Invited Speakers
General Session
William B. Miller
(Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA) – How can we plant more flower bulbs into the landscape?
Dariusz Sochacki
(Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland)
Production and breeding of bulbous plants and herbaceous perennials in Poland
Tomasz Michalik
(Vitroflora, Poland)
Production and breeding of bulbous plants and herbaceous perennials in Poland
Jadwiga Treder
(The National Institute of Horticultural Research, Skierniewice, Poland) – Production and breeding of flower bulbs and herbaceous perennials in Poland
Rina Kamenetsky Goldstein
(ARO, The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan, Israel) - 30 years for geophyte production in changing climate – where science meets technology
Ki-Byung Lim
(Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea) - Biotechnology in breeding or ornamental geophytes
Session 1 - Propagation, cultivation and forcing
Margherita Beruto
(Chair ISHS Division Ornamental Plants, Italy) – Micropropagation of ornamental geophytes: a useful approach for development and valorization
Session 2 - Biodiversity, genetics, biotechnology and breeding
Paul Arens
(Wageningen University, the Netherlands) – Developments in breeding of bulbous crops from a genetics and genomics perspective
Session 3 - Flowering, postharvest and storage physiology
John M. Dole
(North Carolina State University, NC, USA) - Long term storage of cut flowers
Session 4 - Plant protection
Gary A. Chastagner
(Washington State University, WA, USA) - Integrated management of diseases on ornamental geophytes and herbaceous perennials
Session 5 - Using in landscape and for other purposes
Bożena Szewczyk-Taranek
(University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland) Perennials and geophytes selection for therapeutic horticulture