Committees

ORGANIZING COMITTEE

M. Pilar Cano, President of the organizing committee, CIAL, CSIC-UAM, Spain

M. Gloria Lobo, Coordinator of the organizing committee, ICIA, Spain

M. Mar Villamiel, Director of CIAL (CSIC-UAM), Spain

M. Carmen Jaizme-Vega, Scientific Director of ICIA, Spain

Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes, Vice-President for International Affairs, CSIC, Spain

Esther Esteban, Director of INIA-CSIC, Spain

Carmen Sáenz, CactusNet-FAO-ICARDA, University of Chile, Chile

Makiko Taguchi, Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy

Luca Corelli Grappadelli, Chair of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) Division Temperate tree fruits, Italy

Sawsan Hassan, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Tunisia

Jose Carlos Dubeux, Jr., University of Florida, EEUU

SCIENTIFIC COMITTEE

M. Pilar Cano, Spain (President). Institute of Food Science Research, CIAL (CSIC), Spain

M. Gloria Lobo, (Vicepresident) Canarian Institute of Agricultural Research, ICIA, Spain

Abderrahmane Ait Hamou, Mediterranean Coordinator of FAO-ICARDA-Cactus-Net, Morocco

Albericio Pereira de Andrade, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil

Carmen Sáenz, University of Chile, Chile

Domingo Ríos, Cabildo de Tenerife, Spain

Giorgia Liguori, University of Palermo, Italy

Jesús Méndez Gallegos, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus San Luis Potosí, México

Jorge Welti-Chaves, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

Jose Carlos Dubeux, Jr., University of Florida, EEUU

Karim El Fakhouri, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco

Lazhar Zourgui, Higher Institute of Applied Biology Medenine, University of Gabes, Tunisia

Liberato Portillo, Universidad de Guadalajara, México

Luca Corelli Grappadelli, Chair of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) Division Temperate tree fruits, Italy

Mario Allegra, University of Palermo, Italy

Mário Borba, Federação da Agricultura e Pecuária da Paraíba (FAEPA), Brazil

Maria Judith Ochoa, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, Argentina

María Puy Portillo, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

Marilena Antunes-Ricardo, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

Maryna de Wit, University of the Free State, South Africa

Mounir Louhaichi , Department of Animal and Rangeland Science, Oregon State University, EEUU

Noemi Tel-Zur, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Paolo Inglese, University of Palermo, Italy

Sawsan Hassan, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Tunisia

Sergio O. Serna-Saldivar, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), México

Yemane Kahsay, Department of Horticulture and Institute of Beles, Adigrat, Ethiopia