University of Perugia (Italy); he defended his Ph.D. thesis on plant biology and agro-environmental biotechnologies at the University of Perugia. He worked as a post-doc at the University of Perugia (Italy) from 2009 to 2012, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (Alnarp, Sweden) from 2012 to 2014, and at the ENEA - Research Centre Casaccia (Rome, Italy) from 2014 to 2017. Since 2017, he has been a researcher at CREA - Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (CREA-OF) (Pontecagnano, Italy) and is responsible for the laboratory of in vitro culture and biotechnology. His research activity is focused on the use of new plant breeding techniques for genetic improvement of tomato.

Prof. Dr. Youssef Rouphael

Affiliation: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, Italy

Youssef Rouphael is an Associate Professor of Horticulture with the Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II. He is Section Editor-in-Chief of Agronomy MDPI and Associate Editor of several leading journals in horticultural science and has been a guest editor on biostimulants, vegetable grafting, specialty crops (microgreens and edible flowers), biofortification of vegetables, and quality and safety of fresh fruits and vegetables at harvest in several international journals in horticultural science. Prof. Rouphael has published 333 articles indexed in the Scopus database with a total of 9098 citations and an h-index of 56. He is a member of the scientific committee on Biostimulant.com. Prof. Rouphael is internationally known for his research in horticultural science and has coordinated many projects to improve horticultural production.

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Colla

Affiliation: Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

Giuseppe Colla is Full Professor in vegetable crop production and floriculture with the Deptartment of Agriculture and Forest Sciences, University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). He has been a visiting scientist at UC Davis and Purdue University (U.S.) and since 2018, he has been Director of the Experimental Farm 'Nello Lupori' of Tuscia University. His research on horticultural and floricultural crops is focused mainly on plant biostimulants and vegetable grafting as means to optimize resource use efficiency and tolerance to abiotic stresses especially under greenhouse conditions. He has published more than 240 papers (>7500 citations; h-index 52) in peer-reviewed international journals and is listed on the Top Italian Scientists website as one of the most influential Italian scientists.

Dr. Mirella Sorrentino

Affiliation: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, Italy PSI (Photon Systems Instruments), spol. S.r.o., Drasov, Czech Republic

Mirella Sorrentino is a Ph.D. student with the Department of Agriculture of the University of Naples "Federico II". Her research work is mainly carried out in the Research and Development department of the Photon System Instrument (PSI), a biotechnology company based in Brno, Czech Republic. Here, she investigates the modes of action of different biostimulant substances on lettuce and tomato plants subject to abiotic stress using a high-throughput phenotyping platform.

Dr. Mariateresa Cardarelli

Affiliation: Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria, Centro di ricerca Orticoltura e Floro-vivaismo, 84098 Pontecagnano Faiano, Italy

Mariateresa Cardarelli is a Researcher at Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (Pontecagnano, SA, Italy). Graduated in Agricultural Science with full marks and following with a Ph.D in Biotechnology (Tuscia University, Italy, 2000), she spent training periods at the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies di Chania (Creta) (1998) and the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) in Groβbeeren (2013). In 2016–2017, she was a visiting scientist at Purdue University with the department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (Indiana, USA). Her professional interests include the growth and quality of vegetable plants under different nutrient conditions or abiotic stress, the effects of vegetable grafting on stress tolerance and nutrient use efficiency, the interactions between biostimulants and plants, and seed treatments with biological products (beneficial microorganisms or natural substances).

Prof. Dr. Youry Pii

Affiliation: Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen, 39100 Bolzano, Italy

Youry Pii is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Chemistry with the Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bolzano. His research activities are mainly focused on (i) the study of the interactions between plant, soil, and microorganisms, aimed at improving the uptake and use of mineral nutrients; (ii) the physiological and molecular responses in plants subjected to variable nutrients availability; and (iii) the physiological and molecular responses in plants treated with biostimulants. Prof. Pii is author of 67 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals (1097 citations; h-index 20). In addition, he serves an an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science and MDPI’s Agriculture and as Guest Editor for Acta Horticolturae.

Prof. Dr. Luigi Lucini

Affiliation: Department for Sustainable Food Process, Research Centre for Nutrigenomics and Proteomics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 29122 Piacenza, Italy

Luigi Lucini is a Professor of Biochemistry at Università Cattolica del Sacro cuore, Piacenza, Italy. Following his B.S. in Food Science and Technology (1999), a M.S. in Safety in the Food Industry (2000), and a Ph.D. in Pesticides Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Ecology (2004) from the University of Milan, he joined a private company in the field of fine chemicals being responsible for part of R&D. In 2008, he moved to Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, as researcher, and since 2018, he has been an Associate Professor in agricultural chemistry, teaching classes on the biochemistry, physical-chemistry, and biochemistry of food, and organic chemistry with the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences. Since 2014, he has been responsible for the metabolomic facility at his faculty, dealing with plant, food, microbiology, and environmental metabolomics. His research topics include the effect of edaphic factors and abiotic stresses on plant biochemistry and plant secondary metabolism, including stress mechanisms, plant resilience, and acclimation processes; as well as the consequent modulation of physiological processes. Furthermore, Luigi Lucini deals with the modulation of functional components in plant-based foods, and the use of plant biostimulants to increase sustainable agricultural production.

Live Session on May 11

Live Session 3

Title: Biostimulants for sustainable crop production

Date: May 11 2021 10:00-12:30 AM (CEST)

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2016179720197/WN_xw0mgVr2S1StkfnBqCZGwg

Time Speaker & Talk
10:00-10:25 AM Benoit Planque: Regulation EU 2019/1009 - How to market a biostimulant in Europe ?
10:25-10:50 AM Manuela Giovannetti: Microbial biostimulants: mycorrhizal fungi and associated bacteria
10:50-11:15 AM Maurizio Ruzzi: Microbiome: the hidden part of biostimulant effects
11:15-11:40 AM Paolo Bonini: Systematic approach for development of highly efficient plant biostimulants: An industrial perspective

Chairs and Speakers Information

Prof. Dr. Youssef Rouphael

Affiliation: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, Italy

Youssef Rouphael is an Associate Professor of Horticulture at the Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II. He is a Section Editor-in-Chief of MDPI’s Agronomy and the Associate Editor of several leading journals in horticultural science, and has been a guest editor on biostimulants, vegetable grafting, specialty crops (microgreens and edible flowers), the biofortification of vegetables, and the quality and safety of fresh fruits and vegetables at harvest, in several international journals in horticultural science. Prof. Rouphael has published 333 articles indexed in Scopus database, with a total number of citations of 9098 and an h-index of 56. He is a member of the scientific committee of Biostimulant.com. Prof. Rouphael is internationally known for his research in horticultural science and has coordinated many projects to improve horticultural production.

Prof.Dr. Giuseppe Colla

Affiliation: Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

Giuseppe Colla is a Full Professor in vegetable crop production and floriculture at Deptartment of Agriculture and Forest Sciences, University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). He has been a visiting scientist at UC Davis and Purdue University (US) and, since 2018, has been the Director of Experimental Farm 'Nello Lupori' at Tuscia University. His research on horticultural and floricultural crops is focused mainly on plant biostimulants and vegetable grafting, as a means to optimise resource use efficiency and tolerance to abiotic stresses, especially under greenhouse conditions. He has published more than 240 papers (>7500 citations; h-index 52) in peer-reviewed international journals and is listed on the Top Italian Scientists website, as one of the most influential Italian scientists.

Dr. Benoit Planque

Affiliation: Chief Compliance Officer for Hello Nature

Benoît PLANQUES is the Chief Compliance Officer for Hello Nature (previously called Italpollina), and has been a worldwide company producer of organic fertilizers and plant biostimulants for 50 years. He has been engaged with this subject since the first discussions on European harmonization regulation for fertilizing products in Paris. His work has increasingly focused on plant biostimulants, and he has been actively following the development of the EU regulation on fertilizing products (regulation UE n°2019/1009) in recent years. He has been involved with the standardization of fertilizing products since 1998. In 2017, he created, with the support of EBIC and AFNOR, the European Technical Committee’s CEN/TC 455 on plant biostimulants, who are currently developing several compliance standards in line with EU regulations. He chairs this European Committee and its French mirror committee. He is also an expert on ISO/TC 134, and acts as convenor of WG 6 on Beneficial Substances/Biostimulants.

Prof.Dr. Manuela Giovannetti

Affiliation: Academy of Georgofili, Logge Uffizi Corti, 50122 Firenze Previously, Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy

Full Professor of Agricultural Microbiology, University of Pisa, Italy, from 2000 to 2020. She held the positions of: Director of Research Center “Nutraceuticals and Food for Health” at University of Pisa; Dean of Faculty of Agriculture at University of Pisa; Director of Soil Microbiology Research Center of C.N.R., Italy. She is the author of 160 papers published in international scientific journals; her citation index is 9315 and H-index 44 (20/4/2021). She was a national delegate of EU COST Actions 870 and 8.38; partner/participant to 4 EU projects. She is the principal investigator of many national research projects. She is the Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports and Reviewers in more than 20 scientific journals. Prof. Giovannetti carried out research activities on the nutraceutical value of mycorrhizal plants, molecular/functional diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and of yeasts and lactic acid bacteria, and the structure and function of mycorrhizal networks. She developed, together with Dr. Mosse, the famous analytical method for measuring vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal infection in roots published in New Phytologist in 1980 (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1980.tb04556.x). She is actively involved in science communication.

Prof.Dr. Maurizio Ruzzi

Affiliation: Department for Innovation in Biological, Agrofood and Forest Systems, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Maurizio Ruzzi is a Professor of Fermentation Biotechnology at the Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems (DIBAF) of University of Tuscia, Viterbo. His main research interests are in the fields of microbial physiology, characterization of plant and animal associated micro-organisms through molecular tools, development of novel plant biostimulants based on microorganisms and their metabolites, metagenomic analysis of the dynamics of microbial communities in fresh and fermented foods and agricultural and natural environments. He is the author of more than 60 publications in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He has been recently appointed as Project Leader of the CEN/TC 455 Working Group 3 on “Pathogenic and non-pathogenic microorganisms” for the development of technical specifications in plant biostimulants for listeria monocytogenes and anaerobic micro-organisms.

Dr. Paolo Bonini

Affiliation: oloBion—OMICS LIFE LAB, Barcelona, Spain

Paolo Bonini is the founder and CEO of oloBion, a laboratory of metabolomics analysis located in Barcelona, Spain. oloBion is working in collaboration with NGAlab, a laboratory of Genomics and Metagenomics analysis located in Tarragona, Spain. Mr. Bonini has previously covered the role of R&D Director of the Spanish company Atens, where he obtained more than 10 international patents on microbial-based biostimulants. Mr. Bonini’s research is focused on the use of metabolomics and metagenomics for understanding the mode of action and the mechanism behind the variation of the phenotype induced by biostimulant applications. He published more than 30 papers (>900 citations; h-index 16) in peer-reviewed international journals.

Live Session on May 14

Live Session 4

Title: Challenges in Grassland Agro-Ecology in A Global Change Context

Date: May 14 2021 9:00-11:00 AM (CEST)

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2616179721501/WN_p8YQmAFSTBawwLD3bRhByg

Time Speaker & Talk

9:00-9:10 AM

Gianni Bellocchi: Opening of the Webinar

9:10-9:35 AM Catherine Picon-Cochard: The hidden-half of grassland ecosystem in the context of global change
9:45-10:10 AM Massimiliano Probo: Insights on the use of agroforestry for forage production
10:20-10:45 AM Xian Xue: Desertification of Alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
10:45-11:00 AM Q&A

Speakers

Dr. Gianni Bellocchi

Dr. Gianni Bellocchi is the session chair of session "Challenges in Grassland Agro-Ecology in a Global Change Context" in this conference. He is a research director at the Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit (UREP) of the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). With expertise in agro-climatic and hydrological modelling, his research focusses on two main issues: the study of agro-ecosystem responses to environmental variables and management, and the development of participatory approaches to evaluate the simulation models used to study these responses. Oriented towards the modelling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in grasslands, his research interests range from sequestration/emission processes to the links between plant diversity and biogeochemical processes. In 2013–2016, he coordinated the EU-FP7 project MODEXTREME (MODelling vegetation response to EXTREMe events), in tandem with projects of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture Food Security and Climate Change, where he directed several activities of model inter-comparison for the simulation of production and biogeochemical variables in grasslands and field crops. In 2018-2019, as coordinator of the French project MODIPRAS (Modelling the relationships between species diversity, the functioning of grassland systems and their capacity to provide ecosystem services), he has addressed the incorporation of plant diversity dynamics into biogeochemical models. He is currently leading modelling tasks in the European Joint Programming on agricultural soil management and sits on the Editorial Boards of Agronomy, Agronomy for Sustainable Development and Atmosphere.

Dr. Catherine Picon-Cochard

Dr. Catherine Picon-Cochard is a research director and the head of the Grassland Ecosytem Research Unit (UREP) of the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). Her main resarch topic is to understand how climate change and management affect populations, species and communities of perennial grassland, at above and below-ground levels. Ecophysiological and morphological traits of leaves and roots are studied for semi-controlled and field experiments. Manipulation of climate change drivers (drought, atmospheric CO2, warming) are applied in the field in order to predict the evolution of grassland properties (production, quality, extreme drought resistance and resilience). More recently, she coordinates research in agrivoltaism in sheep grazed grassland.

Dr. Massimiliano Probo

Dr. Massimiliano Probo is the head of the Grazing Systems Group in the Animal Production Systems and Animal Health Research Division at Agroscope, Switzerland. His main research fields are grassland ecology and management, above all in mountain ecosystems. Over the past 15 years he has worked on the relationshiphs among plant functional traits, botanical composition, biodiversity conservation, forage yield and quality, grassland management, feeding preferences by livestock, and milk quality. Currently, he is leading a national project on the use of robust livestock to develop sylvo-pastoral systems on extensive alpine shrub-encroached pastures. Since 2018, he is the head of the Western Switzerland Section of the Swiss Grassland Society.

Prof. Xian Xue

Dr. Xian Xue is the head of the Department of Desert and Desertification in the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her main research fields are desertification and restoration, climate and environmental change in the arid and cold regions. From 2002 to 2010, Dr. Xue's research focused on the dynamic process and mechanism of desertification and its rehabilitation in Northern China. Since 2010, she led a 10-year warming and grazing experiment in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to explore the impact of global warming and human activity on the alpine ecosystem and land degradation. Currently, she is leading a national project on the survey of the desert ecosystem on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Dr. Xue is also the director of the salinization research station of NIEER. She leads the station members to restore the degraded land in the drylands by integrating water management, sustainable agriculture, and biological techniques.

IECAG 2021 Live Sessions Recordings

Live Session 1 - 10.05.2021

Live Session 2 - 10.05.2021

Live Session 3 - 11.05.2021

Live Session 4 - 14.05.2021

Instructions for Authors

Submission Information

Authors should make submissions online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system.

  1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online on this website until 15 February 2021.
  2. The Conference Committee will notify authors of the acceptance of their abstract by 28 February 2021.
  3. In case of acceptance, authors will be asked to submit their manuscript and an accompanying presentation, with the option to include a video presentation of their paper, before the submission deadline of 15 April 2021.
  4. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/IECAG2021 for discussion and rating during the time of the conference (3–17 May 2021).
  5. The open access journal Agronomy will publish a Special Issue of the conference proceedings papers (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/iecag2021).
  6. All accepted extended abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Proceedings (ISSN: 2504-3900, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/proceedings).

After the conference, the Conference Committee will recommend manuscripts that may be included for publication in the Special Issue.

Proceedings Papers

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:

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  • Conclusions
  • (Acknowledgments)
  • References

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Event Awards

We are pleased to announce that event awards are offered to the following authors and their papers:
Session Title Authors Awards
Calibration of flow resistance models in vegetated ditches based on UAV remote sensing IECAG 2021 Best Paper Award
EFFECTS OF GLYPHOSATE APPLICATION ON SOIL CHEMISTRY TO CONTROL INVASIVE PLANTS IN A MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM Best Poster Award

To acknowledge the support of the conference’s esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to launch the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award.

The Awards
Best Paper Award 500 CHF

Number of Awards Available: 1

The Best Paper Award will be presented to honor the paper that is judged to make the most significant contribution to the conference.
Best Poster Award 500 CHF

Number of Awards Available: 1

The Best Poster Award has been established to recognize the scientific merit exhibited in poster presentation and preparation.
Terms and Conditions:
Best Paper Award


As a sponsor, Agronomy would like to present an award for the best paper, as determined by the conference committee. The award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs. We look forward to reviewing your contributions.

Best Paper Award Criteria

Only full papers submitted to IECAG 2021 will be considered. Papers will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

  • Originality/novelty of the paper;
  • Significance of content;
  • Scientific soundness;
  • Interest to the readers;
  • English language and style.

Evaluation

  • Each Evaluation Committee member will assess each entry in terms of the criteria outlined above;
  • Total scores for each presentation will be ranked, from highest to lowest;
  • If two or more authors get the same score, further evaluation will be carried out;
  • All decisions made by the Evaluation Committee are final.

Best Poster Award

As a sponsor, Agronomy would like to grant an award (500 Swiss Francs) for the best poster presented at the conference. This prize will be determined by a jury and awarded to the best-designed poster presented at the conference.

Posters should have the following information:

  • Title (with authors and affiliations)
  • Introduction/Objectives/Aims
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contact information

For consideration for this award, posters should be accompanied by a three-minute video presentation. During the conference, the chair will be invited to judge the quality of the video presentations and posters. Presentations will be judged on how well they are able to summarize the content of the work and make the observer interested in viewing the poster. Posters will be judged on clarity quality of appearance.

Conference Chairs

Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II

Introduction
Bio
Youssef Rouphael is a Professor of Horticulture at the Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II. He is the Editor-in-Chief of “Horticultural and Floricultural Crops Section” in MDPI’s Agronomy and the Associate Editor of several leading journals in horticultural science and has been a guest editor on biostimulants, vegetable grafting, specialty crops (microgreens and edible flowers), biofortification of vegetables, and the quality and safety of fresh fruits and vegetables at harvest in several international journals in horticultural science. Prof. Rouphael has published 330 articles which have been cited a total of 10,000 times; his h-index is 57. He is a member of the scientific committee of Biostimulant.com. Prof. Rouphael is internationally known for his research in horticultural science and has coordinated many projects to improve horticultural production.

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Urrbrae SA 5064, Australia

Introduction
Bio
Professor Peter Langridge is the session chair of session "Application of New Breeding Technologies to Crop Improvement" in this conference.

CNRS, Campus AgroParisTech, Batiment EGER, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France

Introduction
Bio
Dr. Cornelia Rumpel is the session chair of session "Sustainable Management Practices for Soil Health and Food Security" in this conference. She is a soil biogeochemist working for the French National Research Center (CNRS) at the Institute of Ecology and Environment in Paris, France. Her work is concerned with the dynamics of organic matter at the molecular scale and the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in natural and managed ecosystems. During her 25-year career, she has studied the origin and fate of terrestrial organic matter in several environments, ranging from soils and sediments in coal mining areas to organic matter in natural as well as managed ecosystems, including those affected by fire. Her work deals with temperate and tropical environments. For many years, she has been interested in the development of innovative organic amendments and smart fertilizers. She has supervised 17 PhD students to successful completion of their theses and has published more than 180 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. In 2016 and 2017, she was listed as a highly cited researcher in the field of agronomy. Cornelia is engaged in the international 4 per 1000 initiative, as the chair of the scientific and technical committee.

Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

Introduction
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Professor Giuseppe Colla is the session chair of session "Agronomic Innovations for Sustainable Intensification of Horticultural Production Systems" in this conference.

UCA, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche sur l’Écosystème Prairial (UREP), 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France

Introduction
Bio
Dr. Gianni Bellocchi is the session chair of session "Challenges in Grassland Agro-Ecology in a Global Change Context" in this conference. He is a research director at the Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit (UREP) of the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). With expertise in agro-climatic and hydrological modelling, his research focusses on two main issues: the study of agro-ecosystem responses to environmental variables and management, and the development of participatory approaches to evaluate the simulation models used to study these responses. Oriented towards the modelling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in grasslands, his research interests range from sequestration/emission processes to the links between plant diversity and biogeochemical processes. In 2013–2016, he coordinated the EU-FP7 project MODEXTREME (MODelling vegetation response to EXTREMe events), in tandem with projects of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture Food Security and Climate Change, where he directed several activities of model inter-comparison for the simulation of production and biogeochemical variables in grassland and field crops. In 2018-2019, as coordinator of the French project MODIPRAS (Modelling the relationships between species diversity, the functioning of grassland systems and their capacity to provide ecosystem services), he has addressed the incorporation of plant diversity dynamics into biogeochemical models. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards for Agronomy, Agronomy for Sustainable Development, and Atmosphere.

Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga 2678, Australia

Introduction
Bio
Professor Leslie A. Weston is the session chair of session "Weed Invasion, Biology and Management in Agricultural Settings" in this conference.

School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia

Introduction
Bio
Professor Priti Krishna is the session chair of session "Sustainable and Resilient Farming Systems" in this conference. She has a strong background in diverse but related disciplines: Microbiology (MSc), Medical Biochemistry (PhD), Plant Molecular Biology and Sustainable Agriculture (>25-year academic career), and a proven record of leadership in developing and executing pioneering research projects. Her research outputs with the highest impacts are: 1) establishing the role of the phytohormone brassinosteroid in stress tolerance; 2) characterising the heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) chaperone complex in plants, and developing molecular tools which have been instrumental in establishing the role of Hsp90 in plant disease resistance; and 3) aiding the development of a nutraceutical industry in Ontario for sea buckthorn through research. Her current research interests are focused on the production of high-quality, high-value fruits and vegetables in protected cropping systems. Early in her career, she was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Faculty Award, and more recently, she has held the role of Vincent Fairfax Chair in Sustainable Agriculture at Western Sydney University.

Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, National Research Council of Italy, via Amendola 122/D-I, 70126 Bari, Italy

Introduction
Bio
Dr. Annalisa Milella is the session chair of the session “Precision and Digital Agriculture” at this conference. She is a researcher at the Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Her research interests are in the field of robotics and automation, and, in particular, multi-sensor systems for robot perception in structured/unstructured environments, 3D reconstruction and mapping, and signal and image processing applied to robotics and intelligent systems. She is the author of more than 80 publications in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. She has taught academic courses and seminars in the field of applied mechanics, maintenance of mechanical systems, computer vision, and robot mechanics. For many years, she has been involved in national and international agricultural robotics projects. Currently, she is the scientist responsible for the CNR research unit in the H2020 project Agricultural Interoperability and Analysis System (ATLAS).

Conference Committee

Institute of Agroecosystems and Soil Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Agriculture Academy, K. Donelaičio str. 58, 44248 Kaunas, Lithuania

Introduction
Research Keywords
sustainable tillage and sowing systems; field crop management; crop production; quality and safety; inter-cropping; soil properties and GHG emissions; weed and pest management; organic and precision farming; bio-fuel processing from agricultural wastes

Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – Production, Landscape, Agroenergy, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via G. Celoria 2, 20133, Milan, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
Fruit tree; bioinformatic; genetics

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
anaerobic digestion; biomass recycling and use; soil organic matter; FTIR; Raman; NMR; CF-IRMS; TG-DTA; biostimulants biological activity

Laboratory of Range Science, Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, 193 Pantazidou str., 68200 Orestiada, Greece

Introduction
Research Keywords
rangeland ecology and management; grazing; agroforestry; grassland ecosystems; rangeland restoration; grazing behavior; silvopastoral systems

MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development,Institute for Advanced Studies and Research, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Ap. 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal

Introduction
Research Keywords
plant-microbe interactions; sustainable agriculture; plant and soil microbiomes; native microbiomes; plant growth promotion; biological nitrogen fixation; microbial ecology; bacterial diversity; plant probiotic bacteria; symbiosis; soil native bacterial c

Dept. of Water Engineering & Management, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

Introduction
Research Keywords
Irrigation management; deficit irrigation; climate change; plant ecophysiology; water stress; water relations; water footprint; water use efficiency; water productivity; water saving; droughts and water scarcity; plant nutrition; evapotranspiration and pl

Department of Agroecology and Crop Production, University of Agriculture in Kraków, 31-120 Kraków, Poland

Introduction
Research Keywords
allelopathy; weed biology and ecology; weed resistance to herbicides

Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Ecosystème Prairial, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France

Introduction

University of Palermo, Italy

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Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, QC H9X 3V9, Canada

Introduction
Research Keywords
Soil fertility and nutrient management; waste management and nutrient recycling; greenhouse gas emissions; Earthworms, and vermicomposting; biochar

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Introduction

University of Thessaly, Greece

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Washington State University, USA

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CNR–National Research Council of Italy, Italy

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University of Thessaly, Greece

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University of Bologna, Italy

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Washington State University, USA

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Colorado State University, USA

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Agricultural Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus

Introduction

University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy

Introduction

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Introduction

Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Introduction
Research Keywords
The effect of grazing on nutrients recycling; The effect of changes of the temperature-humidity conditions on soil variables; Soil quality and agricultural practices (organic and conventional method of cultivation, fallow, soil sterilization); Soil microb

Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Environmental Biogeochemistry, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznan, Poland

Introduction
Research Keywords
agriculture; nitrogen use efficiency; environmental impact; socio-economic value

Program Head at the Programme of Integral Management of Organic Waste (GIRO) , Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA), Torre Marimon, E-08140 Caldes de Montbui, Spain

Introduction
Research Keywords
microbiology; environment; soil; molecular Biology; energy; sustainability Agricultural

Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Marie-Curie-Straße 1, 47533 Kleve, Germany

Introduction
Research Keywords
nutrient and matter flows at different scales; circular economy, secondary fertilizer; plant roots; rhizodeposition; plant-microbial interactions; soil microbiology; soil salinity; drought stress; insect frass; organic farming; sustainable agriculture

Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), 00184 Rome, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
ecosystem models (RothC and EPIC); soil–crop management and climate change; soil C dynamics in Mediterranean semiarid areas

Spanish National Research Council, CSIC · Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants

Introduction
Research Keywords
Plants; Metabolisms

Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Granada, Spain

Introduction
Research Keywords
Nitric Oxide metabolism; signaling processes; fruit physiology; abiotic stress in crop species; ROS and RNS metabolism; antioxidants

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Queensland, Australia

Introduction
Research Keywords
soil constraints; plant nutrition; conservation agriculture; remote sensing; precision agriculture

Institute of Phytomedicine (360), Department of Weed Science, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany

Introduction
Research Keywords
precision farming; sensors in agriculture; robotics; mechanical weed management; AI; hyperspecral data; innovation technologies

Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
Synthetic Aperture Radar; InSAR; Machine Learnin; Modeling for Agricultural Applications

Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR-UPM), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), 28500 Arganda del Rey, Spain

Introduction
Research Keywords
agricultural engineering; weed management; robotics; artificial perception; sensor system design

Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto, 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
agricultural machinery and farm mechanization; strategies and machines for tillage; planting; crop protection; weed control in sustainable farming systems (organic, integrated and conservative)

Laboratory of Vegetable Production, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece

Introduction
Research Keywords
vegetable production; hydroponics; plant nutrition; plant physiology; abiotic stress; fruit quality; biofortification; nitrogen fixation; phytohormones; plant metabolism

Director of Floriculture Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, University of Peloponnese, Kalamata 24100, Greece

Introduction
Research Keywords
Postharvest Physiology of cut flowers

Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, 3036 Limassol, Cyprus

Introduction
Research Keywords
vegetable production; plant nutrition; soilless culture; substrates and hydroponics; abiotic stress; postharvest and quality of fresh produce; edible flowers; bioactive compounds; medicinal and aromatic plants

Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, 20203 Cartagena, Spain

Introduction
Research Keywords
vegetable crops; protected cultivation; cultivation techniques; soilless culture; vegetable grafting; plant genetic resources; abiotic stress

Department of Horticultural Science, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27697-7609, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
Wood substrates; Bark substrates; Engineering raw materials; Substrate particle dynamics; Substrate Hydrology; Container plant root growth; Substrate analytical methods

University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Division of Horticultural Sciences, Auf dem Hügel 6, 53121 Bonn, Germany

Introduction
Research Keywords
controlled environment agriculture; grafting, growing media; mycorrhiza; product quality of fruit and vegetables; protected cultivation; soilless culture; stress physiology; sustainable horticulture; vegetables

School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia,
Central Coast Primary Industries Centre, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia

Introduction
Research Keywords
plant nutrition; hydroponics; protected cropping; blueberry; cucumber; Asian vegetables

Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences, Vila Real, Portugal

Introduction
Research Keywords
olive trees; olive oil; climate modelling; crop modelling; adaptation measures

Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 5 90128 Palermo, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
crop eco-physiology; plant hormones; protected cultivation; hydroponics; mineral nutrition of vegetable crops; plant growth-promoting microorganisms; abiotic stresses; postharvest; vegetable quality; hygienic safety of vegetables

Department of Agriculture Food & Environment, Via del Borghetto 80, I-56124 Pisa, University of Pisa, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
sustainable agriculture; cropping systems; energy crops; yield physiology of the main herbaceous field crops; plant nutrition and allelopathy

Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387, Kraków, Poland

Introduction
Research Keywords
mycorrhizal; plant endophytes; heavy metals; bioremediation; biodegradation; sustainable agriculture

Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (CREA-OF), Monsampolo del Tronto (AP), 00198 Roma, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
agronomy; organic farming; composting process, compost application and organic fertilization; sustainable development; crop rotations and cropping systems; agro-ecosystem techniques; nutrient management, efficiency, and balance

Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - Research Center for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), Via Celso Ulpiani 5, 70125 Bari, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
organic farming; agro-ecology; compost production, evaluation and application; sustainable agriculture assessment

Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - Research Center for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), 00198 Roma, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
belowground functional biodiversity in diversified organic cropping systems; plant strengtheners and biostimulants in organic farming; crop mycorrhizal symbiosis

Centro Ricerche Produzioni Animali - CRPA, Viale Timavo, 43/2, 42121, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
low input system; organic agriculture; sustainability; crop production; composting; digestate; by-products; biostimulant; biofertilizer; abiotic stress; precision agriculture

Charles Sturt Univ, Graham Ctr Agr Innovat, Orange, NSW, Australia

Introduction
Research Keywords
sterile insect technique; silicon and insect plant defence; fruit fly behaviour; ecology and management; biological control; landscape ecology; habitat manipulation; area wide

Soil and Water Department, Estación Experimental de Aula Dei (EEAD), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 1005 Montañana Ave., 50059 Zaragoza, Spain

Introduction
Research Keywords
agronomy; soil sciences; crop diversification; climate change; soil fertility; soil organic carbon; conservation agriculture; direct drilling; greenhouse gas; ecosystem management

Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment - Via della Navicella, 2-4, 00184 Rome, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
carbon sink in agricultural soils; cropping systems diversification and simulation models; climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture

Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), 00184 Rome, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
carbon sink in agricultural soils; cropping systems diversification and simulation models; GHG emissions from agricultural soils; climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture

Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro 8005-129. Portugal

Introduction
Research Keywords
wastewater reuse; salinity; irrigation; turfgrass; modelling; water quality; Agriculture

Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 33A,43124 Parma, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
biotechnology; sustainable agriculture; biochar; transgenic organisms; contamination; phytoremediation

Irrigation and Water Management Advisor, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, 1050 E. Holton Rd. Holtville, CA 92250, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
agricultural water management; drainage and water quality; on-farm water conservation; salinity management and control practices; environmental instrumentation and modeling

Academy of Georgofili, 50122 Florence, Italy; National Academy of Agriculture, 40126 Bologna, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
interactions between pedology; geomophology and agronomy; namely the study of the terroir effect components and the relationships between viticulture; wine quality, and soil functioning

Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, 60-809 Poznań, Poland

Introduction
Bio
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Research Keywords
organic and mineral soils; bioactive compounds in agricultural soils of well known and unknown structure; phytohormones; amino acids; phenolic compounds; alkaloids; enzymes

Department of Agroforest Ecosystems, Mediterranean Agroforestry Institute (IAM), Universitat , Camino de Vera 14, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Introduction
Research Keywords
botany; plant ecophysiology; abiotic stress; halophytes

Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, CSIC, Plant Breeding Dept., Avenida Menéndez Pidal s/n. Campus Alameda del Obispo 14004 Córdoba, Spain

Introduction

IRTA Inst Food & Agr Res & Technol, Sustainable Field Crops Programme, Lleida, Spain

Introduction
Research Keywords
plant breeding; benomics; marker assisted selection; gene discovery

Agricultural Research Station, Virginia State University, PO Box 9061, Petersburg, VA 23806, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
plant cultivar development; germplasm enhancement; breeding principles and methodologies; QTL analysis and molecular marker applications; genome-wide association study (GWAS); genetic analysis and characterization of traits; gene exploiting/discovery; tra

N. I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, Bol'shaya Morskaya Ulitsa, 42, St Petersburg, Russia

Introduction
Research Keywords
barley; cereal plants; genetic resources; genetics; genome editing; molecular genetics; plant genes, transcriptomics, marker-assisted plant breeding

Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Introduction
Research Keywords
genomics; genetics; biotechnology; molecular biology; bioinformatics

Departemnt of Biotechnology, Institute for Conservation & Improvement of Valentian Agrodiversity (COMAV), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Introduction
Research Keywords
genetics; plant breeding

Biosciences Research, Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia

Introduction
Bio
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Research Keywords
plant genetics and genomics; next-generation sequencing; high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping; molecular breeding; genomic selection

Agronomy Department, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, (IAS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 14004 Cordoba, Spain

Introduction
Research Keywords
genomics of crop adaptation; GWAS; genomic selection; phenotyping tools

Department of Horticultural Sciences, and Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Florida Gainesville, 1253 Fifield Hall, 32611-0690 FL, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
legume and common bean genetics and genomics; plant molecular biology; crop modeling for prediction of the phenotype; starch metabolism

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Agriculture Victoria, Bundoora 3083, Victoria, Australia

Introduction
Research Keywords
evolution; genetic diversity; population and quantitative genetics; polyploidy; simulation; statistical genetics; synthetic hexaploid wheat

Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 4, Entr. L, second floor, 90128 Palermo, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
energy crops; plant biodiversity; medicinal and aromatic plants; phytoremedation; quantitative and qualitative growth response of various agricultural crops to southern Mediterranean

Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Pontecagnano SA, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
studies on interactions between biostimulants and plants; seed treatments; growth and quality of vegetable plants under different nutrient conditions or abiotic stress

Conference Organizers

Agronomy

Agronomy

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