EUNOPS 2010 - Le Corum, Montpellier, France




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X EUNOPS MEETING

Part of: PALMS 2010

  May 5-7, 2010
Montpellier, France (Corum)




EUNOPS

The European Network of Palm Scientists) was established in 2001 to facilitate the exchange of information and collaboration between European palm specialists. A EUNOPS meeting has been held annually ever since, providing an informal opportunity for palm biologists to meet and to discuss current research through two days of talks and round table discussions.

EUNOPS 10

The tenth meeting of EUNOPS was incorporated into the Palms2010 conference held at Le Corum in Montpellier, France on 5-7 May 2010. The programme included presentations and round table discussions as well as plenty of time for informal interactions. A tour of the historic botanic garden in Montpellier was included as well as a dinner on the evening on Thursday 6 May at the Chateau de Flaugergues.

 

PROGRAMME


Wednesday 5 May 2010

8:15-9:00 - Registration

9:00 - Opening session:

Anne-Yvonne Le Dain, Deputy-President, Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Assembly

Etienne Hainzelin, Director of Research and Strategy, CIRAD

Anne Coudrain, Deputy Director, Montpellier Research Centre, IRD

Alain Rival, PALMS2010 Organising Committee


PLENARY SESSION I: PALM DIVERSITY AND TAXONOMY

(Chairperson:James Tregear, IRD)

9:30 Francis Hallé, Université Montpellier II, France

Structural diversityin palms, a record- breaking family

10:00 John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom

How many palms are there?

10:30-11:00 - Coffee break

11:00 Andrew Henderson, New York Botanical Garden, USA

The Palm Flora of Vietnam and its relation to the Palm Floras of Indo-Burma and Sundaland

11:30 William Baker, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom

Palm diversification in the Indo-Pacific

12:00-14:00 - Lunch break


CONCURRENT SESSION Ia: MEDITERRANEAN PALMS

(Chairperson: Jean-Christophe Pintaud, IRD)

14:00 Robert Castellana, CRP, Le Cannet, France

Distributionand ecology of Phoenix theophrasti in the Aegean region

14:20 L. Cornara, Università degli Studi di Genova Italy

Distribution, ecology and anatomico-structural characteristics of Chamaerops humilis L.(Palmae) in Italy

14:40 Pedro Sosa, Univ Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Currentstate, perspectives and threats of Phoenix canariensis (Arecaceae) in the Canary Islands

15:00 Nadia Bouguedoura, USTHB Alger, Algeria

The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Algeria


CONCURRENT SESSION Ib: BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENOMICS AND AGRONOMY

(Chairperson: Frédérique Aberlenc-Bertossi, IRD)


14:00 Yuval Cohen, Volcani Research Center, Israël

Somaclonal variation in date palms: from genetic markers to candidate genes and transcriptome analyses

14:20 Faiza Masmoudi, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, Tunisia

Biotechnology, floral bisexuality and sex expression mechanism in date palm

14:40 James Tregear, IRD, Montpellier France

Environmental regulation of sex determination in oil palm

15:00 Ahmed Qaddoury, Faculty of Science and Technology, Morocco

Effect of arbuscular mycorrhyzal fungi on date palm response to water deficit

15:20-15:40- Coffee break


CONCURRENT SESSION Ia: MEDITERRANEAN PALMS (cont.)

15:40 Muriel Gros-Balthazard, Univ. Montpellier II France

A combined morphometric and genetic approach of the domestication history and agrobiodiversity of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)

16:00 Mokhtar TRIFI, University El Manar Tunis, Tunisia

Implication of the molecular markers in the the Tunisian date-palm germplasm: geneticdiversity fingerprinting and conservation.

16:20 Susi Gomez, INRA/Estación Phoenix, Elche, Spain

The red palm weevil, a devastating pest in the Mediterranean area

16:40 Mansoor Hameed, Univ. Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Adaptative significance of structural variation in the leaf and root anatomy of some Phoenix L. species from Punjab, Pakistan


CONCURRENT SESSION Ib: BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENOMICS AND AGRONOMY (cont.)

15:40 Isabelle Mialet-Serra, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

In situ starch localisation in Cocos nucifera L. and Elaeis guineensis Jacq

16:00 Lotfi Fki, Faculty of Sciences Sfax, Tunisia

Establishment of in vitro multiple bud cultures and plant regeneration in Phoenix dactylifera cv Barhee

16:20 Sukendah, UPN "Veteran" University, Indonesia

In vitro propagation of kopyor coconut by excising of zygotic embryo explant and somatic embryogenesis

16:40 Mounir Bellaj, FAO, Saudi Arabia

Assessment of the mechanical pollination on date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Khalas and Shaishee cultivars


Thursday 6 May 2010


PLENARY SESSION II: PALM STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

(Chairperson: Anders Barfod)


8:30 Paula Rudall, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom

Palm flowers in a monocot context: insights from developmental and comparative morphology

9:00 Fred Stauffer, Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva, Switzerland

Palm floral structure, diversity and evolution

9:30 Stefan Jouannic, IRD, Montpellier, France

Architecture and organogenesis in palms: the role of KNOX and CUC genes

10:00-10:30: Coffee break

10:30 Nick Rowe, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

How do climbing palms climb and why are they so long?

11:00 Michel Ferry, INRA/Estación Phoenix, Elche, Spain

Phyllotaxis and leaf form in Phoenix dactylifera

11:30 Jack Fisher, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden, Miami, USA

The beauty and significance of palm anatomy

12:00-13:30 - Lunch Break


13:30-15:30 - Poster Session

16:00-17:30 – A guided visit of the "Jardin des Plantes", an unique historical garden embedded in the Medieval heart of the city, which was created in 1593 under the reign of King Henri IV!

19:00 - Conference dinner at the Château de Flaugergues


Friday 7 May 2010


CONCURRENT SESSION IIa: TAXONOMY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

(Chairperson:William J. Baker, RBG Kew)

9:00 Christine Bacon, Colorado State University, USA

Recent advances in palm systematics and biogeography from Trachycarpeae and Livistoninae phylogenies

9:20 Christophe Girod, MNHN, Brunoy, France

Influence of past climate changes on the phylogeography of the palm Astrocaryum sciophilum in French Guiana

9:40 Bee Gun, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Coconut dissemination and genetic diversity

10:00 Donald Hodel, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

A summary of the phylogeny, taxonomy, distribution, ecology, and conservation status of Balaka

10:20 Wolf Eiserhardt, Aarhus University, Denmark

A robust and well-resolved phylogeny of Bactridinae (Arecaceae) based on plastid and nuclear DNA sequences


CONCURRENT SESSION IIb: Part 1: STRUCTURAL AND REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY

(Chairperson:Stefan Jouannic, IRD)

9:00 Nesly Ortega Chávez, Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva, Switzerland

A new interpretation for the acervulate unit and floral structure in the palm tribe Chamaedoreeae Drude (Arecaceae: Arecoideae)

9:20 Brigitte Frérot, INRA, Versailles, France

Pollination by deception in the oil palm

9:40 Mikhail Romanov, Main Botanical Garden, Moscow, Russia

Fruit anatomy of Lodoicea maldivica (J.F. Gmel.)

10:00 Romain Thomas, MNHN Paris, France

Stem anatomy of palms : The Coryphoïdae and some comparisons to other subfamilies

10:20 René Lecoustre, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Modelling and simulating the architecture and growth of Arecaceae

10:40-11:00 - Coffee break


CONCURRENT SESSION IIa: TAXONOMY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY (cont.)

(Chairperson:William J. Baker, RBG Kew)


11:00 Jean-Christophe Pintaud, IRD Montpellier, France

Further evidence for the distinction of Hexopetion from Astrocaryum (Bactridinae)

11:20 Helen Hipperson, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Sympatric speciation in the endemic genus Howea on Lord Howe Island, Australia

11:40 Marco Ballardini, CRA-FSO,Sanremo, Italy

Variation of a chloroplast minisatellite among Phoenix species (Arecaceae): implications for species identification

12:00 Anne Blach Overgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark

Determinants of the geographic ranges of African palm species - the relative roles of climate, habitat, human impact, and spatial constraints


CONCURRENT SESSION IIb: Part 2: ECOLOGY, USES AND CONSERVATION (cont.)

(Chairperson:John Dransfield, RBG Kew)

11:00 Mijoro Rakotoarinivo, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Madagascar Office

Using predictive mapping for palm species conservation in Madagascar

11:20 Rodrigo Bernal, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

The EU FP7 funded PALMS project

11:40 Roland Bourdeix, Cirad, France

Regeneration of old coconut accessions in the international genebank for Africa and the Indian Ocean

12:00 Jean-Marie Kahindo Muhongya, University of Kisangani,Congo

Ecology and distribution of rattan species in a tropical forest (Yoko Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo)

12.30: Round Table on date palm genetic resources (Bioversity – IRD)

12:20-14:00: Lunch break


PLENARY SESSION III: PALMS, POPULATIONS AND INTERACTIONS

(Chairperson: Alain Rival, Cirad)


14:00 Anders Barfod, Univ. Aarhus, Denmark

Mechanisms of pollination in palms

14:30 Michel Dollet, CIRAD Montpellier, France

Phloem-restricted parasites of palms, focus on the coconut palm.

15:00 Jens-Christian Svenning, Univ. Aarhus, Denmark

Patterns and determinants of palm distribution and diversity across spatial scales

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

16:00 Thomas Couvreur, The New York Botanical Garden, USA

Dating the palm tree of life

16:30 William Baker, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom

Palms of the world on line: Web taxonomy via PalmWeb

17:00 General discussion

17:25 Concluding remarks

17:30 Closing of the Symposium 

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