XVII EUCARPIA Symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics
June 14 - 18, 2027
Alnarp, Sweden
About the event
Dear all,
We are delighted to invite you to attend XVIIth EUCARPIA Symposium on Fruit breeding and Genetics which will take place in campus Alnarp of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. The main topics of the Symposium are:
- Genetic Resources: management, diversity, evaluation
- Sustainability traits: resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses
- Pedigree- and genomics-informed breeding
- Pre-breeding and new approaches in fruit breeding
- Fruit quality traits
- Participatory and organic breeding
- Genotype by environment interaction and adaptation
- New phenotyping methods
- Whole genome sequencing
- Plant transformation and new breeding technologies
- AI-based approaches in fruit breeding
You will also get the opportunity to visit research facilities and germplasm collections at campus Alnarp.
In addition, we will organise a post-symposium tour to Österlen, the main fruit-growing district and a beautiful Baltic sea coast area.
We are looking forward to welcome you all in June 2026 in Alnarp!
Larisa Gustavsson and Henryk Flachowsky (convenors) also on behalf of organising committee!
Conveners:
Assoc. Prof. Larisa Gustavsson
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Plant Breeding
P.O. Box 190, 234 22 Lomma, Sweden
Larisa.Gustavsson@slu.se
Prof. Dr. Henryk Flachowsky
Pillnitzer Platz 3a
01326 Dresden
Germany
henryk.flachowsky@julius-kuehn.de
Organising committee
Helena Persson Hovmalm, chair
Camilla Stjärnäng
Jonas Skytte af Sätra
Kimmo Rumpunen
Larisa Gustavsson
Lena Ansebo
Scientific committee:
| Larisa Gustavsson | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden |
| Henryk Flachowsky | Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) – Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Breeding Research on Fruit Crops, Germany |
| Jonas Skytte af Sätra | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden |
| Stijn Vanderzande | Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands |
| Maria Jose Aranzana | Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology/Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain |
| Matthew Ordidge | University of Reading, United Kingdom |
| Francois Laurens | INRAE-Research institute on Horticulture and Seeds (IRHS)-Angers-France |
| Vincent Bus | Bioeconomy Science Institute, New Zealand |
| Michela Troggio | Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy |
| Andrea Patocchi | Agroscope, Wädenswil, Switzerland |
| Felicidad Fernandez | Niab East Malling, Plant Genetics Department, United Kingdom |
| Nick Howard | Fresh Forward Breeding and Marketing B.V., Huissen, Netherlands |
| Thomas Letschka | Laimburg Research Centre, Italy |
| Janne Lempe | Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) – Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Breeding Research on Fruit Crops, Germany |
| Gunars Lacis | Latvia Institute of Horticulture, Latvia |
Sponsors
We would like to extend our gratitude to our sponsors and their generous contributions to this conference.
Important dates
14 June, 2027: Conference starts
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