Conveners

Giuseppe Blasi – Department Head of the MISAAF (Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies)

Donato Pentassuglia – Councilor for Agriculture of the Apulia Region

Antonio Ferrante – President of the SOI (Italian Society of Horticulture Science)

Donato Boscia - CNR - Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Bari

Antonio Cardone – LAG Valle d’Itria, Locorotondo (Bari)

Luigi Catalano – CIVI-Italia / SOI

Giandomenico Consalvo – CIVI-Italia, Rome

Giannicola D’Amico – LAG Valle d’Itria, Locorotondo (Bari)

Stefano La Malfa – SOI, Italian Society of Horticulture Science

Giuseppe Maggi – Fondazione ITS Agroalimentare Puglia, Locorotondo (Bari)

Franco Nigro – University of Bari

Maria Grazia Piepoli – Fondazione ITS Agroalimentare Puglia, Locorotondo (Bari)

Giuseppe Sortino – University of Palermo

Luigi Trotta – Agricultural Department of the Apulian Region

Pasquale Venerito – CRSFA Basile Caramia, Locorotondo (Bari)

G. Alessandro Vivaldi – University of Bari

Catarina Bairrao Balula – International Olive Council, Madrid (Spain)

Daniele Bassi – University of Milano (Italy)

Giovanna Bottalico – University of Bari (Italy)

Emilia Caboni - CREA OFA, Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops Research Centre,.. (Italy)

Jorge M. Canhoto – University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Marco Cardoni – CAV, Tebano (Italy)

Elia Choueri – Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute (Lebanon)

Michele Digiaro – CIHEAM, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Valenzano (Italy)

Francesco Faggioli – CREA DC, Plant Pathology Research Center for Plant protection and Certification,.. (Italy)

Alessandra Gentile – University of Catania (Italy)

Walter Guerra – Laimburg Research Centre, Bolzano (Italy)

Darab Hassani - Ministry of Agriculture - Temperate Fruits Research Center, Horticultural Science Res. Inst., Karaj (Iran)

Maurizio Lambardi – CNR, Institute of Bioeconomy, Florence (Italy)

Irina Mitrofanova – Nikita Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia)

Cinzia Montemurro – University of Bari (Italy)

Elisabetta Nicolosi - University of Catania (Italy)

Antonio Olmos - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Moncada (Spain)

Francoise Petter - European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)

Stefania Pollastro – University of Bari (Italy)

John E. Preece - National Clonal Germplasm Repository, USDA-ARS, Davis, CA (USA)

Eddo Rugini – University of Viterbo (Italy)

John van Ruiten –Inspection Service for Horticulture (the Netherlands)

Claudia Ruta - University of Bari (Italy)

Maria Saponari - CNR - Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Bari (Italy)

Silvia Ten Have Lopez – Centre Technique Interprofessionnel des Fruits et Légumes (France)

Yaseen Thaer - FAO

Ignazio Verde – CREA OFA, Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops Research Centre,.. (Italy)

Michelle Wirthensohne –University of Adelaide (Australia)

Mustafa Zemzami - Domaines Agricoles, Unité de contrôle des Plantes, Rabat (Morocco)

Zhou Zouquejri - Research Institute of Pomology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (China)

Salem Alhajj Ali – DISSPA, University of Bari (Italy)

Rosanna Cardone – CRSFA Basile Caramia, Locorotondo-Bari (Italia)

Erminia Convertini - CRSFA Basile Caramia, Locorotondo-Bari (Italia)

Ornella Galasso – LAG Valle d’Itria, Locorotondo-Bari (Italia)

Francesco Maldera - DISSPA, University of Bari (Italy)

Antonella Mandolla – Fondazione ITS Agroalimentare Puglia, Locorotondo-Bari (Italia)

Barbara Novelli – CIVI (Italia)

Donato Palmisano – CRSFA Basile Caramia, Locorotondo-Bari (Italia)

Antonella Saponari – CRSFA Basile Caramia, Locorotondo-Bari (Italia)

Giacomo Trisciuzzi– Fondazione ITS Agroalimentare Puglia, Locorotondo-Bari (Italia)