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X EUNOPS MEETING
Part of: PALMS 2010
May 5-7, 2010
Montpellier, France (Corum)
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.
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