The fall meeting of the US RosEXEC will take place Wednesday, October 6 at the RGC6 in Mezzocorona, Italy.  Meeting Agenda is attached.

 

AGENDA

RosEXEC Meeting at RGC6 (open meeting)

Mezzocorona –Palarotare, Italy

15:40-16:40 Wednesday, October 3, 2012

 

Welcome (10 min)

• Current officers, Jay Norelli, Chris Dardick, JD Swanson, and Jim McFerson, send their best wishes for an excellent meeting and regret they are unable to join you.
• Ksenija Gasic, Acting Chair (KGASIC@clemson.edu)
• Nahla Bassil, Acting Secretary (nahla.bassil@ars.usda.gov))
• Self-introductions and sign-up sheet

• Mission
  • Serve as a communication and coordination focal point for the US Rosaceae genomics, genetics and breeding community
  • Define and promote research priorities based on input from the industry and research community
  • Facilitate scientific interaction and foster dynamic research teams
  • Coordinate educational efforts from the research community to the industry and the public.

 

Adopt Minutes of Summer Meeting (July 31, 2012) (Nahla Bassil) (5 min)

·         Proposed revisions

·         Adoption of minutes

 

2013 RosEXEC election (2 min)

• After 3 years of excellent service the following US members: John Clark, Kevin Folta, Ksenija Gasic, Amy Iezzoni, and Jim McFerson, will be rotating off the RosEXEC in January of 2013.
• International liaison members, Michela Troggio (EU) and Thomas Debener (EU) will be rotating off in January of 2013 after 2 years of excellent service.
• 2013 RosEXEC election of new members to replace those rotating off the Committee is currently underway.  To date there are 6 confirmed RosEXEC nominees and 4 international liaison nominees.  The election is tentatively scheduled for Nov 5^th to Nov 16^th.  Newly elected members will begin their terms at PAG XXI.

 

Emerging Technologies (Ksenija Gasic) (20 min)

• Future genotyping platforms: SNP arrays versus GBS
  • Currently available arrays
  • Current GBS projects within Rosaceae
  • Current limitations
  • Future potential

 

USDA-NIFA-SCRI RosBREED2 Project Proposal (Amy Iezzoni, Cameron Peace) (8 min)

• Update

 

Coordination (Ksenija Gasic) (15 min)

• Research Project Updates
  • Newly funded projects within the Rosaceae?
  • RosBREED
  • Updates from other funded SCRI, AFRI and NSF projects
  • Other research updates
• GDR (Dorrie Main, Sook Jung)
• International Project Collaborations

 

Meeting reports and announcements for upcoming meetings (10 min)

• Meeting Reports
  • 1^st Rosaceae Tree Fruit Joint Crop Germplasm Committees (CGC) Meeting: ASHS, Friday Aug 3
  • NCCC 212 Coordinating Comm for Small Fruit and Small Fruits CGC, 30Oct 2012, Tampa, FL
  • Other meeting reports?

• Upcoming Meetings
  • X International Symposium on Integrating Canopy, Rootstock and Environmental Physiology in Orchard Systems, December 3-6, 2012, Stellenbosch , South Africa
  • PAG XXI, January 12-16, 2013, San Diego, California, USA
  • II International Symposium on Discovery and Development of Innovative Strategies for Postharvest Disease Management, April 29 - May 2, 2013, Kusadasi , Turkey
  • VI International Symposium on Almonds and Pistachios, May 27-31, 2013, Murcia, Spain
  • VIII International Peach Symposium, June 17-20, 2013, Matera, Italy
  • VII International Cherry Symposium, June 22-26, 2013, Plasencia, Spain
  • XIII International Workshop on Fire Blight, July 2-5, 2013, Zürich, Switzerland
  • VI International Symposium on Rose Research and Cultivation, August 25-30, 2013, Hannover, Germany
  • II International Symposium on Plum Pox Virus, September 3-6, 2013, Olomouc , Czech Republic
  • Other upcoming meetings?

 

Other business: (5 min)

 

Adjourn:  16:40

 

 

 

John (Jay) Norelli, Ph.D.

Research Plant Pathologist

USDA-ARS

Appalachian Fruit Research Station

2217 Wiltshire Road

Kearneysville, WV 25430

 

mailto:jay.norelli@ars.usda.gov

(304) 725-3451  x264

FAX: (304) 728-2340