Programme

President of SPBP, Water Relations group leaders Portugal and Spain

Manipulating stomatal blue light response in wheat to improve productivity
Tracy Lawson (University of Essex, UK)

11:00 - Keynote lecture:
Different plant functional groups drive ecosystem water, carbon and VOC fluxes during drought and recovery
Christiane Werner (University of Freiburg, Germany)

11.30 - Cork oak stripping causes metabolite adjustments at leaf and phloem levels
Clara Pinto (INIAV, Portugal)

11:45 - The effect of the limitation of nut growth in almond on Triose Phosphate Utilization and  down-regulation of photosynthesis
Saray Gutierrez-Gordillo (IFAPA-Las Torres, Spain)

12:00 - Leaf abscission patterns of Eucalyptus globulus clones in response to drought
Filipe Costa-e-Silva (ISA ULisboa, Portugal)

12:15 - Mechanistic modelling reveals the importance of turgor-driven apoplastic water transport in wheat
Sarah Verbeke (Ghent University, Belgium)

14:00 - Keynote lecture:
Advantages and limitations of using reclaimed wastewater in ornamental plants
Maria Fernanda Ortuño (CSIC, Spain)

14:30 - Hydraulic and stomatal adjustments of eight red grapevine varieties under three irrigation treatments
Miguel Damásio (INIAV, Portugal)

14:45 - Fertirrigation in a grafted Pinus pinea L. stand: impacts on growth, reproduction and seed production after 8 years
Alexandra Correia (INIAV, Portugal)

15:00 - Putative role of jasmonic acid signalling in rice coleoptile elongation under submergence
Maria Beatriz Vieira (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

16:00 - Keynote lecture:
Mediterranean viticulture under climate change: observed impacts and adaptation measures
Carlos Lopes (ISA, Portugal)

16:30 - The integrated effect of salinity and deficit irrigation on physiological and ornamental aspects in Euonymus plants
Sara Alvarez (ITACYL, Spain)

16:45 - Alternative crops for wheat under drought conditions: exploring spelt and buckwheat
Xabier Martínez-Goñi (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

17:00 - Seasonal water relations in the grape berry cluster
Olfa Zarrouk (SFCoLAB, Portugal)

17:15 - Hormonal and transcriptional changes in developing common bean seeds under heat stress
Cláudia Lopes (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

Mitigating effects of CO₂ in trees facing drought
Kathy Steppe (Ghent University, Belgium)

11:00 - Keynote lecture:
Advances and challenges in predicting drought-induced forest mortality
Jordi Marínez-Vilalta (CREAF, Spain)

11:30 - The impact of amplified drought and shrub encroachment on carbon assimilation of a Mediterranean oak woodland
Raquel Lobo-do-Vale (ISA Ulisboa, Portugal)

11:45 - Tracing the vulnerability of woody vegetation to groundwater depletion in coastal dune ecosystems
Cristina Antunes (FC Ulisboa, Portugal)

12:00 - Heat and Osmotic stress have contrasting effects on periderm suberization of cork oak roots
Helena Sapeta (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

12:15 - The role of silicon in the resilience of chestnut tree against drought stress
Andreia Carneiro-Carvalho (UTAD, Portugal)

14:00 - Keynote lecture:
Digital agriculture for sustainable agriculture: current main bottlenecks delaying its successful implementation
António Díaz Espejo (CSIC, Spain)

14:30 - Impact of drought on cork development and suberization in Quercus suber
Diogo Lucas (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

15:00 - Relationship between sap flow and radial increments in irrigated cork oaks
Constança Camilo-Alves (University of Évora, Portugal)

15:15 - Biofertilizers and Silicon fertilization as a tool to improve water use efficiency in maize production
Sina Besharat (Urmia University, Iran)

Round table

09:00 - Welcome
Miguel Costa (ISA ULisboa, Portugal) and Margarida Oliveira (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

09:10 - The INTERPHENO project: fostering high throughput plant phenotyping by an interdisciplinary approach
Jorge Marques da Silva (FC ULisboa, Portugal)

09:30 - Phenotyping model plants: water status and irrigation
Nelson Saibo (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

09:50 - Applying artificial intelligence to plant signals: novel strategies to solve problems in biology and agronomy
Ana Barradas (FC ULisboa, Portugal)

10:00 - Opportunities to raise a National Plant Phenotyping Platform in Portugal
M. Margarida Oliveira (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

11:00 - Keynote lecture:
Integration of phenotyping with plant central metabolism and the key role of cereal inflorescences
Rubén Vicente (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

11:30 - Retrospective analysis of durum and bread wheat breeding in Portugal from 1933 to 2020 under contrasting water regimes
Artūrs Katamadze (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

11:45 - Functional characterization of E3-ubiquitin ligases for improved drought response in rice
Tiago Lourenço (ITQB NOVA, Portugal)

12:00 - Vitis rootstocks responses to water availability: water relations and vine performance
Ignacio Buesa (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)

12:15 - Screening for Solanum lycopersicum L. landraces with high drought tolerance  under water stress conditions in open field
Ainda Juan-Cabot (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)