TENTATIVE PROGRAMME

September 23

Time Type Speaker Country Presentation Title
12:00 REGISTRATION
13:45 Introduction Congress (Cédric Bertrand)

RMT BESTIM Session 1: Biosolutions in the Field

September 23

Time Type Speaker Country Presentation Title
13:45 Régis Berthelot – BESTIM presentation
14:00 Oral GUEST 1 LOÏC RAJJOU France
14:30 Oral 1 / Round Table MARCHAND P. France Biocontrol active substances in Europe: the tipping point?
14:50 Oral 2 / Round Table RANOUILLE E.
BERTHON JY.
France Local, short-run production of bio-based products for sustainable agriculture
15:10  Round Table JEZEQUEL S. France
16:10         Coffe Break
16:40 Oral 3 SOUFFLET-FRESLON V. France Towards integrated protection of rose against foliar fungal diseases: biocontrol and varietal resistance
17:00 Oral 4 DUSFOUR-CASTAN P. France Identification of a network of correlations of potentially influential variables for biosolutions
17:20 Oral 5 DUBREU O. France SeedBioProtect project: Evaluation of seed treatment to control damping off in wheat and tomato
17:40 Oral 6 PAJOT E. France The qPFD® tool: 12 years of operation and ongoing development for reliable evaluation of Plant Defense Inducer and biostimulants active substance, from the laboratory to the field
18:00 Oral 7 GAUCHER M. France Enhancing apple self-defense by combining methods that leverage plant immunity

RMT BESTIM Session 2: Biosolutions modes of action

September 24

Time Type Speaker Country Presentation Title
09:00 Oral GUEST 2 MICHELE PERAZZOLI Italia
09:40 Oral 8 MALGOUYRE L. France A free amino acids-based biostimulant promotes cell division and alleviates heat stress effects in tomato roots PhD grant
10:00 Oral 9 BENEZECH C. France No Pain No Gain, No graines* No pain* (* graines = seeds / * pain = bread)
10:20     Coffee Break / Posters
11:20 Oral 10 BACHAR B. France A better understanding of the mode of action of a high quality microalgae-based extract by a transcriptomic and Phenotypic approach
11:40 Oral 11 TROUSSIEUX S. France Willaertia magna C2c Maky: mode of action and efficacy as a bio-fungicide
12:00 Oral GUEST 3 DOMENICO DESERIO France
12:40 Lunch

MiCropBiomes Session 3: Combining Levers to optimise crop stimulation and protection

September 24

Time Type Speaker Country Presentation Title
14:20 Oral GUEST 4 LUCIANA PAGNUSSAT Argentina
15:00 Oral 12 FONTAINE P.E. France From Waste to Biocontrol: antifungal properties of a Leek by-product extract PhD grant
15:20 Oral 13 BOURQUE S. France Disinhibition of grapevine immune responses: an innovative strategy to improve Plant Defense Inducers efficiency
15:40 Oral 14 PECOURT A. France Microbial bio-input association, a potential alternative to reduce chemical inputs in a local agricultural system
16:00     Coffee Break / Posters
16:40 Oral 15 TAPIA D. Spain Essential oil mixtures as synergistic insecticidal agents PhD grant
17:00 Oral 16 PALLUCHINI M. Italia Assessment of Biodegradable Biopolymers Combined with Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria for Sustainable Agricultural Applications
17:20 Oral 17 CABRE L. France Plant defence elicitation during drought in Tomato: Bridging the Gap Between Laboratory and Field
17:40 Oral 18 BENNECEUR I. Belgium Lipopeptides: A Promising Future Alternative to Copper and Sulfur Treatments for Apple Scab Control
18:00 Oral 19 PIERRE E. France Rhamnolipids, promising biosurfactants for sustainable agriculture: protective agents against branched broomrape and biostimulants for brassicaceae

Session 4: Systems and molecular biology, digital tools and AI

September 25

Time Type Speaker Country Presentation Title
09:00 Oral GUEST 5 TILMANN WEBER Denmark
09:40 Oral 20 ATANASOVA V. France Stilbenoids as promising environment-friendly natural products to minimize the contamination of wheat and grapevine with toxigenic fungi and associated mycotoxins
10:00 Oral 21 CAHUZAC R. France Unraveling Biofungicide Modes of Action through Metabolomic Profiling
10:20 Oral 22 CORSO M. France Revealing the ecological roles of specialized metabolites in rapeseed seed exudates
10:40     Coffee Break / Posters
11:40 Oral 23 AIT KOUJANE F. France Genome mining reveals novel secondary metabolites in non-rhizospheric Pseudomonas strains, underlining their role as plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB)
12:00 Oral 24 VAILLEAU F. France A bacterial Genome-Wide Association study approach adapted to intraspecific microbial diversity identifies new plant growth-promoting factors
12:20 Oral 25 TIMMUSK S. Sweden Plant–microbiome interactions under a changing world
12:40 Lunch

MiCropBiomes Session 5: Plant-microbiome interactions and (a)biotic stresses

September 25

Time Type Speaker Country Presentation Title
14:20 Oral GUEST 6 VICTOR CARRION Spain
15:00 Oral 26 GONZALES V. Spain Culture-dependent and metabarcoding characterization of the endophytic microbiota (fungi and bacteria) associated with Bethencourtia palmensis and its biotechnological potential
15:20 Oral 27 PRIGENT-COMBARET C. France Rhizospheric Pseudomonas: Biological Weapons Against Orobanches ?
15:40 Oral 28 GOVIN-SANDUJO A. France/Cuba Deciphering the Potential of Bacillus Strains in Promoting Wheat Growth Under Drought Stress and Fusarium Biocontrol
16:00     Coffee Break / Posters
17:00 Oral 29 MARAHATTA B. Belgium Temperature-Dependent Effect of Cyclic Lipopeptides Produced by Pseudomonas fuscovaginae UPB0736 in Biocontrol
17:20 Oral 30 STRINGLIS I. Greece The Effect of Rhizosphere on the Resistance of Wild Tomato Relatives to Verticillium dahliae
17:40 Oral 31 YOUSFI S. France/Tunisie Towards a novel biopesticide from Bacillus velezensis 32a: Unveiling the synergistic potential of dual purified polyketides and a siderophore for crown gall biocontrol with insights into their low cytotoxicity
18:00 Oral 32 WEHNER G. Germany Priming with biologicals to support drought stress tolerance of cereals

MicropBiomes Session 6: Management of plant microbiota and integrated strategies

September 26

Time Type Speaker Country Presentation Title
09:00 Oral 33 DUFOUR M.C. France Action of Pythium oligandrum on Grapevine Trunk Diseases and its impact on microbial communities
09:20 Oral 34 DUTILLOY E. Belgium Nitrate as a Key Nitrogen Source to allow Trichoderma harzianum and Bacillus velezensis Compatibility in Biosolution Development
09:40 Oral 35 ALAHMAD A. France Prebiotics as a Soil Biosolution: Shaping Microbial Community Structure and Function
10:00 Oral 36 BRESSAN M. France Harnessing Vermicompost-Based Biostimulants for Soil Regeneration and Crop Resilience
10:20     Coffee Break / Posters
11:00 Oral GUEST 7 MONICA HÖFTE Belgium
11:40 Price Awards – Acknowledgment

The programme aims to cover topics related to innovation and research on biosolutions and the sessions will be defined more precisely on the basis of your contributions that can include :

  • Mechanisms of action of biostimulants and biocontrol products 
  • Factors influencing the effectiveness of biosolutions 
  • Study and evaluation methodologies, including modeling 
  • Broader perspectives and real-world applications of plant biostimulation 
  • Research and advances on natural compounds used in biocontrol product development 
  • Plant responses to elicitors and biostimulants 
  • Effects of combining biostimulants and biocontrol products 
  • Study of the effects and behavior of microbial consortia 
  • Environmental impact of biosolutions 
  • Other advances in research and innovation on biosolutions 

The programme for Tuesday and Wednesday co-contructed with BESTIM will include a roundtable (Plant immunity : research directions to bring products to the field).