Thematic Areas: What to Expect
Quality and Safety
The demands of the international market in terms of quality and food safety are increasing. Producers and packers need to prepare in order to meet quality control standards and avoid the challenges of pre- and post-harvest, which have a substantial impact on the value chain.
Some topics that will be discussed around this theme are:
• Pre and post-harvest factors.
• The Impact of technology in the post-harvest stage.
• Heterogeneity of fruit ripening.
• Pathologies and internal disorders of the fruit in postharvest.
• Maximum residue limit.
• Sensory quality.
• Pathogens and diseases.
• Toxicology.
Phytosanitary
Insect pests and plant diseases that affect the crop in the different producing regions are the main problem and a constant that threatens the production and limit the trade of the fruit, generating a negative economic impact and interrupting the productive chain.
These are some of the topics that will be discussed around this theme:
• The efficient monitoring and management of regulated pests.
• The development of biological products and thrips control.
• Root diseases and post-harvest diseases.
• Ambrosia beetles / fungal symbionts attacking avocado.
Genetic resources and materials development
The search for value attributes for new areas or for replacement of current areas; rootstock-scion compatibility, the narrow or wide genetic variability in the rootstock of commercial crops and heterogeneous soils are some of the challenges facing avocado producers today. Is it time to look for other alternatives?
These are some of the topics that will be discussed around this theme:
• New commercial cultivars and value attributes in the future.
• Current and potential rootstocks (sexual or clonal) of the avocado.
• Genetic variability Rootstocks for cv Hass commercial crops.
• Commercial Massive propagation “efficiency and effectiveness.
Production and productivity
The adaptation of the avocado crop against the edaphoclimatic conditions that prevail in different producing areas worldwide becomes a challenge along with the requirements of the productive system, with the development of management strategies that have broad support in science and technology.
These are some of the topics that will be discussed around this theme:
• Avocado phenology and nutrition.
• Growth regulators in avocado
• Avocado pruning management.
• Nutrition and irrigation in avocados.
• Flowering, pollination and fruit set in avocados.
• Alternate bearing in avocado.
Supply chain, marketing, and industrialization
Global trends in food and nutrition generate great challenges for R&D & I programs. In recent years, sufficient evidence has been obtained to relate chronic non-communicable diseases with eating habits. Knowing these associations will pave way for designing proposals for the development of food products that improve, prevent or reduce diseases.
These are some of the topics that will be discussed around this theme:
• Bioactive substances in avocado
• Nutritional interventions and effects on human health.
• Validated biological models and bioactive substances present in avocados.
• Molecular gastronomy and derived products.
Health, nutrition and gastronomy
The adaptation of the avocado crop against the edaphoclimatic conditions that prevail in different producing areas worldwide becomes a challenge along with the requirements of the productive system, with the development of management strategies that have broad support in science and technology.
These are some of the topics that will be discussed around this theme:
• Avocado phenology and nutrition.
• Growth regulators in avocado
• Avocado pruning management.
• Nutrition and irrigation in avocados.
• Flowering, pollination and fruit set in avocados.
• Alternate bearing in avocado.
