Sponsored by ISSS, the
International Society for Seed Science
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME (updated September 21)
19:00-21:00 Registration TREE SEEDS 2002
21:00 Gala Dinner
09:00-09:30 Registration TREE SEEDS 2002
09:30-11:00 OFFICIAL OPENING
& SESSION 1
09:30-09:50 Official Opening
Chair: The Organising
Committee
Alkinoos Nikolaidis
(Director,
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania)
Welcome address
Official Opening of
the Conference
09:50-11.00
SESSION 1
Chair: Kyriacos Georghiou
(Greece) - Christina
Fournaraki (Greece)
09:50-10.00
J.A.
Vozzo (delivered by Gary Johnson)
(Chair of IUFRO RG 2.09.00 / USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station,
Starkville, Mississippi - USA)
10:00-10.20
Y.A. El-Kassaby1, A. Benowicz1 and D.G.W. Edwards2
(1The University of British Columbia,
2FTB Forest Tree Beginnings - Canada)
A. Mosseler1, J.E. Major1 and O.P. Rajora2
1Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest
Service, Atlantic Forestry Centre, 2Dept Biology, Life Sciences
Centre, Dalhousie
University, Halifax - Canada)
Seeds as indicators of
genetic and reproductive status in red spruce and eastern white pine
10:40-11:00
P.
Panayiotopoulos and C.A. Thanos
(Dept
Botany, University of Athens - Greece)
Thursday
12 September
11:30-13:30 COMMON SESSION
MEDPINE 2 & TREE SEEDS 2002
Chair: Louis Trabaud (France) - Haroula Kargiolaki (Greece)
11:30-12:10 (MEDPINE 2 – Review
Lecture)
R. Nathan
(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Israel)
12:10-12:30 (MEDPINE 2)
F. Krouchi1, K. Tahir1,
R. Aba1, A. Raffin2 and M. Rezzig3
(1Université M. Mammeri de Tizi-ouzou -
Algeria, 2INRA - France, 3Institut National de recherche
forestière - Algeria)
12:30-12:40
C. Fournaraki
12:40-12:50
K. Thompson
(Treasurer of ISSS / University of Sheffield -
UK)
A brief presentation of the International
Society for Seed Science (ISSS)
12:50-13:20
Manolis Bouzakis
(Civil Protection Service,
Prefecture of Hania)
Hania – the place, the history, the people
Thursday
12 September
15:00-16:30
17:00-22:00 Chania City Tour
6:30-21:00 Excursion to the National Park of
Samaria Gorge
8:30-11:00
Saturday
14 September
Chair: Gary Johnson (USA) - Ioannis Takos (Greece)
11:30-11:50
B. Varghese and S.C. Naithani
(Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University - India)
11:50-12:10
M.I. Daws1, C.S. Gaméné2, H.W.
Pritchard1, C Harris1 and S Glidewell3
(1Seed Conservation Department, RBG
Kew – UK, 2Centre National de Semences Forestières - Burkina Faso, 3Scottish
Crop Research Institute, Dundee – UK)
12:10-12:30
E.L. Tolentino Jr.
(University of the Philippines Los
Baños - Philippines)
12:30-12:50
N.V. Obroucheva and O.V. Antipova
(Institute of Plant Physiology, Moscow -
Russia)
Saturday
14 September
16:55 Group Photo
Saturday
14 September
Chair: Yousry A. El-Kassaby (Canada) - Yitzchak
Gutterman (Israel)
17:00-17:20
M. Jensen
(Department of Horticulture, Danish Institute
of Agricultural Sciences – Denmark)
17:20-17:40
P.G.
Gosling, Y. Samuel and A. Peace
(Forestry Commission Research Agency
- UK)
G. Johnson
(National Tree Seed Laboratory, United
States Forest Service - USA)
18:00-18:20
A. Derridj and F. Krouchi
(Université Mouloud Mammeri de Tizi-Ouzou - Algeria)
18:20-18:40
E. Tillman-Sutela1, A. Kauppi2, J. Kaitera3 and
A. Hilli1
(1Finnish Forest Research Institute,
Muhos, 2Department of Biology, University of Oulu, 3Finnish
Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi – Finland)
18:40-19:00
L. Mtwisha, W. Brandt, J.
Farrant and G. Lindsey
(University of Cape Town - South Africa)
08:30-13:30 Half-Day Excursion
Nursery of the Chania Forest Service –
Chryssopigi Monastery
– Venizelos’ graves
– Phryganic vegetation at Akrotiri – Stavros village
Sunday
15 September
Chair: Ken Thompson (UK) - Maria Doussi (Greece)
15:00-15:20
Y.A. El-Kassaby1, A. Benowicz1 and D.G.W. Edwards2
(1The University of British
Columbia, 2FTB Forest Tree Beginnings - Canada)
15:20-15:40
C.M. Culshaw1, P. Espinosa1,
H.W. Pritchard1 and J. Engels2
(1Seed Conservation Department, RBG Kew – UK, 2International
Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Rome – Italy)
Thermal scarification of hard seeds by wet heat
treatment risks accelerated seed ageing: evidence from five woody taxa
15:40-16:00
C. Fournaraki1 and C.A. Thanos2
16:00-16:20
C.A.
Thanos, M. Saeed and P. Panayiotopoulos
(Dept
Botany, University of Athens - Greece)
16:20-16:40
K. Thompson
(University of Sheffield - UK)
Sunday
15 September
chair: George Edwards (Canada) - Enrique L.
Tolentino, Jr (Philippines)
G. Johnson
(National Tree Seed Laboratory, United
States Forest Service - USA)
The
2003 Annual Meeting of IUFRO RG 2.09.00
J.A.
Vozzo (delivered by Gary Johnson)
(Chair of IUFRO RG 2.09.00 / USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station,
Starkville, Mississippi - USA)
Concluding Comments and Remarks
Thanks and goodbyes
19:30-20:30 Farewell Reception
POSTERS
L.F. Beníto-Matías, N. Herrero Sierra, A.
Muñoz, J.L. Nicolás and J.L. Peñuelas
(Centro Nacional de Mejora Forestal “El
Serranillo” - Spain)
C. Blade1,2, R. Guardia3 and V.R. Vallejo1,2.
(1Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM)
Valencia 2Universitat de Barcelona, 3Centre de
Documentació de Biodiversitat Vegetal del Parc Científic de
Barcelona - Spain)
L. Calvo, L.
Valbuena, E. Marcos, R. Tárrega and E. Luis-Calabuig
(Universidad
de León - Spain)
M.I. Daws1,2, C.S. M. Houlihan1 and D.F.R.P.Burslem1
(1Department
of Plant & Soil Science, University of Aberdeen – UK, 2Current address: Conservation Department, RBG Kew - UK)
E.
Estrelles, J. Prieto,
N. Fuentes, D. Ballesteros, L. de Fez and A.M. Ibars
(Universitat
de València - Spain)
J.M.R. Faria1,2, A.C. Davide2, H.W.M. Hilhorst1
(1Laboratory of Plant Physiology - Wageningen
University and Research Centre - The Netherlands, 2Departamento de
Ciencias Florestais – Universidade Federal de Lavras - Brazil)
N. Herrero Sierra, L.F.
Beníto-Matías, S. Domínguez Lerena, J.L. Nicolás
Peragón and J. Peñuelas Rubira
(Centro Nacional de Mejora Forestal “El
Serranillo” - Spain)
A. Hilli1, E. Tillman-Sutela1 and A. Kauppi2
(1Finnish Forest Research Institute, Muhos, 2Department
of Biology, University of Oulu - Finland)
T. Μerou1, I. Takos1 and E. Konstantinidou2
(1Institute of Technological
Education of Kavala, 2Forestry Service of Drama - Greece)
G.S Pamuk. and U. Bergsten
(Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Sweden)
B. Piotto
(Italian
Environment Protection Agency - Italy)
Z. Procházková
(Forestry and Game Management Research
Institute - Czech Republic)
O. Reyes and M. Casal
(Universidad de Santiago de Compostela -
Spain)
E.-M. Savonen
(The Finnish Forest Research Institute -
Finland)
T.Y. Shen and P.C.
Odén
(Department of Silviculture,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå – Sweden)
J.D. Simpson
(Canadian Forest Service - Canada)
I. Takos1, E. Konstantinidou2 and T. Μerou1
(1Institute of Technological
Education of Kavala, 2Forestry Service of Drama - Greece)
T.
Tylkowski
(Institute of Dendrology, Polish
Academy of Sciences, Kórnik – Poland)
S. Wetzel and L.C.
Duchesne
(Canadian Forest Service - Canada)
C.B. Wood1, S. Hodges1,
W. Bin2 and H.W. Pritchard1
(1Seed Conservation Department, RBG Kew – UK, 2Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden, Yunnan -
PR China)