National Cherry Symposium 2023

16 Jun 2023
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Cherry Times hosts the presentations displayed on Saturday 10 June in Palombara, Rome, during the National Cherry Symposium, a scientific and academic event at the service of farmers and lovers of the Sabina cherries.

The event took place within the framework of the 95th Historical Edition of the Sagra delle Cerase, the oldest in Europe of this crop, based on a centuries-old tradition, due to the Cerase del Papa variety, dating back to Honorius IV (around 1200).

The aim of the Symposium was to foster cherry production, drawing attention to a product of Italian excellence that can represent the crop of attraction and valorisation, taking stock of the latest developments in agrifood research, focusing on the Sabina area.

Another objective was to connect national and local administrations, public opinion, and the scientific and academic world with operators in the agri-food sector, who invest energy and time on the excellence and uniqueness to which cherries are an undisputed witness of flavour and beauty.

Here the Symposium programme in pdf (Italian).

Symposium reports (Italian):

Dario Sterzi - Ideas and proposals for the relaunch of cherry production in the Sabina area.


Saverio SENNI - Potential and limits of cherry production in local development.




Alessandro BENEVENUTI - Biostimulants and fertilisers for the cherry tree.


Alessandro PELLICCIONI - Verbesi Farm presentation.-


Milena PETRICCIONE - Edible coatings to improve nutraceutical characteristics of the post-harvest cherry tree.


Maria Rosaria TABILIO - Good practices for the containment of drosophila suzukii: realities and perspectives.


Valeria GUALANDRI - Cherry viruses: symptoms and related damage.


Marco SCORTICHINI - Bacterial diseases of the cherry tree: symptoms and prophylaxis.


Elisa VENDRAMIN - Preserve to renew: the ceraset of the National Fruit Germplasm Centre of CREA-OFA in Rome.


Marco GAITO - An overview of Italian cherry production.




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