QualiFlor2003 : Quality of Cut Flowers and Pottend Plants

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10 Aug 2003 - 14 Aug 2003
Unit: Wageningen University
Location: Parkhotel De Branding, Kabeljauwallee 35, Doorwerth
Organisation: WU, Horticultural Production Chains group, Dr. U. van Meeteren, tel +31-317-482403, fax +31-317-484709, e-mail Uulke.vanmeeteren@HPC.DPW.Wag-ur.nl
Website: http://www.dpw.wageningen-ur.nl/hpc/qualiflor2003.htm

 Premium quality cut flowers and potted plants can only be guaranteed through appropriate cultivation and postharvest handling. The symposium is meant to encourage an exchange of recent results and to generate ideas.

Topics:

  • Quality. How is it defined? Can certain aspects be measured? Molecular markers for (aspects of) quality.
  • Growth conditions and postharvest performance. What is the physiological background of some of the benefecial cultivation treatments? Does the increased quality makes up for the increased production/handling cotsts? Can we manipulate postharvest performance by influencing developmental events during cultivation?
  • Physiological and biophysical aspects of flower/plant development and deterioration. Aspects of leaf and flower senescence. Water uptake, transport, embolism, bacteria, ethylene physiology, transgenic plants, receptors, membrane physiology, oxidative stress, cell death pathways, source sink relations, hormonal interactions, role of sugar in flower senescence.
  • Genetics and genomics. What is the status of molecular genetics for flower improvement? Are the breeding companies really interested in the information about senescence related genes?
  • Storage, transport and preservatives. CA/MA storage, why is this often not succesful? Container transport of flowers, is it applied in practice? Future of the use of flower pretreatment solutions and preservatives.
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