SECOND CIRCULAR From 4th to 8th March, there will take place the I International Congress of Truficulture, Tuber 2013, in Teruel (Spain). Both city and the whole region are already prepared for the reception of congress attendees.

By early registration deadline, 31st January, there were more than 200 people registered coming from more than 20 different countries, the Organizer Committee is very satisfied with this success.

To make registration easier, it has been enabled a registration by days in our online form that will be opened until 1st march at the price of 160 euros (taxes included)

SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS

More than 100 original communications will be presented during the Congress. As it was announced at the end of December, a selection of papers submitted to the Congress will be chosen to take part in a special edition of the magazine Mycorrhiza published by Springer (guest editors: Alessandra Zambonelli and Beatriz Águeda) and of the magazine Forest Systems published by INIA (guest editors: Carlos Colinas and Teresa Ágreda). For the authors presenting a poster, the organization will offer the poster printing service at a price of 50€ each poster. You can send your poster to the Scientific Secretary before February, 28th and pay for it or in the reception area.

AWARDS TO THE BEST COMMUNICATIONS

In order to encourage participation and careful presentation, the Organizing Committee launches the "Awards to the best communications". There are three categories: best young research, best oral communication and best poster. Awards rules are available in the website.

 

PARALLEL ACTIVITIES During the Congress the following activities are planned:

Exhibition of supplying companies of the sector open to Congress attendees. To book a stand you can contact the organization before 28th February. The price of a scheme booth is 500 euros (taxes included). For further information info@tuber2013.com

Post Congress Technical Tour to the truffle areas in Spain and France, for 7 days this tour will visit plantations and truffle processing industries in El Toro (Castellón), Solsona (Lérida), Graus (Huesca), Sarlat (France), Estella (Navarra) and Abejar (Soria). This is a tour for 30 people in a high class bus and including translation. To book your seat contact info@tuber2013.com (Last seats available)

TRANSFER TO CONGRESS HALL. A transfer bus is scheduled from city centre to Congress Hall. Until bus capacity is reached. We would recommend you not to wait until last bus. Departure: Paseo del Óvalo Time: 8:20am and 8:40am Days: 5, 6 and 8 march. Departure: Paseo del Óvalo Time: 7:20am and 7:40am Days: 7 march.

 

PROGRAMA AVANZADO

Advanced Program

4th March 2013

18:00 Bus Departure from Madrid

5th March 2013

9:30 SESSION 1. Management and sustainable approach.

Chair Pierre Sourzat, Truffle Experiment Station (France).

Guest Speech. Truficulture as a tool for private forest management. Pedro A. Medrano Ceña.

Forestry Association of Soria (Spain).

10:00 Practical overview on the relationship between climate and truffle harvest. Jean Marc Olivier.

French network for experimentation in truffle production (France)

10:10 Desert truffle potential zones. A GIS approach with multiple applications. Alberto Andrino.

Universidad de Murcia (Spain)

10:20 A potential model for black truffle cultivation in the province of Huesca (Spain). Ana I. Incausa.

CITA Aragón, Centro de Inv. y Experimentación en Truficultura de la Diputación de Huesca (Spain)

10:30 Mapping and characterization of the mean black truffle producing area in Europe. Pierre Tabouret.

Centre Régional de la Propriété Forestière Rhône-Alpes (France)

10:40 Field performance of truffle plantations in firebreaks. Sergi García-Barreda Fundación CEAM,

Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (Spain)

10:50 Effects of soil tillage on Tuber magnatum development in natural truffières. Elena Salerni.

University of Siena. (Italy)

11:00 Promoting rural marginal areas with the truffle production: an analysis of the convenience of

investments in Italy. Gabriele Scozzafava. University of Firenze (Italy)

11:30 Coffee-break

 

12:00 Opening of the Conference. President of the 1st International Congress of Truficulture 2013 and

authorities. Chair: Dr. Juan J. Barriuso, Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon

(Spain).

12:30 Opening Speech. Truffle cultivation: a global reality. Dr. Santiago Reyna Domenech, Polytechnic

University of Valencia (Spain).

13: 30 Lunch

15:00 SESSION 2.1: Cultivation of genus Tuber species.

Chair Jean-Marc Olivier. French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) (France).

Guest Speech: Teruel, a global model for truffle cultivation: origins, present and future. Julio

Perales Vicente and Juan Mª Estrada. Teruel Black Truffle Growers Association (Spain).

15:30 The technical framework of truffle cultivation. Pierre Sourzat. Station d’expérimentation sur la

truffe, EPLEFPA (France).

15:40 Impact of irrigation period and dose on the growth of Tuber melanosporum in young truffle

orchards. Antoni Olivera. CTFC, Universitat de Lleida (Spain).

15:50 The role of irrigation in the rot of truffles in Western Australia. Harry Eslick. Murdoch University,

The Wine and Truffle Company. (Australia).

16:00 Use of mobile devices for truffle fields optimization. David Francés, Fundación Cesefor. (Spain).

16:10 Developing novel tools and processes for sustainable cultivation of Tuber borchii. Rita Borba.

University of Coimbra. (Portugal).

16:20 Out of the wild: toward cultivating the Burgundy Black Truffle in the Central USA – a holistic

undergraduate research team effort. Johann N. Bruhn. University of Missouri (USA).

16:30 Empirical or rational truffle cultivation? It is time to choose. Gérard Chevalier. INRA Clermont-

Ferrand (France).

17:00 -20:00 Posters Session and Trade Show

17:00 - 18:30 Working Group of mycorrhizal plant.

Chair Juan Luis Peñuelas. Forest Improvement Center "The Serranillo" (Spain)

18:30 - 19:30 Working Group of Forest Mycology and Truffle of SECF.

Chair Fernando Martínez-Peña, Cesefor Foundation (Spain)

20:00 - 22:00 Cultural Visit to Teruel. Only English. Departure from the Torico.

 

6th March 2013

9:00 SESSION 2.2. Cultivation of genus Tuber species.

Chair Dr. Carlos Colinas. University of Lleida & Forest Sciences Center of Catalonia (Spain).

Guest Speech. Towards an European regulation on the quality of truffle mycorrhized seedlings. Dr.

Mattia Bencivenga. University of Perugia. (Italy).

9:30 Comparative analysis of different methods for evaluating evergreen oaks mycorrhized with black

truffle . Antonio Andrés-Alpuente. Gobierno de Aragón. (Spain)

9:40 Production of quality seedlings of Quercus ilex and mycorrhization with Tuber aestivum: a

comparative of substrates with an high fertilization. Luis F. Benito-Macías. Centro de Mejora

Forestal "El Serranillo". (Spain)

9:50 Proposed visual assessment-based method for inspecting mycorrhized plants. Davide Sisti, Urbino

University (Italy).

10:00 Critical points in the production of the mycorrhized seedlings of Quercus ilex subsp. ballota x

Tuber melanosporum. Mario Honrubia. Universidad de Murcia (Spain)

10:10 First results of truffle plantations in Austria – is ectomycorrhiza development a good predictor of

truffle harvests? Alexander Urban. University of Vienna (Austria)

10:20 Persistence and detection of black truffle ectomycorrhizae in plantations. Sergio Sánchez. CITA

Aragón (Spain)

10:30 Monitoring the birth and development of truffles in Tuber melanosporum orchards. Giovanni

Pacioni. University of L’Aquila (Italy)

10:40 Counter-season production of truffles - from humble beginnings to an industry. Ian R. Hall.

Truffles & Mushrooms Inc. (New Zealand)

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 SESSION 3. Ecology of genus Tuber species and biodiversity.

Chair Dr. Jim Trappe. Oregon State University (USA).

Guest Speech. Lessons learned after 20 years of monitoring mycorrhizal status in cultivated truffle

grounds. Dra. Ana M. de Miguel. University of Navarra (Spain).

12:00 Is truffle brulis a case of perturbational niche construction?. Gilberto Bragato. CRA - Center for the

Soil-Plant System. (Italy)

12:10 Physical properties of soils also drive black truffle fructification in plantations. Rafael Alonso

Ponce. CIF Valonsadero (Spain)

12:20 Alkalinity, structure and organic matter of soils. Benoît Jaillard. INRA Montpellier. (France)

12:30 Calcium, key to truffle development and truffle cultivation. Gérard Chevalier. INRA Clermont-

Ferrand. (France)

 

12:40 First identification of the pathogen causing tumor malformations of evergreen oaks in Spain. María

Martín. CITA Aragón, Centro Inv. y Experimentación en Truficultura de la Dip. de Huesca. (Spain)

12:50 Preliminary study of the mites community structure in different black truffle productive soils.

Mikel Queralt. Universidad de Navarra (Spain)

13:00 The truffle beetle Leiodes cinnamomeus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae), key pest of black truffle (Tuber

melanosporum) in Central Spain: bioecological contributions and mass trapping control. Guillermo

Pérez-Andueza. Universidad Católica de Ávila (Spain)

13:30 Lunch

15:00 SESSION 4. Biology and population genetics applied to management.

Chair Dr. Alessandra Zambonelli. University of Bologna (Italy).

Guest Speech. Quantification of extraradical fungal mycelium of Tuber melanosporum by

molecular techniques. Dr. Javier Parladé,. Research & technology food & agriculture Institute of

Catalonia (Spain).

15:30 Integrated approaches to evaluate the productivity of Tuber melanosporum in a model plantation.

Antonietta Mello. CNR Torino. (Italy)

15:40 The evolving soil fungi community associated with the establishment of black truffle plantations

reflects an increasing dominance of Tuber melanosporum with the concurrent decrease in soil

saprotrophic and pathogenic fungi. Christine Fischer. CTFC (Spain)

15:50 Survival of Tuber melanosporum mycorrhiza in sub-optimal climatic conditions. Paul Thomas.

Mycorrhizal Systems Ltd (UK)

16:00 Tuber melanosporum rapidly colonizes the soil surrounding its host tree in Quercus ilex

plantations. Bing Liu. CTFC (Spain)

16:10 Persistence of Tuber melanosporum mycorrhizas and extraradical soil mycelium in a de novo

plantation. Herminia de la Varga. IRTA Cabrils (Spain)

16:20 Genetic diversity and structure of the Iberian populations of Tuber. I García-Cunchillos.

Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

16:30 Large scale identification and mapping of single nucleotide polymorphisms in black truffle (Tuber

melanosporum) by genome resequencing. Thibaut Payen. INRA Nancy (France)

17:00 – 20:00 Posters Session and Trade Show

17:00 - 18:30 Action Cost Meeting

20:00 – 22:00 Cultural Visit around Teruel. Only English. Meeting point “El Torico”.

 

7th March 2013

8:00 Field trip. Meeting point at Palacio Municipal de Congresos.

14:00 Special lunch

17:00 Return to Teruel

18:00 – 20:00 Visit to Dinopolis

8th March 2013

9:00 SESSION 5. Taxonomy of genus Tuber.

Chair Dr. Mario Honrubia. University of Murcia. (Spain).

Guest Speech. Sexuality of the life cycle of truffles: importance and repercussions of being

compatible. Dr. Francesco Paolocci. CNR Perugia. (Italy).

9:30 Desert truffles in Tunisia: diversity and cultivation attempts. Imed Sbissi. Institut des Régions

Arides de Médenine. (Tunisia)

9:40 Poland as an environment for truffles. Maria Lawrynowicz. University of Łódź. (Poland)

9:50 The Burgundy Truffle in Switzerland: its phenology and ecological requirements. Simon Egli. WSL.

(Switzerland)

10:00 High diversity and widespread occurrence of mitotic spore mats in ectomycorrhizal Pezizales.

Matthew Smith. University of Florida (USA)

10:10 Tuber mesentericum ascocarp development. Marie-Anne French. GROSOL (UK)

10:20 High phylogenetic diversity in the Tuber excavatum group. Alexander Urban. University of Vienna.

(Austria)

10:30 The phylogenetic analysis of Tuber brumale aggr.. Zsolt Merényi. Eötvös Loránd University.

(Hungary)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 SESSION 6. Strategies of truffles fresh preserving and its commercialization.

Chair. Dr. Ian R. Hall. Truffles & Mushrooms, Ltd. (New Zealand).

Guest Speech. Strategies for the post-harvest handling and conservation of fresh Tuber

melanosporum. Dr. Domingo Blanco. University of Zaragoza (Spain).

12:00 Picoa melospora a dark truffle sometimes canned with another black truffles, first smooth-spored

species in the genus Tuber. José Luis Manjón. Universidad de Alcalá (Spain)

 

12:10 Authentication of Tuber magnatum and Tuber melanosporum in processed products. Antonietta

Mello. CNR, USO Torino (Italy)

12:20 Effect of edible coatings and modified atmosphere packaging on the microbial population and

quality characteristics of Tuber aestivum (summer truffles). Pedro Marco. U. de Zaragoza (Spain)

13: 00 Closing Speech. Challenges after sequencing the black truffle genome. Dr. Claude Murat. French

National Institute for Agricultural Research (France).

13:45 Closing Ceremony and Awards Ceremony. José Vicente Lacasa Azlor, president of the 1st

International Congress of Truficulture 2013 and authorities. Coordinated by Dr. Juan J. Barriuso.

Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon (Spain).

14:00 Lunch

15:00 Post-Congress trip

15:00 Bus to Madrid

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