INTERNATIONAL SUNFLOWER ASSOCIATION

FIELD DAY

PLENARY

• Welcome speeches
• Old and New breeding goals and challenges. Felicity Vear
• Confectionery sunfl­ower as an emerging crop. Chao-Chien Jan
• Sunflower genetic resources pre breeding experience from Serbia. Sreten Terzic
• Biological control agents against sunfl­ower pathogens. Carmen Gómez-Lama Cabanás, Pedro Miranda-Fuentes, Jesús Mercado-Blanco, Mercedes Romero-Cuadrado, Leire Molinero-Ruiz
• New challenges for sunflower ideotyping in changing environments and more ecological cropping systems. Philippe Debaeke
• Prediction of sunflower tolerance to drought using quantitative genetics and crop modelling. Langlade Nicolas, Casadebaig Pierre, Gosseau Florie, Mangin Brigitte, The SUNRISE consortium
• Sunfl­ower in the global vegetable oil system: situation, specificities and perspectives. Etienne Pilorgé
• Resistance to Orobanche cumana: “We will keep on fighting until the end”. Stéphane Muños
• The delicate balancing act of climate control during ­flowering, pollination and seed development in sunfl­ower. Nicky Creux, Carine Marshall, Uyabongeka Memela, Phrasia Mapfumo, Stacey Harmer

Section 1: Breeding - New/old breeding goals and challenges

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Does white rot resistance penalize seed-yield in sunflower? M Antonella Giussani, Fernando Castaño, Santiago G. Delgado
• The impact of the Ahasl1-4 herbicide tolerance allele over dierent agronomic traits in sunflower. Emiliano Altieri, Raquel Sensolini, Mariano Sposaro, Federico Bock, Mariano Bulos
• Mapping of loci associated with tocopherols content using genotyping by sequencing approach in sunflower. Rim Gubaev
• Dissection of the downy mildew genes cluster on chromosome 8. Clemence Paris
• Applying genomic tools to accelerate and facilitate downy mildew resistance breeding in sunflower. Guojia Ma, Xuehui Li, Lili Q

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Feature selection and performance assessment of machine learning algorithms for sunflower oil yield prediction. Sandra Cvejic, Olivera Hrnjakovic, Milan Jockovic, Aleksandar Kupusinac, Ksenija Doroslovacki, Ilija Radeka, Siniša Jocic, Dragana Miladinovic, Vladimir Miklic
• Imidazolinone-induced male sterility in sunflower: a novel strategy for hybridization. Marisa Della Maddalena, Germán Zuzul, Oscar Marques, José María Bruniard, Graciela Nestares, Ana Ochogavía
• Comparison between the predicted performances of simulated sunflower breeding populations and the predicted breeding values of realized progenies. Alix Allard, Ignacio Navarro
• Correlation analysis for seed yield and its component traits in experimental sunflower IMI resistant hybrids. D. Valkova
• Development of magic populations for sunflower disease resistance breeding. Matías Domínguez, Carla Filippi, Juan Montecchia, Mónica Fass, Facundo Quiroz, Daniel Álvarez, Ruth Heinz, Verónica Lia, Julio González, Norma Paniego

POSTERS

• Seed size and substrate effect on seed germination. Milos Krstic, Jelena Ovuka, Velimir Radić, Sonja Gvozdenac, Vladimir Miklič, Velimir Mladenov, Borislav Banjac, Teodora Kukrić
• Correlations and path analyses of some sunflower breeding parameters. Velimir Radic, Igor Balalic, Milan Jockovic, Nada Hladni, Miloš Krstic, Siniša Jocic, Vladimir Miklic
• Genome-wide association studies reveal new genetic loci associated with fatty acid composition in Sunflower. Alina Chernova, Elena Martynova
• Mapping of loci associated with tocopherol composition using genotyping by sequencing approach in sunflower. Rim Gubaev, Stepan Boldyrev, Alina Chernova, Elena Martynova, Tatyana Kovalenko, Tatyana Peretyagina, Svetlana Goryunova, Denis Goryunov, Cecile Ben, Laurent Gentzbittel, Philipp Khaitovich, Yakov Demurin
• Adaptability potential of new sunflower hybrids under the conditions of Dobrudzha region. Galin Georgiev
• Correlation analysis for seed yield and its component traits in experimental sunflower IMI resistant hybrids. D. Valkova
• Components related to higher head diameter, heterosis and type of inheritance in oil seed sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Georgi Georgiev, Nina Nenova, Galin Georgiev, Daniela Valkova, Penka Peevska, Valentina Encheva
• LSFH-171: A high yielding, downy mildew resistant sunflower hybrid suitable for the different agro-climatic zones of Indian conditions. M. K. Ghodke, M.Y. Dudhe, A.M. Misal, M. Sujatha
• New type of experimental sunflower hybrids Su-IMI plus. Anton Florin Gabriel
• New form cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) with resistance to the herbicides pulsar and express. Michail Christov, Miroslava Hristova-Cherbadzhi
• Identication of a novel mutation in a stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase gene associated with enhanced stearic acid levels in sunflower seed. Hirohisa Saga, Sayuri Kitagawa
• Imidazolinone-induced male sterility in sunflower: a novel strategy for hybridization. Marisa Della Maddalena, Germán Zuzul, Oscar Marques, José María Bruniard, Graciela Nestares, Ana Ochogavía
• The first report on efficient CRISPR-based protocol for sunflower. Kubilay Yildirim, Ilkay Sevgen, Ankica Kondic-Špika, Sandra Cvejic, Siniša Jocic, Dragana Miladinovic

Section 2: Oils and proteins - Innovations for increased quality and feedstock supply

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• A multi-year survey on sunflower meal quality produced in France. Sylvie Dauguet, Elodie Tormo, Mohammed Krouti, Alain Quinsac
• Improvement of the nutritional value of sunflower meal by sifting technology. Alain Quinsac, Justine Danel, Sylvie Dauguet, Corinne Peyronnet, Mohammed Krouti, Patrick Carré, François Brionnet, Maria Vilarino
• A Novel Method of Determination of Individual Oil Content in Sunflower and Flaxseed Oil Blends. Marko Ilić
• Fatty acid characterization of sunflower breeding materials at the IFVC. Nada Grahovac

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Sunflower seed oil content depending on the seedling type. Jelena Ovuka
• Time Domain-NMR with chemometric analysis : An alternative tool for determination protein content in sunflower seeds. Loudiyi Mohammed, Le Dorze François, Fintz Christine, Lem Patricia
• Oil extraction from sunflower seeds assisted by pulsed electric eld pre-treatment. Ivan Shorstkii, Evgeny Koshevoi, Meysam S. Mirshekarloo

POSTERS

• Extraction yield obtained by pressing sunflower seed. Ranko Romanic, Tanja Lužaic, Nada Grahovac, Sandra Cvejic, Siniša Jocic, Snežana Kravic, Zorica Stojanovic
• Investigation and comparison of geometric characteristics of oily and non oily sunflower hybrid seeds. Tanja Luzaic, Ranko Romanic, Nada Grahovac, Nada Hladni, Zvonimir Sakac, Snezana Kravic, Zorica Stojanovic
• Influence of pulsed electrical discharge, hydrostatic pressure and temperature on rheological properties of sunflower cake during oil pressing. Ivan Shorstkii, Evgeny Koshevoi, Maxim Sosnin
• A Novel Method of Determination of Individual Oil Content in Sunflower and Flaxseed Oil Blends. Marko Ilic, Kristian Pastor, Ana Marjanovic Jeromela, Ranko Romanic, Vladimir Miklic, ura Vujic, Marijana Acanski
• Dry fractionation process of sunflower meal for the production of protein and phenolic compounds enriched fractions. Oscar Laguna, Abdellatif Barakat, Hadil Alhamada, Erwann Durand, Bruno Baréa, Frédéric Fine, Pierre Villeneuve, Morgane Citeau, Sylvie Dauguet, Jérôme Lecomte
• Fatty acid characterization of sunflower breeding materials at the IFVC. Nada Grahovac, Zvonimir Sakac, Siniša Jocic, Sandra Cvejic, Vladimir Miklic
• Importance of tocopherol in modication the quality of sunflower oil. Dragan Škoric, Zvonimir Sakac, Yakov Demurin
• Enzymatic release of caffeic acid from sunower meal and improvement of its antioxidant activity in emulsion by lipophilisation. Oscar Laguna, Elise Odinot, Alexandra Bisotto, Bruno Baréa, Pierre Villeneuve, Jean-Claude Sigoillot, Eric Record, Craig B. Faulds, Frédéric Fine, Sylvie Dauguet, Alain Quinsac, Laurence Lesage-Meessen, Anne Lomascolo, Jérôme Lecomte
• Amino acid prole in sunflower seeds. Le Dorze François, Seguineau Armelle, Loudiyi Mohammed, Fintz Christine, Lem Patricia

Section 3: Confectionery sunflower - Emerging crop

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Confectionery sunflower in Serbia. Nada Hladni, Ranko Romanic, Brankica Babec, Siniša Jocic, Vladimir Miklic, Veljko Petrovic, Dragana Miladinovic
• A germplasm collection of confectionery sunflower landraces from Spain. Leonardo Velasco, José M. Fernández-Martínez, Begoña Pérez-Vich
• Recent situation of confectionery sunflower production in Turkey. Yalcin Kaya

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Investigation and comparison of geometric characteristics of oily and non-oily sunflower hybrid seeds. Tanja Lužaic, Ranko Romanic, Nada Grahovac, Nada Hladni, Zvonimir Sakac, Snežana Kravic, Zorica Stojanovic
• Polyphenols and flavonoids contents in seed cake from Serbia confectionary sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Ana Đurović
• Response of Seed Yield and Seed Size to Plant Density in Two Confectionary Sunflower Hybrids. Monica López Pereira, Deborah Rondanini, Tomas Pueta, Fernando Turienzo, Ezequiel Barreto
• Morpho-chemicalcharacterization of new confectionary sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) genotypes from Argentina. Rebeca Sandrinelli Tesán, Daniel Alvarez, Mercedes Silva, Roxana Aguilar, Adriana Pazos, Mónica Balzarini, María José Martinez

POSTERS

• Assessment of stability of seed oil and protein content in confectionery hybrids using the apple AMMI analysis. Nada Hladni, Samet Salgam, Miroslav Zoric, Dragana Miladinovic, Siniša Jocic, Ana Marjanovic Jeromela, Sreten Terzic, Milan Jockovic, Sandra Cvejic, Boško Dedic, Aleksandra Radanovic, Zvonimir Sakac, Velimir Radic, Nenad Dušanic, Brankica Babec, Nemanja Cuk, Jelena Ovuka, Nada Grahovac, Sonja Gvozdenac, Vladimir Miklic
• Polyphones and avonoids contents in seed cake from Serbia confectionary sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Zorica Stojanovic, Nada Grahovac, Snežana Kravic, Ana urovic, Ranko Romanic

Section 4: Genetic resources - Investment for the future

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Current status of sunflower genetic resources in India. M.Y. Dudhe, M. Sujatha, H.P. Meena, K. Alivelu, A. Vishnuvardhan Reddy
• The French Sunower Genebank. Tapy Camille, Boniface Marie-Claude
• Genomic prediction of yield tolerance to drought in sunflower genetic resources. Duhnen Alexandra, Blanchet Nicolas, Boniface Marie-Claude, Pouilly Nicolas, Langlade Nicolas, Mangin Brigitte
• Resistances to Orobanche cumana by exploiting helianthus genetic diversity. Chabaud Mireille, Folletti Tifaine, Boniface Marie-Claude, Pérez-Vich- Begoña, Legendre Alexandra, Delavault Philippe, Simier Philippe, Pouvreau Jean-Bernard, Velasco Leonardo, Muños Stéphane
• The genetic interaction between sunflower inbred lines in the process of developing Orobanche cumana resistance hybrids. Onisan Emilian, Petrescu Irina

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Secretory tissues of discs owers in wild Helianthus L. species. Jelena Jockovic, Sreten Terzic , Lana Zoric, Dragana Miladinovic, Jadranka Lukovic
• Study of the reaction of Helianthus debilis accessions to Phomopsis/ Diaporthe helianthi Munt.-Cvet. Maria Petrova
• Flow cytometrical characterization in sunflower genus. Meryem Sahin, Gulsemin Savas Tuna, Metin Tuna, Yalcin Kaya
• Resistance of wild Helianthus species to the prevailing Chinese broomrape (Orobanche cumana L.) races. Min Chang, Chao-Chien Jan

POSTERS

• Root xylem anatomy of the wild and cultivated sunflower. Jadranka Lukovic, Aleksandra Radanovic, Anna Galinski, Dunja Karanovic, Lana Zoric, Jelena Jockovic, Kerstin A. Nagel, Dragana Miladinovic
• Fifty years of collecting wild Helianthus species for cultivated sunflower improvement. Gerald Seiler, Laura Fredrick Marek, Tom Gulya
• Massive haplotypes underlie adaptive variation in wild sunflowers. Marco Todesco, Gregory L. Owens, Natalia Bercovich, Jean-Sébastien Légaré, Shaghayegh Soudi, Dylan O. Burge, Kaichi Huang, Katherine L. Ostevik, Emily B. M. Drummond, Ivana Imerovski, Kathryn Lande, Mariana A. Pascual, Winnie Cheung, S. Evan Staton, Stéphane Muños, Rasmus Nielsen, Lisa A. Donovan, John M. Burke, Sam Yeaman, Loren H. Rieseberg
• Study of the reaction of Helianthus debilis accessions to Phomopsis/ Diaporthe helianthi Munt.-Cvet. Maria Petrova, Daniela Valkova, Valentina Encheva

Section 5: Biotic stress resistance - New and emerging pests and diseases

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Lumisena™: A new seed treatment fungicide for downy mildew control in sunflower. Shevchuk Oleg, Fernandes Nilceli, Papageorgiou Kalliopi, Troisi Marco
• Downy Mildew of Sunflower – Innovative control with the seed applied technologies PLENARIS™ and Acibenzolar-S-Methyl. Brigitte Slaats, Domenico di Bianco, Jennifer Foster, Franz Brandl, Julien Fourmont
• Innovative “Attract & kill” strategy for controlling wireworms in sunflower. Sonja Gvozdenac, Željko Milovac, Stefan Vidal, Jelena Ovuka, Vladimir Miklic, Sandra Cvejic, Brankica Babec
• Evolution of sunflower downy mildew in France. Penaud Annette, Perrot Sophie, Boniface Marie-Claude, Pauchet-Mattler Isabelle, Delos Marc, Bret-Mestries Emmanuelle Mestries
• Contamination of Sunflower Seeds by Fungi and Its Control Using Fungicide Treatments. Mandela E. Addrah, Yuan Zhang, Jian Zhang, Lin Liu, HongYou Zhou, Jun Zhao

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Occurrence of Plasmopara halstedii (Sunflower downy mildew) pathotypes in Hungary. Rita Bán, Attila Kovács, Nisha Nisha, Katalin Körösi, Zoltán Pálinkás, Mihály Zalai, Ahmed Ibrahim Alrashid Yousif, Mihály Perczel, József Kiss
• Evaluation of sunflower inbred lines tolerance to Macrophomina phaseolina using different inoculation methods. Nemanja Ćuk
• Preliminary study on the effect of different plant resistance inducers against sunflower downy mildew (Plasmopara halstedii). Ahmed Ibrahim Alrashid Yousif, Pratik Doshi, György Turóczi, Katalin Körösi, Nisha Nisha, Rita Bán
• Changes in the antioxidant enzyme activity levels of sunflower (Helianthus annuus l.) inoculated by Plasmopara halstedii (sunflower downy mildew) and treated with azadirachtin (Neemazal t/s). Kevein Ruas Oliveira

POSTERS

• Occurrence of Plasmopara halstedii (Sunflower downy mildew) pathotypes in Hungary. Rita Bán, Attila Kovács, Nisha Nisha, Katalin Körösi, Zoltán Pálinkás, Mihály Zalai, Ahmed Ibrahim Alrashid Yousif, Mihály Perczel, József Kiss
• Evolution of sunflower downy mildew in France. Emmanuelle Mestries, Annette Penaud, Marie-Claude Boniface, Marc Delos.
• Development of molecular markers to identify sunflower downy mildew races. Emmanuelle Mestries, Marie-Calude Boniface, Alexandra Legendre, Ludovic Legrand, Sophie Perrot, Aurélie Robert, Thomas Leveque, Isabela Damico, Julien Carpezat, Annette Penaud, Yann Pecrix, Laurence Godiard, Felicity Vear, Stéphane Munos.
• Evaluation of sunflower inbred lines resistance to Macrophomina phaseolina using dierent inoculation methods. Nemanja Cuk, Sandra Cvejic, Velimir Mladenov, Brankica Babec, Boško Dedic, Vladimir Miklic, Siniša Jocic
• Click beetles monitoring using pheromone traps in Serbia. Željko Milovac, Sonja Gvozdenac, Filip Franeta, Petar Canak
• Fungicide tolerance of Plasmopara halstedii (sunower downy mildew) to Mefenoxam in Hungary. Nisha Nisha, Attila Kovács, Katalin Körösi, Rita Bán, Ahmed Ibrahim Alrashid Yousif, Arbnora Berisha, Mihály Perczel
• Colonization of sunflower seed with Alternaria alternata. Dragana Miloševic, Maja Ignjatov,Vladimir Miklic, Maja Karaman, Zorica Nikolic, Gordana Tamindžic, Boško Dedic
• New races of the sunflower downy mildew pathogen (Plasmopara halstedii) in Bulgaria. Valentina Encheva, Maria Petrova, Neno Nenov, Galin Georgiev, Nina Nenova, Daniela Valkova, Penka Peevska, Georgi Georgiev
• Cadophora helianthi, a new fungus aecting sunflowers in Eastern Europe. David Gramaje, Alberto Martín-Sanz, Carmen Berlanas, Leire Molinero-Ruiz
• Botrytis cinerea as causal agent of sunflower seed grey mould. Maja Ignjatov, Dragana Miloševic, Vladimir Miklic, Boško Dedic, Gordana Tamindžic, Dragana Bjelic, Žarko Ivanovic
• Plasmopara halstedii race 735 in Serbia. Boško Dedic, Stevan Maširevic, Siniša Jocic, Sandra Cvejic, Milan Jockovic, Dragana Miladinovic, Aleksandra Radanovic, Vladimir Miklic
• Dissection of the downy mildew genes cluster on chromosome 8. Paris Clémence, Rousseau Jean-Christophe
• Tolerance of NS-sunflower genotypes to charcoal rot. Sonja Tancic Živanov, Boško Dedic, Sandra Cvejic, Vladimir Miklic, Miroslav Zoric
• New races of Puccinia helianthi schwein on sunflower in the Russian federation. Nina Araslanova, Tatiana Antonova, Ekaterina Lepeshko, Tatiana Usatenko, Yulya Pitinova, Maria Iwebor, Svetlana Saukova
• The identication of sunflower resistance genes to downy mildew. Svetlana Ramazanova, Evgeny Badyanov, Saida Guchetl
• Changes in the antioxidant enzyme activity levels of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) inoculated by Plasmopara halstedii (sunflower downy mildew) and treated with Azadirachtin (Neemazal t/s). Kevein Ruas Oliveira, Katalin Körösi, Pratik Doshi, Nisha Nisha, Ahmed Ibrahim Alrashid Yousif, György Turóczi, Priscila Lupino Gratão, Rita Bán
• Alternaria on sunflower in regions of the Russian federation: species and their pathogenicity. Maria Iwebor, Tatiana Antonova, Nina Araslanova, Svetlana Saukova
• Races and oomyceticide tolerances of Plasmopara  halstedii in Argentina. Ana Laura Martínez, María Eugenia Bazzalo, Norma I. Huguet, Amelia Bertero, Ignacio Erreguerena, Ariel Jesús Faberi, Macarena Petrucelli, Jonathan Bannister, Franco Di Giano, Marisa Della Maddalena, Silvana Piubello, Alicia Carrera, Facundo Quiroz
• Climate risk of the Argentine pampas region regarding the release of Diaporthe helianthi ascospores. Corró Molas A., Edwards Molina J., erisod G., Colombo D., Martínez M.I., Bilbao A., Bertero A., Moschini R.C
• Alternaria leaf spot of sunflower in regions of the Russian federation: fungal species and their pathogenicity. Maria Iwebor, Tatiana Antonova, Nina Araslanova, Svetlana Saukova

Section 6: Crop production and modeling - Yield stability in changing environment

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Viballa™: A new effective herbicide for broadleaf weed control in sunower crops. Salas Maria, Apostolidis Vasilis
• Sunflower yield prediction based on high resolution satellite imagery. Branislav Pejak, Oskar Marko, Tatjana Loncar-Turukalo, Predrag Lugonja, Nataša Ljubicic, Vladimir Crnojevic
• Organic foliar fertilization of sunflower enhanced sunflower yield attributes and seed yield in the humid tropics. Victor Olowe, James Fadeyi, Patience Odueme, Olabisi Somefun
• Assessment of the biofumigation potential of Brassica species against Sunflower Verticillium Wilt (Verticillium dahliae) – A eld-experiment approach. Ait Kaci Ahmed Neïla, Desplanques Jérémy, Galaup Benoit, Dechamp-Guillaume Grégory, Seassau Célia
• Developing and Comparing the Yield Potential of Single Cross and Three Way Cross Sunflower Hybrids for Uganda Condition. Walter O. Anyanga, Pius Elobu

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• New approaches in phenotype prediction – Machine learning techniques. Milan Jockovic, Sandra Cvejic, Siniša Jocic, Ilija Radeka, Jelena Jockovic, Aleksandra Radanovic, Sreten Terzic, Boško Dedic
• The effects of climate change on sunflower yield in the Konya basin of Turkey. Hüdaverdi Gürkan, Nilgün Bayraktar, Gerrit Hoogenboom
• The effect of legumes and sunflower intercropping on soil compaction. Brankica Babec
• Sunflower oil yield responses to wide inter-row spacing. Monica López Pereira, Andrés Paterniti, Edmundo Ploschuk

POSTERS

• Assessment of Climate Change on Sunflower Production Using the AquacropModelin the Konya Basin of Turkey. Hüdaverdi Gürkan, Nilgün Bayraktar, Hüseyin Bulut
• Agronomic attribute and stability of new exotic sunflower hybrids in Iran. Mehdi Ghaari, Bahram Alizadeh, Hossein Sadeghi, Siamak Kolbadi, Abbasali Andarkhor, Malihe Homayonifar, Ahmad Kalantar Ahmadi
• Sunflower seed oil content depending on the seedling type. Jelena Ovuka, Sonja Gvozdenac, Dušica Jovicic, Miloš Krstic, Daliborka Butaš, Vladimir Miklic
• Determinaton of yield performances of IMI type sunflower (Helanthus annuus L.) hybrds resstant to broomrape and downy mldew. Ibrahim Mehmet Yilmaz, Veli Pekcan, Samet Saglam, Kadirhan Tekcan, Guray Dinler, Goksel Evci
• The influence of sowing date on yield and quality of NS sunflower hybrids. Jovan Crnobarac, Igor Balalic, Dragana Latkovic, Goran Jacimovic
• The effect of legumes and sunflower intercropping on soil compaction. Brankica Babec, Nada Hladni, Jovan Crnobarac, Bojan Vojnov, Milorad Živanov, Sran Šeremešic
• Importance of Halauxifen-methyl for integrated weed management in sunflower, with special emphasis on the control of resistant common ragweed to ALS inhibitors. Goran Malidža, Maria Salas, Miloš Rajkovic, Notter Jean-Sébastien
• SREG model evaluation of sunflower hybrids in South-East Europe. Milan Jockovic, Sandra Cvejic, Siniša Jocic, Dragana Miladinovic, Velimir Radic, Vladimir Miklic, Jelena Ovuka, Ana Marjanovic-Jeromela
• Study on important indices in the seeds of some sunflower hybrids and their correlation. Nina Nenova, Daniela Valkova
• Feasibility of double cropping system with Camelina and sunflower in Serbia. Ana Marjanovic Jeromela, Sandra Cvejic, Siniša Jocic, Jovan Crnobarac, Zlatica Miladinov, Goran Malidža, Miloš Rajkovic, Željko Milovac, Dušan Dunerski, Igor Balalic, Petar Canak, Andrea Monti, Federica Zanetti
• The improvement of sunflower crop technology in Dobrogea under climate changes. Vasile Jinga, Dumitru Manole, Ioan Radu, Ana Maria Giumba, Lorena-Roxana Gurau
• How to combine environmental indicators for characterizing and clustering variety testing trials? Application to sunflower in France. Amélia Landré, Pierre Casadebaig, Arnaud Gaureteau, Nicolas Augis, Christine Fintz, Emmanuelle Bret-Mestries, Philippe Debaeke
• Mapping sunflower areas using high resolution sentinel-2 images. Predrag Lugonja, Miloš Pandžic, Sanja Brdar, Oskar Marko, Vladan Minic, Nataša Ljubicic, Vladimir Crnojevic
• Sunflower and climate changes: adaptation and mitigation potential from case study in RN Macedonia. Zoran Dimov, Ordan Cukaliev, Dusko Mukaetov, Vjekoslav Tanaskovic
• Planting date and environments affect sunflower development, yield and Sclerotinia head rot progression. Mapfumo P, Wilkens M, Swanevelder D, Archer E, Creux NM

Section 7: Abiotic stress resistance - Challenges of changing environment

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Genetic, transcriptomic and physiological characterization of cold tolerance in sunflower. Jean Leconte, Nicolas Langlade, Nicolas Pouilly, Nicolas Blanchet
• Genetic control of sunflower metabolome in a dry agronomic environment. Marco Moroldo, Annick Moing, Stéphane Bernillon, Vincent Segura, Gabriela Bindea, Nicolas Blanchet, Nicolas Langlade, SUNRISE consortium
• Sunflower drought: QTLs discovery in semi controlled conditions. Marlene Mazas, Virginie Mirleau-Thebaud
• Sunflower and climate changes: adaptation and mitigation potential from case study in RN Macedonia. Zoran Dimov

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Sensitivity of dierent herbicide-tolerant sunower hybrids to selected ALS-inhibiting herbicides. Goran Malidža, Miloš Rajkovic, Siniša Jocic, Sandra Cvejic
• The effect of climatic changes – hail and storm on sunower hybrids – Constanta county, Dobrogea area, Romania. Dumitru Manole, Ana Maria Giumba, Laurentiu Luca Ganea, Viorel Ion
• Components related to higher head diameter, heterosis, and type of inheritance in oil seed sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Georgi Georgiev
• New form cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) with resistance to the herbicides Pulsar and Express. Michail Christov

POSTERS

• Mining root traits for sunflower drought tolerance improvement by use of an automated phenotyping platform. Aleksandra Radanovic, Anna Galinski, Milan Jockovic, Sandra Cvejic, Sreten Terzic, Siniša Jocic, Dragana Miladinovic, Fabio Fiorani, Kerstin A. Nagel
• Climate crops Centre of excellence – bringing innovation in sunflower breeding for climate resilience. Dragana Miladinovic, Ankica Kondic-Špika, Ana Mrajanovic Jeromela, Goran Bekavac, Sonja Tancic Živanov, Miroslav Zoric, Sandra Cvejic, Sanja Mikic, Bojan Mitrovic, Aleksandra Radanovic, Boško Dedic, Sonja Gvozdenac, Milan Mirosavljevic, Jelena Ovuka, Milan Jockovic, Dragana Rajkovic, Verica Takac, Nemanja Cuk, Miloš Krstic, Nada Hladni, Sreten Terzic, Vladimir Miklic, Siniša Jocic, Jegor Miladinovic
• Creating climate smart sunflower for future challenges – The SMARTSUN multidisciplinary project. Aleksandra Radanovic, Sandra Cvejic, Jadranka Lukovic, Milan Jockovic, Siniša Jocic, Boško Dedic, Sonja Gvozdenac, Nemanja Cuk, Nada Hladni, Jelena Jockovic, Olivera Hrnjakovic, Dragana Miladinovic
• Sunflower drought: QTLs discovery in semi controlled conditions. Marlene Mazas, Virginie Mirleau-Thebaud

Section 8: Economy and market - Trends and prospects

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Commercial launch of A.I.R.® in Europe, a new herbicide-tolerant production system for Sunflower from Syngenta. Gilles Grée, Attila Kovács
• Sunflower bird damage: is the research up to the challenges? Christophe Sausse, Corentin Barbu, Alice Baux, Sonia B. Canavelli, Page E. Klug, Fernando Pellegrini, Sebastian G. Zuil
• Applied research & development for French sunflower –priorities to contribute to France’s national protein strategy. David Gouache, Vincent Lecomte, Christophe Sausse, Dominique Wagner, Sylvie Dauguet, Claire Martin-Monjaret
• Cultural practices of sunflower in France analysis and rooms for progress. Lecomte Vincent, Martin Monjaret Claire

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Feasibility of double cropping system with camelina and sunflower in Serbia. Igor Balalić
• Mapping sunflower areas using high resolution Sentinel-2 images. Branislav Pejak
• Types of sunflower hybrids registered in Serbia. Jasna Savic, Danijela Stojanovic
• Stability in seed yield over years in confectionery sunflower. Veli Pekcan, Mehmet Sezgin, Hatice Tezcan, Mehmet Ibrahim Yilmaz, Necmi Beser, Goksel Evci, Yalcin Kaya
• Public and Private Partnership in evaluating and commercializing of sunflower hybrids in Uganda. Walter O. Anyanga, Pius Elobu

Section 9: Broomrape - Constant challenge

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Novel Sources of Resistance to Orobanche cumana Wallr. in Sunflower. Irina Calic, Anna Finkers-Tomczak, Rui Peng-Wang, Saskia Jacobs-Oomen, Evert-Jan Blom, Roy Gorkink, Marcel van Verk, Mireille Chabaud, Martin de Vos, Arjen van Tunen, Stephane Muños, Wilco Ligterink
• miPEPs: new tools to study and control the sunflower broomrape. Sabine Tourneur, Jean-Philippe Combier, Stéphane Munos, omas Laurent, Philippe Delavault
• Some characteristics of Orobanche cumana from different countries. Maria Duca, Angela Port, Steliana Clapco
• Broomrape (Orobanche cumana Wallr.) control, by developing genetic resistant genotypes in sunflower. Maria Pacueranu

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• The environmentally safe method of control of broomrape (Orobanche cumana wallr.) parasitising on sunflower. Evgeniy Strelnikov, Tatiana Antonova, Lyudmila Gorlova, Victoria Trubina
• Aggressiveness of broomrape populations infesting sunflower in different countries. Stella Clapco
• Sunflower broomrape – Update on virulence in Serbia. Boško Dedic, Ilija Radeka, Siniša Jocic, Dragana Miladinovic, Sandra Cvejic, Milan Jockovic, Aleksandra Radanovic, Vladimir Miklic
• Herbicide seed treatment in Cleareld® plus sunflower against early Orobanche cumana attack. Matthias Pfenning, Juan Manuel Contreras, Rosa Gimenez

POSTERS

• Chemotropism of Orobanche cumana. Anna Krupp, Barbara Bertsch, Otmar Spring
• Pathogen development in compatible and incompatible combinations of Orobanche cumana and sunflower. Anna Krupp, Annerose Heller, Otmar Spring
• Sunflower resistance to broomrape. Dejana Pankovic, Igor Vukelic, Gordana Racic, Mirjana Topic, Dragan Škoric
• Evaluation of different methods to test the sunflower resistance to broomrape. Sergey Gontcharov, Julia Scibina, Alexandra Baziz
• Aggressiveness of broomrape populations infesting sunflower in different countries. Maria Duca, Steliana Clapco, Ion Gisca, Aliona Cucereavii, Rodica Martea, Chao Wang
• Degree of intra- and interpopulation diversity of some Moldovan O. cumana populations. Angela Port, Ana Mutu, Olesea Tabara, Ina Bivol
• Aggressiveness of sunflower broomrape from different countries. Maria Duca, Steliana Clapco, Ion Gisca, Rodica Martea, Chao Wang
• Genetic variability of O. cumana populations infesting sunflower in different countries. Maria Duca, Angela Port, Steliana Clapco
• ORTOBOX – A toolbox to evaluate sunflower varietes for their resistance to broomrape. Stéphane Muños, Sylvie Ducournau, Nicolas Augis Muriel Archipiano, Marie-Claire Tardin, Pierre Castellanet, Camille Henry, Antoine Mezzarobba, Sophie Pardo, Isabelle Pauchet, Christophe Jestin
• Investigation on the resistance of new Bulgarian sunflower hybrids to economically important diseases and the parasite Orobanche. Penka Peevska, Miglena Drumeva, Galin Georgiev, Valentina Encheva, Georgi Georgiev
• Broomrape (Orobanche cumana Wallr.) control, by developing genetic resistant genotypes in sunflower. Joita Pacureanu Maria, Rîsnoveanu Luxia, Dan Mihaela, Anton Gabriel, Sava Elisabeta, Bran Alexandru
• The dynamics of the pathogens which attack sunower crop in Romania. Joita Pacureanu Maria, Rîsnoveanu Luxia, Dan Mihaela, Stanciu Danil, Sava Elisabeta, Bran Alexandru
• BSA-seq identify the resistance Genes for broomrape in Sunflower. Liu Sheng-Li, Wang Peng, Liu YanTao, Wang Pei-Zheng
• Anthropogenic evolution of broomrape Orobanche cumana wallr., parasitizing on sunflower in the Russian federation. Tatiana Antonova

Section 10: Bees and seeds - Exploring new venues for increased yield and seed production

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Insect pollination is necessary to achieve maximum seed yield and oil content in sunflower, but a low bee density is enough. Stan Chabert, Christopher Sénéchal, André Fougeroux, Olivier Geist, Vincent Guillemard, Solenne Leylavergne, Constance Malard, Jérémy Pousse, Gabriel Carré, Édith Caumes, Charlotte Cenier, Alain Treil, Bernard E. Vaissière
• Association studies and marker development for the fertility restorer gene RF1 in sunflower. Renate Horn, Aleksandra Radanovic, Lena Fuhrmann, Yves Sprycha, Sonia Hamrit, Milan Jockovic, Dragana Miladinovic, Constantin Jansen
• Towards new solutions for the chemical desiccation of sunflower. Vladimir Miklič
• Bee vectoring of biologicals in sunflowers as a crop protection tool. John C. Sutton, Sherri Tedford, Gerardo Suazo, Christoph Lehnen, Sreten Terzic, Michael Wunsch, Venkataramana Chapara

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Planting date and environments aect sunflower development, yield and Sclerotinia head rot progression. Mapfumo P, Wilkens M, Swanevelder D, Archer E, Creux NM.
• The different invigoration techniques for sunflower seeds. Dušica Jovicic, Jelena Ovuka, Zorica Nikolic, Gordana Petrovic, Dragana Marinkovic, Milan Stojanovic, Ana Marjanovic-Jeromela
• Seed size and substrate effect on seed germination of inbred sunflower lines. Miloš Krstić
• Study on important indices in the seeds of some sunflower hybrids and their correlation. Nina Nenova

POSTERS

• Sadik’s new CMS conversion method for maintainer inbred lines in sunflower. El Sayed Sadik
• Heliopollen: deciphering the molecular bases of sunflower nectar production in response to drought stress. Catrice Olivier, Tapy Camille, Blanchet Nicolas, Hernandes Melissa, Langlade Nicolas
• Unraveling the Mechanism behind Delay Sowing Date to Reduce Occurence of Sunflower Verticillium Wilt. JianFeng Yang, Jian Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Hongyou Zhou, Jun Zhao
• Towards new solutions for the chemical desiccation of sunflower. Vladimir Miklic, Jelena Ovuka, Goran Malidža, Branislav Ostojic, Velimir Radic, Nenad Dušanic, Siniša Jocic 
• Growth promoting activity of Trichoderma spp. on sunflower seedlings. Sonja Tancic Živanov, Siniša Jocic, Vladimir Miklic
• Seed size and substrate effect on seed germination of inbred sunflower lines. Miloš Krstic, Jelena Ovuka, Velimir Radic, Sonja Gvozdenac, Vladimir Miklic, Velimir Mladenov, Borislav Banjac, Teodora Kukric