Parallel Session 04

Tuesday 9 April, 10:45 – 11:45

Development, Room 522

10:45 – 11:00     Victor Aprilyanto, Wageningen University and Research, “NAC-NOR and NOR-like1 additively regulate tomato fruit ripening”

11:00 – 11:15     Jana Wittmer, Wageningen University and Research, “Regeneration through root stem cell factors”

11:15 – 11:30     Jelmer van Lieshout, Leiden University, “Identifying regulatory genes of leaf senescence in commercial lettuce types.”

11:30 – 11:45     Juriaan Rienstra , Wageningen University and Research, “Conservation of ARF DNA-binding during evolution. “

Plant-Insect Interaction, Room 558

10:45 – 11:00     Nina Fatouros, Wageningen University and Research, “Insect egg-killing: a new front on the evolutionary arms-race between brassicaceous plants and pierid butterflies”

11:00 – 11:15     Silvia Coolen, Utrecht University, “The secret life of microbes associated with pest insect Nezara viridula “

11:15 – 11:30     Erik Poelman, Wageningen University and Research, “Plant defence strategies to attack by multiple herbivores”

11:30 – 11:45     Lissy-Anne Denkers, University of Amsterdam, “Insight on the inside: exploring natural variation in phloem-based metabolites for insect resistance”

Abiotic Stress , Room 559

10:45 – 11:00     Eliza van Veen, Wageningen University and Research, “Organ specific responses to salinity during early seedling development”

11:00 – 11:15     Max Frencken, Radbout University, “Reproductive heat tolerance in Arabidopsis: development of a pollen phenotyping assay and its application in GWAS”

11:15 – 11:30     Katharina Huntenburg, Wageningen University and Research, “Aerenchyma formation helps to maintain basil (Ocimum basilicum) biomass production in soilless growing systems”

11:30 – 11:45     Yiyun Li , Wageningen University and Research, “Transcriptional networks guiding root branching in salt”

Plant-Microbe Interactions , Room Zuiderduinzaal

10:45 – 11:00     Sarah Kalisvaart, Wageningen University and Research, “The ecological effects of parasitoids and their symbionts”

11:00 – 11:15     Wijnand Schravesande, University of Amsterdam, “Lettuce Big Vein Disease: Two viruses, one disease, and how they collaborate”

11:15 – 11:30     Romanos Zois , Wageningen University and Research, “Tm-1 gene from S. pennellii  is back in business against ToBRFV but it needs a “friend” for full ToBRFV resistance”

11:30 – 11:45     Tijmen van Butselaar, Utrecht University, “The Salicylic Acid-Mediated Growth-Immunity Tradeoff in Arabidopsis”