Abstract submission & full paper submission for Acta Horticulturae
The abstract submission deadline for oral presentations was 9 March, 2017, and poster submissions were accepted until 21 April 2017. Abstract submission is now closed. For submitting your full papers please visit http://www.actahort.org/members/symposiar?nr=497. All presenters will be expected to contribute a short paper to the conference proceedings to be published by the International Society for Horticultural Science in Acta Horticulturae. The deadline for submission of the full text paper is 30 September 2017. Author guidelines for Acta Horticulturae are here.
Instructions for Presenters
Keynote talks will be 30-35 minutes, long with 5-10 minutes for questions (total 40 minutes). Contributed oral presentations will be 10-12 minutes long, with 3-5 minutes for questions (total 15 minutes). Presentations have to be in PowerPoint 2016 (or earlier compatible version) format for Windows. Presentations prepared on Apple computers should be checked for issues with conversion to Windows. A backup version in Adobe pdf format is recommended. Poster presentations should be in portrait format, no wider than 36 inches and no taller than 48 inches, or alternatively in A0 portrait format, 84.1 cm wide and 118.9 cm tall.
ISHS Student Awards
During each ISHS Symposium two student awards will be given, one for the best oral presentation given by a student as presenter and first author of the submitted manuscript and one for the best poster presented by a student who is first author of the work. Awardees will be invited to write a summary on their research, to be published in Chronica Horticulturae. A one-year complimentary membership of the ISHS and a Certificate will be awarded to the winners.
The abstract submission deadline for oral presentations was 9 March, 2017, and poster submissions were accepted until 21 April 2017. Abstract submission is now closed. For submitting your full papers please visit http://www.actahort.org/members/symposiar?nr=497. All presenters will be expected to contribute a short paper to the conference proceedings to be published by the International Society for Horticultural Science in Acta Horticulturae. The deadline for submission of the full text paper is 30 September 2017. Author guidelines for Acta Horticulturae are here.
Instructions for Presenters
Keynote talks will be 30-35 minutes, long with 5-10 minutes for questions (total 40 minutes). Contributed oral presentations will be 10-12 minutes long, with 3-5 minutes for questions (total 15 minutes). Presentations have to be in PowerPoint 2016 (or earlier compatible version) format for Windows. Presentations prepared on Apple computers should be checked for issues with conversion to Windows. A backup version in Adobe pdf format is recommended. Poster presentations should be in portrait format, no wider than 36 inches and no taller than 48 inches, or alternatively in A0 portrait format, 84.1 cm wide and 118.9 cm tall.
ISHS Student Awards
During each ISHS Symposium two student awards will be given, one for the best oral presentation given by a student as presenter and first author of the submitted manuscript and one for the best poster presented by a student who is first author of the work. Awardees will be invited to write a summary on their research, to be published in Chronica Horticulturae. A one-year complimentary membership of the ISHS and a Certificate will be awarded to the winners.
Program
Monday, 22 May 2017
16:00 Registration and poster mounting
18:00 Welcome reception
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Opening
8:30 The river to the sky: Plants move the world’s water (introduction to the workshop)
H. Jochen Schenk
MORNING SESSION: Plant Hydraulics / Physiology of Plant Water Transport Systems
8:45 Introduction to the session by session chair Robert Teskey (University of Georgia, USA)
8:50 KEYNOTE: High resolution stem psychrometry for understanding hydraulic function in vascular plants in a warming world
George W. Koch
9:30 Integrating sap flow with drought survival traits for a complete vision of plant hydraulic function
Louis Santiago
9:45 What do bordered pit membranes between vessels tell us about water transport and hydraulic dysfunction in plants?
Steven Jansen, Matthias Klepsch, Martyna Kotowska, Ya Zhang, H. Jochen Schenk
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Refilling of xylem embolism under tension: experimental evidence of a rare ability from birch?
Yann Salmon, Anna Lintunen, Lauri Lindfors, Heikki Suhonen, Sanna Sevanto, Timo Vesala, Teemu Hölttä
10:45 Plant hydraulic mechanisms corresponding to increased productivity under drought in maize
Louise Comas, Sean Gleason, Jason Young, Richard Trippe III, Veronica Travers
11:00 Dissolved atmospheric gas in xylem sap and its relationship to embolisms
Victoria Woods, H. Jochen Schenk, Susana Espino, Ate Visser, Bradley K. Esser
11:15 The causes and consequences of leaf hydraulic decline with dehydration
Christine Scoffoni, Lawren Sack
11:30 Leaf hydraulic vulnerability influences sap flow responses to vapor pressure deficit in Los Angeles urban trees
Grace John, Christine Scoffoni, Elizaveta Litvak, Diane Pataki, Thomas Buckley, Lawren Sack
11:45 Drought as a modifier of interactions between European beech and Norway spruce
Karl-Heinz Haeberle, Christian Kallenbach, Martina Tomasella, Michael Goisser, Thorsten Grams, Stefan Mayr, Rainer Matyssek
12:00 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION: Plant Water Use / Transpiration
13:00 Introduction to the session by session chair Louise Comas (USDA-Agricultural Research Service, USA)
13:05 KEYNOTE: Measurement and scaling sap flow in species rich forests to inform land managers on changing hydrology
Chelcy F. Miniat, Steven Brantley
13:45 Canopy transpiration of Larix sibirica and Pinus sylvestris forest in central Siberia
Josef Urban, Alexey Rubtsov
14:00 Quantifying stand water use through sap flux and groundwater measurements at a multi-species afforestation site in Uzbekistan, Central Asia
Holm Voigt, Asia Khamzina, Bernd Diekkrüger, Inken Rabbel
14:15 Sap flow measurements in hydrology - optimizing tree transpiration mapping at large scales
Maciek Lubczynski, Chandra Ghimire
14:30 Coffee break; chance to tour the arboretum
15:30 Why size matters: The interactive influences of tree diameter distribution and sap flow parameters on upscaled transpiration
Z. Carter Berry, Nathaniel Looker, Friso Holwerda, Leon Rodrigo Gomez Aguilar, Perla Ortiz Colin, Teresa Gonzalez Martinez, Heidi Asbjornsen
15:45 If you can't stand the heat: Diurnal patterns of transpiration and carbon uptake by chaparral shrubs during heat waves
Alexandria Pivovaroff, Alejandra Pesqueira, Wu Sun, Ulrike Seibt
16:00 Water use efficiency of Norway spruce with bud blight disease
Ivana Tomakova
16:15 Transpiration at leaf and tree level in a poplar short-rotation coppice culture: seasonal and genotypic differences
Alejandra Navarro Garcia, Miguel Portillo Estrada, Stefan Vanbeveren, Cristina Ariza Carricondo, Reinhart Ceulemans
16:30 Poster lightning presentations on plant hydraulics & water use / transpiration
17:00 Poster session
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
MORNING SESSION: Plant Hydraulics / Physiology of Plant Water Transport Systems
8:30 Introduction to the session by session chair Louis Santiago (University of California Riverside, USA)
8:35 KEYNOTE: Dynamic changes in tissue water storage and conducting capacity in a variety of woody species and plant organs: implications for the interpretation of water relations parameters from sap flow sensor data
Andrew McElrone, Thorsten Knipfer, Caetano Albuquerque, Craig Brodersen, Italo Cuneo, J. Mason Earles
9:15 Stem water storage of New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis)
Julia Kaplick, Michael J. Clearwater, Cate Macinnis-Ng
9:30 Axial conduit widening and growth rate determine the radial patterns of sap flow and the transition of sapwood into heartwood
Giai Petit, Teemu Hölttä
9:45 Coffee break
10:15 Revised sap-flow driven stem-diameter model for tomatoes grown under assimilation lighting
Jonathan Vermeiren, Lieve Wittemans, Stefaan Fabri, Rob Moerkens, Wendy Vanlommel, Herman Marien, Kathy Steppe
10:30 Belowground hydraulic conductance in mature Scots pine trees
Anna Lintunen, Teemu Paljakka, Yann Salmon, Teemu Hölttä
10:45 The hydraulic architecture of the leaf lamina fits an area-preserving design
Silvia Lechthaler, Moira Gazzabin, Tommaso Anfodillo
11:00 Visualization of dynamics in woody tissue photosynthesis via positron autoradiography of xylem-transported 11CO2
Jens Mincke, Michiel Hubeau, Christian Vanhove, Stefaan Vandenberghe, Kathy Steppe
11:15 Poster lightning presentations on horticulture, irrigation, and methods
12:00 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION: Sap Flow in Horticulture / Irrigation
13:00 Introduction to the session by session chair J. Enrique Fernández (Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla, Spain)
13:05 KEYNOTE: Using sap flow data to improve irrigation in vineyard: a 10 year review
Thibaut Scholasch
13:45 Irrigation scheduling strategies to reduce the environmental impact of tree nurseries
Jared Stoochnoof, Newton Tran, Thomas Graham, Alec Downey, Mike Dixon
14:00 Apple sap flow in different light environments
Alexandra Boini, Kushtrim Bresilla, Giulio Demetrio Perulli, Luigi Manfrini, Luca Corelli Grappadelli, Brunella Morandi
14:15 Measurement of sap flux density as a tool to automatically estimate gas exchange and predict fruit growth in olive trees
Virginia Hernandez-Santana, José Enrique Fernández, Antonio Diaz-Espejo
14:30 Coffee break; chance to tour the arboretum
15:30 Measuring sap flow to assess impacts of using saline groundwater to irrigate date palms in the hyper-arid deserts of the United Arab Emirates
Steve Green, Ahmed Almuaini, Abdullah Dakheel, Al-Hareth Abdullah, Abdul Qader Abdul Rahman, Wasel Abdelwahid Abou Dahr, Steve Dixon, Brent Clothier
15:45 A wireless sap flow system for irrigation stress monitoring on almond trees at Fresno State University
C. Michael McClung, Michael van Bavel
16:00 Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Determining mid-day leaf water potential from sap flow measurements
Shabtai Cohen, Ori Ahiman, Amos Naor, Shmulik P. Friedman
16:15 Preliminary results of sap flow and leaf gas exchange in grapevines exposed to free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE)
Susanne Tittmann, Jason Smith, Yvette Wohlfahrt, Marco Hofmann, Manfred Stoll
16:30 Measurement of sap flow in apple trees using the average gradient heat-pulse method
Steve Green, Garth Oliver, Nigel Swarts, Marcus Hardie, Brent Clothier, Dugald Close
16:45 The San Dimas lysimeters: A research history
H. Jochen Schenk and Robert C. Graham
17:00 ISHS Business meeting
Thursday, 25 May 2017
7:00 All day field trip, with visits to Pine Tree Ranch and lunch at the historic Rancho Camulos Museum in the Santa Clara River valley,
and an afternoon visit to the San Dimas Experimental Forest.
19:00 Evening social with dinner, local craft beer tasting, and live music
Friday, 26 May 2017
MORNING SESSION: Sap Flow Measurements and Methodologies
8:00 Introduction to the session by session chair Steve Green (The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd.)
8:05 KEYNOTE: Disentangling the effects of soil and atmospheric drought on the sap flow of cloud forest trees
Rafael Oliveira, Cleiton Eller, Paulo Bittencourt, Fernanda Barros
8:45 A synthesis of the methodological uncertainty of sap flow methods
Víctor Flo, Kathy Steppe, Rafael Poyatos, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
9:00 Evaluation of a new sensor to measure plant transpiration based on the stem heat balance method
Robert Lascano, Tim Goebel
9:15 Validation of heat dissipation and heat pulse sap flow methods
Jose Gutierrez Lopez, Heidi Asbjornsen, Julian Licata, Thomas Pypker
9:30 Miniature external heat ratio method sap flow gauges provide a tool for understanding plant gas exchange recovery from natural drought events
Robert Skelton
9:45 Coffee break
10:15 DRM (double-ratio method): A simple method for measuring high, low and reverse sap flow rates
Thomas Buckley, Zijuan Rose Deng, William Salter, Mark Adams
10:30 Towards reduced heating duration in the Transient Thermal Dissipation method of sap flow measurement
Frederic C. Do, Narissara Puangjumpa, Alain Rocheteau, Maxime Duthoit, Sophea Nhean, Supat Isarangkool na Ayutthaya
10:45 Analysis of sap flow dynamics in saplings with mini-HFD (heat field deformation) sensors
Jeroen Schreel, Kathy Steppe
11:00 Come together: compiling global sap flow data in the SAPFLUXNET database
Rafael Poyatos, Víctor Granda, Víctor Flo, Roberto Molowny-Horas, Maurizio Mencuccini, Gabriel Katul, Ram Oren, Miguel Mahecha, Kathy Steppe, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
11:15 Sap flow measurements in wet tropical forests generate unique challenges and opportunities
Georgianne Moore, Luiza Maria Aparecido
11:30 Impacts of contrasting soil moisture regimes on sap flow activity and diurnal stem extension of Norway Spruce
Inken Rabbel, Bernd Diekkrüger, Burkhard Neuwirth, Heye Bogena
11:45 Sap flow movement on Magnolia grandiflora L. after transplanting for five years
Shinichi Takeuchi, Shinichi Iida, Ai Matsuda
12:00 Lunch, followed by the student award ceremony: Best talk and best poster
Poster Presentations (Posters will be up through the entire conference. Poster session for all posters will be on Tuesday, May 23, from 17:00 to 19:00. 2 min lightning poster presentations will be held at the end of Tuesday and Wednesday mornings).
Sap Flow in Horticulture / Irrigation
Irrigation management affected sap flow responses to flooding in poplar plantations
Xiao-Li Yan, Li-Ming Jia
Sap flow in mango seedlings irrigated with treated waste water in Jericho City, Palestine
Shinichi Takeuchi, Haruyuki Fujimaki, Hazem Maraaba, Raed Alary, Mahmoud Bsharat
Which indicator of plant water status is best suited for guiding irrigation scheduling in avocado?
Miriam Morua, H. Jochen Schenk
The impact of treated sewerage effluent to irrigate arid forests in the hyper-arid deserts of Ahbu Dhabi
Steve Green, Wafa Al Yamani, Rommel Pangilinan, Steve Dixon, Peter Kemp, Brent Clothier
Advanced sap flow technologies to establish mandarin orange irrigation requirements
Michael van Bavel
Influences of recycled water on plant growth, sap flow and water relations of Citrus in two contrasting soils
Indira Paudel, Asher Bar Tal, Avi Shaviv, Jonathan Ephrath, Shabtai Cohen
Finding water-use efficient avocado varieties. Coordination between hydraulic conductivity and gas exchange
Aleyda Acosta Rangel, Eleinis vila-Lovera, Mark De Guzman, Mary Lu Arpaia, Eric Focht, Louis S. Santiago
Plant Hydraulics / Physiology of Plant Water Transport Systems
Water movement via adventitious roots in postrate Juniperus sabina shrubs in semiarid areas of China
Naoko Miki, Kanako Sato, Mami Aoki, Lingli Yang, Naoko Matsuo, Guosheng Zhang, Linhe Wang, Ken Yoshikawa
Height-related changes in xylem hydraulics and anatomy of leader shoots of Picea abies trees
Giai Petit, Angela Luisa Prendin, Stefan Mayr, Barbara Beikircher, Georg von Arx
Can a pathogenic fungus disturb the water transport via surface tension in Norway spruce?
Teemu Paljakka, Kaisa Rissanen, Anni Vanhatalo, Riikka Linnakoski, Risto Kasanen, Yann Salmon, Nonne Prisle, Mari Mäki, Jaana Bäck, Teemu Hölttä
Sap Flow Measurements and Methodologies
Sap flow of black locust trees in response to supplementary interception of through rainfall
Sheng Du, Qiu-Yue He, Chun-Mei Niu, Mei-Jie Yan
Comparison of xylem sap flux density in immature hybrid rubber tree clones under different environmental conditions
Supat Isarangkool Na Ayutthaya, Ratchanee Rattanawong, Somyot Meetha, Norbert Silvera, Frederic C. Do, Poonpipope Kasemsap
Comparing DTmax determination approaches for Granier-based sapflow estimations
Inken Rabbel, Bernd Diekkrüger, Burkhard Neuwirth, Holm Voigt
Installation and validation of sap flow sensors on maize plants
Louise Comas, Michael van Bavel, Jason Young
Hardware options for lab construction and powering of thermal dissipation probes
Shabtai Cohen, Ori Ahiman
An evaluation of the new double ratio method (DRM) and other heat pulse methods for sap flow velocity in almonds
Heather Vice, Matthew Gilbert, Thomas Buckley
Improved sap flow methods to diagnose almond stress with drip irrigation technologies
Megan Tucker, Michael van Bavel, Dilruba Jasmin
Sensing sap flow by electrical self-potential measurements
Holm Voigt, Maximilian Weigand, Andreas Kemna, Bernd Diekkrüger
Plant Water Use / Transpiration
Transpiration from young montane secondary forest trees and understorey shrubs in eastern Madagascar and their environmental controls
Chandra Prasad Ghimire, Maciek W. Lubczynski, L. Adrian Bruijnzeel, Bob W. Zwartendijk, Vincent Omondi Odongo, Maafaka Ravelona, Ilja van Meerveld
Stand water use assessed by diurnal groundwater oscillations - an alternative approach to sap flux quantification
Holm Voigt, Asia Khamzina, Bernd Diekkrüger, Inken Rabbel
Water use in sugarcane field on two isolated islands with differing weather conditions
Shinichi Takeuchi, Kazuro Momii, Hiroki Hiyama, Toshiyuki Mochida, Takeshi Nagatani
Assessment of olive transpiration estimated with a remote sensing energy balance model compared with sap flow measurements
Camilo Riveros-Burgos, Samuel Ortega-Farías, Luis Ahumada-Orellana
Water use of avocado trees under recurring droughts in the Central Highlands of Kenya
Steve Green, Michael Gitahi, Mary Chepkemoi, Brent Clothier
Building a Tree Observatory for a comprehensive understanding of tree growth, behavior, and health or the quest to create an "activity tracker" for trees
Charles Cannon
Sap flow, phenology and stem growth of hyper-arid Acacia trees
Gidon Winters, Dennis Otieno, Shabtai Cohen, Indira Paudel, Rakefet David-Schwartz, Tamir Klein
Cost-benefit analysis of carbon gain and water use in green-stemmed desert species from southern California
Eleinis Avila-Lovera, Roxana Ms. Haro, Louis S. Santiago
Quantification of water uptake by creosote bushes from pulsed input via disturbed and undisturbed channels on a desert bajada
Miguel Macias, Darren R. Sandquist
Monday, 22 May 2017
16:00 Registration and poster mounting
18:00 Welcome reception
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Opening
8:30 The river to the sky: Plants move the world’s water (introduction to the workshop)
H. Jochen Schenk
MORNING SESSION: Plant Hydraulics / Physiology of Plant Water Transport Systems
8:45 Introduction to the session by session chair Robert Teskey (University of Georgia, USA)
8:50 KEYNOTE: High resolution stem psychrometry for understanding hydraulic function in vascular plants in a warming world
George W. Koch
9:30 Integrating sap flow with drought survival traits for a complete vision of plant hydraulic function
Louis Santiago
9:45 What do bordered pit membranes between vessels tell us about water transport and hydraulic dysfunction in plants?
Steven Jansen, Matthias Klepsch, Martyna Kotowska, Ya Zhang, H. Jochen Schenk
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Refilling of xylem embolism under tension: experimental evidence of a rare ability from birch?
Yann Salmon, Anna Lintunen, Lauri Lindfors, Heikki Suhonen, Sanna Sevanto, Timo Vesala, Teemu Hölttä
10:45 Plant hydraulic mechanisms corresponding to increased productivity under drought in maize
Louise Comas, Sean Gleason, Jason Young, Richard Trippe III, Veronica Travers
11:00 Dissolved atmospheric gas in xylem sap and its relationship to embolisms
Victoria Woods, H. Jochen Schenk, Susana Espino, Ate Visser, Bradley K. Esser
11:15 The causes and consequences of leaf hydraulic decline with dehydration
Christine Scoffoni, Lawren Sack
11:30 Leaf hydraulic vulnerability influences sap flow responses to vapor pressure deficit in Los Angeles urban trees
Grace John, Christine Scoffoni, Elizaveta Litvak, Diane Pataki, Thomas Buckley, Lawren Sack
11:45 Drought as a modifier of interactions between European beech and Norway spruce
Karl-Heinz Haeberle, Christian Kallenbach, Martina Tomasella, Michael Goisser, Thorsten Grams, Stefan Mayr, Rainer Matyssek
12:00 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION: Plant Water Use / Transpiration
13:00 Introduction to the session by session chair Louise Comas (USDA-Agricultural Research Service, USA)
13:05 KEYNOTE: Measurement and scaling sap flow in species rich forests to inform land managers on changing hydrology
Chelcy F. Miniat, Steven Brantley
13:45 Canopy transpiration of Larix sibirica and Pinus sylvestris forest in central Siberia
Josef Urban, Alexey Rubtsov
14:00 Quantifying stand water use through sap flux and groundwater measurements at a multi-species afforestation site in Uzbekistan, Central Asia
Holm Voigt, Asia Khamzina, Bernd Diekkrüger, Inken Rabbel
14:15 Sap flow measurements in hydrology - optimizing tree transpiration mapping at large scales
Maciek Lubczynski, Chandra Ghimire
14:30 Coffee break; chance to tour the arboretum
15:30 Why size matters: The interactive influences of tree diameter distribution and sap flow parameters on upscaled transpiration
Z. Carter Berry, Nathaniel Looker, Friso Holwerda, Leon Rodrigo Gomez Aguilar, Perla Ortiz Colin, Teresa Gonzalez Martinez, Heidi Asbjornsen
15:45 If you can't stand the heat: Diurnal patterns of transpiration and carbon uptake by chaparral shrubs during heat waves
Alexandria Pivovaroff, Alejandra Pesqueira, Wu Sun, Ulrike Seibt
16:00 Water use efficiency of Norway spruce with bud blight disease
Ivana Tomakova
16:15 Transpiration at leaf and tree level in a poplar short-rotation coppice culture: seasonal and genotypic differences
Alejandra Navarro Garcia, Miguel Portillo Estrada, Stefan Vanbeveren, Cristina Ariza Carricondo, Reinhart Ceulemans
16:30 Poster lightning presentations on plant hydraulics & water use / transpiration
17:00 Poster session
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
MORNING SESSION: Plant Hydraulics / Physiology of Plant Water Transport Systems
8:30 Introduction to the session by session chair Louis Santiago (University of California Riverside, USA)
8:35 KEYNOTE: Dynamic changes in tissue water storage and conducting capacity in a variety of woody species and plant organs: implications for the interpretation of water relations parameters from sap flow sensor data
Andrew McElrone, Thorsten Knipfer, Caetano Albuquerque, Craig Brodersen, Italo Cuneo, J. Mason Earles
9:15 Stem water storage of New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis)
Julia Kaplick, Michael J. Clearwater, Cate Macinnis-Ng
9:30 Axial conduit widening and growth rate determine the radial patterns of sap flow and the transition of sapwood into heartwood
Giai Petit, Teemu Hölttä
9:45 Coffee break
10:15 Revised sap-flow driven stem-diameter model for tomatoes grown under assimilation lighting
Jonathan Vermeiren, Lieve Wittemans, Stefaan Fabri, Rob Moerkens, Wendy Vanlommel, Herman Marien, Kathy Steppe
10:30 Belowground hydraulic conductance in mature Scots pine trees
Anna Lintunen, Teemu Paljakka, Yann Salmon, Teemu Hölttä
10:45 The hydraulic architecture of the leaf lamina fits an area-preserving design
Silvia Lechthaler, Moira Gazzabin, Tommaso Anfodillo
11:00 Visualization of dynamics in woody tissue photosynthesis via positron autoradiography of xylem-transported 11CO2
Jens Mincke, Michiel Hubeau, Christian Vanhove, Stefaan Vandenberghe, Kathy Steppe
11:15 Poster lightning presentations on horticulture, irrigation, and methods
12:00 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION: Sap Flow in Horticulture / Irrigation
13:00 Introduction to the session by session chair J. Enrique Fernández (Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla, Spain)
13:05 KEYNOTE: Using sap flow data to improve irrigation in vineyard: a 10 year review
Thibaut Scholasch
13:45 Irrigation scheduling strategies to reduce the environmental impact of tree nurseries
Jared Stoochnoof, Newton Tran, Thomas Graham, Alec Downey, Mike Dixon
14:00 Apple sap flow in different light environments
Alexandra Boini, Kushtrim Bresilla, Giulio Demetrio Perulli, Luigi Manfrini, Luca Corelli Grappadelli, Brunella Morandi
14:15 Measurement of sap flux density as a tool to automatically estimate gas exchange and predict fruit growth in olive trees
Virginia Hernandez-Santana, José Enrique Fernández, Antonio Diaz-Espejo
14:30 Coffee break; chance to tour the arboretum
15:30 Measuring sap flow to assess impacts of using saline groundwater to irrigate date palms in the hyper-arid deserts of the United Arab Emirates
Steve Green, Ahmed Almuaini, Abdullah Dakheel, Al-Hareth Abdullah, Abdul Qader Abdul Rahman, Wasel Abdelwahid Abou Dahr, Steve Dixon, Brent Clothier
15:45 A wireless sap flow system for irrigation stress monitoring on almond trees at Fresno State University
C. Michael McClung, Michael van Bavel
16:00 Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Determining mid-day leaf water potential from sap flow measurements
Shabtai Cohen, Ori Ahiman, Amos Naor, Shmulik P. Friedman
16:15 Preliminary results of sap flow and leaf gas exchange in grapevines exposed to free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE)
Susanne Tittmann, Jason Smith, Yvette Wohlfahrt, Marco Hofmann, Manfred Stoll
16:30 Measurement of sap flow in apple trees using the average gradient heat-pulse method
Steve Green, Garth Oliver, Nigel Swarts, Marcus Hardie, Brent Clothier, Dugald Close
16:45 The San Dimas lysimeters: A research history
H. Jochen Schenk and Robert C. Graham
17:00 ISHS Business meeting
Thursday, 25 May 2017
7:00 All day field trip, with visits to Pine Tree Ranch and lunch at the historic Rancho Camulos Museum in the Santa Clara River valley,
and an afternoon visit to the San Dimas Experimental Forest.
19:00 Evening social with dinner, local craft beer tasting, and live music
Friday, 26 May 2017
MORNING SESSION: Sap Flow Measurements and Methodologies
8:00 Introduction to the session by session chair Steve Green (The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd.)
8:05 KEYNOTE: Disentangling the effects of soil and atmospheric drought on the sap flow of cloud forest trees
Rafael Oliveira, Cleiton Eller, Paulo Bittencourt, Fernanda Barros
8:45 A synthesis of the methodological uncertainty of sap flow methods
Víctor Flo, Kathy Steppe, Rafael Poyatos, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
9:00 Evaluation of a new sensor to measure plant transpiration based on the stem heat balance method
Robert Lascano, Tim Goebel
9:15 Validation of heat dissipation and heat pulse sap flow methods
Jose Gutierrez Lopez, Heidi Asbjornsen, Julian Licata, Thomas Pypker
9:30 Miniature external heat ratio method sap flow gauges provide a tool for understanding plant gas exchange recovery from natural drought events
Robert Skelton
9:45 Coffee break
10:15 DRM (double-ratio method): A simple method for measuring high, low and reverse sap flow rates
Thomas Buckley, Zijuan Rose Deng, William Salter, Mark Adams
10:30 Towards reduced heating duration in the Transient Thermal Dissipation method of sap flow measurement
Frederic C. Do, Narissara Puangjumpa, Alain Rocheteau, Maxime Duthoit, Sophea Nhean, Supat Isarangkool na Ayutthaya
10:45 Analysis of sap flow dynamics in saplings with mini-HFD (heat field deformation) sensors
Jeroen Schreel, Kathy Steppe
11:00 Come together: compiling global sap flow data in the SAPFLUXNET database
Rafael Poyatos, Víctor Granda, Víctor Flo, Roberto Molowny-Horas, Maurizio Mencuccini, Gabriel Katul, Ram Oren, Miguel Mahecha, Kathy Steppe, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
11:15 Sap flow measurements in wet tropical forests generate unique challenges and opportunities
Georgianne Moore, Luiza Maria Aparecido
11:30 Impacts of contrasting soil moisture regimes on sap flow activity and diurnal stem extension of Norway Spruce
Inken Rabbel, Bernd Diekkrüger, Burkhard Neuwirth, Heye Bogena
11:45 Sap flow movement on Magnolia grandiflora L. after transplanting for five years
Shinichi Takeuchi, Shinichi Iida, Ai Matsuda
12:00 Lunch, followed by the student award ceremony: Best talk and best poster
Poster Presentations (Posters will be up through the entire conference. Poster session for all posters will be on Tuesday, May 23, from 17:00 to 19:00. 2 min lightning poster presentations will be held at the end of Tuesday and Wednesday mornings).
Sap Flow in Horticulture / Irrigation
Irrigation management affected sap flow responses to flooding in poplar plantations
Xiao-Li Yan, Li-Ming Jia
Sap flow in mango seedlings irrigated with treated waste water in Jericho City, Palestine
Shinichi Takeuchi, Haruyuki Fujimaki, Hazem Maraaba, Raed Alary, Mahmoud Bsharat
Which indicator of plant water status is best suited for guiding irrigation scheduling in avocado?
Miriam Morua, H. Jochen Schenk
The impact of treated sewerage effluent to irrigate arid forests in the hyper-arid deserts of Ahbu Dhabi
Steve Green, Wafa Al Yamani, Rommel Pangilinan, Steve Dixon, Peter Kemp, Brent Clothier
Advanced sap flow technologies to establish mandarin orange irrigation requirements
Michael van Bavel
Influences of recycled water on plant growth, sap flow and water relations of Citrus in two contrasting soils
Indira Paudel, Asher Bar Tal, Avi Shaviv, Jonathan Ephrath, Shabtai Cohen
Finding water-use efficient avocado varieties. Coordination between hydraulic conductivity and gas exchange
Aleyda Acosta Rangel, Eleinis vila-Lovera, Mark De Guzman, Mary Lu Arpaia, Eric Focht, Louis S. Santiago
Plant Hydraulics / Physiology of Plant Water Transport Systems
Water movement via adventitious roots in postrate Juniperus sabina shrubs in semiarid areas of China
Naoko Miki, Kanako Sato, Mami Aoki, Lingli Yang, Naoko Matsuo, Guosheng Zhang, Linhe Wang, Ken Yoshikawa
Height-related changes in xylem hydraulics and anatomy of leader shoots of Picea abies trees
Giai Petit, Angela Luisa Prendin, Stefan Mayr, Barbara Beikircher, Georg von Arx
Can a pathogenic fungus disturb the water transport via surface tension in Norway spruce?
Teemu Paljakka, Kaisa Rissanen, Anni Vanhatalo, Riikka Linnakoski, Risto Kasanen, Yann Salmon, Nonne Prisle, Mari Mäki, Jaana Bäck, Teemu Hölttä
Sap Flow Measurements and Methodologies
Sap flow of black locust trees in response to supplementary interception of through rainfall
Sheng Du, Qiu-Yue He, Chun-Mei Niu, Mei-Jie Yan
Comparison of xylem sap flux density in immature hybrid rubber tree clones under different environmental conditions
Supat Isarangkool Na Ayutthaya, Ratchanee Rattanawong, Somyot Meetha, Norbert Silvera, Frederic C. Do, Poonpipope Kasemsap
Comparing DTmax determination approaches for Granier-based sapflow estimations
Inken Rabbel, Bernd Diekkrüger, Burkhard Neuwirth, Holm Voigt
Installation and validation of sap flow sensors on maize plants
Louise Comas, Michael van Bavel, Jason Young
Hardware options for lab construction and powering of thermal dissipation probes
Shabtai Cohen, Ori Ahiman
An evaluation of the new double ratio method (DRM) and other heat pulse methods for sap flow velocity in almonds
Heather Vice, Matthew Gilbert, Thomas Buckley
Improved sap flow methods to diagnose almond stress with drip irrigation technologies
Megan Tucker, Michael van Bavel, Dilruba Jasmin
Sensing sap flow by electrical self-potential measurements
Holm Voigt, Maximilian Weigand, Andreas Kemna, Bernd Diekkrüger
Plant Water Use / Transpiration
Transpiration from young montane secondary forest trees and understorey shrubs in eastern Madagascar and their environmental controls
Chandra Prasad Ghimire, Maciek W. Lubczynski, L. Adrian Bruijnzeel, Bob W. Zwartendijk, Vincent Omondi Odongo, Maafaka Ravelona, Ilja van Meerveld
Stand water use assessed by diurnal groundwater oscillations - an alternative approach to sap flux quantification
Holm Voigt, Asia Khamzina, Bernd Diekkrüger, Inken Rabbel
Water use in sugarcane field on two isolated islands with differing weather conditions
Shinichi Takeuchi, Kazuro Momii, Hiroki Hiyama, Toshiyuki Mochida, Takeshi Nagatani
Assessment of olive transpiration estimated with a remote sensing energy balance model compared with sap flow measurements
Camilo Riveros-Burgos, Samuel Ortega-Farías, Luis Ahumada-Orellana
Water use of avocado trees under recurring droughts in the Central Highlands of Kenya
Steve Green, Michael Gitahi, Mary Chepkemoi, Brent Clothier
Building a Tree Observatory for a comprehensive understanding of tree growth, behavior, and health or the quest to create an "activity tracker" for trees
Charles Cannon
Sap flow, phenology and stem growth of hyper-arid Acacia trees
Gidon Winters, Dennis Otieno, Shabtai Cohen, Indira Paudel, Rakefet David-Schwartz, Tamir Klein
Cost-benefit analysis of carbon gain and water use in green-stemmed desert species from southern California
Eleinis Avila-Lovera, Roxana Ms. Haro, Louis S. Santiago
Quantification of water uptake by creosote bushes from pulsed input via disturbed and undisturbed channels on a desert bajada
Miguel Macias, Darren R. Sandquist
The field trip will include a visit to the San Dimas Experimental Forest, site of lysimeter and catchment studies on plant water use in the 1930s to 1960s, with ongoing research today.