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PLENARY TALKS

Plenary 1: Etienne Pilorgé. Sunflower in the global food system: situation and perspectives.

Plenary 2: Loren Rieseberg. Pervasive structural variation in Helianthus: implications for sunflower breeding.

Plenary 3: Lianshe Li, Yongping Zhang, Jiuhuan Feng, et al.. Recent progress of confection sunflower breeding and production in China.

Plenary 4: Stéphane Muños. Recent advances in the resistance, diversity, and interaction of the O. cumana/ sunflower pathosystem.

Plenary 5: Sandra Cvejić, Boško Dedić, Aleksandra Radanović, et al. Innovations in sunflower breeding for enhanced drought adaptation.

Plenary 6: Norma Paniego. Unraveling sunflower resistance to fungal pathogens in Argentine germplasm through genomic analysis.

Plenary 7: Chen Tao. The T2T genome of confection sunflower and molecular mechanism of head domestication.

Plenary 8: Yakov Demurin. Genetics and breeding of sunflower for oil quality.

Plenary 9: Nicolas Langlade. Unlocking the potential of high-throughput phenotyping: applications and future challenges for sunflower.

Plenary 10: Zhao Jun. The recent progress on the integrated control of sunflower pest in China.

Plenary 11: Brent Hulke. Advances in quantitative genetic analysis in sunflower, applied to breeding programs.

GENETICS & SUNFLOWER BREEDING

Belén Fernández-Melero, Lidia del Moral1, Mireille Chabaud, et al. Sunflower genes on chromosome 4 confer different resistances to the parasitic plant Orobanche cumana.

Huang Kaichi. The genomics of linkage drag in inbred lines of sunflower.

Yu Yue. Genomic insights into disease resistance in sunflowers: identifying key regions and candidate genes for Verticillium dahliae resistance.

Audrey Ganteil, Benoit Bleys and Grégoire Marandel. Comparison of sunflower breeding strategies using a simulation approach.

Cunpeng Zhao, Kaihui Wang, Dan Li, et al. Physical mapping and candidate gene prediction of fertility restorer gene of cytoplasmic male sterility in oil sunflower based on BSA-seq technology.

CULTIVATION & CROP PRODUCTION

Vladimir Miklič, Nenad Dušanić, Branislav Ostojić et al. Production of sunflower seed under new climate conditions.

Olabisi Somefun, Victor Olowe, Sunday Adigbo et al. Agronomic responses of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) introduced at different dates into sesame-based intercropping system in a humid tropical location.

Zhang Xili, Wang Yujie, Liu Yonggang et al. Current status of confectionery sunflower production in Bayannur China.

Josefina Demicheli, Ignacio Gaggioli, Fernando Turienzo Aguilar et al.  Is it feasible to anticipate the chemical desiccation of female inbred lines in confection sunflower seed production?

GENOMICS & TRANSCRIPTOMICS

Huang Qixiu; Preliminary exploration of the mechanism of confectionary sunflower resistance to broomrape based on RNA-seq.

Juanjuan Li, Yingying Zhou, Ling Xu, et al. bZIP genes identification and the signal functions to flowering in Helianthus annuus L.

Jiaying Huang, Yan Lu and Lan Jing; Identification of signal peptide secretory function of metalloprotease PhMEP1 from Puccinia helianthin.

Junbin Hou, Zhuo Wang, Xu Ran, et al. Identification and dual RNA-seq analysis of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) head rot pathogen.

Shao Ying; Transcriptome analysis reveals the potential molecular mechanism involved in fatty acids biosynthesis of sunflower.

GERMPLASM RESOURCES & UTILIZATION

Sujatha Mulpuri, Prathap Reddy Kallamadi, Helan B Thomas, et al. Interspecific hybridization of cultivated sunflower with Helianthus praecox towards transfer of resistance to powdery mildew.

M.Y. Dudhe and R. K. Mathur; Current status, issues and challenges of sunflower genetic resources in India.

Meilian Tan, Xingchu Yan, Zirong Zhu, et al. Collection, preservation, identification and evaluation of sunflower germplasm.

Min Chang, Liquan Yang, Jiuhuan Feng, et al. Resistance of wild Helianthus species to the prevailing Chinese broomrape races and new genetic characterization.

Jian Lv, Dawei Liang, Eric Bumann, et al. Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sexual sunflowers.

BROOMRAPE & HERBISIDE RESISTANCE

Velasco, L., Fernández-Melero, B., Del Moral, L., et al. Genetic recombination of virulence alleles as a mechanism of racial evolution of sunflower broomrape in Spain.

Juanjuan Li, Yingying Zhou, Ling Xu, Xiaopeng Yun, Bixian Shi, Weijun Zhou; Resistance potential of HaCERK1 gene in response to Orobanche cumana infection in sunflower.

Elena Dangla, Jan Gielen, Clotilde Claudel, et al. The STIGO project: understanding the molecular mechanism for Orobanche cumana seed germination.

Yanrong Hao, Xinwei Ban, Jinhua Yang, Qingliang Hu, Jiayang Li, and Bing Wang. Mechanism of strigolactone pathway and its roles in Orobanche resistance in sunflower and tomato.

Zishu Xu, Yi Duan, Jie Gao, Juanjuan Li, Qian Huang, Bixian Shi, Weijun Zhou, Ling Xu. Mechanism study on 5-aminolevulinic acid enhancing sunflower resistance to Orobanche cumana Wallr.

Boško Dedić, Dragana Miladinović, Siniša Jocić, et al. Resistance of IFVCNS inbred lines to race F with origin from Spain.

Jian Zhang, Yukuan Zhang, Wenbing Zhang, et al. Genetic diversity analysis and physiological race identification of Orobanche cumana Wallr. collected from China and Eastern Europe countries.

Matthias Pfenning. Combination of Prohexadione calcium and Imazamox provides synergistic control of Orobanche cumana in Clearfield® sunflower.

PHYSIOLOGY AND ABIOTIC STRESS

Maria Duca, Steliana Clapco, Angela Port, Ana Mutu, Rodica Martea. Drought tolerance mechanisms in sunflower: molecular physiological and morphological responses.

Aleksandra Radanović, Sandra Cvejić, Boško Dedić, et al. Unravelling mechanisms of drought tolerance and stress recovery in sunflower.

Zhengyang Wei, Xueqi Wang, Weiwei Li, Xiali Zhou, Zhonghua Wang, Bing Jing. The Impact of drought and salt stress on leaf wax accumulation and cloning of wax alkane synthesis genes in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) .

Yang Wu, Liuxi Yi. Research on drought-resistant mechanism and variety selection of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) .

Yingying Zhou, Juanjuan Li, Ahsan Ayyaz, et al. Whole-genome identification and expression of lateral organ boundaries domain genes under biotic and abiotic stresses in Helianthus annuus L.

DISEASE RESISTANCE & PEST CONTROL

Nomfundo Shinga, Almuth Hammerbacher, Dirk Swanevelder, et al. Investigating the influence of plant growth regulators on mycelial growth and sclerotia production of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

Jianfeng Yang, Jian Zhang, Tie Li et al. Unravel biological mechanism under decreasing disease severity of sunflower Verticillium Wilt via delaying sowing date.

Neila Ait Kaci Ahmed, Thibault Roudaire, Mireille Chabaud, et al. Using multi-service cover crops to control sunflower soil-borne pests.

Zhang Wenbing. Trapping effect of different colored sticky boards to Frankliniella intonsa in sunflower field.

Hui Qu, Haiping Li. Study on green control strategy of Frankliniella intonsa (Trybom) in sunflower field based on chemical ecology.

Hushuan Fan, Li Shi. Diversity of arthropod communities and population dynamics of Frankliniella intonsa of the sunflower field in Inner Mongolia.

Lu Yan. Study on spore germination and infection process of Puccinia helianthin.

SEED QUALITY & PROCESSING

Yalcin Kaya, Emrah Akpinar, Ufuk Bagci, et al. Quality determination in confectionery sunflower.

Christophe Nguyen, Sylvie Dauguet, Jean-Philippe Loison, et al. Cadmium in sunflower seeds: different contents in hulls and kernels and consequences for food and feed industry.

Nada Hladni, Branislav Kisačanin, Veljko Petrović, et al. A novel-based technique for 3D shape acquisition of confectionery sunflower seeds and associated shape descriptions.

P. Carré, J.P. Loison, A. Cavaco-Soares, V. Jauvion, et al. Explaining the variability of sunflower hullability.

Shuai Xu, Wenting Yin, Qing Guo, Yuxuan Jin, et al. Enzyme treatment combined with Maillard reaction modification of sunflower meal hydrolysates to prepare sunflower seed oil flavor enhancer.

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